Despite concerted efforts by radical U.S. environmental researchers to paint silver nanoparticles as dangerous to human cells—an attempt to justify their campaign for heavy regulation or prohibition of silver-based products—scientists from other regions of the world continue to discover that silver nanoparticles, in fact, safeguard and repair human cells.

Recent Research Finds Silver Protects Cells from Alcohol Damage

This article details the findings of researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neurosciences at the University of Barcelona, along with colleagues from various other institutes, who discovered that small clusters of silver atoms can shield cells from ethanol-induced damage.

One immediate practical application of this breakthrough could be to aid in healing the cellular and tissue damage resulting from alcoholism.

The article suggests:

“The research outcomes show that these clusters of few silver atoms catalyze ethanol oxidation at concentrations similar to those found in alcoholic individuals’ blood and at membrane potential and pH values consistent with those demonstrated by mammalian cells,” clarifies Gustavo Egea, a professor with the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neurosciences at the University of Barcelona.

In simpler terms, silver appears to counteract the cell damage inflicted by ethanol alcohol. The article continues:

Alcohol has especially damaging effects on nerve cells, inducing programmed cell-death and changes to the actin cytoskeleton in the case of astrocytes.

However, when silver nanoparticles are applied to cells exposed to ethanol, improvements in the actin cytoskeleton become evident, and cell-death is avoided.

“The silver nanoparticles reduce the adverse effects of ethanol on astrocytes, functioning as a cytoprotective agent,” elucidates Javier Selva, a lecturer with the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neuroscience, and the paper’s lead author.

Essentially, silver defends the cells—a fact contrary to what environmental researchers aim to establish.

The article carries on:

This study combines the analysis of silver nanoparticles’ electrocatalytic properties with an examination of their potential biological applications.

“This is an encouraging sector in electrochemistry applied to cell biology, which leverages the diverse properties of atomic clusters—nanoparticles formed by very few atoms,” Egea further explains.

Finally, the article shares:

The authors also determined that the [silver] nanoparticles obstruct alterations induced by other primary alcohols, such as methanol and butanol…

Hence, silver can also safeguard cells from damage caused by other primary alcohols, apart from ethanol.

This novel insight into the protective power of silver on cells exposed to high levels of alcohol could potentially aid in reducing severe disabilities in babies affected by fetal alcohol syndrome—a condition that occurs in some unborn babies when the mother excessively consumes alcohol, resulting in a variety of severe neurological disorders.

Old Wisdom Resurfaces

To those who are well-versed with silver’s healing prowess, this new knowledge isn’t unexpected.

Indeed, silver’s therapeutic effects have been recognized for centuries and have been “re-discovered” by industrious researchers multiple times.

In the early 1980s, Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D., of Syracuse Medical University, confirmed that electrically generated silver ions can stimulate tissue healing in wounds and even transform cancerous cells back to non-cancerous cells.

Also developed during the 1980s was Silver sulfadiazine cream, a prescribed silver-based cream, also known as Silvadene. For decades, hospitals and medical clinics have been using it to prevent infection and initiate healing in severe burn victims’ cells and tissues.

Moreover, the above-mentioned study about the cell-protective effects of silver nanoparticles follows another study from last year, which showed that silver nanoparticles can also assist in preventing blood clotting without damaging blood cells.

The Truth Environmentalists are Attempting to Conceal…

The efforts of environmentalists to blemish silver’s reputation by labeling it as “toxic” to human cells are counterproductive.

What these anti-silver environmentalists don’t want the public to understand is that everything can be “toxic to human cells” when consumed in excessive amounts— even water. The key factor is dosage.

For instance, immersing mammalian cells in pure distilled water would be lethal. Yet, without small to moderate daily water intake, these cells would shrivel up and die.

Water is both fatal and essential to all cellular life.

No one is advocating for a ban on water despite its toxic effects on cells at high concentrations.

However, when environmentalists perform research that involves saturating cells with excessively high concentrations of silver nanoparticles, they prematurely celebrate having “proven silver’s cytotoxic effects”…

…and promptly begin lobbying to ban silver-based products, including colloidal silver!

Yet, it’s a well-established fact that when minor to moderate amounts of silver are applied to cuts, burns, wounds, and infections, exceptional cellular healing and rejuvenation occur.

For over a century, this knowledge has been common, and during this time, countless lives have been preserved by silver, and numerous individuals have witnessed its healing power.

By focusing their research exclusively on silver’s toxicity at extremely high levels, environmentalists aim to create a consensus that silver-based products should be prohibited, and severe regulatory measures enforced.

It’s time to tell the environmentalists to dispose of their misleading and biased research.

Silver research should be left to experts who are dedicated to bringing awareness about silver’s multiple benefits to the public.

Citation:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100526093606.htm