BBZ Loc: Long Island, NY

Pro-Trump activist Candace Owens is embracing the daily ingestion of silver particles suspended in liquid after saying Trump was "too old" to understand her ideas about vaccines. "Right-wing personality Candace Owens is urging her fans to consume a medical cure known for turning users’ skin blue. In an Instagram video posted on Thursday, Owens praised the use of colloidal silver as a daily supplement, a treatment that comes with no valid medical use and plenty of health risks."

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NIH) warns against ingesting silver.

"Colloidal silver can cause serious side effects. The most common is argyria, a bluish-gray discoloration of the skin, which is usually permanent," NIH explained. "The FDA also warned in 1999 that colloidal silver isn’t safe or effective for treating any disease or condition. The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission have taken action against a number of companies for making misleading claims about colloidal silver products."

“Yes, colloidal silver!” Owens said. "I take colloidal silver every single day, I love colloidal silver. That is a great one. That is another one that people probably know nothing about.”

In reality, colloidal silver has long been around in far-right circles. In a 2002 story titled, "Am I Blue," Wired magazine reported on the bizarre case of Montana Libertarian Party Senate nominee Stan Jones, who turned himself blue after taking the supplements out of fears of the Y2K computer programming disruptions.

"Montana's Libertarian candidate, who is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Max Baucus in November, definitely stands out from the rest of the herd. Stan Jones, 63, has turned blue from drinking a silver solution thought to boost immunity. He started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear Y2K disruptions would cause a shortage of antibiotics. His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago. While he no longer takes the supplement, the skin condition, called argyria, is permanent," Wired reported.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/colloidal-silver-blue-skin-cause-5087326

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

The remarkable healing qualities of colloidal silver are well-documented and many round the world have testified to its amazing health benefits.

Anything in excess, including water, can cause harm. You need to be intelligent about any supplement or product you ingest.

Argyria results when so many excessive doses of colloidal silver have been ingested, regularly, over long periods of time (months/years on end), that the body’s mechanism for eliminating colloidal silver gets overwhelmed, and the body eventually begins storing, in the internal tissues and organs, the excess silver it was unable to eliminate.

"Most cases of Argyria reported in the medical literature over the last 100 years involved long-term intravenous or intramuscular use of the silver preparations, most often involving a silver drug produced by a pharmaceutical company and prescribed by physicians which in most cases contained silver nitrate.

Colloidal silver, like any medication, has a recommended dosage. As a permanent immune booster, one can take 10 ml per day and, in emergencies, one can safely take up to 20 to 40 ml per day. These figures are relevant for colloidal silver preparations of 18 ppm (parts per million).

In a long term clinical study (SL-0035-2008), which terminated in early 2009, by LABIO RESEARCH on the oral toxicity of 18 ppm ionised silver, it was established that doses of 14 ml per kg per day are not toxic."

https://www.silverlab.co.za/colloidal-silver-turns-you-blue-myth-or-fact/