Re: The Pharma Vaccine Franchise is a Product of Marketing, Not Science


Richard Schultz wrote:
In article <1168286265.110380.75390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, PeterB <pkm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: Since silver occurs naturally in both plants and natural source water,
: colloidal silver is just as much a dietary supplement as encapsulated
: vitamin C. I happen to think that colloidal silver is about as useful
: as it is dangerous -- not much.

This is in the category of questions that PeterB refuses to (in his parlance,
cannot) answer, but it's worth a shot just to illustrate the complete
ludicrousness of his arguments. Phosphorus occurs naturally -- it
composes about 0.1% by weight of the earth's crust. It is also essential
for life. The OSHA limit for exposure to phosphorus fumes is 0.1 mg/m^3
over an 8-hour period. I won't bore you with the calculation, but it's
easy enough to show that for a person of average weight exposed to
phosphorus at the maximum level, even if all of the phosphorus in the air
were actually ingested, over an 8-hour period, it would add about 0.1 parts
per *million* phosphorus (i.e. four orders of magnitude less than its natural
abundance) to the person's body. Why (in PeterB's opinion -- the answer is
actually fairly obvious to anyone who doesn't share his delusion that
natural = safe) did OSHA set the TLV so low?

Do tell. Meanwhile, the RDI's for various nutrients (including
phosphorus) are based on data used by the USDA to determine levels
necessary to avoid frank deficiency (at least for those in which such
values are established) . I have never said that something is safe to
ingest simply because it is naturally-occuring, otherwise there would
be no such thing as poisonous plants. The point I made that silver
occurs naturally in both plants and natural source water was
specifically a reference to the availability of silver in plant *foods*
that typify the human diet. If your point about phosphorus fumes is to
associate the potential for toxic exposure to the ingestion of silver
particles in a so-called colloidal, due to concentration, and
specifically due to cumulative storage, there is no disagreement about
that. However, the amount of exposure to silver in solution would have
to be considerable, such that a person would probably die of
hyponatremia first. Although argyria is a real phenomenon, it is quite
rare.

PeterB

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