Advanced Repair with Nano Silver, HA, and Marine Collagen Peptides

Improves the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, helps cleanse and protect skin, promotes natural healing.

The unique combination of our powerful Nano Silver together with both High and Low Dalton Hyaluronic Acid, and Sonicated Marine Collagen Peptides will provide your skin with Healing and Rejuvenation unlike any serum you have ever used.

Health Canada approval, NPN, & legal claims:

SilverCeuticals Antimicrobial Hydrating Serum
NPN #80123307

Uses Nano silver, hyaluronic acid, nano collagen peptides, to kill germs and help treat things like: Acne, eczema, scrapes, rashes, curling iron burns, turf burns, sunburn, scratches, cuts, radiation burns, skin infections, skin affections, bug bites, razor burns, etc.

Having an NPN (Natural Product Number) can significantly enhance consumer trust in Canada. It indicates the product has been reviewed and approved by Health Canada for safety, efficacy, and quality under its recommended conditions of use.^1,2 This approval process involves evaluating the medicinal and non-medicinal ingredients, recommended usage, and potential risks associated with the product.²

For consumers, an NPN serves as a reassurance that the product meets regulatory standards and is safe for use. It also provides transparency, as the NPN allows consumers to access detailed information about the product in Health Canada’s database.² This can include its ingredients, dosage form, health claims, and any associated warnings.²

Directions-

Apply desired amount to moist skin on face, neck, and décolletage morning and night. Can be worn under makeup. Do not store in direct sunlight.

Do not touch the dropper directly to your skin. Drip the serum onto the skin to avoid contaminating the bottle with probiotic bacteria that may alter the serum.

Ingredients-

Proprietary Nano Silver Solution (deionized water, silver), Nano Marine Collagen Peptides, Hyaluronic Acid, Organic Vegetable Glycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin

Specifications-

UPC 850039735004

References:

1. https://sourcenutra.com/2025/02/natural-health-product-regulations-and-npn-licensing-in-canada/
2. https://www.lierre.ca/blogs/featured/things-you-should-know-about-npn-number-and-why-its-important-to-check-before-buying-natural-products

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Silver Use Institute, Feb 1st, 2025

Is it about time to take care of our own, our own friends, and especially our own families,  the people who we hold most dear to us?  All the science is in place to help us, but it seems like people are struggling to find it and to put aside all the bad and misleading pseudo information that we are constantly being fed.  It is the intent of this article to bring some of that science into the light!

Introduction

Contrary to current thought, keeping our people safe and healthy may not be all that difficult to do if we actually embrace the science!  In the last few decades, we have all been hit with a host of new and deadly viruses.  Every year or two, a new one hits.  Those would include viruses like HIV, SARS, EBOLA, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, and Covid just to name a few, and there are many more on that list.  Over the past few years, we have had to endure masks, staying home, losing jobs, closing business, food and medical shortages etc. etc.  Worse of all we have had to attend, or not be able to attend, the funerals of many of our friends and family.   The people who have died, possibly unnecessarily, have affected us all in one way or another.   On January 30, 2020, COVID-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) with an official death toll of 171. By December 31, 2020, this figure stood at 1,813,188. Yet preliminary estimates suggest the total number of global deaths attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was at least 3 million, representing 1.2 million more deaths than officially reported (1). As of April 13, 2024, the death toll had reportedly reached 7,010,681.  It doesn’t stop there, currently there are 704,753,890 confirmed cases in 229 countries and territories (2). So how do we protect our people?

Background on Nano Silver

In the mouths of two or three witnesses truth is established, right?  How about from the mouths of over a hundred or five hundred scientists?  How about a thousand scientists in just one publication (3)?  How about millions of people over 1000’s of years?  Silver has been used for at least six millennia to prevent microbial infections. “It has been effective against almost all organisms tested and has been used to treat numerous infections and noninfectious conditions, sometimes with striking success” (4).  Around 400 BC, the “father of modern medicine”, Hippocrates, wrote of using silver to improve wound care, and during the intervening years silver has been featured in a wide range of writings, most of which highlight its capabilities with particular regard to limiting inflammation and infection. . (5)  There are now hundreds and hundreds of peer-reviewed, published medical studies on the medicinal use of nano silver for lifechanging things like: wound care, bio tissue engineering, antimicrobial action including antibiotic resistant bacteria, fungus, mold, and deadly strains of virus.  There are even more than 60 peer-reviewed and published studies on the use of nano silver to help eliminate numerous different types of cancer. (3)

 Prevention

What many people may not know is that a virus can build up in your body for days before you even know you have an infection.  Also important to know is that you can actually spread a viral infection to other people before you know you have it, and before you start feeling sick.  So prevention is a key component to staying healthy.  Prevention is always easier than treatment, so what can we do to prevent a deadly viral infection? A great answer to that question was published on August 19, 2021. It was published by 11 scientists from 8 different institutions located in 3 different countries.  The study incorporated 231 frontline health workers treating Covid patients in hospitals.  The medical personnel were split into two groups.  There were 117 of the people that just followed their regular prevention protocols as directed by their hospitals.  They were the control group.  The second group of 114 medical people added the use of nano silver to their daily prevention routines.

To quote the scientists directly,

“We present a prospective randomized study of 231 participants that was carried out for 9 weeks (during the declaration of a pandemic). The “experimental” group was instructed to do mouthwash and nose rinse with the AgNPs (nano silver) solution; the “control” group was instructed to do mouthwashes and nose rinse in a conventional way. The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was significantly lower in the “experimental” group (two participants of 114, 1.8%) compared to the “control” group (thirty-three participants of 117, 28.2%), with an 84.8% efficiency. We conclude that the mouth and nasal rinse with AgNPs helps in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health personnel who are exposed to patients diagnosed with COVID-19”. (6)

If you could cut your chance of getting infected by a deadly virus from more than 28% to just 1.8% simply by gargling and rinsing out your sinuses with nano silver daily, who wouldn’t do that?  With the use of just a little nano silver, the medical professionals had a 15X less chance of getting covid, all while being directly exposed to infected people!  A person could easily help a child, or an elderly person rinse out their sinuses daily just by the use of a simple nasal sprayer or a nebulizer.  It is an easy way to help people, and to give them an affordable, safe, and effective first line of defense to keep them healthy!

A second validation of the potential effect of just washing out your sinuses came from an Indian government lab, where in testing they found that a nano-silver liquid could kill or neutralize about 50 % of the contained SARS CoV2 virus within just the first 15 minutes of contact time, at a concentration of merely 10 parts per million nano silver.  Slightly higher concentrations of nano silver worked even better.  This study also proves nano silver has a direct effect on the elimination of the deadly virus. (7)

So, what do I do if I get it?

A great answer to that question was published in December of 2022 by eight scientists from six major Universities and hospitals in Canada and the US.  The Universities who participated were the University of Florida, University of Tennessee, and the University of Alberta, all outstanding institutions.  They tested the ability of nano silver to eliminate infections in the lungs and sinuses in both humans and animals, using a nebulizer to get the nano silver into the lungs.

They tested two different viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.  In their own words they found:

“Nano silver solutions demonstrated pH-dependent antimicrobial efficacy; reduced infection and inflammation without evidence of lung toxicity in the rat model; and inactivated HSV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Pneumonia patients had rapidly reduced pulmonary symptoms, recovering pre-illness respiratory function. Fungal sinusitis-related inflammation decreased immediately with infection clearance within 21 days. Non hospitalized patients with COVID-19 experienced rapid symptom remission”.(8)

In other words, they found that nebulizing the nano silver quickly eliminated the lung infections (killed or neutralized the viruses), reduced the inflammation, and was non-toxic or had no negative effect.  The nano silver helped heal the patients, whether they were animals or humans.  They found that the patients quickly regained their normal lung function, some within just hours.  The study again proves the value of using nano silver as a great first line of defense against active viral infections.

What About Other Deadly Virus?

There are many viruses for which medicine has no established treatment.  Nano silver is one of the best, if not the very best antiviral agent that exists.  It is a very broad spectrum natural antiviral remedy!  The ability of nano silver to kill or neutralize virus and reduce the inflammation associated with the virus, all without causing negative side effects is a very big deal!  There are many different problem viruses, and many different diseases caused by those viruses. Numerous peer-reviewed and published studies from literally hundreds of scientists and doctors from all around the world that have tested nano silver against about any virus you could name.  Some of those tests combined the use of nano silver with other antiviral agents for enhanced action, and some used the nano silver as the only form of treatment.  Either way, the only thing that actually matters is that nano silver has been proven to work.  That published and tested viral list would include virus such as: Adenovirus, HIV1, HIV2, Influenza A (H7N2), MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, EBOLA, Bird Flu (H5N1), Swine Flu, H1N1, Covid 19, Monkey pox, Hepatitis B & C, HPV, Noroviruses, West Nile, RSV, ZIKA, Rift Valley Fever, HSV1 & 2, Poliovirus, Chikungunya virus, and Dengue virus, to list just a few! (3)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13) There is no question about nano silver’s ability to help treat viral infections.  The question is whether or not the powers that be will let it be used to help treat people or whether or not people will be willing to study and treat themselves and their loved ones.

How Does Nano Silver Eliminate Virus?

That question was answered in detail by eight scientists from Texas A&M and Winthrop Universities.  The study was published on the 31st of July 2023 and was made available by the US Government (US NIH) (13).  While the answer is not simple to understand, we feel it is important to add in this info for those who need or wish to know.  The study states:

“In these studies, AgNPs were found to bind specifically or nonspecifically to proteins in the envelope of virions and thereby deactivate them (virucidal activity). These target proteins are mainly responsible for the viral interaction with host cells. During the pre-viral entry into host cells, AgNPs competitively attach to the cells and lyse the membrane of the virions (antiviral activity). In the case of the post-viral entry, AgNPs mainly inhibit the viral fusion with the cell membrane, and in several cases interfered with the stages of the viral replication cycle such as the synthesis of viral RNA (antiviral activity).”

In simpler words, the nano particles were found to attach to the virus and kill them.  Also, the nano silver could kill the virus both before and after they connected or attached to a cell to infect it.   That means the nano silver could act as both a preventive and also as a treatment after infection.  This was also proven in the studies listed in the first few sections of this paper on both prevention and treatment.

Is Nano Silver Safe To Use Daily?

In one published human ingestion study, completed as an FDA registered IND study (Investigational New Drug), it was found that Nano silver caused no negative action on any system of the body.  It was found that both a concentration of 10 ppm and a 32 ppm (parts per million) liquid nano silver, drunk at a level of 1 ounce daily, had no negative effect on any system of the body.  It was also found that the nano silver washed completely out of the body within 24 hours, with no measurable residual, meaning none remained inside! (14) So even if someone drank it at a high volume it was proven safe for human use.  Additionally, the US EPA has established the fact that silver causes no negative effects when used at low levels, saying, “Silver is of low acute dermal toxicity, is not an eye or skin irritant and is not a skin sensitizer”.(15)  One world-acclaimed scientist named Rustum Roy (nominated for the Noble Prize 23 times) stated, “It is extraordinary that no major effort has been made to confirm and expand on the role of metallic silver in human health—especially in light of its huge advantage in lack of side effects.”(16)   In simpler words, nano silver has been proven safe for use both inside and outside the body and that fact has been well established by a number of US government agencies as well as  hundreds of scientists all around the world.(3)

The safety of ingesting nano silver was also proven in two other published human clinical trials.  One trial on the treatment of malaria, which was reported to the US Congress at their request in 2005, tested 56 humans between the ages of 1-90 years of age.  No other medication was used with the nano silver to treat the malaria patients.  Those people infected with malaria were drinking an ounce of nano silver daily divided into three doses (TID).  No negative effects were reported at all.  All 56 human subjects reportedly fully recovered from the malaria within an average of 3.43 days, walking out of the hospitals within 5 days. (17)(18)  In another published study, a group of people with AIDS was given two ounces daily of nano silver, split into three doses for a period of 4 months.  No other medication was used.  No negative side effects were reported at all.  It was also reported that the AIDS patients measured an average white cell increase of 39.54% over the 4-month period of treatment. It effectively helped to rebuild their entire immune system.  Also reported was the fact that the AIDS patients were able to achieve an average weight gain of over 17 pounds during the study, another remarkable and important discovery/achievement (19).

Where to Get It? 

In our research, one of the top new suppliers of nano silver products is a company called SilverCeuticals.  SilverCeuticals is led by a team of doctors that have more than a combined 120 years of experience working in the nano silver industry.  The CEO, Dr Keith Moeller, ND, has co-authored many papers, textbooks, and other publications on silver.  A number of those are peer-reviewed and published in leading wound care, science, and health journals. After working with the US Military to help solve medical problems for soldiers in the field, he was awarded an honorary position as a member of the US Special Operations Medical Association, a designation he is proud to hold. He accompanied his father, standing before the US Congress, at their request, to testify about the use of nano-silver to treat malaria and other humanitarian problems.

He and his team have already engineered a number of new and innovative nano silver products and have been busy getting them approved by different governments.  Their primary focus has been on wound care and disinfection.  They have also proven expertise in the formulation of cosmetics and supplements that don’t need FDA approval.  They have recently engineered a serum that Health Canada has already approved to treat, among other conditions, both acne and eczema, one of the first of its kind.  They have also just achieved a new Canadian registration as an antimicrobial lubricant.  With another partner, they have amassed an ongoing clinical trial in oral care that touts more than 55,000 procedures to date, with heal rates of half the normal time and zero secondary infections.  Their products are available from a variety of sources including doctor’s offices, medical distributors, and amazon, as well as directly from their website. (20)

Conclusion

Silver has been used for thousands of years as both a preventative and treatment for various diseases and human problems.  Newly published scientific papers from over a thousand scientists all over the world have proven nano silver to be an effective and safe antiviral agent.  Nano silver is easily able to eliminate a broad spectrum of deadly viruses.  It has been proven safe as an effective preventative, able to help medical professionals have 15 times less chance of getting a deadly viral infection.  At the same time, other published studies from multiple US Universities have proven nano silver as an effective treatment for Covid 19 and other respiratory infections, in both animals and humans.  It is about time we embrace the science and utilize nano silver to help provide a first line of protection to our friends, and especially our own families!

References

1) https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covid-19-estimating-global-excess-mortality

2) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/

3)  An Updated Review on Silver Nanoparticles in Biomedicine; Accepted: 20 November 2020; Published: 23 November 2020  An Updated Review on Silver Nanoparticles in Biomedicine

4) History of the Medical Use of Silver, US National Library of Medicine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19566416/ June 10, 2009

5) https://www.silverinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SilverInMedicine.pdf

6) Evaluation of silver nanoparticles for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers: In vitro and in vivo,   PLOS ONE HTTPs://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256401 August 19, 2021

7) Centre For Cellular and Molecular Biology, November 3, 2020.  Hyderabad, India – Viridis Bio Pharma – SARS CoV2

8) Nadworny PL, et al, Treatment of infection and inflammation associated with COVID-19, multi-drug resistant pneumonia and fungal sinusitis by nebulizing a nanosilver solution. Nanomedicine: NBM 2023;48:102654, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nano.2023.102654

9) Silver Nanoparticles as Potential Antiviral Agents, Pharmaceutics 2021, 13, 2034. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13122034

10) A Preliminary Assessment of Silver Nanoparticle Inhibition of Monkey Plaque Formation, Nano Perspectives – Open Access – Published: 09 April 2008

11) ) Effect of Prophylactic Treatment with ASAP-AGX-32 and ASAP Solutions on an Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection in Mice,  https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Effect-of-Prophylactic-Treatment-with-ASAP-AGX-32-A-Pedersen-Sidwell/3de85a153d9b22ddc876aa11e0417935cf14a065

12)Swine Flu Influenza Type A/H1N1 Protection for Health Care  Practitioners and Their Patient Posted in Longevity and Age Management, Dietary Supplementation, Drug Trends, Healthcare and Information, Immune System, Infectious Disease,  Inflammation, Medications, Healthcare and Public Policy, Swine Flu on Thu August 13, 2009

13 Nanosilver: An Old Antibacterial Agent with Great Promise in the Fight against Antibiotic Resistance https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/12/8/1264 Published online 2023 Jul 31.

14) PubMed.gov 23811290  In vivo human time-exposure study of orally dosed commercial silver nanoparticles

15) EPA Registration Eligibility Document (RED) For Silver

16) Ultradilute Ag-Aquasols with extraordinary bactericidal properties: the role of the system Ag-O-H2O   Rustum Roy, M. Richard Hoover, A.S. Bhalla, Tania Slawecki, Sandwip Dey, Wei Cao, Jing Li, S. Bhaskar

17) US Congressional Testimony of Dr. William Moeller on the use of nano silver to treat Malaria at Congressional request https://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa20915.000/hfa20915_0f.htm

18) Silver Sol Completely Removes Malaria Parasites from the Blood of Humans Subjects Infected bwith Malaria in an Average of Five Days: A review of Jour Randomized, Multi-Centered Clinical Studikes Performed in Africa September 1010 https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/211377/Silver%20Sol%20Malaria%20The%20Indian%20Practitioner.pdf

19) Effect of Prophylactic Treatment with ASAP-AGX-32 and ASAP Solutions on an Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection in Mice (The HIV Study is the Editors Note at the front of the publication)

20) Silverceuticals.com

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This article discusses humanity’s long history with silver, highlighting its diverse uses in medicine, utensils, containers, jewelry, currency, clothing, building materials, wound care, and as a disinfectant. Despite advancements in science and technology, silver remains integral due to its proven utility.

Use of Silver Products: Silver is still utilized in modern medicine, especially for its antimicrobial properties and benefits in wound healing and anti-inflammatory activities. Before antibiotics, silver was a primary treatment for infections.

Safety Concerns: The article addresses concerns about silver causing heavy metal poisoning or toxic nephropathy, clarifying that silver is safe when used in reasonable amounts. The Merck Manual does not list silver as a cause of heavy metal poisoning. High consumption levels, similar to other substances, could be harmful, but typical usage is safe.

Argyria: Argyria, a condition causing skin discoloration, can result from excessive intake of silver salts or compounds, but it is purely cosmetic and non-toxic. The condition is very rare, even among high users of silver products.

Forms and Excretion of Silver: Only ionic or chemical forms of silver can cause argyria, not metallic silver. Nano-silver, due to its small particle size, does not accumulate in the body and is quickly excreted. Most ingested silver is expelled within a few days.

Homemade Silver Products: Homemade silver solutions can be unsafe due to poor quality and uncontrolled concentrations, leading to potential over-consumption and risk of argyria. However, cases remain rare.

Animal Safety: Studies indicate that silver is safe for animal use, with benefits noted in treating infections without adverse effects.

Conclusion: The extensive use and research on silver indicate its safety and efficacy. Reasonable use of silver products poses no significant risk, and metallic silver does not accumulate in the body. The condition of argyria is rare and cosmetic only, with no other known adverse effects.

Study Authors:

Keith Moeller, ND; Herbert H. Warren, DVM; Kirk W. Moeller, ND, Paul Milne, PhD; Cameron D. Moeller, ND; Bracken J. Moeller, NRP

Introduction

Humanity has had a love affair with silver for thousands of years, and it has touched almost every facet of life for those who could afford it. Historically, the precious metal was used in medicine, eating utensils, plates, cups, food containers, jewelry, money/coins, clothes, building materials, and as a disinfectant for water and human infection. Now, after hundreds of years of study and significant gains in knowledge, science and technology, silver is still being used for medicine, eating utensils, plates, cups, food containers, jewelry, money/coins, clothes, building materials, wound care, and as a disinfectant. It remains an important part of our lives because of the exquisite nature and time-tested utility of the metal. It is safe to say that silver is being used in some way almost every day by every man, woman, or child in the civilized world.

Why Would Someone Want to Use Silver Products?

Infection is a common issue among medical patients today, just as it was in olden days. Some healthcare providers today combat this through the use of antibiotics or other medications known to have a variety of clinically significant adverse side-effects. However, before the popularity of antibiotics, the use of silver products to treat infection was a front line technology. It is well documented that silver has been used as an antimicrobial for centuries, and certain types of silver are also associated with accelerated wound healing, as well as Anti-inflammatory activity (Nadworny et al, 2023, pg. 2)⁸. For these reasons silver products are still used by large numbers of healthcare professionals around the world today.

Can Silver Cause Heavy Metal Poisoning or Toxic Nephropathy?

Many misinformed doctors, scientists, and media have been claiming for years that silver is a problem because it is a heavy metal, and as such can cause problems in the body. The problem is not with the silver but with the misinformation and inaccurate knowledge being spread by the people speaking about silver. 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.”¹ The MERCK Manual is sometimes referred to as the “Scientific Bible of Diagnosis and Therapy” by many scientists and doctors. Silver is 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)¹³.

In a peer-reviewed 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)² 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 support 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.”

What is Argyria and will I get it if I use silver products? These are two very common questions. They are important because each of us needs to know that any product we are using or giving to our families will not hurt them nor do them any harm at all.

Silver products alone generally have no negative side effects if used in reasonable amounts. However, the extreme misuse of some silver salts or chemical silver compounds may cause a condition called argyria. Argyria has no known negative side effects except that it causes a greying or bluing of the skin color. The condition is non-toxic and only cosmetic in nature (U.S. EPA RED Document on Silver, Page 3, Paragraph 3)³.

What Causes Argyria?

Put simply, argyria can result if there is so much chemical or ionic silver in the body at one time that the body cannot wash it out fast enough through its normal excretion systems. In order to get rid of this excess silver, the body walls it off in the cells, as it does with all the products it doesn’t have time to get rid of. In most cases the discoloration is permanent. It is the equivalent of getting a tattoo by misusing silver products in an extreme way. The condition is very rare, even in people who consume large amounts of ionic or chemical silver products at high levels, over years of use.

Argyria has resulted from the extreme misuse of very strong silver solutions usually consisting of silver salts, including silver nitrate, silver arsphenamine, silver chloride and possibly silver iodide. These products were sold until about 1975 under various labels with solutions containing levels of silver ranging from 5-30%. That means that these products were used at levels as high as 50,000 – 300,000 ppm (parts per million) (Federal Register, FDA-21CFR Part 310, pg. 53685)⁴. That is the equivalent of 5,000 to 30,000 times more silver than is used in most silver supplement products sold today, which would be from 10-32 ppm depending on the use.

Argyria has also been known to result from the extreme misuse of some homemade products (usually small machine – battery produced products) where they are consumed daily in large quantities (8-24 ounces daily) over years of time.

Minimum Amount of Silver Intake Known to Cause Argyria Historically

The normal human body contains some silver already, approximately 1 milligram (mg) of silver⁹, with no evidence of argyria. This can be obtained from normal food, water, and other sources. The smallest amount of silver reported to have produced generalized argyria in humans ranges from 4-40 grams (g) depending on the study and the patient’s predisposition (Padlewska et al, 2022)⁹(EPA IRIS Report on Silver)⁶. That is a very large amount of silver.

For a typical silver supplement at a 10ppm concentration, the recommended dose is generally 1-3 teaspoons daily. Each teaspoon contains roughly 50 micrograms (mcg) of silver in water. This means that an individual would have to consume between 80,000 and 800,000 teaspoons of a 10ppm silver supplement to reach the lowest level ever known to cause argyria. It would take between 26,667 days (73 years) and 800,000 days (2,192 years) of continuous use, to consume the lowest level ever known to cause argyria, if taking the typical recommended daily dose. These numbers assume their body retained all the silver they ingested. However, as is referenced below, most of the silver is not retained at all, and leaves the body after a short amount of time.⁶

It should be noted that the EPA standards for the amount of silver that can be safely consumed daily in regular drinking water is about the amount contained in 3.27 fluid ounces of 10 ppm silver solution (Oral Rfd of .014 mg/kg/day – EPA IRIS Report page 2)⁶. According to these standards, you could safely consume about 20 teaspoons every day of your life, based on a typical 70 year lifespan, with no significant degree of risk of developing argyria. That is more than 6 times the standard daily dose of 3 teaspoons of a 10ppm silver liquid, and yet the EPA still considers it safe.

It is also important to note that even during the years from 1918 to 1940, when very high content silver products (sometimes more than 10,000 ppm) were commonly used across the medical field worldwide, there were still relatively few cases of generalized Argyria. For this reason some studies are limited to older information, simply because this condition is so rare.

Only Ionic or Chemical Forms of Silver Can Cause Argyria

A peer-reviewed report from Pennsylvania State University was released after years of studying a number of colloidal silver and silver aquasol or nano products purchased from the U.S. market. The paper was authored by Professor Rustum Roy, along with seven other professors and scientists from leading universities. In the report cited on page 1, on the subject of ionic vs. metallic silver for human use, Dr. Roy states (page 2, fourth paragraph): “In spite of this enormous range of data, it is extraordinary that no major effort has been made to confirm and expand on the role of metallic silver in human health–especially in light of its huge advantage in lack of side effects. (Ingestion of excessive amounts of ionic (soluble) silver, not metallic solid particles is reported to have resulted in a very rare condition labeled argyria, an (irreversible?) darkening of the skin. No one has died of this condition. The safety of metallic silver sols is firmly established by the data cited above.)” ²

The safer “metallic solid particles” or “metallic silver sols” he is referring to are silver particles that have a hard crystalline structure, which are often referred to as ‘Nano Silver’ due to their crystalline structure creating particle sizes 1 nanometer or larger (ie. Nano-silver is Nano-sized). These larger particles are still small enough to enter your bloodstream (see below), but they are not metabolized, and have never been shown to build up in the body.

Nano-Silver Washes Out of The System Quickly

According to a published human ingestion report, as reported to the US FDA “In vivo human time-exposure study of orally dosed commercial silver nanoparticles”, (also published: Nanomedicine. 2014)⁵ a nano silver liquid at an average size of 5-7 nanometer particles, when ingested, hit their height in the bloodstream within two hours.  They also reported that the silver washed out very quickly, meaning within 24 hours with no measurable residual (silver left in the body).

Other Forms of Silver Are Excreted Slower than Nano-Silver

The US EPA IRIS Report on silver (Integrated Risk Information Systems, 5th page, 1st paragraph)⁶ it states that several tests were completed to test the absorption and retention of ingested silver in a number of animals, including primates (we are primates). In its conclusion, the test work indicated that between 90-99% of ingested silver was excreted on the second day after ingestion, and greater than 99% was excreted in less than a week. So, in other words, almost all of the ingested silver was out of the body in about two days, and most of the rest was out of the body in a week.

Homemade Silver Products

There is no simple way to accurately control or measure the amount of silver in products that are made in the typical home-made colloidal silver machines. Recent tests on a number of those machines have also shown that the product that they make is usually of very poor quality. In addition, it was found that the home-made products are made up of mostly ionic or soluble silver particles, not metallic particles. There are other problems associated with these machines as well. One is that because the products are so ineffective, the people who use them usually have to drink a lot of the silver to get a positive benefit. This means that the increased amount of silver needed in their home-made product to receive a positive benefit can be way above the amount of silver a person should drink by government guidelines. When people drink large amounts of homemade silver products, they potentially expose themselves to silver build up in their body (argyria).

However, even among the possibly hundreds of thousands of people who make their own silver products, the argyria condition is still very rare. The news media seems to love to find one of them every few years or so and put them on TV as part of a shock treatment for ratings. Even when it happens, such as the famed “Blue Man” on TV a number of years ago, extensive testing was completed on him and it was found that he suffered no ill conditions from argyria, except his bluish skin color.

Argyria Causes No Known Negative Effects Other Than Pigmentation

In an EPA report on drinking water (report ECAO-CIN-026 revised Jan.1991- Section VI, pages VI-1)⁷ it states that silver has been used therapeutically for centuries. Two doctors in the report were injecting silver into people for various extreme health ills. Having injected silver into patients over a period of years the doctors stated, (Hill and Pillsbury 1939, page VI-2) “the ordinary clinical use of silver compounds practically never gives rise to any gross untoward effect other than argyria.” The paper also states (bottom of page VI-11), “There is no evidence that argyria alone is associated with any adverse effects other than the pigmentation.”

In other words, the only known potential side effect from the extreme misuse of medicinal silver products is the rare condition called argyria and that condition is cosmetic only.

Safe for Animal Use

Numerous published and private studies exist showing that silver is safe for general animal use.  Both oral (ingested) and injected studies are specifically available, and show no negative effects from using silver products with animals.  In one U.S. NIH published study, animals were given a 10ppm nano silver liquid to drink as a supplement every day for 14 days.  There were no negative effects reported, but the silver was also credited with increasing the survival rate of animals suffering the effects of a H5N1 Bird Flu infection by 100%.¹⁰  It is important to note that the H5N1 Bird Flu is a deadly virus that has killed millions of animals.

In another study race horses were being nebulized with a nano-silver product to help eliminate exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage and lung infections.  The silver was shown to be an integral part of helping the horses to eliminate the infection, and again no negative side effects were reported.¹¹  A nano-silver with a 10ppm concentration was also proven to be safe for injection in animals at levels even up to 50ml/kg which is a fairly heavy dose.¹²

Conclusion

There is no question about the amount of data that exists on the safety and general non-toxicity of using silver in its many typical human and animal uses, especially considering the fact that millions of people use the metal daily. It has been used in almost every facet of human life. Metallic silver causes no nephropathy or heavy metal poisoning in the body. Silver is a natural broad-spectrum antimicrobial and healing agent. According to the EPA (who are in charge of defining safe levels of any mineral in water which is used for ingestion, drinking, or disinfecting), the oral consumption of small amounts of silver in water on a daily basis poses no significant degree of risk.

According to historical published information on silver, unless an individual were consistently consuming many times the recommended daily dosage of a typical 10ppm silver product, there should be no realistic possibility of that individual contracting argyria. Metallic crystalline forms of silver have never been shown to build up in the body. Those people who use hundreds or even thousands of times the recommended daily dosages of certain types of silver run a risk of turning their skin blue or grey, but even then, the condition is very rare. There have been no reported deaths from the medicinal use of silver.

References

1. Schreiner GE. Toxic Nephropathy: Adverse Renal Effects Caused by Drugs and Chemicals. 1965;191(10):849–850. doi:10.1001/jama.1965.03080100067015
2. “Ultradilute Ag-Aquasols with extraordinary bactericidal properties: the role of the system Ag-O-H2O.”Materials Research Innovations, vol. 11, no. 1, (2007) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237277538_Ultradilute_Ag-aquasols_with_extraordinary_bactericidal_properties_Role_of_the_system_Ag-O-H2O
3. S. EPA Registration Eligibility Document (RED) Document on Silver https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/reregistration/red_G-75_5-Sep-07.pdf
4. Federal Register, FDA-21CFR Part 310, pg. 53685 https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=310
5. “In vivo human time-exposure study of orally dosed commercial silver nanoparticles” Nanomedicine. 2014 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877176/
6. US EPA IRIS Report on silver (Integrated Risk Information Systems) https://iris.epa.gov/static/pdfs/0099_summary.pdf
7. US EPA “Drinking Water Criteria Document for Silver”, Erdreich et al., Published 1985, EPA/600/X-85/040, ECAO-CIN-026, Revised Jan. 1991
8. Nadworny PL, et al, Treatment of infection and inflammation associated with COVID-19, multi-drug resistant pneumonia and fungal sinusitis by nebulizing a nanosilver solution. Nanomedicine: NBM 2023;48:102654, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nano.2023.102654
9. Padlewska, K. K., & Schwartz, R. A. (2022, May 13). Argyria. Practice Essentials, Pathophysiology, Etiology. https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1069121-overview?form=fpf#a5
10. Pedersen, Effect of Prophylactic Treatment with ASAP-AGX-32 and ASAP Solutions on Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection in Mice
11. Herbert H.Warren DVM, BIOPRO Armour, The Effects of BIOEQUALIZER™, a Purified Thymus Protein, and Silver Sol Solution on Thoroughbred Racehorses Afflicted with Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage (EIPH) using Flexineb™ Nebulization and or Oral Administration
12. Sheri C. Patel Research Centre For Chemistry and Biological Sciences. To Evaluate The USP Systemic Injection Trest of ASAP Solution In Mouse Model. Viridis BioPharma  Dr A. M. Bagwat, Mrs Avanti S. Joshi
13. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 17th ed.Berkow R, Beers MH, eds., Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck Company, 1999. ISBN 0911910-10-7

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Icy Winter Days
People who suffer from chronic conditions such as arthritis, rheumatic conditions, depression and/or anxiety are susceptible to increased pain during cold winter months. One theory³ suggests sudden changes in barometric pressure may be to blame. With colder temperatures steadily lowering outdoor air pressure, exposure to these atmospheric changes triggers inflammation in muscle and joint tissue, resulting in pain. We can make ourselves more comfortable during the colder months with some minor adjustments to our daily routines.

Generate Warmth
Regulating your body heat is a simple, but effective way to alleviate pain. Take the time to properly protect yourself during especially low temperatures by wearing extra layers of clothing. Opt for insulated gloves, outerwear and thermal undergarments. Wool is an excellent fabric for preserving body heat-but if it irritates your skin, alternatives such as cashmere and alpaca wool offer warmer, lighter, and softer protection that is gentle on the skin and more effective at retaining heat than synthetic materials. When at home, warm showers and baths can not only help keep you warm, but lower blood pressure and increase blood circulation. Also utilize heating pads or electric blankets, which are an excellent way to stay warm during freezing nights.

Exercise Daily
Routine daily exercise and maintaining a healthy weight will put less stress on your joints, especially those in the back, hips, and knees. While frigid outdoor weather can significantly restrict access to outdoor exercise, studies show staying active and exercising regularly can help reduce pain⁴. Start small with exercises that are gentle on your joints, like yoga, tai chi or swimming in a heated, indoor pool. Before bracing the chilly weather, remember to stretch and loosen muscles and joints, your body will thank you later.

Spice It Up
Different foods and drinks can give you warmth as well. Hot tea is not only soothing, but can warm up your hands if you hold your teacup tight. Coffee is scientifically proven to increase body temperature due to the high amounts of caffeine that stimulate the metabolism, encouraging the body to burn fuel. The most effective way to drink coffee is black. Adding cream and sugar will just break down instantly and produce a sugar crash. Besides drinks, certain foods can also keep you warm like ginger, which improves blood circulation, helping to warm your extremities and keep away the chills. For those who like their food a bit more bold, any spicy pepper, like jalapenos or habaneros, will help you heat up. Capsaicin⁵ is the active component that is found in all peppers, the chemical produces a burning sensation to any tissues it comes into contact with, keeping you nice and toasty.

Sweltering Summer Days
Heat waves and humidity can have an effect on anyone, however, for people in pain, especially those dealing with chronic pain like arthritis and other conditions, heat can intensify the pain and make it worse⁶. Studies show hot weather alone can cause dizziness, lightheadedness, fatigue, and muscle cramps⁷, even in people who do not normally experience muscle pain – so stay cool by using these tips:

Choose Water
When you feel thirsty, it is your body telling you that you are already mildly dehydrated. Our muscles require water, without enough fluid, our muscles can become extremely sensitive and spasm. Make sure to hydrate with water from morning to evening and pick beverages wisely. Drinks such as alcohol and/or highly caffeinated beverages (like soda, coffee or some teas), can cause dehydration. The best choices can also pertain to certain foods, some summer snacks are higher in water, which make them ideal choices for staying cool. According to studies from Australia, about one-fifth of our water consumption comes from foods⁸ – primarily fruits and veggies. Summer favorites with high amounts of water include: watermelon, cucumbers, cantaloupe, tomatoes, strawberries, iceberg lettuce and pineapple.

Favor Shade Over Sun
The hot temperatures and humidity can exhaust us, but the harmful rays of the sun can also make pain even worse. When venturing outside try to wear a hat, sunglasses and sit or walk in the shade whenever possible. By spending time in the shade, your skin can repair itself and it is a good way to avoid sunburn, which can intensify any existing aches and pains. Put away the denim and sweaters, and choose breathable, light-weight clothes made from polyester or cotton to help protect your skin, and regulate body temperature. For those who already struggle with headaches, or migraines, avoid bright sunlight as much as possible. While just being out in the heat stresses your body, direct sun can cause sunburn and intensify pain, picking shade over sun can help you stay cool.

Pain Cream vs. Pain Pills
Extreme heat can cause painful muscle spasms or soreness, which can occur even if you have never had them before, and especially if the body gets too warm and can’t cool itself fast enough. These spasms are referred to as ‘heat cramps⁹‘, and are usually experienced by pro-athletes, but in extreme weather can happen to anyone. In this instance, effective pain relief creams can work quicker than oral pain medications. Oral medications and supplements take time to absorb in the body via ingestion, some even require a waiting period of 6 to 8 hours between doses. Pain creams, on the other hand, can better target pain by applying cream directly to affected joints or muscles, providing instant relief. Another advantage to pain relief creams is that you can apply it more frequently than you can take an oral pain relief medication.

Topical pain relief creams have proven effective for my patients in both weather extremes, especially pain creams that contain hyper-oxygenated oil¹⁰. These oils have been praised as a valuable remedy throughout history, from the days of ancient Rome. The Spartans would rub oil onto their bodies before going into battle. In those days, the oil was made from local flowering plants and then left to ferment in the sun for up to 20 years, infusing the oil with oxygen. When massaged in, the action of the rubbing in the soothing oil helps accelerate blood flow deep in the superficial vascular network. Pain creams that utilize oxygenated oil usually have lower doses of menthol, and have been proven to be more effective than menthol-only creams.

Different therapies can offer a variety of solutions for all types of pain, but not all options are suitable for everyone or for all types of pain. Consult your doctor about the right treatment option for your pain. While it may not seem like you are doing a lot, taking simple small precautions during periods of extreme weather, and adjusting your routine accordingly, can have an effective impact on managing pain in any type of weather.

References:

1. Weather Patterns Associated with Pain in Chronic-Pain Sufferers – American Meteorological Society
2. The Meteorology of the Human Body – National Library of Medicine
3. How Cold Weather Impacts Joint Pain – Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
4. Exercise and Chronic Pain – Utah State University
5. Capsaicin – Wikipedia
6. The Dangerous Combination of Chronic Pain and Hot Weather – Pain Medicine News
7. Temperature-related Death and Illness – National Institute of Environmental Health Science
8. Drinking Water and Your Health – healthdirect.gov.au
9. Heat Cramps – University of Connecticut
10. Ozonated oil in wound healing: what has already been proven? – National Library of Medicine

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Until now, all we could do was optimize nutritional support with the Energy Revitalization System Vitamin Powder, optimize thyroid function, and make sure that the ferritin blood test for iron was at least 100. Although these frequently help considerably, all too often it is not enough.

Most often, hair loss is caused by a condition called Telogen Effluvium. This is where a severe stress or infection (such as fibromyalgia, any of a number of infections, or adverse changes in thyroid hormone levels) cause many of your hair follicles to all go into the resting (telogen) phase. Then two to three months into this resting phase, the hair falls out, making you want to cry when you look at your hairbrush!

Most often, if one is healthy, the hair can then grow back. But all too often, the hair stays thin. The good news? Now there is something you can take to help, and people are loving it! It is called “Hair Renew,” (by Terry Naturally) and contains a number of unique and key nutrients. But what makes it especially powerful is Millet Seed oil and the herb horsetail, combined with 5000 µg biotin and key amino acids.

Horsetail Is a unique plant which has Immune supporting, remineralizing and regenerating effects. It is a rich source of flavonoids, potassium, and silicon. Put simply, large amounts of these three are needed for rapidly growing tissue such as healthy hair and skin.¹ The level of silicon in the body decreases with age, which also results in nail and hair brittleness, along with decreased resistance to fungal and bacterial infections.

But especially powerful for hair growth are the components found in Millet Seed Oil. In two studies, this was found to be very effective after three months of use. Not just in getting hair out of the telogen phase, but even in people with the most severe health problems!^2,3

People have also clinically found Biotin to be very helpful. All of these together not only seem to markedly decrease hair loss over three months, but improves hair thickness and shine. These, and more, are all combined in the Hair Renew.

Iron also has presumed to be critical for hair growth, and dermatologists at the Cleveland Clinic will keep ferritin (the key test for iron levels) over 100, even though normal is anything over 12. But I generally will not give iron supplementation unless the person has had a blood test to make sure that iron levels are not too high.

Got hair thinning? Combine the Energy Revitalization System and Hair Renew for three months. And watch your hair start coming back!

References

1. The influence of selected ingredients of dietary supplements on skin condition (Horsetail ) Postepy Dermatol Alergol. 2014 Jun; 31(3): 174–181.
2. Miliacin encapsulated by polar lipids stimulates cell proliferation in hair bulb and improves telogen effluvium in women J Cosmet Dermatol. 2020 Feb;19(2):485-493
3. A case-control study of Panicum Miliaceum in the treatment of cancer chemotherapy-induced alopecia. Minerva Medi. 2007 Dec;98(6):661-664.

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We are all in search of a more youthful appearance. With age, comes the inevitable changes to our skin i.e., texture change, wrinkle formation, color change, etc. Our 21st-century world poses many challenges to maintaining glowing, radiant skin. Sugar-laden and processed foods, dehydration, air pollution, EMF exposure, alcohol, tobacco, sun damage, stress, and lack of sleep are all the thieves that will steal our youthful appearance.

While, we cannot hold back time, modern science has given us some amazing solutions that allow us to seriously slow the aging process way down…and even roll it back a bit!

Thankfully for us, there is good news on the skin rejuvenation front. By adding healthy lifestyle and dietary choices into the mix along with an effective skin care regimen, we can, indeed, merit a more youthful and healthy appearance.

The Two Aging Villains: Inflammation and Dehydration
Only 10 –15 percent of visible aging is directly related to genetics. That leaves the vast percentage of the aging process as the result of external conditions in addition to our personal choices and habits.

If it’s not really about our genes, then what does initiate the aging process? It is now understood that the inflammatory process is one of the key aging villains. Research shows chronic inflammation undermines healthy, youthful skin.

But, first, here is a quick definition of inflammation. Inflammation is an immune response that occurs when tissue has been injured or abnormally stimulated. Although it is a normal immune response, it is a problem when there is a continuous barrage of factors that keep the inflammatory process constantly active. An inflammatory response triggers the production of free radicals, which in turn starts a destructive chain of events, called the inflammation cascade. Immediate effects of inflammation on the skin can cause roughness, tightness, and spots (post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation).

The process of continuous low-intensity inflammation, while invisible, damages our skin and will slowly lead to the inevitable signs of aging. It can accelerate fine lines, wrinkles and enlarged pores, as well as puffiness, sagging, blotchiness or reddening of the skin. Conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and rosacea are also inflammatory symptoms. While aging, itself, initiates an inflammatory response, exposure to toxic chemicals, sunburns, stress, and denatured foods all add fuel to the fire of inflammation.

On the record, many skin and personal care products contain many of the 10,500 toxic chemical ingredients that have been known to cause inflammation, free radical damage and aging to the skin.¹ Becoming an educated consumer and choosing only the purest products is vital in the unregulated, Wild West world of skincare.

The other major aging villain is dehydration. One of the main characteristics of youthful skin is its ability to naturally retain cellular hydration. As we age, the ability to hold moisture steadily declines.

Cellular dehydration is exacerbated by lack of adequate water intake, chronic stress and aging. The most common indications of dehydration include dryness, flakiness, roughness, irritation, and cracking. These symptoms all add up to the look of prematurely aged skin.

There is an important piece of the hydration story called hyaluronic acid (HA). It is a naturally occurring molecule found in cells throughout our body. However, the greatest concentration of HA is found in skin tissue. Almost 50 percent of the body’s HA is found here. HA occurs in both the deep underlying dermal areas as well as the visible epidermal top layers. Youthful skin is smooth and elastic from the abundant amounts of HA plumping up our skin cells.

As we age, the amount of hyaluronic acid produced by our skin cells begins to decline and cell turnover can become sluggish—this is when those dreaded lines, wrinkles and rough texture tend to make their debut.

So, what is the best solution to combat the two villains of skin aging: inflammation and diminishing levels of hyaluronic acid?

The Two Pieces of the Skin Rejuvenation Puzzle
In order to stop the destructive process of inflammation, a powerful, yet safe, anti-inflammatory solution is needed. Enter, a patented silver molecule called SilverSol®, one of the most effective solutions to safely repair as well as protect the skin from the damaging effects of inflammation. Through a new manufacturing technology, patented under multiple patents, this advanced Nano-silver solution, is the new generation of colloidal silver. It is recognized as the standard by which all other silver products are now measured.

The patented SilverSol® technology from American Biotech Labs is a unique and highly effective form of silver. Throughout the ages and in cultures around the world, silver has been renowned for its anti-microbial effects. Even the famous Greek healer Hippocrates praised silver for its tissue repair and wound healing abilities. Thanks to advanced 21st-century technology, SilverBiotics by American Biotech Labs, is the most powerful as well as the safest safe form of silver ever created.

Why is SilverSol® so important for youthful skin? Clinical studies proved that SilverSol® successfully killed all known forms of bacteria, even MRSA, within minutes.^2,3 The same impressive results were achieved with viruses, yeast, and mold.

But SilverSol® has other important skin benefits besides preventing and healing infections. In addition, it accelerates wound healing, calms inflammation, reduces scarring and promotes stem cell release and activation.⁴

Also, because SilverSol® is so effective against the growth of pathogens, it takes on another important role in skin care products. It is an effective and safe preservative to maintain the purity of a skincare formula.⁵

The addition of the patented SilverSol® technology in an anti-aging facial serum ensures ultimate protection and healing for your face. It offers a unique barrier against microbial infections as well as environmental assaults. At the same time, it gently promotes natural healing of the skin i.e., reducing all signs of inflammation, redness, blemishes and the appearance of scars. The second important piece of the rejuvenation puzzle is Hyaluronic Acid (HA) serum for plumping up dehydrated cells.

As we age, the cells ability to hold moisture drops significantly. That translates into a loss of elasticity and glowing complexion. HA is phenomenal at penetrating the skin’s upper layers where it affects tissue repair and protection while boosting elasticity and hydration. Another important feature of HA is its ability to transport nutrients from the blood directly to skin cells. HA has one more important feature, it protects the skin from the free radical damage caused by the sun’s UV rays.^6,7,8

Hyaluronic Acid is a real superstar when it comes to rejuvenation. Because it has the unique ability to attract and retain more than 1000 times its weight in water, researchers have seen a significant increase in skin smoothness and wrinkle reduction.

Hyaluronic Acid is essential for youthful skin because it:

• Curbs premature wrinkling
• Keeps collagen synthesis up
• Increases skin hydration
• Locks in moisture
• Boosts skin elasticity
• Enhances collagen production
• Nourishes skin cell growth
• Promotes firm skin tone
• Antioxidant protection

The New SilverBiotics Anti-Aging Facial Serum for Re-Vitalizing Aging Skin

A truly effective skin rejuvenating product needs to protect against the two most age ravaging villains, inflammation, and dehydration.

In the search for a truly effective anti-aging solution, American Biotech Labs formulated the ultimate in skin rejuvenation, called the SilverBiotics Anti-Aging Facial Serum. They combined their patented SilverSol® technology with a super powerful hyaluronic acid combination incorporating two different molecular weights.

This special combination of the two molecular weights ensures that HA is able to reach the deepest layers of the skin while providing hours of intense cellular hydration and softness. The result is a truly rejuvenated you – diminished wrinkles and fine lines, well-hydrated skin, greater skin firmness and reduced skin discoloration.

In addition to a daily regimen, always use the Anti-Aging Facial Serum after any skincare treatment such as laser procedures, chemical peels, waxing, micro needling, or plucking procedures to ensure rapid skin repair and healing.

One of the truly unique features of SilverSol® technology is its proven ability to stimulate stem cell activation. That translates into faster healing and regeneration for more youthful skin.

When choosing a good skincare product, be sure to look for one that contains all natural, non-toxic ingredients. That’s why SilverBiotics Anti-Aging Facial Serum is your best choice. It is formulated without parabens, biphenyl A, phthalates, sulfates, alcohol, harsh preservatives or synthetic colors, which are commonly found in so many other skincare products.

The SilverBiotics Anti-Aging Facial Serum is 100 percent pure. It is formulated with only SilverSol® liquid, Hyaluronic Acid, and Organic Vegetable Glycerin.

How to Get the Best Results
For achieving the best results, it is recommended to apply SilverBiotics Anti-Aging Facial Serum twice a day – morning and night. It rapidly absorbs into the skin with a light texture for deep penetrating hydration. It is so gentle that it is safe for all skin types, even the most sensitive skin.

Why Are Women Raving about SilverBiotics Anti-Aging Facial Serum?
This serum is truly remarkable in its ability to deliver on its promises. The many women who have been using this product have been thrilled with the results. Here are two real-life testimonials.

Denise Willoughby from Langley, BC, Canada shares her experience.
“For the past 15 years my husband Dr. Andrew Willoughby has been utilizing the American Biotech Labs’ SilverSol® products to achieve remarkable wound healing results on his dental patients, so I am intimately familiar with these products given that I am one of those patients who has benefited.

Recently I was asked to evaluate the new Anti-Aging Facial Serum. Compared to other HA products I have tried this product is superior. By using it morning and night on my face I was able to noticeably plump my skin and remove fine lines.

This super hydrating new Anti-Aging Facial Serum has made my skin noticeably more supple and healthy looking. I would highly recommend this product to any person as part of their daily skin care regimen – it’s a fantastic product. I hope I can keep evaluating it for years to come!”

Although Rachel Armel, RN, has only been using the Anti-Aging Facial Serum for a short time, she sent in this testimonial.

“I’ve only been using the facial serum for about a week and could not be more pleased with the results. I noticed my skin became so much better moisturized and the lines and wrinkles so much less noticeable. I never expected to see results this quickly so I can only imagine how I will look in a few months!

I have tried so many anti-wrinkle/anti-aging products in the last few years and have found them disappointing and over-hyped but this product truly delivers. It’s the real deal. LOVE IT!”

An Invitation to More Radiant, Youthful Skin

Turning back the aging process is no longer just wishful thinking. A more youthful appearance is possible for all of us. Nourishing our skin with an organic diet, adequate water intake, plenty of rejuvenating sleep, regular exercise and daily de-stressing strategies are the foundation for healthy skin. And thanks to the innovative SilverBiotics Anti-Aging Facial Serum, it is now possible to heal, repair, rehydrate, and regenerate the skin at the deepest levels at any age.

No matter what your age, Coco Chanel would be happy to know that with SilverBiotics Anti-Aging Facial Serum we can all merit beautiful, radiant skin.

References:

1. Why this matters–Cosmetics and your health https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/2011/04/12/why-this-matters/
2. Ultradilute Ag-aquasols with extraordinary bactericidal properties: role of the system Ag–O–H2O, Material Research Innovations, 2007 Vol 11 No 1.
3. Silver Sol and the Successful Treatment of Hospital Acquired MRSA in Human Subjects with Serious Ongoing Infection. Pedersen, Gordon. (Published in A4M Anti-Aging Therapeutics Vol. 11.)
4. Silver Sol Improves Wound Healing: Case Studies in the Use of Silver Sol in Closing Wounds (Including MRSA), Preventing Infection, Inflammation and Activating Stem Cells, Gordon Pedersen Ph.D. and Keith Moeller http://www.muvezi.org/Pedersen-Silver-Sol-Wound-Healing-MRSA.pdf.
5. A Unique Silver Sol with broad antimicrobial properties. Antimicrobial, Vol, 3, No 11, April 2011 https://www.scribd.com/document/68258370/A-Unique-Silver-Sol-with-Broad-Antimicrobial-Properties
6. Hyaluronic acid: A key molecule in skin aging. Dermatoendocrinol 2012 Jul 1;4(3): 253–58.
7. Hyaluronic acid, a promising skin rejuvenating biomedicine: A review of recent updates and pre-clinical and clinical investigations on cosmetic and nutricosmetic effect. Int J Biol Macromol. 2018 Dec; 120(Pt B):1682–95. doi: 10.1016/j ijbiomac.2018.09.188. Epub 2018 Oct 1. https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/2011/04/12/why-this-matters/
8. Anti-aging and filling efficacy of six types of hyaluronic acid based dermo cosmetic treatment: double blind, randomized clinical trial of efficacy and safety J Cosmet Dermatol 2014 Dec; 13(4): 277–87.

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In fact, there is hardly a place you can go that is not WIFI connected! Restaurants, shops, schools, libraries, airports and, of course, our homes! The average home is now WIFI saturated with routers, WIFI computer networks, WIFI printers, SMART TVs, Apples’ Echo, and WIFI baby monitors. We also have Bluetooth in our cars and WIFI on airplanes.

We love the latest WIFI device or gadget. But there is growing concern that we are literally becoming WIFI addicted.¹

Beware—The Internet of Things
And then there is the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of things is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity. Experts estimate that by 2020 the IoT will be rolled out to consist of about 30 billion objects.²

This is one more serious problem on the horizon. The global rollout of 5G (5th Generation Mobile Technology) to support the IoT with untested WIFI frequencies will also be complete by 2020.

This technology will require small cell towers in every neighborhood and on school grounds throughout the US and around the world. In fact, full-scale implementation will result in antennas every 10 to 12 feet in urban areas. That means you will soon be staring at a cell mast from your bedroom window! Before embracing the IoT enthusiastically, there are important questions that must be answered. Is this constant WIFI exposure safe? Are we altering vital biological processes? Most importantly, are the developing brains of children at risk?

WIFI and Its Impact on Health

Unfortunately, contrary to the efforts by Cellular Communications industry and the mainstream media to reassure us that all is well, evidence now points to the fact that our WIFI world poses some serious health concerns.

The body has never in its evolution experienced something so foreign to itself. It, therefore responds as if the incoming signal was an invader (like a toxin). The body then experiences all sorts of symptoms, which may be hard to identify.

A recent study sent shock-waves through the scientific community. In May 2016, the U.S. codes, of the National Institutes of Health, released the results of a $25 million nine-year study. The results found an increased occurrence of rare brain tumors (gliomas) and rare heart tumors from exposure to microwave radiation from cell phones.³

More than 230 scientists from 41 countries have expressed their “serious concerns” regarding the ubiquitous and increasing exposure to EMF generated by electric and wireless devices. They refer to the fact that “numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms adversely well below the levels that international and national guidelines deem safe.”

Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, DNA damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general wellbeing in humans. Damage goes well beyond the human race, as there is growing evidence of harmful effects to both plants and animals.

The World Health Organization Has Classified Emfs As Group 2 B Carcinogens—Possibly Cancerous

An additional alarm was raised by 180 scientists and doctors from 35 countries. They recommended a moratorium on the rollout of the 5G for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry. They are concerned that 5G will lead to a massive increase of mandatory exposure and chronic illnesses to wireless radiation.⁴

The health consequences impact us all. But the most vulnerable are our children, especially the unborn, infants, and young children.

WIFI connectivity is a fact of life in our 21st century world. Like it or not, we live in a world where WIFI frequencies penetrate all living beings. There is hardly any place we can go to escape exposure from WIFI frequencies.

No wonder there is a growing incidence of the physical disability called electromagnetic hypersensitivity from EMF exposure.

So, what must we do to survive and thrive in our WIFI world?

Solutions 101

It’s evident that we have a serious problem. In fact, EMFs are now considered to be the most dangerous and pervasive toxin, which magnifies the risk from all other toxic exposures.

There are some basic things we can do to do reduce exposure. They include the following:

• Replace your wireless devices with wired versions.
• Use your smart phone safely—Keep the phone on “Airplane” mode most of the time.
• Use your laptop computer wisely:—Use a wired Ethernet connection for Internet (rather than WIFI).
• Create a sleep sanctuary—your brain is most vulnerable to EMFs during sleep. Unplug everything in your bedroom at night.
• Use a headset that is not wired (wires attract and amplify EMFs)—use an airtube headset, instead.
• Do not put a laptop/iPad on your lap.
• Reduce temptation to purchase more WIFI devices!

Patented Solutions For WIFI Protection

We are now literally surrounded and inter-penetrated by EMFs 24/7. There is no escape. Therefore, the ultimate protection requires a technology that will provide a personal field of protection.

As a Naturopathic Doctor, I have been alerted to the serious health risks from EMFs. For the past 15 years I have been investigating this subject as well as lecturing about the dangers.

My quest has also been to find the most effective and proven technologies that reduce physical harm from these toxic frequencies.

I have scrutinized many technologies. My search led me to one patented technology that has proven to be profoundly effective. The GIAPLEX technology by GIA Wellness is the technology that I personally use on all my devices as well as recommend to my family, friends and patients.

GIAPLEX incorporates two patented technologies that are embedded in their devices.

One of the patented technologies is called MRET (Molecular Resonant Effect Technology). Basically, the MRET superimposes a ‘noise field’ consisting of low frequencies of electromagnetic oscillations that resemble resonance frequencies of living cells in the body.

These oscillations compensate for and neutralize the harmful effects of EMFs generated by cell phones and electronic devices while simultaneously providing support for the body’s cellular functions. The MRET has been independently verified and proven to be effective.

The second technology that is called ERT (Energy Resonance Technology) is a proprietary technology owned by GIA Wellness. ERT works by strengthening the person’s biofield field, which is recognized by National Institute of Health (NIH) in 1994 to “involve electromagnetic bio-information for regulating homeodynamics.”⁵

Our biofield is essential to health. The biofield is described as the field of energy and information that surrounds and interpenetrates the human body. It is made up of electromagnetic fields and energy structures that contain information for helping all the systems of the human body to communicate and work properly.

The GIAPLEX technology is embedded in a variety of protective devices. They are small discs that are attached to phones, computers and routers, etc. GIAPLEX is very small and can be put in your car as protection from Bluetooth as well as all the other EMF sources from the car’s electronics. It is interesting to note that metal attracts and amplifies EMFs, making our cars dangerous environments to be in without protection.

There is also the state of the art headset that is embedded with the GIAPLEX technology, which utilizes a state-of-the-art enhanced sound chamber that delivers a crystal clear sound through an air-filled wireless tube (similar to a doctor’s stethoscope). Again, a reminder that the metal in the headset wires amplifies the EMFs right into the brain.

ERT is embedded in pendants, which enhance and strengthen the biofield. Since stress, toxicity, and illness and, of course, EMFs, weaken the biofield, a pendant is a critical part for total EMF protection.

One Last Thought
I am not advocating giving up our WIFI devices. This is no longer even remotely possible or desirable at this time. What I am strongly encouraging is to use WIFI technology wisely and responsibly. Knowing that there are serious risks, use patented technology like GIAPLEX for greater protection from EMF exposure.

As that wise adage reminds us, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. EMF protection is no longer a luxury but rather a necessity. We will then be able to not just survive but thrive in our Wireless Age.

References:

1. Nordrum, Amy (18 August 2016). “Popular Internet of Things Forecast of 50 Billion Devices by 2020 Is Outdated.” IEEE.
2. https://psychcentral.com/archives/walther_cad.pdf
3. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123864543010356
4. http://www.saferemr.com/2017/09/5G-moratorium12.html
5. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Clinical Updates Women’s Health Care. Volume X, Number 4, October 2011. Complementary and Alternative Medicine. page 9.

http://ehtrust.org/ntp-toxicology-carcinogenicity-studies-cell-phone-radiofrequency-radiation-slide-presentation-results/

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CBD’s effect on skin goes beyond its anti-inflammatory effects, and is not only helpful in treatment but prevention as well.

Dr. Phillip Blair, MD, Ret. COL spoke on this topic at the recent Cannabis World Conference and Business Exposition in Los Angeles. An international consultant on medical uses of CBD, Dr. Blair geared this presentation to the effects CBD can have on such conditions as acne, psoriasis, and even skin cancer. This was the inspiration for this article.

How Does It Work?
Benefits of CBD for the skin include the following mechanisms:

• Neuro-regulation
• Immune modulation—includes decreasing pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF, IL1 and IL6 and increasing anti-inflammatory cytokines IL4 and IL10
• Effects on hunger, stress, and sex hormones
• Ability to restore balance to the Endocannabinoid System (ECS)

What is Cannabidiol?
Cannabidiol (pronounced Can’na-bi-die’-ol) is a derivative of the cannabis or hemp plant that contains a number of beneficial natural chemicals such as cannabinoids and terpenes, providing a synergistic or “entourage effect.” This means that when added together, the effects are not simply additive, but create a more potent effect overall.

Over-the-counter cannabidiol, legal in all 50 states, contains less than .3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). In states where licensed, plants and their derivatives that contain more than .3 percent THC require a medical license and are purchased at a dispensary. That is a changing requirement, though, beyond the scope of this article. THC is the chemical in the plant that has direct mind- and mood-altering effects; i.e., it gets you high. Non-THC CBD also can have positive effects on mind and mood, but without the “high” effect.

Cannabidiol and the Skin
Cannabidiol (CBD) has been shown to have positive effects on a variety of skin conditions, its mechanism of action going beyond the commonly accepted anti-inflammatory properties of CBD. The most common modes of administration for skin care are orally and topically. Conditions treated include acne, eczema, psoriasis, skin cancer, wound healing, and aging skin.

The Endocannabinoid System and Acne
Acne is generally a result of overactive sebaceous glands. The body’s endocannabinoid system (ECS) which plays a key role in the regulation of sebum production¹ responds to both endocannabinoids (made naturally in our body) and phytocannabinoids (found in the cannabis plant). Balancing the ECS is key here.

CBD works three different ways to regulate a sebaceous cell:

• Stops inflammatory lipids like arachidonic acid
• Stops the extra production of the cell types in sebaceous cells that lead to overproduction of sebaceous material
• Provides an anti-inflammatory effect²

There are other factors, too, which facilitate acne beyond the sebocyte factor. One is the over-production of testosterone which induces lipid synthesis, with excessive secretion and cell growth. CBD was shown to inhibit this lipid syntheses.2 Another factor is the overgrowth of bacteria called Propionibacterium. CBD has been shown to exhibit antibacterial properties and potentially inhibit its growth.^2,3

Eczema
Eczema is a common skin condition characterized by a red, itchy rash, most commonly appearing on the face, back of the knees, wrists, hands, or feet, but may affect other areas as well. Eczema affects about 10 percent to 20 percent of infants and about 3 percent of adults and children in the US.

Newer research indicates that that skin conditions like eczema and acne develop when there is an imbalance in the ECS,⁴ and suggests that the cannabinoids can help repair this imbalance by interacting with cannabinoid receptors. One study of 2500 patients with eczema experienced significant reductions in redness, scaling, itching, chafing, and thickening after regular topical use of a cannabinoid-containing cream. This study also resulted in 38.3 percent of the patients experiencing a complete resolution of itching symptoms.⁵

Psoriasis
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disorder which includes pathological overproduction of skin cells. The cytokine, Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is known to be largely responsible for psoriasis. CBD reduces the production of inflammatory cytokines IL-17 and IL-6 and increases the production of an anti-inflammatory cytokine, IL-10.⁶ This is a great boon to psoriasis sufferers, who have had to cover up with clothing, or take strong and expensive medications. They can now use a product that not only treats their unsightly rash, but has side benefits instead of side effects.

Skin Cancer
Many studies show promising results of cannabis on cancer cells. One study found that activating the cannabinoid receptors induced cell death in tumorigenic epidermal cells, while the non-cancerous epidermal cells remained unaffected.⁷ Dr. Blair discussed his experience with a 50-year-old man with recurring basal cell cancer. He had the cancer removed and covered the area with CBD under a band-aid. The patient experienced complete healing at two months with no signs of recurrence.

Wound Healing
There is considerable anecdotal evidence related to cannabis and wound healing. A few studies suggest that activation of the endocannabinoid system plays a role in this process.⁸ Dr. Blair showed some before and after photos of a patient with a wound on his arm, showing significant healing within 12 weeks.

Anti-aging Skin Care
There are an increasing number of CBD-containing skin care products, owing largely to its anti-inflammatory effects, which can counter the effects of aging.

Dosing and Application
For skin conditions, CBD can be taken orally, in capsules, gel caps or tinctures, or topically, as a cream or oil. Dosing should start at 15 mg of CBD twice a day orally, adjusting the dose upward as needed. It not unusual to go up to 60 mg. For a location-specific condition like eczema or skin cancer, you can apply the topical cannabis directly on the affected area. For nonspecific topical application, CBD oil can be applied to the back and covered with a band-aid as protection. Any improvements are typically seen in about two weeks after the first dose.

A number of troublesome and heretofore difficult to treat skin conditions have been resolved successfully with its use. And this is just one of a growing wave of uses of CBD.

We thank Dr. Phillip Blair for supplying both the inspiration and a portion of the material for this article.

References:

1. Dobrosi N, et al. Endocannabinoids enhance lipid synthesis and apoptosis of human sebocytes via cannabinoid receptor-2-mediated signaling. FASEB J. 2008;22(10):3685¡V95.
2. Olah A, et al. Cannabidiol exerts sebostatic and anti-inflammatory effects on human sebocytes. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2014;124(9): 3713¡V24
3. Kozela E, et al. Cannabinoids Decrease the Th17 Inflammatory Autoimmune Phenotype. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology. 2013;8(5): 1265¡V76
4. Appendino G, et al. Antibacterial cannabinoids from Cannabis sativa: a structure-activity study. J Nat Prod. 2008;71(8):1427¡V30.
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6. Biro, T., Toth, B.I., Hasko, G., Paus, R., and Pacher, P. (2009). The endocannabinoid system of the skin in health and disease: novel perspectives and therapeutic opportunities. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 30(8), 411¡V20.
7. M. Llanos Casanova, et al. Inhibition of Skin Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis in Vivo by Activation of Cannabinoid receptors. JCI. 2003;111(1): 43¡V50.
8. Ramot Y, Sugawara K, Zakany N, Toth BI, Biro T, Paus R. (2013) A novel control of human keratin expression: cannabinoid receptor 1-mediated signaling down-regulates the expression of keratins K6 and K16 in human keratinocytes in vitro and in situ. PeerJ 1:e40 https://peerj.com/articles/40/

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Normally, your body knows how to avoid excess toxins—you take in what you need, and you get rid of what you don’t.

Your liver detoxifies, using what are called phase I and phase II detoxification pathways. Your kidneys detoxify, filtering blood, removing toxins and dumping them into the urine for disposal. Your skin detoxifies, using millions of sweat glands. You even detoxify with every breath, inhaling life-giving oxygen and exhaling toxic gases.

Breathing demonstrates a basic fact about detoxification: the body does it automatically. No worries!

But in our toxic environment—where there are more than 85,000 synthetic compounds that can mess with your body— it sometimes helps to improve detoxification by giving your body a helping hand. This article shows you six simple ways to do just that.

SIX SIMPLE METHODS OF DETOXIFICATION

1) If you can’t read it, don’t eat it.
I used to give a yearly lecture on nutrition to third-graders in our local school. Here is one of my recommendations to those kids which, is relevant for everybody: If you can’t read it, don’t eat it.

You know what I’m talking about: ingredients on food labels that are virtually unreadable, like acetaldehyde phenethyl propyl acetal (a “fruit” flavoring found in ice cream, candy, ) I don’t think I need to do much convincing on this point, because not eating a lot of food with ingredients you can’t read is common sense. Why barrage your body with toxic chemicals if you don’t have to?

2) Take supplements that support detoxification.
Various stages of phase II liver detoxification require specific nutritional compounds to do their work. How can you make sure you’re getting those nutrients?

The Energy Revitalization System vitamin powder supplies all the amino acids, vitamin C and many other nutrients that support glutathione production and detoxification. It’s one of the easiest ways to purify!

3) Drink up!
Water plays a key role in daily detoxification. In fact, drinking enough water is probably the best action you can take to support your kidneys as they clean up your blood.

How much water should you drink every day? Just check your lips and mouth. If they’re dry, you need to drink more water. Another simple method: take a look at the color of your urine. If it’s a dull yellow color, there’s not enough water diluting it, so you should drink more.

But you want to be washing out toxins, not getting more in the water you drink. For clean tap water, I recommend installing a good filter.

4) Speed up transit time.
“Transit time” is the term for the hours and days it takes for a meal to move from mouth to going out the rectum—the transit from one end of your digestive tract to the other.

A healthy transit time is about a day, although conventional doctors assert that three days is fine. Faster than 12 hours, and your body doesn’t have enough time to pull all the nutrients out of the food. Slower than 24 hours, and the digesting food starts to turn toxic—and those loitering toxins are reabsorbed into your system, causing and contributing to poor health.

To speed up transit time:

• Eat more fiber, the easiest way to speed up transit time. A simple way to put more fiber in your diet is to eat whole grain cereal for breakfast every morning, like low-sugar Cheerios or Life cereal. Add a slice or two of whole grain toast for the transit time of your life!
• Take magnesium, a must for healthy muscles and nerves, including those responsible for peristalsis, the rhythmic muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract.
• Drink more water. Without it, your stools tend to be small and hard, slowing transit time.
• Take vitamin C, which attracts water into the colon, softening stool and speeding transit time. Between 500 and 1,000 mg is a good level for most people.
• Exercise regularly, which provides a kind of intestinal massage that can speed transit time.
• Optimize thyroid function, because an underactive thyroid slows down everything in the body, including transit time.

5) Take a probiotic supplement.
Probiotics provide the same friendly, health-giving bacteria that typically inhabit your gut (like Lactobacillus acidophilus). These good-guy bacteria combat bad bacteria and fungi, which if allowed to multiply, can make you toxic.

All probiotic supplements are not created equal, however. Many don’t contain the number of bacteria advertised on the label. Or the bacteria in the supplements are dead. Or they die in the acid environment of the stomach. Any of these mean the probiotic isn’t doing you much good.

6) Sweat it out in a sauna.
Sweating for health is a worldwide tradition, from Native American sweat lodges to the Finnish sauna, and I think, “sweat therapy” is a great way to aid detoxification. I recommend (and use myself) a type of sauna called the “far infrared sauna.” A few suggestions for safe and effective saunas:

• Don’t overdo it. Start with a few minutes, at a lower temperature, and gradually work your way up to longer durations and higher temperatures, as you feel comfortable.
• Listen to your body. If you’re feeling light-headed or otherwise uncomfortable in a sauna, it’s time to come out.
• Prevent dehydration. Take drinking water into the sauna and sip throughout.
• Rinse off afterward. It prevents toxins from being reabsorbed.

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Formaldehyde is a colorless gas with a pungent, suffocating odor. It is often used in an aqueous solution (formalin). The primary uses for formaldehyde include:

• The production of urea-formaldehyde and phenol-formaldehyde resins;
• Plastics;
• The manufacture of rubber, photographic film, leather, cosmetics, embalming fluids, disinfectants, and fumigants;
• Formaldehyde resins are used as adhesives in the manufacture of particleboard, fiberboard, and plywood as well as for molding, paper treating and coating, textile treating, surface coating, and in insulation foams;
• It is commonly found in as many as 4,000 different building materials and for this reason is one of the most dangerous and common indoor air pollutants.

Sources of Formaldehyde in a Home or Office

Sources of formaldehyde in the indoor environment include building materials, smoking, household products, and the use of un-vented, fuel-burning appliances, like gas stoves or kerosene space heaters. Formaldehyde, by itself or in combination with other chemicals, serves a number of purposes in manufactured products. For example, it is used to add permanent-press qualities to clothing, permanent press bedding and draperies, as a component of glues and adhesives, and as a preservative in some paints and coating products.

The most significant sources of formaldehyde in indoor products are likely to be pressed wood products made using adhesives that contain urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins. Pressed wood products made for indoor use include: particleboard (used as sub-flooring and shelving and in cabinetry and furniture); hardwood plywood paneling (used for decorative wall covering and in cabinets and furniture); and medium density fiberboard (used for drawer fronts, cabinets, and furniture tops). Medium density fiberboard contains a higher resin-to-wood ratio than any other UF pressed wood product and is generally recognized as being the highest formaldehyde-emitting pressed wood product.

Other pressed wood products, such as softwood plywood and flake or oriented strand board, are produced for exterior construction use and contain the dark or red/black-colored phenol-formaldehyde (PF) resin. Although formaldehyde is present in both types of resins, pressed woods that contain PF resin generally emit formaldehyde at considerably lower rates than those containing UF resin.

Symptoms of Formaldehyde Exposure

Formaldehyde is predominantly an irritant of the eyes and respiratory tract; it causes both primary and sensitization dermatitis. Eye symptoms include burning, itching and blurred vision. Irritation of the mucous membranes has been observed even at very minute concentrations of exposure. Most commonly reported symptoms include tingling sensation in the eyes, nose and throat, particularly in the posterior pharynx and wheezing.

In higher concentration exposures of, lets say, 10 ppm, exposure can only be tolerated for a very few minutes before it becomes hard to breathe, the nasal cavity and throat burn severely, and symptoms extend to the trachea producing an unrelenting dry cough. Generally symptoms subside within one to two hours when individual is removed from offending areas. However, in acute irritation of the respiratory tract from inhalation of very high levels of formaldehyde greater than 50 ppm and in confined spaces, pulmonary edema and pneumonitis occurs; at concentrations of 100 ppm, exposure is fatal.

Formaldehyde – Serious and Deadly Results

In 1987, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classified formaldehyde as a probable human carcinogen under conditions of unusually high or prolonged exposure. Since that time, some studies of humans have suggested that formaldehyde exposure is associated with certain types of cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies formaldehyde as a human carcinogen.

Formaldehyde undergoes rapid chemical changes immediately after . Some laboratory studies suggest that formaldehyde affects the lymphatic and hematopoietic systems. Based on both the epidemiologic data from cohort and case-control studies and the data from laboratory research, NCI investigators have concluded that exposure to formaldehyde may cause leukemia, particularly myeloid leukemia, in humans.

Cleaning the Air, naturally

Plants are often overlooked helpers in ridding the air of pollutants and toxins – counteracting chemical out-gassing and contributing to a balanced internal humidity.

It is suggested that one plant be allowed for approximately 10 square yards of floor space, assuming average ceiling heights of 8 to 9 feet. With this size in mind, you need two or three plants to contribute to good in the average domestic living room; approximately 20 to 25 square yards.

Assuming your room is 10ft. x 10ft. = 100 sq. ft divided by 9 (sq. ft. to a yard) = 11 sq. yards. You would need one or two air-filtering plants; two is advised at opposite ends of the room.

TOP 10 plants most effective in removing:
Formaldehyde, Benzene, and Carbon Monoxide from the air – especially important in new construction or remodeled buildings with new flooring, paint, furniture, etc.

• Bamboo Palm – Chamaedorea Seifritzii
• Chinese Evergreen – Aglaonema Modestum
• English Ivy – Hedera Helix
• Gerbera Daisy – Gerbera Jamesonii
• Janet Craig – Dracaena
• Marginata – Dracaena
• Mass cane/Corn Plant – Dracaena
• Mother-in-Law’s Tongue – Sansevieria
• Pot Mum – Chrysantheium morifolium
• Peace Lily – Spathiphyllum
• Warneckii – Dracaena

Research shows that the following 10 plants (listed with their common names) are the most effective all-around in counteracting off-gassed chemicals, contributing to a balanced internal humidity, and neutralizing odors and airborne contaminants:

• Areca palm
• Reed palm (known in China as the Good Luck Palm)
• Dwarf date palm
• Boston fern
• Janet Craig dracaena
• English ivy
• Australian sword fern
• Peace Lily
• Rubber plant
• Weeping fig (Ficus benjamina)

Although many plants like light, they do not all have to be placed near windows. Many originated in the dense shade of tropical forests and have a high rate of photosynthesis. These are ideal for the home and office and can be placed in darker corners.

IMPORTANT: When positioning plants, try to strike a balance between light and ventilation because plant effects on indoor air pollution appears to be reduced when set in a direct draft like from an open window or air conditioner/heating vent.

Avoid “External Chemicals” – They Cause Metabolic Damage

Our metabolism requires vast amounts of energy for everyday balanced functioning—even more for effective detoxification and reduction of overall body burden. Exposure to toxic chemicals equates to a slower metabolism as the body uses its energy reserves in its attempt to rid itself of chemicals—the rate in which it burns carbohydrates directly converts to weight gain, stored toxins and the inability to fully release them, contributing to chemically-induced immune system disorders.

The most profound effect of chemical toxicity is lowering our ability to generate body heat and reduce hormone levels that are essential for the release of stored body fat and the toxins contained within that also induce inflammatory disorders. In a fibromyalgia patient, for example, chemicals, as well as toxins created internally, get stored within the soft and connective tissues when effective detoxification of the large intestine and the lymphatic system is not achieved, or is hindered because of toxic exposure. Additionally, underlying inflammation caused by exposure inhibits the release, or complete release, of stored toxins, causing many “invisible illnesses.”

There are hundreds of chemicals in non-food products that we absorb from the environment by breathing or through skin absorption, including, but definitely not limited to:

• Paint
• Carpet
• Plastics
• Cosmetics
• Personal care products
• Laundry products
• Car exhaust
• Chemical fragrances
• Cleaning products
• Yard & garden products
• Solvents (synthetic fragrances, polystyrene cups/plates/meat trays, etc.)
• Heat-sealed coatings of metal foils such as on yogurt, sour cream and cottage cheese
• Toxic fumes from manufacturing

It’s become increasing important to learn about what we, our families and employees are exposed to on an ongoing basis; it’s the only way we can effectively take the best form of proactive measures to implement Health thru Education™, naturally.

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