RE: Water Quality Is Really Important: We Share Our Easy and Effective Options For Water Purification, Which Can Save Your Life In The Zombie Apocalypse or a Simple Trip to Mexico
We will continue to share the successful OPTIONS for health that we have found. Everyone is free to choose the options that work best for them! We have numerous testimonials to the efficacy and have done extensive research on these health supplements.
Colloidal silver is safe and effective, and it has been used for hundreds of years with great results. There is only one side effect that has ever been associated with ingestion of poor quality colloidal silver (nanoparticles > 35 nm, or an impure solution). This condition is called argyria, and it is a cosmetic disfigurement where the skin turns irreversibly blue. It is caused by a buildup of silver salts under the skin reacting with sunlight. It is extremely rare, with only about 200 cases recorded in over a hundred years. You are welcome to compare that to the side effects of pharmaceuticals if you are interested.
There are numerous studies demonstrating the antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles, which has led to the incredible technology of silver-infused fabrics and countertops. We link studies in this and our previous posts.
We have used colloidal silver to purify water, and have great success with it, including ingesting water from a bat-filled cave in Mexico. You don't have to use colloidal silver if you don't trust studies or experience; we are not here to force our will on anyone, rather simply to illuminate options.
As for iodine, you are misinformed. It is a well known and extremely common method of purifying water. Most backpackers are familiar with iodine tablets.
Hypothyroidism is caused by iodine deficiency, as are cystic conditions and many cancers. We already shared an extensive post on the importance of iodine to the thyroid/metabolism, and you can read that and the linked studies if you like:
Iodine is Essential for Healthy Thyroid Function, Which is Vital for Every Single Cell in the Body. Thyroid Hormones Regulate Metabolism and Protein Synthesis. The Human Body Needs Iodine to Optimize Health!
There are several forms of iodine, and some of them are dangerous for the body. Elemental iodine, for instance, is toxic. Even the form in iodized salt is not the most healthful for the body!
Also, the Japanese eat a seafood rich diet and regularly consume 5,000-13,000 mcg of iodine a day, and they enjoy superior health (lower rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease) than Americans, where the RDA is a mere 150 mcg. The RDA was set as the bare minimum requirement to prevent goiter rather than to optimize health, and it doesn't account for the higher needs of women and pregnant/nursing mothers. "Too much iodine" is not realistic if one follows the standard American diet, or by supplementing responsibly with a high quality nascent iodine.
We have found great success with these options, and realize that many government studies are biased, fabricated, and/or manipulated to yield results that powerful interests want to see.
Again, we are not telling anyone they have to choose these or that they are the only way, but we will continue to speak our truth. It is extremely important in this day and age when natural treatments are being suppressed, and holistic doctors are actually being murdered for speaking out against the medical mafia.
supplements are widely unregulated, very few of them work. if you come with the big pharma conspiracy theory argument, you should probably acknowledge the $40 billion/year supplement industry. but of course, supplement sellers do not talk about that.
what is research? certainly not obscure and non-peer-reviewed websites on the internet.
anyone can say research this/research that. heck, any claim you may have you can always find a study to support it, no matter how wild it is, given that there are at least 2 million papers published every year.
Exactly, you can always find a study to support it! That is how Big Pharma yields their results. Fraud, lies, and deceit are rampant. They pay the scientists, they pay the pharmacists, they pay the doctors, they pay the drug reps, they pay the politicians, and they pay the medical schools to tell people that drugs are the one and only way to achieve health!
Our existence proves otherwise. #1 WE are obviously not motivated by money, as we spend all of our time and resources to building a healthier and more sustainable world for all, and #2 We are the healthiest people we know. If there be challengers to our health, let them rise up and show the practices they have found for increasing wellness--We want our lives to be the best they can be, so we want to try their practices!!
This is why we share what works for us, so that others may CHOOSE for themselves if it sounds like something they want to try. We have rely on experiential TRUTH over any external authority, and we will continue to tell people that there are alternatives to the "sickcare" monopoly that is presented.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1638306/
Even iodine use by campers has a strict limit of safety.
Yes the Japanese have a diet high in iodine due to their consumption of sea weed (I even posted an article about what happens from that over consumption of iodine, thyroid cancer). You are correct that hypothyroidism is a symptom of a lack of iodine. Interestingly it is also a symptom of too much iodine.
I am not "trolling" thank you very much. Ad hominem attacks yield no results. I am just pointing out peer reviewed scientific literature which contradicts your claims and illustrates the potential health hazards of (some of) the products you sell.