Silver lining

The War on Drugs…

The War on Terror…

They’ve got nothing on the real war that we’ve been losing more and more every year:

The War on Us…by the SuperBugs.

You’ve heard the horror stories that read more like sci-fi thrillers than the news.

…A girl gets a cut on her arm ziplining and has to have it amputated.

…A grandmother getting a “routine” hip replacement contracts MRSA. She isn’t strong enough to fight it off and never makes it home.

…People everywhere getting what used to be simple infections facing death because no antibiotic can destroy these superbugs.

But finally, there’s real hope and it’s come from the most unlikely of places…where we always knew to look.

A true silver bullet

Doctors have known about silver and used it for eons. It’s an effective antibiotic.

But all that changed 70 years ago. That’s when the drug industry introduced antibiotic drugs.

By the end of the 20th century, mainstreamers mostly dismissed silver. They called it quackery and smeared it every chance they got.

Well…guess what? It appears “quackery” may be the only thing that can save us (and the naysayers) from a nightmarish future.

New research proves that low doses of silver give antibiotics a significant boost.

In one experiment, silver made E. coli as much as 1,000 times more sensitive to antibiotics. In another test, silver helped eliminate an antibiotic-resistant bacterium.

That means silver killed a superbug — that the antibiotic couldn’t touch.

The researchers concluded that silver could play a valuable role as a partner to antibiotics.

Now, the medical establishment would never allow silver to replace drugs. But if silver makes antibiotic drugs more useful than ever, even diehards might be onboard.

Of course, many natural medicine doctors never abandoned silver. Dr. Jonathan Wright recommends colloidal silver — a trace of silver particles suspended in water.

For infections, Dr. Wright recommends adult doses of “1 tablespoon of colloidal silver at a 40 ppm (parts per million) concentration at the first signs of any infection. And 1-2 teaspoons three to four times daily until the infection is gone. Then stop!”

Some people use colloidal silver daily as a preventive measure. But Dr. Wright doesn’t recommend daily use.

You don’t need an antibiotic every day.

Sources:

“Silver Boosts Effect Of Antibiotics” Catharine Paddock, Ph.D., Medical News Today, 6/20/13, medicalnewstoday.com

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