Source: http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com
January 14, 2009

Every year your immune system is faced with different healthcare challenges ranging from a mild to severe immune threat. Some of these threats, such as a flu pandemic caused by a novel viral strain, have government agencies worldwide in near panic mode as they implement preparations to handle a widespread outbreak. The two solutions Big Pharma holds out to combat an outbreak are new vaccines and more anti-viral drugs. The problem is these options can have dangerous side effects, and in many cases, will do absolutely nothing to protect you or your loved ones during a crisis. Some experts even fear that Big Pharma’s options will be partly responsible for causing a pandemic. The truth is, far more natural, safer, and cost-effective options are available. The problem is pharmaceutical companies refuse to manufacture them because they can’t maintain market control or make the big money promoting them, not to mention that they don’t have a genuine vested interest in health care. Their real agenda is to create and manage sickness for profit. 

Since the beginning of recorded history, silver has been regarded as a premier preservative and immune tool. In ancient Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Macedonia, silver was used extensively to help control many immune challenges. Hippocrates himself, the “Father of Medicine,” used silver and taught that it promoted tissue repair.

Two thousand years later (in 1897), silver nitrate began to be widely used in America. The result was an enormous alleviation of certain risks to the eyes of newborns. During the past decade as more and more people around the world have woken up to the powerful antimicrobial effects of silver, colloidal silver burst on to the scene and has been promoted as a quasi panacea for a host of bacterial and viral related issues. Close to a hundred different colloidal silver products are on the market today with some companies even marketing generators to make your own home-made colloidal silver. Unfortunately, there is tremendous confusion surrounding the subject of silver and the various forms it comes in. Many scientists and physicians have been confused or misled regarding the risks (and benefits) of various silver-based products. There are stories ranging from people turning blue from using silver to others who say that without silver they never would have overcome their immune challenge.

When it comes to silver science, most companies are playing around in the little leagues at best. They do not have the scientific background, staff or technological wherewithal to truly produce a silver product that works effectively all the time for broad spectrum uses ranging from internal to external applications. All silver has antimicrobial properties. This is something inherent in the element silver, some better than others. When looking at colloidal silver, there are three major issues that need to be understood – silver speciation, concentration and particle charge. Bio-Active silver hydrosol represents the latest and best silver technology on the market today.

In this enlightening interview, Crusador editor Greg Ciola and national talk radio host Robert Scott Bell interview Dr. Eric Rentz about silver hydrosol. Dr. Rentz is a world-renowned expert on the subject of silver preparations. In addition to recommending it to his patients, he uses silver hydrosol personally to help guard against infections and to aid in rapid tissue repair. Dr. Rentz does a terrific job of cutting through the clutter and confusion of silver-based medicine by both clarifying the terminologies common to differing forms of silver and understanding how the various speciation’s of silver impact the metal’s bioavailability and bioactivity. When you are done reading the interview you will understand why silver hydrosol is the only silver you should be using and why everyone should have this product in their medicine cabinet.

Crusador: Dr. Rentz, let’s begin by having you tell our readers a little bit about who you are and why you are an internationally recognized authority on silver hydrosol and its numerous benefits.
 
Dr. Rentz:  Well, I’m a practicing physician. My specialty is Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Neuromuscular Skeletal Medicine. I deal a lot with both acute and chronic pain. If it hurts, I fix it. In the course of my practice I’ve done a lot of study in areas such as orthomolecular medicine and functional medicine, which are clinical, nutritional based approaches to healthcare. I’ve had a lot of experience with traditional Chinese medicine. At one time I had 4 full time doctors of oriental medicine and acupuncturists in my office working with me.  I know a lot about traditional Chinese herbal remedies. I’ve had homeopaths who worked with me. I spent 6 months in mainland China. I was one of the faculty people at the Chinese Medicine Institute in Miami, Florida. I’ve almost become an eclectic physician I guess, and it makes the practice of medicine fun.

I first began working with silver in a clinical setting in 1980 while working with some ear, nose, and throat specialists cauterizing nose bleeds with silver nitrate sticks or silver acetate preparations. I worked in a burn unit where they were using silver sulfadiazine to help the skin to heal from third degree burns. That’s how I really started having an interest in silver in general.

Before I went to medical school, unlike most of my colleagues who have a biology degree as their background, I was a chemist. I did my masters level work in organic chemistry, and then for a period of time I was involved in formulating products. Then I went to medical school.  That’s a general history of my background.

I started working with silver hydrosol in my internship at Glades General Hospital. At the time, Belle Glade, Florida was nicknamed the AIDS capital of the United States because of the high percentage of the population there that was HIV positive or had overt AIDS.  Since I was the low man on the totem pole I had a lot of responsibilities that were passed off to me, including talking to family members about their hospitalized relatives or their child who had died of AIDS in the hospital.

I actually witnessed a 17 year old and an 18 year old both die the week before I went home to my own family for Christmas for a few days. Well, you can imagine, as a young doctor that leaves a strong impression upon you when you have teenagers dying in your care.

That’s when I started to apply my very limited knowledge at that time in nutrition to trying to help these patients who not only had Candida overgrowth of the mouth, which you’d call thrush, but they were actually oozing yeast from the rectum as well as these different species in the microbial kingdom were taking over because there was no immune response to stop them.

As I continued I had the various experiences with these other kinds of silver preparations, I realized that elemental or pure metallic silver actually had some unique properties all unto itself.  I had actually started to do some research work along those lines, and then through a clinical nutritionist in South Florida I met Andrea Larson. She introduced me to Stephen Quinto (founder of Natural-Immunogenics), because Andrea Larson heard me speaking, and I was talking about making nano-sized particles of silver to treat certain kinds of wounds that don’t heal easily. Then, when I started using some silver preparations that I was making myself, which were very fine grade colloidal silver but not yet a silver hydrosol, the wounds started to heal up quickly, and with good results, just as you get an excellent result using silver sulfadiazine for third degree burns, in terms of the skin being able to regenerate and control infection.

Crusador: Did your early work with silver consist of topical application only or were you using it orally as well?

Dr. Rentz:  Topically. Wherever the sight of the wound was, whether it was on the foot, or the calf, or the buttocks, or on the back - usually pressure areas. Of course this is a problem with diabetic patients. One of the things that was really interesting to me was the fact that these wounds, especially in the lower extremities in diabetic patients who had developed a neuropathy, which means that they had lost the ability to sense, to them their feet felt numb, or maybe numb with burning sensations, these patients actually got normal sensation back at these wound sites as they healed.

There was an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Robert Becker, who had actually done a great deal of research along those lines too.  I came across his book called ‘The Body Electric’. He was talking about how he was using silver in different kinds of wounds, including fractures, to see if this would facilitate healing by putting a low level electric current across the tissue. It was known that silver stimulates bone growth deposition, so he was working along those lines, and he was working with different materials to see if one material would help increase the rate of healing better than another. When he got to using a silver mesh, he not only got positive results in terms of closure of the bones, but he got incredible results in terms of wound healing in general. He published a number of articles since. It’s a great book. If it’s not part of your library and you have an interest in things like tissue healing and regeneration, ‘The Body Electric’ is a great book to start with.

Robert Scott Bell: Dr. Rentz, I think it would be interesting for the readers of Crusador to understand the difference between what you call a silver hydrosol, and this is what your goal was, to work with something that’s pure, versus what anybody might say is colloidal silver. There’s probably a lot of confusion still out there.

Dr. Rentz:  Well, a colloid is a suspension. So, for example, in the body hemoglobin is a colloid. Myoglobin is a colloid. Albumin is a colloid. Cheese is a colloid. Milk is a colloid in water. We have many colloids that we come in contact with naturally. Anything that’s a suspension instead of being dissolved into solution is a colloid. The colloid is not dissolved, it is suspended in something, and the medium in which it can be suspended can be different things. It could be a liquid medium like water or alcohol, or some other organic solid. It could be in air. For example, some of our different plastics, like Styrofoam, are actually colloidal suspensions in air. There’s a whole realm of chemistry which is called interface of science that produces colloids of different kinds. The entire realm of most sticky stuff or adhesives are all colloids; Elmer’s Glue is a colloid. It’s quite a large area within chemistry, so even if you were a colloidal chemist, you may have nothing whatsoever to do with the mineral or metallic elements on the periodic chart. You may be working solely with organic substances, plastics and adhesives like that.

When we talk about silver colloid, or colloidal silver, that again is a huge umbrella of description. There are many different kinds of colloidal silvers. They will even have different colors, different looks, different feels, and different tastes as you examine the products. You can have really large chunks of silver suspended, which actually settle out over time. In the mining industry they do this. They work with this quite a bit to separate silver from other kinds of block material in the mining process. Then, you get the silver to fall out of the water, because they’re great big chunks so it’s only a temporary suspension. As you go smaller in size you can end up with a permanent suspension, so that you don’t see a residue form at the bottom of a container. But, the question then becomes, are these useful from a medicinal point of view?

Crusador: That’s the million dollar question. That’s the question that creates a lot of confusion in the health industry because there are all kinds of colloidal silvers on the market with all kinds of wild claims being made. There are also a number of “so-called” experts who say that colloidal minerals are not the best way to get them into the body. They say that ionic is better than colloidal. Could you get into some of these issues and why you feel that the hydrosol form of silver you work with is different and far better than any form of silver on the market?

Sure. First, ionic minerals are commonly known as salts. Salts can be either inorganic mineral salts or organic salt complexes. Salts have their valuable role to play. Are salts better in their role over colloidal particles? This is a potentially misleading question. To consider better or best is confusing. I just need to know what goal is desired to be accomplished. Tell me the goal and then I can explain which form of a mineral will accomplish the goal. There are goals mineral salts can never accomplish and other goals which colloidal minerals are unable to accomplish. Certain mineral salts of silver are quickly toxic to the human body. Silver hydrosol is quite non-toxic by comparison. One teaspoon of silver nitrate would make me deathly sick or kill me. I have to drink liters of a silver hydrosol before experiencing even a mild negative or toxic reaction. At 10ppm, I would have to take 18,000 teaspoons within 24 hours to reach the lowest observed adverse effect level. This is a huge difference in properties. The format or form of silver makes a difference in how it will behave inside the body.

One of the things I saw as a common statement made on the Internet was the fact that the number of parts per million was important in a silver colloid. Well, this is inaccurate! You could hand me a typical 50 part per million colloidal silver product and I could select a 10 part per million silver hydrosol product, and the silver hydrosol will easily outperform the 50 part per million colloidal silver. What makes the difference?

I’ve tested over 70 different brands of colloidal silver because I was interested in their properties and characteristics. The average colloidal silver product I evaluated was generally effective against microorganisms. Some were obviously much more effective than others. In comparing one product versus another, both might claim that they’re 50 parts per million, yet one would be much more effective at killing microorganisms than the other product. Why?

Well, it all comes down to charge. Do the particles have an electrical charge on them? The average over-the-counter colloidal silver product I have evaluated has 8% of the particles carrying a charge. The best colloidal product I have ever tested had around 35% charged particles.

Electrical charge is a confusing topic when it comes to chemistry and physics and has created a lot of confusion in the colloidal silver market. A particle might be a large molecule with dozens, or 50-60 atoms making up that particular structure. It can still carry a charge on its surface. Does this mean that it is automatically “dissolved” into water or some other kind of medium like a salt? No! Objects can have charge on them. Just walking across a carpet you can build up a charge on yourself, and you can touch something metallic and it discharges. You weren’t dissolved in water. You were just walking across the room.

So, can something have a charge on it without being dissolved into a liquid? Yes!

Generally when something has a charge on it, can you use the term ionic and say it’s ionized? Yes!

However, are all ionized objects automatically dissolved in something? No!

A particle can have a charge on it without being dissolved and controlled by water – unlike a salt which is going to dissolve into solution where the water controls the elements making up the compound.  For example table salt, water actually creates some physical separation of the substance; water separates the sodium from the chlorine. The sodium is going to have a positive charge on it because it lost an electron to the bigger chlorine atom. Chlorine’s electron cloud configuration makes it easier for it to take on another electron. When you take on an electron you develop a negative charge for each extra electron you add on. The water molecules get in between.  This process happens because water has what’s called a disassociation constant, so it’s able to pull these different elements apart which were held together with an ionic bond. You then have a positive charge on one atom which is called a cation and a negative charge on the other called an anion with water molecules in between these two elements.

The farther that you pull them apart physically in space, the stronger the electrical field becomes compared to the water molecules.  You get to the point where the charge then overcomes the water molecules and the opposite electrical charges move back closer to each other. So, there is a constant wobbly yo yo effect between these different elements dissolved in water.  In contrast, the silver hydrosol particles that are suspended are actually still dry; they’re not wet. These particles have water molecules around them, but the water molecules are not controlling the particles. The particle is suspended in the water because the particle is small enough. If the size is small enough, it’s never going to precipitate out of the container with gravity. So, size also matters.

Interestingly, the smaller that you go in the size of the particle, the more that you change its properties, so that when you look at something in a bulk form, like a silver bar, does it behave the same as a silver hydrosol? No, they actually behave quite differently. There was a physicist who received a noble prize in physics back in 1965 by the name of Richard Feynman, who was the first person to describe this size effect. When you go to a smaller size, you start to modify the actual chemical and physical properties of any element on the periodic chart. From a clinical point of view, this phenomenon is useful.

Silver is part of a family of elements on the periodic chart: copper, silver and gold. They have properties in common and they have individual properties. They are all face-centered cubes. How the metal-to-metal bonding forms between the atoms of each of these elements is the same. Yet, the relative strength of these metallic bonds still differ because of the protons in the nucleus and how the electrons are arranged in the outermost layer of the electron cloud surrounding the nuclear core. The functional differences regarding chemical and physical properties are strongly associated with what is going on in the electron cloud.

For example, copper can lose 1, 2, or 3 electrons, silver can lose one and gold loses none. This is why gold is a noble element, because it’s so un-reactive and refuses to give up any of its electrons. Gold coins have been in the ocean for thousands of years. By comparison, copper coins won’t be there after a certain period of time, because the ocean water will dissolve them completely. The silver coins will steadily react with ocean water so that after a few centuries they won’t be gone, but they will certainly fuse together into a dark glob of oxidized silver. Gold will never change because its electrons are so stable, you can’t pull them away. So, I’m saying the electrical charge is very important in terms of clinical efficacy. 

Since the concept of particle charge was a much argued and discussed topic on the Internet between different companies who make silver products, with some companies saying the quantity of parts per million was the important point and others saying neutral, chunk silver remained efficacious against bacteria and other microbes, I did a simple experiment to check the reality. I took a very fine grade, common commercial colloidal silver product and did a side-by-side comparison with a silver hydrosol product. Each test product had the same quantity of particles. A control of known concentrations of pathogenic bacteria was plated onto a growth medium. Then for comparison, each of these concentrations of bacteria was exposed to the colloidal silver product and to the hydrosol for four minutes and each mixture sample was then smeared on the growth medium. Initial results revealed bacterial death rates with both the colloidal silver product and the silver hydrosol product. At the lowest bacterial concentration, there was no bacterial growth for either product. As the concentration of bacteria increased, there was a breakthrough of bacterial growth against the average colloidal silver product. There was zero bacterial growth with the silver hydrosol. 

Next step, I began to titrate out an equal number of electrical charges for both products. Then both were re-exposed to the MRSA pathogenic bacteria. There was virtually no difference in the growth rate of the bacteria exposed to the neutralized colloidal silver and the original control growth with no silver. However, the silver hydrosol still killed all of the bacterial concentrations except at the highest concentration sample which had a small amount of growth. Charged particles made a dramatic difference in killing the bacteria.

The definition of a hydrosol indicates it is a suspension of particles with a very high percentage of charging on those particles. With any silver hydrosol I want to see that at least 90% of the particles are carrying a charge. With my own research efforts, I’ve actually taken a preparation up to just over 97% of the particles holding a charge. This is incredible; it’s actually more charging in a constant state than a dissolved salt has in solution! If you looked at a mineral salt like silver nitrate, are 97% of the particles in a charged ionic state? No. There’s something called equilibrium – between when the silver and the nitrate components of that salt have come back together versus the rate the water molecules are separating them again into solution. Therefore, this is another difference in chemical and physical properties – to be able to take something and achieve such an incredible percentage of stabilized charges.

When it comes to absorption, several concepts must be considered. When we consider mineral elements, whether they are classified as a salt or a particle, a charge can greatly facilitate uptake. Sitting on a salt block will not effectively change the level of sodium in your body. Sitting in a salt bath can change your internal fluid concentrations. Taking an Epsom salt bath will increase magnesium levels in your circulation, so muscles usually relax better. Holding a chunk of Epsom salt on your leg will not help the muscles relax. Wearing a silver necklace around a sore throat will not kill bacteria attacking the tonsils. Thus, the format or species presentation of a substance is relevant. Particle size is relevant. Particle charge is relevant. Concentration is relevant.

Robert Scott Bell: Dr. Rentz, if I understand this and to make it easily understood by the readers of the interview, in your clinical experiences as well as in the research that you’ve performed, one of the biggest differences between colloidal silvers and silver hydrosol is that “the charge” is the active state? I think many people are still under the false impression that it’s just about throwing a bunch of silver into a product, the more silver the better, and you reference that by saying that the higher PPM concentrations didn’t necessarily make it more effective.

Dr. Rentz:  No, not at all. I even had a 500 PPM product that I acquired from the market. I compared it with a 20 PPM silver hydrosol and the 20 PPM silver hydrosol easily outperformed the 500 PPM colloidal silver product in terms of anti- microbial activity.

Robert Scott Bell: This brings to mind, and may be a good time to bring up the issue of potential toxicity of silver. In the news, of course, we saw last year, and in the early part of this year, they were parading a blue man around who had been making home-made colloidal silver and had been drinking large quantities. Of course, that’s been used by the pharmaceutical industry to attack silver. The FDA even argued against the use of silver, that it’s not safe. Maybe you can put that into perspective as well.

Dr. Rentz:  Sure, I’d be happy to. Any time that the pharmaceutical industry is motivated to approach a regulatory agency like the Food and Drug Administration to do something, it’s usually something associated with a financial challenge to their market share. I’ll give you a non-silver example.

Back in the 1980s, L-Tryptophan rose quickly as an amino acid supplement. Many physicians were prescribing it to aid in relaxation and with helping patients go to sleep. This was the time when a drug called Valium was dominating the product industry. There was a company in California who found another company in Japan that was commercially manufacturing amino acids. They bought a large quantity of L-Tryptophan and started to sell it under their own label. These characters in California weren’t chemists. They didn’t discuss the chemistry make-up of the amino acid they were purchasing from the manufacturer in Japan. The manufacturer just sold these people in America this L-Tryptophan that was man-made. They didn’t realize that in nature you only have left handed oriented molecules when you talk about amino acids.

So, they had a 50% mixture of right hand oriented molecules, which is not found in nature, but typical of a man-made synthetic chemical process. Consequently, not knowing this, they sold it on the market, and these right handed molecules made people sick, and caused a number of people to be hospitalized. I believe there were even some deaths. Well, immediately the pharmaceutical company that made Valium filed administrative complaints with the FDA. The FDA started to investigate, and the next thing you know, L-Tryptophan is pulled off the market everywhere and, to this day is still not easily available. It doesn’t matter that companies were making it correctly and responsibly for years. It was suddenly banned from the market, period.

Robert Scott Bell:  So, what then is the form that consumers should be looking out for as far as potentials for side effects with colloidal silver versus silver that can be metabolized and easily excreted from the body? 

Dr. Rentz:  Let me answer that by first discussing what would even cause skin discoloration because of silver. The bluing of skin is caused by an interaction between ultraviolet light, or sunlight, and silver salts that are in the system. The only way that you can get a negative reaction is if you have silver salts in your system which has exceeded the capacity of your liver to eliminate. Silver can be processed and eliminated by the liver. If the liver can’t do it you’re going to have a problem.

There are only four ways to get rid of things in the body: Respiration, Perspiration, Defecation, and Urination. Silver salts are poorly filtered through the kidney, so that’s not an effective way to get rid of it. The primary way is through the liver. What’s next? The body will then try to expend it as a salt through the pores of the skin to try to get it out that way. If you’ve got silver salt on your skin and you go outside its black and white photography. If you’ve ever done black and white photography, it’s all silver salt based chemistry. What happens when you expose photographing paper that has been impregnated with silver salt to light? Bingo, you’ve got a photograph! The degree of precipitation or darkness is lots of silver and the white is no silver. The contrast in the picture of white and darkness is just a matter of how much light exposure was there and how much silver deposition occurred as part of that light silver chemical reaction.

Robert Scott Bell: So, in the case of ingesting silver compounds or silver salts, maybe even silver protein combinations, the risk of limited excretion and accumulation is greater than with what you’ve described as a much more pure, or active form of silver, as that found in a silver hydrosol, correct?

Dr. Rentz: Yes. First of all, silver hydrosol doesn’t react with sunlight, or the rate of reaction is so slow that it is essentially irrelevant. As far as the body getting rid of it, if the liver is functioning correctly, no silver is sent to the skin as an attempt to get rid of it. Silver salts are the culprit.

Robert Scott Bell: There’s a physiological roll for silver in the right form, and in fact you’ve even identified, and seen this work where there are two receptor sites on the myelin sheath of nervous tissue specifically for silver. That was stunning new information.

Dr. Rentz:  Correct. The research work was done by a chemist in Hungary. There are two specific receptor sites on the nerve tissue for silver. That means that silver is an essential trace mineral for the human body, because the human genome, the genetic material instruction-set passed on from parent to child, there are no instructions in there for things that are unnecessary for function.

I talked earlier about how silver was used to help heal chronic wounds. What happened? Gee, they got normal sensation back. So, if I chronically have insufficient nutrients can I develop degenerative diseases? There are hundreds of articles talking about the effects of chronic insufficiencies. The majority of our so-called chronic diseases are direct results of chronic nutritional deficiencies. How many physicians recognize chronic insufficiencies that lead to cardiac disease or diabetes and things of this nature? That’s where traditional western medicine is failing to wake up in light of all of the articles that have been published.

Robert Scott Bell:  We desperately need solutions that don’t harm otherwise healthy human cells while successfully addressing pathogenic microbial overgrowths. When you brought up the nervous system interaction, the receptor sites, which indicate that silver plays a very critical role in regeneration, there’s not a lot in the modern medicine arsenal that can do it, and even in the natural realm. It indicates that silver has a very big role to play, perhaps bigger than we ever knew.

Dr. Rentz:  Silver definitely has its own significant role to play. One other concept that I was leading up to was the fact that tens of thousands of patients die every year in the hospital from adverse drug effects. Ever larger numbers of people are going to the emergency room because of adverse drug effects. I can’t remember the exact number, but the last time I saw a statistic it was around 58,000 people who were visiting the emergency room from adverse drug effects alone. MRSA outbreaks in hospitals across the country are a growing problem and a huge concern for doctors, hospital staff and patients and there is little in the medical arsenal to deal with it effectively.

Now, when we talk about discoloration of the skin, has there been one single person documented anywhere in the medical literature, in Europe, China, the US, Canada, where someone died from Argyria? The answer is no. You can get some permanent skin discolorations from other kinds of chemical reactions if you’re working in certain industries. For example in the dye industry, your skin is exposed.

I have a book coming out about silver very soon. I get into all aspects of silver including those making their own home brews. I don’t want to mention specific companies, but there are certain companies from which you can buy the equipment to create your own home-made silver. You’ll get silver rods, which you can get on your own or through a jeweler. Oftentimes you start to get this white cloud forming. Silver hydrosols are not white clouds. Colloidal silver is not white. If you’re getting a white cloud formation, it’s because you’re forming silver chloride, which is white. If I start drinking silver chloride, which is a mineral salt silver, does this have to be processed by the liver in order for me to get rid of it? The answer is yes.

If I can’t get rid of the silver chloride through the liver, what happens? Well, let’s see, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, I sweat both out through my skin. What do you think the body is going to try to do with the silver chloride?  If you go out and get an exposure to ultraviolet radiation you have a chemical reaction, just like black & white photography. There’s a discoloration.

That chemistry can be reversed if you know something about chemistry, and how to reverse it. I actually wrote about that in my book, because I have reversed it in my patients.  So, why the big hoopla about blue men or blue women?

There was a recent article about the effect of colloidal silver and gold combinations in the Canadian journal of Cardiology. They were talking about this preparation which caused Argyria. As I read the article, fortunately, the physicians were thorough enough. Even though the preparation is labeled colloidal silver and colloidal gold, it was also on the label that indicated there was ionic silver and ionic gold. Well, it’s not easy to dissolve gold, but you can force gold chloride to be made under certain circumstances using electric power. Gold Chloride is undoubtedly toxic to tissue. So, this preparation, which had four different species, a colloidal silver, silver salt, colloidal gold, and a gold salt, did the patient develop a cardio myopathy? Yes! Did they say that this occurred from colloidal gold contamination? No, because the cardiologists who wrote this article, they’re not chemists. They didn’t differentiate from the four things that were in this solution. They went with the product label, which said it was a colloidal silver, colloidal gold blend.

Robert Scott Bell:  Now coming back to speciation, it wasn’t a gold or a silver hydrosol; it had a species which was obviously bound into a salt, which makes for a completely different interaction within the human body.

Dr. Rentz:  Exactly!

Crusador:  Let’s get back to this blue guy for a moment whom they’ve dubbed ‘Papa Smurf’. He drank massive amounts of colloidal silver for almost 20 years made from a home-made generator. Yet, they checked his liver function and found it to be within normal limits. And he still continues to drink his own home- made colloidal silver, even after they paraded him around on Oprah and other media.

Dr. Rentz:  Well, the blue was a skin reaction. Was his diet sufficient enough that he was able to process these things without harming the liver? Obviously! He would have made it very difficult for the salt to be in his skin to react with light if he had been taking a selenium supplement simultaneously. It would have been almost impossible for the skin to then pick up all that silver salt. Unfortunately, of course, he didn’t know that, and with the quantities he was drinking, I can assure you that it would be virtually impossible for him to die of an infectious disease.
 
Robert Scott Bell: Yes, exactly! He says he’s so healthy otherwise that he continues to drink it, even though it’s definitely not the most efficient species of silver. Thankfully, the readers of Crusador are all taking their selenium every day, so we’ve got a good group that’s ready to use a good silver formulation appropriately.

Crusador:  Are there concerns that internal ingestion of silver can harm intestinal flora?

Dr. Rentz: That can be potentially true. What you want to do is make sure that you don’t take it in such a large quantity that it’s going to go through the opening of the gut. That is unless your intention is to wipe out everything in the viral, bacterial, and certain fungal species, such as Candida.   Pathogens are things that are going to create disease issues. What we want is a symbiosis. Wiping everything out serves what purpose? How many people are there that need to do that? You need to take a dose of silver hydrosol that’s not going to wipe everything out. You can still take an effective dose that’s going to make a difference that will decrease bacterial or microbial load on the system without wiping out the gut flora.

If I take silver hydrosol sublingually it goes into my lymphatic system and upper respiratory system without being inside the lumen of the gut, which is where the good bacteria are hanging out. As long as I don’t put any in that hollow tube going up from the mouth to the anus, I’m not knocking out any good bacteria. You can take frequent doses but they have to be smaller doses. Let’s say I have a ten parts per million hydrosol. I could take two tablespoons per dose doing the swish and swallow where you swish it around your mouth before you swallow it and that will not go down into the small intestine. It won’t go past the area of the liver and gall bladder either. It will have all absorbed by then. If I’m not wiping out any good bacteria in my gut where is the silver hydrosol going? It’s going into lymphatic fluids. Where do lymphatic fluids go? They filter through some seven hundred lymph nodes in the body

Crusador:   Can you take silver hydrosol daily?

Dr. Rentz:  It depends on what your goal is and what the problem is.

Crusador:  One of the reasons I ask has to do with the cold and flu season. I’m referring to just a normal flu season. Can daily use of silver hydrosol ward off a cold and flu? There’s also a diverse group of people that are concerned about a flu pandemic or some other infectious disease outbreak, and silver is certainly something being talked about that can offer protection.

Dr. Rentz:  I go to lots of foreign countries and I always take silver hydrosol with me. I usually carry a smaller bottle which has a dropper top. I put a squirt under my tongue before I get on the airplane because people are usually coughing and hacking and sneezing. All that air is re-circulated. I don’t know what I’m breathing in. Do I ever get sick? No! One time in China I walked out of a meeting onto the street and there was a gust of wind that blew dust in my face. I was near a construction site. The next morning I woke up and I could tell I started to develop a sty in my eye. I immediately started to put some silver hydrosol in my eye and it stopped it in its tracks.

Crusador:  What microbes will silver hydrosol kill?

Dr. Rentz:  All of them. There is no virus or bacteria on the planet anywhere that can stand up to a silver hydrosol. It doesn’t matter if it’s a DNA virus or an RNA virus. With the virus the silver hydrosol will create a binding that the virus cannot replicate. The bacteria, and the majority of bacterial species, it simply kills them, just like penicillin would if they were susceptible to penicillin.

Crusador:  I assume from that statement that you’re not a big fan of taking a flu shot to avoid the flu?

Dr. Rentz:  That’s correct. The flu shot never covers the strains going around. These are new mutations. Well, if it’s a new mutation, unless they’ve made a vaccine specifically with that species, how are any antibodies going to be able to tear it apart? Antibodies are very specific. So, if I take a flu shot for last year’s flu bug, but this year’s flu bug doesn’t have the particular characteristic that the antibodies can knock out, then how is a new flu shot not even based on that microorganism going to help? It absolutely cannot. The concept behind it is to create a stimulus for your immune system so that you begin to produce antibodies of your own.

Crusador:  Would silver hydrosol sprayed directly into the nasal cavity be a more effective way of warding off a cold or flu or, do you have a different recommendation?

Dr. Rentz:  Let’s say I perceive that I’m starting to get sick, whether it’s a cold or flu, it doesn’t matter. If I’m somewhat aggressive I’m going to do it several times, not just once. I’ll put one or two drops in each eye. I then clear out the eyes and the tear ducts work. The apparatus that brings tears out of the eyes and makes your nose run is the same apparatus. If I get the silver hydrosol into that apparatus, which I will, and I put some drops up the nose, or use a nasal spray to get it up there, and I put some under the tongue, and I gargle with it, by doing this several times on the day I start to feel ill it’s improbable I’ll have any symptoms the next day.

Crusador:  Just a minute ago you stated that there’s no virus or bacteria that can stand up to silver hydrosol, meaning it wipes out everything. That’s an extremely bold statement to make. What research or studies have been done to validate that?

Dr. Rentz:  There are plenty. It just takes some time to do the leg work. One of the properties of silver, whether it’s a silver mineral salt or silver nitrate, shows that if you take any viral culture and expose it to the silver mineral salt or nitrate do you get a permanent binding with the RNA or DNA of the virus? Absolutely! Now I take a silver hydrosol, say where I have a one and a half nanometer sized particle. Is this small enough to create the same effect as say a silver mineral salt or silver nitrate? Sure! So, I get a permanent binding to the surface of the RNA or the DNA, and the microbe cannot shake it off, it cannot push it off, it cannot scrape it off, it has no chemical process by which to remove it. It’s now a permanent attachment and the microorganism cannot use its RNA or DNA to transcribe necessary information to make more copies of itself.

Crusador:  I’ve used different colloidal silver products before during the cold and flu season with limited results. Why is that?

Dr. Rentz:  It’s very simple! It has to be a certain size in order to create that chemical bonding effect. If I take a chunk of silver that’s too big, is it going to be able to bind to a structure of RNA or DNA? No, because it’s too big. But, if I make the particles small enough, can they bind? The answer is, yes! So, particle size makes all the difference.

Let’s talk about what makes a difference in terms of something working or not working. Particle size is one factor. Particle charge is another factor. Concentration, if we’re going to talk about toxicity effects and the quantity is a factor. For example, let’s look at something like isopropyl alcohol that’s used in hospitals to sanitize things. Why is it 70%? How come it’s not 50% or 60% or 100%? Shouldn’t that work better than 70%? No, because when looking at things, when you expose bacteria to a higher percentage it causes a flash (defensive reaction) on the surface of the bacteria. As soon as the alcohol has evaporated away, the bacteria repairs and goes back to doing whatever it was doing. So, 70% is the highest you could go with to kill the bacteria, because it will actually penetrate into the bacteria. Concentration also makes a difference. How much of something do we use? We can use something in too high of a concentration. In the case of a hydrosol, that particular principle doesn’t apply. The point is that concentration can make all difference. Let’s say I had a 10 PPM silver hydrosol. How much would I have to take in 24 hours in order to reach the EPA’s studies, which revealed the lowest observed adverse effect levels? Gee, I’d only have to take 18,000 teaspoons.

Crusador: That’s what the EPA determines is a toxic level?

Dr. Rentz:  Yes, for silver in drinking water. Who’s going to do that? Nobody! I believe that’s over 5 liters that you would have to drink in one day. Nobody is going to take that kind of quantity. What’s important is that the particle size is going to be what’s going to affect the virus. Otherwise, it won’t affect the virus. If I have a one nanometer size, it would definitely be small enough to bind to the RNA or DNA of a virus.

Robert Scott Bell: So, particle size again is another critical aspect to the properties, or the species of the silver, that would be the difference from the one Greg referenced that he tried that he didn’t have good success with versus the purest silver hydrosol where we would expect that you have seen some dramatic results clinically?

Dr. Rentz:  Yes! The smaller particle size is going to enable permanent binding to RNA or DNA, which is what we’re dealing with in the virus. Particle size makes the most difference in terms of its ability to penetrate into the interior of a bacteria, along with its state of zeta potential. Now, when the silver particle comes in contact with the surface of a bacteria or close enough to the surface of a bacteria wall, any of the wall structures that have the element sulfur in them, there’s a spontaneous reaction in discharge of the electrical charge to the bacterial wall. That in itself can, of course, create a chemical reaction, or response, to the bacteria cell wall.

Now, in addition, all this organized water creates zeta potential, so what comes into play? I end up with what’s called an electroporation effect, the electricity creating an opening or a pore in the surface of the bacterial wall. Well, the bacterial wall is not easily able to overcome this, so consequently, intracellular content from the bacteria immediately begins to spill from the inside of it to the exterior environment. Now, I’ve got lots more particles coming in that start to zap it in other places.

In the case of bacteria, let’s say I have an eye infection. I put silver hydrosol in there. In some cases people will say that it initially hurts because the bacteria begins to leak it’s innards through the surface of the eye. Lots of potassium is spilling out of the eye. The more bacteria, the stronger the burning sensation will be. Some would think that it’s the hydrosol giving the burning sensation. If that were the case then every time you put the hydrosol in your eyes it should burn. It doesn’t happen that way though. If you wait a few minutes and put the hydrosol in again, it doesn’t burn. Why? Because there’s no more bacteria present. So, if you have a kid with pink eye, get him silver hydrosol, and it’s important to get a few drops into the eyelashes because kids will like to rub their eyes. I’ve never had pink eye that wasn’t gone by the next day using silver hydrosol.

Robert Scott Bell:  I have an experience that actually confirms that. When my little girl was just an infant she had conjunctivitis in the eye, and we just put a few drops in the eye and it was gone by the next day. I know kids with the antibiotic treatments will go on and on for weeks with the same problem.

Dr. Rentz:   Yes, the standard treatment is 10 days for an antibiotic. Then you go back to the doctor and he takes a look to see if the bacteria is gone, and if not, then you do it for 20 days.

Crusador:  What about ear infections?

Dr. Rentz:  If it’s an infection of the ear canal, it’s very easily fixed. It takes two 12 minute applications. Sometimes before bed as well. You have to clear the wax because bacteria can hide in it. I usually clean that out first with hydrogen peroxide and warm water. Then I fill the canal up to the top with the silver hydrosol. Of course, 12 minutes can seem like an eternity to a kid, so you have to keep them busy. That is sufficient time for it to correctly fight the bacteria. It just takes a little longer for it to seep in sufficiently. Put a piece of cotton in their ear to keep it moist, because hydrosol only works in a moist environment.

Crusador: What kind of experience have you had working with silver hydrosol and sexually transmitted diseases?

Dr. Rentz:  Here’s the issue with certain microorganisms. They can actually go into spore states. Silver hydrosol will not penetrate human cells, so they do not harm cell membranes. There’s a difference between a cell wall and a cell membrane. That’s why they are classified as eukaryotic cells or prokaryotic cells. That’s why I said there are no bacteria that can stand up to a silver hydrosol, but there are some bacteria that are capable of burrowing into a form, and that’s why silver hydrosol won’t chase microbes into a human cell.

Certain human cells will respond to the silver hydrosol. For example, lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell, they will actually absorb silver hydrosol particles. They engulf it, and when they do, they produce a whole range of chemical weapons called reactive oxygen species. One of the characteristics of silver in general is that it is an oxygen sponge. O2 really like to hang out with silver. You will get a higher concentration of O2 in a silver preparation.

Let’s say I took 2 glasses of water side by side and I have a meter to measure oxygen levels in each. One has silver hydrosol and the other just plain water. Water absorbs O2 from the atmosphere and it happens quite quickly. The first time I did this test I was surprised at how fast water absorbs O2 from the atmosphere. However, I got higher oxygen readings from the glass with the silver hydrosol in it. Silver is an oxygen sponge. When the white blood cell engulfs silver it takes O2 with it. And the white blood cell species are able to make oxygen that can defend against higher level parasites. They can fend off better because the white blood cells are producing a higher reactive oxygen species.

That’s one human cell that silver hydrosol will go inside of. Red blood cells are different than the majority of cells in our body, because they don’t have a nucleus and are not designed to last very long. They only last about 120 days and then their internal energy source is all used up and they die. Certain diseases that infest red blood cells can be knocked out with silver hydrosol. An antibiotic is an external thing that bacteria are avoiding. Let’s say I found another cell that was able to invade and then create its cystic form and hang out in a dormant stage for a period of time. Can it then re-emerge if the silver hydrosol didn’t knock it out when I was taking my daily dose? Yes, it can still re-emerge, because silver hydrosol does not invade human cells, or other cells like eukaryotic cells. It doesn’t happen. No single drug takes care of everything though. It’s just not possible to work 100%, but is it highly effective for a wide variety of things, yes.

Robert Scott Bell: Greg mentioned the Herpes virus, which we know can go dormant (latent) or perhaps cystic, invading the cells. Since the silver hydrosol is not cytotoxic to human (mammalian) cells, you would actually have to have the outbreak to know it’s susceptible, at that point in time, to the silver?

Dr. Rentz: Yes. Some patients can tell very closely when something has shifted within their internal environment and that they’re going to have a herpetic outbreak. That’s when it’s really good to start using the hydrosol. Just like when you think you’re starting to come down with a cold, that’s when it’s really good to start hitting things aggressively with the silver hydrosol. Let’s say I took a 2 tablespoon swish and swallow dose every 15 minutes for 4 doses in a row, then took some every hour for the rest of the time that I was doing this. How would I feel the next day? The vast majority of people are going to feel fine, like they are over whatever it was. I always encourage patients to do things for three days to make sure they get everything out. Is 4 or 5 days better? No, three days is sufficient. If you’re stubborn about it and wait a week until you’re really sick or can’t get out of bed, is three days of treatment going to take care of everything? I don’t know, it might, and it might not. In those cases you might need a fourth or fifth day.

Crusador: So, when it comes to herpes outbreaks, you may be able to minimize the time an outbreak occurs, but it’s not necessarily going to eliminate it?

Dr. Rentz: With that particular organism, the herpes actually goes into a spore like form within tissue. It waits until the chemistry of its environment shifts in such a way that it awakens and starts to replicate.

Robert Scott Bell: Certainly, as you confirm, having the presence of active silver is something that is a great deterrent. If you have a sense that it’s about to break and you hit it, then it could possibly stop it from happening, correct?

Dr. Rentz: Right, but unfortunately since the silver does not penetrate any human cells, it cannot knock out diseases or bacteria that are in that form, or burrow into the cell.

Robert Scott Bell:  Certainly the pharmaceutical approach is very toxic. They play this game of chemical chicken very aggressively and cause a lot of collateral damage in the hopes that you also kill the virus, but of course there’s always some that are hiding, and you’re weakening the body’s entire immune system over time to become more susceptible in the process. The silver hydrosol tries to strengthen; it doesn’t detract in any way. It helps strengthen the system, as long as we have the selenium source that is so critical for dealing with other things as well.

Crusador: What about allergies or sinus problems, can silver hydrosol help minimize or eliminate them?

Dr. Rentz:  Yes. I breathe in different species of pollen, and some I’m more reactive to than others. Let’s say I have an allergy to melaleuca trees or whatever the allergen may be. If you’ve ever seen a microscopic enlargement of these pollen particles, part of the way they create a mechanism to attach to things rather than constantly being blown around by the wind, is that they have a lot of spiky projections. These little spiked balls are no different than if you go out in the ocean and step on a sea urchin. You’re not a happy camper. The cells begin to react by releasing histamine and by swelling. They also start to put out through the tear duct apparatus fluids to help wash out the surface of the cells in order to get the spiky little balls off. Sometimes with the little spiky balls there are bacteria traveling with them, so we can get symptoms of sickness oftentimes.

If I put silver hydrosol in, it’ll of course knock out any of the bacteria, it will permanently bind with any of the viruses, and it will act as an astringent. It’s not the same as an antihistamine - it’s an astringent, so it’s going to cause the swelling to decrease. It’s also an oxygen sponge, so it’s also putting O2 into areas that might be irritated. To heal things up you have to have oxygen. Now I’ve got O2 and something helping to wash off the surface, and I’ve got an astringent to help reduce the swelling. So in answer to your question, does it help with allergies, yes, and if I have a sinusitis it’s obviously going to knock that out.

Robert Scott Bell:  I have had this experience at some of the medical trade shows I attended.  I would give a doctor a silver hydrosol that has a sinusitis or an allergy where nothing else has worked. They’ve come back within an hour and are literally stunned by how rapidly the silver hydrosol reduced significantly the symptoms. Some of them said it burned at first and now it doesn’t burn, so it would explain exactly what you said, but they were thrilled at the results and the fact that it worked.

Crusador:  What is the likelihood that silver hydrosol is going to be removed from the market? I’m hearing all kinds of reports that it may have some road blocks put in its way so that it won’t be allowed to be sold. For example, the EPA is trying to build a case from the nanotechnology perspective. They say that silver is a nanoparticle that may be harming the environment and that it can effect nature in an unpredictable way.

Dr. Rentz: I actually have some strong opinions about that. The absurdities of certain claims from the government are no less absurd than the fact that we have to invade other countries because they supposedly have weapons of mass destruction. For the EPA to express concern is ridiculous. It’s misdirected attention. There is nothing on this planet more toxic than the waste waters coming out of any hospital in this country. They have blood, puss, bodily fluids, and so much more, and who’s concerned about that? And the super bugs that are brewing in those broths that are successful in overcoming the organic antibiotics. Where’s the EPA’s concern about the level of organic antibiotics in the soil or in our drinking water which are in measurable levels? There are cardiac medications and birth control medications in the water. We have decreasing fertility and sperm count in the population in this country. Where’s the EPA’s concern about that?

Robert Scott Bell:  Is there any negative impact on the environment from nano particle silver, Dr. Rentz?

Dr. Rentz:  There is no negative impact on the environment. That’s totally absurd! If these kinds of particles are a threat to the environment, then we need to immediately build containments, and structures, and dams, or walls; whatever we can in order to make sure that no glacial melt is coming to America because every time that snow melts we have nano sized particles coming into our water system.

If this kind of approach were in any manner, shape, or form dangerous, then why is it on U.S. space shuttles. They have copper and silver based water cleaning mechanisms that they’re re-circulating water with. What do you think happens to the astronaut’s urine? On the International Space Station, how do you think they clean their water? With a combination of silver and copper. They re-circulate everything. They’re not dumping it out into space. They re-circulate as much internal water as possible. So, you urinate and that water goes through a cleaning system, and they use silver and copper mechanisms to do that. Why is the International Space community using this and, why is NASA using it if it’s so risky and so detrimental to the environment?

Crusador:  Those are both excellent points. Obviously the FDA and EPA are going to do whatever they can to cook up more stories that they can use to scare people into avoiding silver. I think the blue man was one way to really put a lot of fear out there. I certainly appreciate you clearing the air, because there are a lot of people who won’t take silver now because of what was reported in the media.  Until I heard you explain this thoroughly I didn’t know enough to counter the lies. Personally, I think it would be smart to stockpile silver hydrosol. It is something that every single person alive should have in their medicine cabinet and we don’t have a guarantee that it will always be available.

Dr. Rentz:  Yes, it’s in my medicine cabinet. I encourage every one of my patients to have it in theirs. It is the thing I always travel with, and the only thing I need to travel with. If you’re concerned with the tap water at a hotel because you’re in China or India, just fill a pitcher up and put some silver hydrosol in there and wait an hour and it’s pure. One dropper full in a glass of water or any juice would kill off anything that could be harmful to you.

Crusador:  That’s a great point. People travelling internationally always have concerns about the safety of the water they are drinking. Some people in my own family got amoebas drinking well water in Central America and were terribly sick for weeks and weeks. I wish I knew years ago that silver hydrosol would kill off the amoebas.

Robert Scott Bell: Greg, I appreciate the opportunity to have Dr. Rentz get this information out. I think it’s critical as far as the emerging issues we are dealing with. Silver hydrosol is a tool, a very viable tool, and a safe one. I’m grateful for the Crusador newspaper to be able to put this out there.

Crusador:  Thank you Dr. Rentz and Robert for the time you’ve given me for this interview. I am certain that many lives will be positively impacted by what you’ve shared with our readers.

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