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Old 06-21-2006, 07:51 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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http://www.earthbornproducts.com/order.htm

I was going to let this go but Hardgains post about NO got me feeling indignant. Without going into whether colloidal silver is effective I wanted to say that THIS product is NOT colloidal silver.

Clear liquid? Colloidal silver is not clear...it absorbs visible wavelengths and thus has color.

Monoatomic? Meningless technobable...most likely clouding the fact that this is ionic silver instead of colloidal which is silver particles in suspension rather than in solution like ionic silver. Silver is an element.

Is ionic silver antimicrobial? To some extent yes. Is this product what it says it is? Probably not. Are they frauding you? Most likely.

Ok so I'm being generous. It IS ionic silver....at least 90%. Hell yes it's fraud.

Here's a table of brands with lab results I found:

http://silver-colloids.com/Reports/ionic-products.html


One more thing. The causes of acne are sometimes debated...but bacteria in the blood isn't normally one discussed.

More something like this:

What causes acne?

Acne is caused by the overactivity of the sebaceous glands that secrete oily substances onto the skin.

The sebaceous glands of people with acne are especially sensitive to normal blood levels of a hormone called testosterone, found naturally in both men and women.

Testosterone in people prone to acne triggers the sebaceous glands to produce an excess of sebum. At the same time, the dead skin cells lining the openings of the hair follicles (the tubes that hold the hair) are not shed properly and clog up the follicles.

These two effects combined cause a build-up of oil in the hair follicles. This causes blackheads and whiteheads to form.

For some people, their acne does not progress beyond this stage.

However in other people, the build-up of oil in the hair follicles creates an ideal environment for a bacterium called Propionibacterium acnes to grow.

These bacteria normally live harmlessly on your skin but when this ideal environment is created, they grow. They feed off the sebum and produce substances that cause a response from your body's immune system. This inflames the skin and creates the redness associated with spots.

In more severe 'inflammatory acne', cysts develop beneath the skin's surface. These acne cysts can rupture, spreading the infection into nearby skin tissue. This can result in scarring.

This is why antibacterials don't treat the cause of acne only one of the effects of it.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.

Last edited by EricT; 06-21-2006 at 08:39 AM.