Can Silver Cause Heavy Metal Poisoning Or Toxic Nephropathy?
Many doctors, scientists, and now news men, have as of late, been
claiming that silver is a problem because it is a heavy metal, and as
such can poison the body. The problem is not with the silver but with
the misinformed and inadequate knowledge of the people speaking about
things they know little about. The real answer is that silver is not
toxic when used at reasonable levels and quantities! Any substance, even
water, in excessive amounts can be fatal. Toxic nephropathy or heavy
metal poisoning is defined as, “Any functional or morphologic change in
the kidney produced by an ingested, injected, inhaled, or absorbed drug,
chemical, or biological agent.” The MERCK Manual is sometimes referred
to as the “Scientific Bible Of Diagnosis And Therapy” by many scientists
and doctors. Silver is the only heavy metal not listed in the manual
for causing heavy metal poisoning, because it does not cause it. (See
MERCK manual (17th Edition, Pg 1880, table 226-1, third item listed, for
the full list of heavy metals that cause toxic nephropathy). In a
recent peer - review paper “Ultradilute Ag-Aquasols with extraordinary
bactericidal properties: the role of the system Ag-O-H2O.” (Materials
Research Innovations, vol. 11, no. 1, (2007) pages 3-18) on the subject
of the safety of consuming metallic silver, the paper states (page 1,
first paragraph of the introduction), “A recent paper by Das et al.
Provides the remarkable datum that some 275,000 kg [(605,000 pounds)] of
edible metallic silver foil are consumed every year (in food) in India.
No known adverse health effects have ever been recorded. This
epidemiological evidence that silver as a metal is not toxic in any way
needs no further comment. Further sup****t for the obvious safety of
consuming metallic silver (Ag0) is in the worldwide consumption of (so
called) silver colloids, often made at home in primitive electrochemical
cells by probably some millions of citizens, again with no ill effects.”
It is estimated that the Indian tradition of eating candy and cakes
wrapped in metallic silver foil (eaten foil and all) came from their
historically gained knowledge that in their warm, moist climate with
little refrigeration of foods, eating the silver-covered candy and cakes
after meals would kill the bacteria consumed with the food, before it
had a chance to do damage to their body systems. In other words, the
people of India have proven over the last thousand years that eating or
consuming large amounts of metallic silver has no negative effect on the
body or body systems.
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