Yes, if you want irreversible metal poisoning. If you want to try poisoning yourself with an old fashioned treatment, then mercury -- at one time a treatment for syphillis -- is probably a better bet if only because there are well established chelation protocols for getting it out of your system. In contrast, I can find no well established, proven means to remove silver. And I have tried, repeatedly, since colloidal silver is a popular alternative treatment in the CF community and I wish I had something better to offer them than the bad news they are likely making their situation worse in the long run.

People also got "spectacular" results from antibiotics. Initially, optimists announced that we were ushering in an age free from disease. Fast forward a few decades and we now have frightening antibiotic resistant infections to contend with.

I am not claiming there are zero short term benefits to be had. I am only claiming there is a long term cost and I deem it to be too high since there is no known means to reverse silver poisoning. My genetic disorder is deemed to be degenerative and fatal. I have reversed a lot of the symptoms, gotten off eight prescription drugs and gotten my life back. I recommend against colloidal silver any time anyone asks me. I am clear the build up of poisons in the body is why my condition is degenerative.

No, it won't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Adverse_...

I am not part of the medical industry. I run an alternative health site where I talk about my non drug approach to health issues. Doctors generally want nothing to do with me and I have gotten far harsher criticism than what has been doled out here to you. I just happen to believe colloidal silver is bad advice.

> Doctors generally want nothing to do with me

Doctors are generally quite receptive to non-drug therapies that actually work.

My specialist praised me for getting better, scheduled me fewer appointments, commented his time would be best spent on people who needed his services, and expressed zero interest in how I was getting well when that was supposed to be impossible. I did not bother to get a new doctor when I moved elsewhere.

I would go see a psychiatrist if I were you.

Paranoid delusions are some of the first signs of a serious underlying mental problem.

Just so you are aware, your posts on this thread have probably gotten your account automatically banned for excessive downvotes and flags.

You are probably being downvoted because you are giving potentially life-threateningly bad advice, not because "they" are trying to bury your post.

Once again, just to make sure you are aware of the outcome of your posts, your account is dead. I cannot reply to your response to this comment, because it is [dead]. If you try and succeed getting your account unbanned, please consider posting more supporting evidence when giving advice of the form "Eat poison...because medical industry conspiracy!"

  sevenstar 14 hours ago | link [dead]

  Give it up... what is your problem? Plain English... not
  banned. Stop lying, then read the link, please... (
  http://www.naturalnews.com/010038.html )

They say don't feed the trolls, yet here I am... Look, I'm giving this one last shot where most other people wouldn't, because you're a human being and I believe all human beings deserve to know the world as it really is. As your own HN profile says, "Every single child is entitled to a life full of possibilities."

I'm going to do what you haven't thus far, and provide hard evidence of my claims.

Point of evidence #1: the quoted post above, complete with "[dead]" at the end.

Point of evidence #2: this image, showing your [dead] posts: http://imgur.com/2Fkm6

Point of evidence #3: background information related to the art of the hellban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbanning

Now, for your link, and the sort of hard evidence you would need to provide: I read through it and found the typical structure of an article promoting something unscientific to an uninformed audience. There's a bit of historic background provided to give an air of authority and authenticity, followed by non-sequiturs (e.g. the safety of topical silver use does not logically imply that silver is safe to ingest). Finally, there are scattered quotes from various people with abbreviations after their names. That is not how a rigorous scientific process works.

In science, reputation and storytelling are irrelevant -- only the double-blind studied, independently reproduced data truly matters. Reputation is merely an indicator of those scientists who are known to have conducted scientifically sound experiments in the past.

Absent the results from clinical trials (or at least a solid argument from biological first principles) showing 1. why it's okay to put silver in your body where it will never, ever leave and 2. why silver is better than antibiotics that the body will actually metabolize, telling people to ingest it is scarcely different from telling people to ingest any other poison.

Now, I'm giving you some very easy and entertaining homework. Your assignment is to read The Relativity of Wrong (http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm), a nonfiction story I discovered here on HN a long time ago, that serves as an excellent introduction to how science really works (and thus the laws of the universe).

I will no longer be following this thread, so I bid you good luck and farewell.

Or this community is full of engineers and scientists who don't believe in the quack medicine conspiracy theories about how their being oppressed by science.

Do you really think the medical industry gives a good god damn what you say?

Thank you, Stan Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Jones_(politician)