Ok...not your fault Steve, probably mine - going into panic overdrive! I am now my old calm (!) reasonable self ? so can look at it in perspective now. Thanks for all the info. dee
On 19 Feb 2010, at 17:03, Norton, Steve wrote: > > Ok, now let me see if I can remove my foot from my mouth. :-) > > > When I said I was leery of vitamin C and MSM I was talking relative to > someone reversing argyria. A person with argyria has probably been taking > large amounts of silver over a long period and has large amounts of silver > stored in their tissues. Some of it permanently (?) deposited and a lot of it > temporarly deposited. The two persons we know of here that have argyria were > taking silver in amounts 4 to 5 times more than was used in the 5 month > loading phase of the Altman study and look at how much silver had been > temporarily stored in Altman in those 5 months. Given how much silver still > resides in the tissues of an argyria sufferer I would be conservative and > avoid anything that might convert it to a more permanent form. It may be > that, like my suggestion with selenium, you wait for a period to eliminate > much of the temporarily stored silver before adding vitamin C and MSM. > > IMO, the situation with a argyria sufferer is much different than someone > using typical amounts of silver. A typical user will not have much if any > silver stored in the tissues that can converted since they use amounts within > the excretion capability of the liver and kidney. > > Currently I take vitamin C daily and MSM periodically. I am not concerned > since I do not use excessive amounts of silver. > > BTW, Vitamin C is more a concern when silver nitrate or MSP is used. While > that is not the case for members of the silver list there may be argyria > cases where that is the situation and I think those persons should be extra > cautious. > > I guess that I will need to be more careful what I say and to be more clear > regarding the context of the comments. > > - Steve N >
