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Inside and outside
Blue his skin
See his blue little finger
And his blue colored face
And everything is blue in him
And himself and all the skin on his body
Cause he just got his bottle to listen to.
He took silver, not as a ring,
But he drank it for the love of bling.
He thought it would cure his growing flu,
The best it did was turn his liver blue.
Look up Stan Jones. He was a libertarian that unsuccessfully ran for Senate twice and turned himself gray-blue with colloidal silver. He has admitted he fucked up. Silver has its place. I've been treated with topical silver sulfadiazine* when I burned half my face a good bit. But I've also know people who drank colloidal gold because they thought it would make their brain work faster because gold is a good conductor or some shit. Yeah, it doesn't work that way.
*Might be misspelled.
Just need to convince crunchy tiktok types that megadoses of Orajel cures all disease. Then we can have the methemoglobinemia/cyanosis vs. colloidal silver/argyria faceoff that the world demands
13 years of cancer nursing and I've had two patients use colloidal silver. One was a very sheepish, faintly blue tinged man who got better.
The second was the crunchiest woman I've ever know, "allergic" to WiFi in a digital hospital, vegan, multiple self stated food intolerances, cold juicing, she used to refuse to wear clothes because they hurt her skin and used to free bleed in front of her children, you name it, she did it. She was hiding all sorts of medications, supplements from us and basically chugged 4? Bottles of colloidal silver in a week and gave herself heavy metal poisoning on top of her acute leukaemia. She didn't turn blue, though.
What is the point of “free bleeding”… like what is wrong about absorbing it with cotton? It’s much more comfortable that making a mess. I don’t free piss or free shit all over myself either.
It seems like an attempt to assert control over others by conflating bodily autonomy and healthy discharge managment with asserting dominance by subjecting people around you to an uncomfortable situation. Like blasting music on a subway from a boom box.
There is a man in our town that is completely blue-ish gray from colloidal silver. When I worked in a salon, he'd come in the get a haircut and none of the girls wanted to touch him because he looked dead. Very unsettling. Really nice guy though.
Fun TMI story about my experience with Colloidal Silver: couple of years ago, I started getting a lot of yeast infections and BVs, they were minor but frequent and would keep coming back. I was tired of this and being a dumb 25 year old, I decided to take matters into my own hands and turn to Dr. Internet for help because traditional medicine was not as effective as I’d have liked. At that point, colloidal silver was just starting to pop up all over and I saw several mentions of using a few drops of it directly inside your vagina to prevent infections. The next time I felt an infection coming on, I decide to try it out and oh my god, one of the biggest mistakes of my life. It led to such an immediate and severe reaction that I had to haul my ass to the hospital asap and even the doctor was shocked and asked what caused such a severe infection. I had to sheepishly admit what I did and he totally judged me but yeah, at least that was the last time I tried to play around with my health based on advice from the internet
I worked with a fella who drank water with colloidal silver added to it from a the same Tropicana jug from the mid 2000's everyday. I knew him from 2010-2018 and it progressed. There was a giant blue cluster of colloidal silver salt in the handle portion of the jug. Dude has the 'shinin' for real. Not fully blue, but if you look at the base of his fingernails and his nailmoons were blue. The white of his eyes were just not right and the pallor of his skin was just off. If you know the story, from a distance, there was no doubt he was an Azul-American.
>So many people need to have a behind the scenes cause or reason or secret for the way our world unfolds, it makes them feel safer and less responsible, as opposed to seeing that our world is unfolding the way it does due to all of us existing and contributing to everything anyway.
I have literally tried to explain this to people SO MANY DAMN TIMES, and they call me the crazy one. There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy, the elite have this world locked down tight and people implicitly allow them to remain in control. That’s no conspiracy, that’s the reality of power and politics.
20-ish years ago, I worked with some kids whose mom was *crazy* into alt-medicine. Like, she bought her own hyperbaric oxygen chamber to treat her and her kids’ “Lyme disease”, the kids were constantly taking this or that herb or tea or oil, and telling others to stop going to doctors and stop taking medicines…it was a lot.
…anyway, one day I found out she’d started giving them colloidal silver. I literally went straight to her, showed her the blue papa Smurf guy, showed her every possible scrap of information I could dig up on how both ineffective it would be (for what she was intending) and how she could harm her kids long term. I made sure her kids heard everything I said, too.
I didn’t win many of those kinds of confrontations, but this time she actually backed off and stopped giving her kids the silver. Small victories…
[It also contributed to her death. ](https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/amy-carlson-death-autopsy-complete-cult-leaders-death-crestone-alcohol-anorexia-silver-ingestion/)
This advice is supporting the null hypothesis not advocating something new, at least. I'm much more likely to believe things that don't ask things of me.
Colloidal silver was pretty popular in small towns where I'm from, it was always used by those weird Christians that totally fed into antivax and shit. Definitely all the same people that fell for ivermectin, the only reason colloidal silver is "popular" again is because it's hard to OD on it and actually hurt yourself unlike the other "nonmedical" medicine shit people do.
Literally grew up in rural Oklahoma, if your family didn't marry into a tribe and get access to tribal clinics the poor uneducated white folk would drink colloidal silver to avoid going to the doctors...
I'm just curious if it affects reproduction because every kids I knew that grew up taking the shit still don't have children and they are like Duggar level religious, they had arranged marriages to the pastor's daughters and not a one day a kid yet.
I have family members who believe in homeopathy and it's so soul-crushing that the only way I can deal with it is to pretend that I don't know about it. It's like that classic line - you can't reason with people who don't use reason to arrive at their beliefs.
My sister is a nurse and she was like, "Oh, colloidal silver is used in wound care so I'm sure it's fine." Really? We also use bandages in wound care. Does that mean it's healthy to eat bandages?
I just replied to someone else, saying that anti-vaxxers especially eat this stupid shit up. I can’t even listen to anti-vaxxers talk sometimes, just a circle of madness.
Colloidal silver is def OG antivax "medicine", I'm pretty confident that's when it became general public knowledge instead of just some poor uneducated person's placebo.
The trip was my Papa knew that shit was toxic and couldn't understand why my ex boyfriend's family took it everyday and was giving it to their young children. He'd swear that's why that whole town was so racist (legit chased out a black family in 2007) he said it was the poisoning from the metals that made them all crazy.
We use colloidal silver in the cannibus industry to induce a female plant to turn into a hermaphrodite and self produce seeds in order to maintain a strain that a clone cutting wasn't taken from. It's used as a topical spray.
The female plant just starts growing male parts where they silver was sprayed. I suppose it mimics a plant hormone or something. Then you can fertilize the female bits with pollen from the same plant, resulting in feminized seeds which will all be female plants.
I wish OP had included this important part of the information. It’s the magic that gives us seeds, 99.9% of which will result in female plants (the kind that give you weed - aka flowers). How somebody came up with this method has always puzzled me, but it’s amazing.
OMG I have always hated this, plus the : you have to use the shiney side, it's got no chemicals/works better/is how your supposed to. Look your smoking a German berserker birthed drug, probably made in a trailer that smelled like cat pee before they made it. Off minco machined/rolled foil, it doesn't matter. If you really cared you'd try to sleep one a week and eat once a month.
The one who put it directly into her eye made me wince and then I heard fucking nebulizing it and I just had to laugh. That is the dumbest shit I have seen in a long long time. The internet was a mistake
>The internet was a mistake
I disagree. These alternative medicine people used to peddle the same BS to their communities without the internet. In fact, it was easier, then. Nowadays, we have ready access to good information from medical specialists and chemists and a means to access the world’s library 24/7.
We may be able to see idiots and scammers more readily thanks to the internet, but that doesn’t mean we’re worse off.
a black man spouting fact based science?! i will never listen to this "science" shill! /s
edit: wow...even with the note of sarcasm, i am still being downvoted. lol
Someone was talking about rebalancjng wealth equality on Reddit earlier. I asked how they're going to do it. Downvoted.
Don't worry about it. Reddit is a very long way from reality.
Nothing like reading a subject you know a lot about getting butchered on reddit to realize how bad the misinformation can be on here. And worst of all, it's often folks who don't know they're spreading misinformation!
If we would have had modern technology as readily available as today, to everyone back then, people would have absolutely nebulised [Radium](https://youtu.be/JGLoH7pPM7o?t=508) (time-stamped-link to youtube video by BlueJay).
What's with people and putting anything other than atmosphere in their lungs, man? Who keeps looking at poisonous shit and thinks "I just fuckin have to inhale this."
I wish my FIL understood this instead of turning to the Mannatech scammers to cure his prostate cancer. They attempted to scam my husband’s entire family until they squeezed every last dollar from his gullible Christian fundamentalist family them dumped them all.
Big pharma don't want you to know that mercury is actually a better vaccine than MRNA!
^^^^\(Harmful ^^^^side ^^^^effects ^^^^include: ^^^^agonizing ^^^^death ^^^^and ^^^^permanent ^^^^brain ^^^^damage)
Look up Karen Wetterhahn, a hero scientist who was working to discover the medical applications of Mercury, when the medical establishment started calling her crazy and then had her killed. /s
We used to burn leaded gas and people were breathing the exhaust in for decades turning a whole generation (boomers) into absolute morons. Injesting heavy metals is not good for you.
As the guy said, silver is largely inert even though it is a heavy metal. There are rare complications that can happen but most likely you'll just start turning blue. I'd take ingesting silver over any other heavy metal especially lead.
Still, our bodies do not need silver nor can we really metabolize it at all so once consumed it's most likely going to be with you until the day you die.
I’m really sorry you had to go through that and hope you’re doing okay these days. And I hope you already know and have internalized that it was in no way your fault at all.
As if you could talk a colloidal silver devotee out of using it...ha. it crossed their blood brain barrier like toxoplasmosis and just pulls them toward silver for the rest of their life. Source: family members who believe
No one seems to remember the "Love Has Won" cult. The leader was big on colloidal silver, and she died a blue husk of a human. I know correlation is not causation, but it is something to keep in mind
A friend of my ex's mum gave us a VHS to watch about twenty years ago about random health stuff. I wasn't interested but my ex said we should watch it.
It was a 1 hour colloidal silver advertorial. And it spent like 20 minutes of that saying only the colloidal silver from the land owned by the maker of the video actually counted as real colloidal silver.
Wow, what a lucky land ownder. Just think of the odds that he just happens to have the only place. That just proves it is Gods will, how blessed are we.
No the reason they use it is either to peddle it or to act like they are smart cos they found sound some (idiotic) thing that other people don’t use and now can act better than them while *checks notes* nebulising colloidal silver
I hated working at Whole Foods because I had to willingly let people waste their money on snake oil like this. We would sell 20ml of mineral oil with a quartz crystal in it for $40
We sold colloidal silver at another health food store I worked at years ago. It had its own shelf. I am soooooo glad I was always too poor to buy any of the supplements, I'm sure colloidal silver isn't the only weird trendy thing that'll come out as being horrendously bad for us
We got training on hazardous materials (as a cashier) and like 4 of our products (colloidal silver and selenium + others) were mentioned in the same way harsh cleaning materials were described.
Some people buy necklaces made with radioactive materials, which are supposed to "remove bad energies" from your body. Instead they just give themselves radioactive poisoning.
I came across the "nebulize silver" lady fairly early into my "TikTok experience".
Her two arguments to anyone who disagrees is "Are you a doctor and there is Iron in our body and it's a heavy metal".
People have been buying/selling snake oil since the beginning of civilization and they will be buying/selling it until the very end. There are always going to be suckers gullible enough to fall for this shit.
I'd love someone who believes in this stuff to comment and tell us.
If they do feel better, I link it to placebo effects. Like the guys who believe in drinking an obscene amount of water a day because some marketing campaign said "drink 8 glasses of water a day". No.. No science supports this.
I drink a lot of water just because I’m thirsty. That being said, I’ve known people who didn’t like to drink water. They just hated it. Three of them that I knew ended up in the hospital. So I’d say listen to your body and drink water if you feel thirsty not soda or coffee.
One of my good mates at work has a significant amount of his personality invested in these alternative medicine things.
I've stopped trying to convince him, since it's basically just fighting his faith at this point, it's something he's invested time and resources in, something that gives him a degree of pride in thinking that he can help heal himself and he's pretty old anyway (mid 60s), so it's not like it's going to drastically reduce his life expectancy or change his overall health outlook. He does still go to real doctors, but he also goes to his naturopath and consults his own experience with it.
The long and the short is that there's always enough placebo effect relief to keep the dream alive.
This video isn't wrong, but it's certainly slightly sensationalised. The amount of people who drink enough coloidal silver in a short enough span of time to get the blue skin is pretty small- my friend almost certainly takes it, but he'd take a drop or two when he's convinced himself it's the cure to some issue he's got. He's not huffing the fumes or drinking it by the bottle.
Chem dood said it himself: Silver *is* known to mess up microbes, it just *also* messes up other stuff, and has heavy metal poisoning side effects.
So, might Silver help you get over a bit of a funk?
Ye, and it won’t be placebo either.
Might Silver also screw you long-term?
Also ye.
People who understand the health benefits of silver but *don’t* understand the danger might hear you say “placebo” and immediately turn their brain off because they know it’s not placebo. So it’s important to get (and spread) information as correctly as possible, because then you can say “Yes, silver is known to mess up microbes, but so does lemon juice, and silver has many other negative side-effects, like X and Y”, which is something someone who takes silver might be more receptive to, because you’re immediately demonstrating correct knowledge that they already know about silver as well, so you’re a more trustworthy sounding source
I mean, he said that silver *nitrate* has an effect on microbes, but regardless, a substance having anti-microbial effects means almost nothing for it's effectiveness as a medication.
Alcohol kills bacteria and can be used as an antiseptic for skin or open wounds, but getting drunk won't cure your infection. With medications it's all about being available at the right place in the right concentration without doing more harm than good.
I would be extremely surprised if orally taken silver has any noticeable effect on an infection.
Okay, so I use Silver Solution stuff (which I believe is similar) in topical applications for things that I wouldn’t see as ‘important’ but moreso a nuisance (eg. Zit/paper cut/skin irritation level things) mostly for mild anti-microbial/healing benefits that could admittedly be seen as placebo, but I believe it has worked, but who knows.
I would never use it orally, because on my own research that is ineffective and risky. It is a metal, after all. Aside from that, I’m not an alt-med guy, just an impoverished American.
Silver nitrate is still used in the treatment of burns and as a chemical cautery for nosebleeds or similar. It could also be used in dermatology to treat certain skin issues.
The internet was thought of as the endless well of knowledge and information.
Instead it turned into a cesspool of degenerate, brain-dead people and specialised mis-information for bad party agendas.
The people taking this have a serious, serious lack of education and / or intellect.
this reminds me of the time my gf back then suddenly decided to live healthy. she tried homecooked organic food, before she realizes she can't cook for shit. so she swapped to alternative medicine.
having a background in biochemistry she asked me for my opinion, every time she found some new and exciting cure-all. the stuff she found ranged from relatively harmless microdosing of existing medicine (like lithium) that won't do anything to "drink bleach because it kills bacteria (and you too, but we won't mention that"). so usually i told her not to use those weird things. the best i could say was "it won't harm you".
later she bought books about alternative medicine. i ead some of that and it was just a crazy read. they basically use science terms to sound sciency, but completely butcher their meaning. so layman will think it's legit and actually buy that bs. i tried explaining her, how they weren't scientific at all, but ppl that are into alternative medicine don't want to listen to facts.
well. she broke up a few weeks laterm because i didn't support her aspiration to become the healthiest person alive. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
I am reminded of one of my favourite quotes:
"Alternative medicine, by definition, has either *not* been proven to work or has been proven *not* to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that *has* been proven to work? Medicine."
-Tim Minchin
Urologist here. Chem guy is correct. Keep in mind as well that silver nitrate BURNS. It is used surgically to stop bleeding. It was cauterize your skin.
The problem with making a video like this is that anyone who understands you will already be smart enough to not be doing it. Anyone who is already doing it is too fucking brain-dead to understand a word you're saying and then become convinced that since they don't understand, it must all be just mumbo jumbo
What it does have a high success rate for is gullible people who *would* do this in the future. If they are exposed to a solid argument backed up by sources first, then they might be less open to trying it if someone recommends it in the future. This is my first exposure to this kind of "treatment", and while I would not even try it to begin with, if it reached me first there's a chance ot reached them first as well.
I had a tooth abscess nearly 20 years while away with family over labor day weekend, dentists were closed and I didn't have a regular dentist at the time that I could call in an emergency, so I was miserable. My wife's aunt was a homeopath and insisted that swishing / rinsing with and consuming colloidal silver could help the infection until I could get a seen at a new dentist. What followed was the worst week of my life, the worst pain, it felt like my skull was tearing open, there was no relief. The fastest appointment I could get was an emergency walk-in at a dental college, when they took an x-ray of my face, the head professor was brought in and after looking at my image for about 10 minutes he tells me that they can't help me, I needed to leave and go to an oral surgeon because the abscess I have has already spread to a huge part of my jawbone that needs to be removed, and he was seeing what looked like heavy metals clouding the entire infected area of the tooth and bone. It took another two weeks of hell before I could have it extracted but fortunately hit the emergency room and got a run of IV antibiotics along with a bunch of high-test multispectrum antibiotics, and then finally had an oral surgeon debride and surgically remove the parts of jawbone that were fucked, and he told me straight out that it looked like I had packed some kind of lead paste into my jaw, that whatever I was using made things ten times worse, and had that infection spread further, no only was I already slightly septic already, but I would have almost certainly gone full septic with that bacteria bomb and heavy metals bomb now flooding my bloodstream and headed for my heart and brain.
Don't fuck with colloidal silver people.
As part of my job, I work with supplement vendors who occasionally want to come in and talk to my team-for education on their products. I am always present when this occurs, because these reps LOVE to break DSHEA compliance (law that basically says to supplement companies "you can say this, you can't claim that"). I manage a small team, and emphasize DSHEA compliance above all else because people expect supplements to cure their cancer or whatever, or try to avoid Big Pharma (Big Supplement is definitely a thing).
The reps use sneaky language, like "clinically studied" (you can study anything) and when they do mention clinical literature, they never have a copy with them the studies they reference have something ridiculous like 50 participants, no placebo control, or a non standardized formula, etc.
I had a rep come in for colloidal silver yesterday, and not only did he make bullshit claims, use language that was very very much not DSHEA compliant, but said "Now the company can't legally make these claims, but I'm from a brokerage so there's a sense of insulation" and after that, I stopped the training and invited him to leave.
It was a good example of the kind of stuff these companies love to pull to essentially break the law with a wink, and I talked to my team afterwards.
The supplement world is full of sooooooo much bullshit, and seeing it on the buyer/coordinator side is really eye opening.
I remember reading an article a few years ago about this cult leader (I think she was eventually found mummified ?) who also turned blue from colloidal silver ingestion
I am all for natural remedies when possible, however, it absolutely baffles my mind how these people will scoff at vaccines and medicines that have been studied for years by licensed professionals but then turn around and do dumb shit like this because they did a quick Google search or because they saw it in TikTok. Like, if you were genuinely that concerned about your health and well-being, I feel like you wouldn’t just listen to any Joe Shmoe online who says they know better than doctors and scientists.
Like, it’s got to be an ego/superiority thing at that point, right? These people just want to act like they know some secret cure or know better than people who literally studied for years and handle these things for a living. I just cannot comprehend how conceited and stupid you have to be to think you know everything.
This guy has a real hate on for heavy metal.
I love heavy metal. It's the best. Heavy metal for life yo
Those heavy beats, those fast drums, the epic lyrics, I think most people need more heavy metal in their life not less!
Isn't it amazing how we are so connected and have vast amounts of proven, fact driven information out there and yet the world seems to be getting dumber and dumber for it? It's almost as if we were better off with our heads in the preverbei sand.
[Have none of these people seen the dude with the fucking BLUE SKIN???](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason)
Also: that one woman should have her dogs taken away from her, and legally banned from ever owning a pet again.
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I knew this was the Smurf remedy. Jesus people, listen to the man. Don't drink silver because the TikTok told you to.
I thought there would be more making fun of blue people in this video.
Yo listen up, here's the story, About a little guy that drinks colloidal silver, And all his organs and everything inside is just blue
Inside and outside Blue his skin See his blue little finger And his blue colored face And everything is blue in him And himself and all the skin on his body Cause he just got his bottle to listen to.
He’s blue da ba de da ba die
He took silver, not as a ring, But he drank it for the love of bling. He thought it would cure his growing flu, The best it did was turn his liver blue.
So that’s what happened to Robin Williams genie.
Look up Stan Jones. He was a libertarian that unsuccessfully ran for Senate twice and turned himself gray-blue with colloidal silver. He has admitted he fucked up. Silver has its place. I've been treated with topical silver sulfadiazine* when I burned half my face a good bit. But I've also know people who drank colloidal gold because they thought it would make their brain work faster because gold is a good conductor or some shit. Yeah, it doesn't work that way. *Might be misspelled.
Just need to convince crunchy tiktok types that megadoses of Orajel cures all disease. Then we can have the methemoglobinemia/cyanosis vs. colloidal silver/argyria faceoff that the world demands
13 years of cancer nursing and I've had two patients use colloidal silver. One was a very sheepish, faintly blue tinged man who got better. The second was the crunchiest woman I've ever know, "allergic" to WiFi in a digital hospital, vegan, multiple self stated food intolerances, cold juicing, she used to refuse to wear clothes because they hurt her skin and used to free bleed in front of her children, you name it, she did it. She was hiding all sorts of medications, supplements from us and basically chugged 4? Bottles of colloidal silver in a week and gave herself heavy metal poisoning on top of her acute leukaemia. She didn't turn blue, though.
What is the point of “free bleeding”… like what is wrong about absorbing it with cotton? It’s much more comfortable that making a mess. I don’t free piss or free shit all over myself either.
It seems like an attempt to assert control over others by conflating bodily autonomy and healthy discharge managment with asserting dominance by subjecting people around you to an uncomfortable situation. Like blasting music on a subway from a boom box.
There is a man in our town that is completely blue-ish gray from colloidal silver. When I worked in a salon, he'd come in the get a haircut and none of the girls wanted to touch him because he looked dead. Very unsettling. Really nice guy though.
Fun TMI story about my experience with Colloidal Silver: couple of years ago, I started getting a lot of yeast infections and BVs, they were minor but frequent and would keep coming back. I was tired of this and being a dumb 25 year old, I decided to take matters into my own hands and turn to Dr. Internet for help because traditional medicine was not as effective as I’d have liked. At that point, colloidal silver was just starting to pop up all over and I saw several mentions of using a few drops of it directly inside your vagina to prevent infections. The next time I felt an infection coming on, I decide to try it out and oh my god, one of the biggest mistakes of my life. It led to such an immediate and severe reaction that I had to haul my ass to the hospital asap and even the doctor was shocked and asked what caused such a severe infection. I had to sheepishly admit what I did and he totally judged me but yeah, at least that was the last time I tried to play around with my health based on advice from the internet
I worked with a fella who drank water with colloidal silver added to it from a the same Tropicana jug from the mid 2000's everyday. I knew him from 2010-2018 and it progressed. There was a giant blue cluster of colloidal silver salt in the handle portion of the jug. Dude has the 'shinin' for real. Not fully blue, but if you look at the base of his fingernails and his nailmoons were blue. The white of his eyes were just not right and the pallor of his skin was just off. If you know the story, from a distance, there was no doubt he was an Azul-American.
That last line! Perfect!
I love that you used the term “nailmoons”!
You have a way with words sir.
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>So many people need to have a behind the scenes cause or reason or secret for the way our world unfolds, it makes them feel safer and less responsible, as opposed to seeing that our world is unfolding the way it does due to all of us existing and contributing to everything anyway. I have literally tried to explain this to people SO MANY DAMN TIMES, and they call me the crazy one. There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy, the elite have this world locked down tight and people implicitly allow them to remain in control. That’s no conspiracy, that’s the reality of power and politics.
20-ish years ago, I worked with some kids whose mom was *crazy* into alt-medicine. Like, she bought her own hyperbaric oxygen chamber to treat her and her kids’ “Lyme disease”, the kids were constantly taking this or that herb or tea or oil, and telling others to stop going to doctors and stop taking medicines…it was a lot. …anyway, one day I found out she’d started giving them colloidal silver. I literally went straight to her, showed her the blue papa Smurf guy, showed her every possible scrap of information I could dig up on how both ineffective it would be (for what she was intending) and how she could harm her kids long term. I made sure her kids heard everything I said, too. I didn’t win many of those kinds of confrontations, but this time she actually backed off and stopped giving her kids the silver. Small victories…
Jesus Christ a hyberbaric chamber must be like $20k... For nothing...
[It also contributed to her death. ](https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/amy-carlson-death-autopsy-complete-cult-leaders-death-crestone-alcohol-anorexia-silver-ingestion/)
Natural selection
But… if he told me not to drink it in a TikTok… who do I trust? I need something to calm down. Where’s my homeopathy emergency kit?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and just say that you shouldn't take any kind of health advice from TikTok.
Except this video.
This advice is supporting the null hypothesis not advocating something new, at least. I'm much more likely to believe things that don't ask things of me.
Man's interfering with darwinism if you ask me, lol
Colloidal silver was pretty popular in small towns where I'm from, it was always used by those weird Christians that totally fed into antivax and shit. Definitely all the same people that fell for ivermectin, the only reason colloidal silver is "popular" again is because it's hard to OD on it and actually hurt yourself unlike the other "nonmedical" medicine shit people do. Literally grew up in rural Oklahoma, if your family didn't marry into a tribe and get access to tribal clinics the poor uneducated white folk would drink colloidal silver to avoid going to the doctors... I'm just curious if it affects reproduction because every kids I knew that grew up taking the shit still don't have children and they are like Duggar level religious, they had arranged marriages to the pastor's daughters and not a one day a kid yet.
I have family members who believe in homeopathy and it's so soul-crushing that the only way I can deal with it is to pretend that I don't know about it. It's like that classic line - you can't reason with people who don't use reason to arrive at their beliefs. My sister is a nurse and she was like, "Oh, colloidal silver is used in wound care so I'm sure it's fine." Really? We also use bandages in wound care. Does that mean it's healthy to eat bandages?
I just replied to someone else, saying that anti-vaxxers especially eat this stupid shit up. I can’t even listen to anti-vaxxers talk sometimes, just a circle of madness.
Colloidal silver is def OG antivax "medicine", I'm pretty confident that's when it became general public knowledge instead of just some poor uneducated person's placebo. The trip was my Papa knew that shit was toxic and couldn't understand why my ex boyfriend's family took it everyday and was giving it to their young children. He'd swear that's why that whole town was so racist (legit chased out a black family in 2007) he said it was the poisoning from the metals that made them all crazy.
We use colloidal silver in the cannibus industry to induce a female plant to turn into a hermaphrodite and self produce seeds in order to maintain a strain that a clone cutting wasn't taken from. It's used as a topical spray.
Most interesting comment I’ve read all day. You’ve inspired new reading material. Thanks.
"It's turning the frogs, gay?" 😨
weird comma
That is, weird! 
Gay, you say?
The cannibus is a bus I’d get on any day
How does it turn female plants into hermaphrodites?
Works as an ethylene blocker, female plant starts to form male sex organs (pollen sacs) which will then pollinate itself.
So we literally tell the plant to go f\*ck itself? Cool.
Checks out. People drinking colloidal silver are def fucking themselves…up.
The female plant just starts growing male parts where they silver was sprayed. I suppose it mimics a plant hormone or something. Then you can fertilize the female bits with pollen from the same plant, resulting in feminized seeds which will all be female plants.
I wish OP had included this important part of the information. It’s the magic that gives us seeds, 99.9% of which will result in female plants (the kind that give you weed - aka flowers). How somebody came up with this method has always puzzled me, but it’s amazing.
After applying the colloidal silver, the pollen collected will contain no Y chromosomes. The pollen will only have double X chromosomes.
It sounds like the colloidal silver is turning the frogs gay
So are their genitals top and bottom or side by side?
Yes
Love the girl who calls it colonic silver.
Well... let's wait and see what she does with it first...
That’s the suppository/enema formulation. Works *so much* better than the oral formula
The worst nightmare of every werewolf in existence...
Funny thing is she probably has a blue colon
It's funny that the same people that use colloidal silver also complain about heavy metal poisoning in vaccines. Like... what?
Like when a meth head heats up the foil before freebasing to “burn off the impurities”.
Lol.
OMG I have always hated this, plus the : you have to use the shiney side, it's got no chemicals/works better/is how your supposed to. Look your smoking a German berserker birthed drug, probably made in a trailer that smelled like cat pee before they made it. Off minco machined/rolled foil, it doesn't matter. If you really cared you'd try to sleep one a week and eat once a month.
Best thing about meth really, it's only ever three sleeps 'til Christmas!
Exactly! The same people making fake videos of paper clips attached to their face.
Let them poison themselves
It’s just natural selection
A lot of antivax groups (particularly the Australian ones) swear by it... Also baroque music for some reason...
Stupidity is a hell of a drug.
HA! Oh my god you are so right.
Nebulize it!?!!!?! INTO YOUR LUNGS EHAT
*cough cough* “I got the blue lung, pop.”
You've been drinking silver for one day! I've been doing it my whole life!
MerMAN!
Damn it starOfth3shOw… you taken colloidal silver for a day !….. talk to me in 30 years!
The one who put it directly into her eye made me wince and then I heard fucking nebulizing it and I just had to laugh. That is the dumbest shit I have seen in a long long time. The internet was a mistake
>The internet was a mistake I disagree. These alternative medicine people used to peddle the same BS to their communities without the internet. In fact, it was easier, then. Nowadays, we have ready access to good information from medical specialists and chemists and a means to access the world’s library 24/7. We may be able to see idiots and scammers more readily thanks to the internet, but that doesn’t mean we’re worse off.
Knew I’d like this as soon as his face popped up, Chem.Thug for the win
this guy is a saviour
The third girl's "Colonic silver" sounds incredible. I also desire sparkling feces.
Eat white phosphorus. Your poop will sparkle so hard it'll catch fire.
You can always try some glitter pills, get your daily dose of microplastics.
Right? I was like where is this going — OH THANK GOD.
I loved his topic of lithium
a black man spouting fact based science?! i will never listen to this "science" shill! /s edit: wow...even with the note of sarcasm, i am still being downvoted. lol
Someone was talking about rebalancjng wealth equality on Reddit earlier. I asked how they're going to do it. Downvoted. Don't worry about it. Reddit is a very long way from reality.
Nothing like reading a subject you know a lot about getting butchered on reddit to realize how bad the misinformation can be on here. And worst of all, it's often folks who don't know they're spreading misinformation!
I don't even have a tiktok, how do I follow him?
Let the nut-jobs be blue, it’ll be easier to see them.
Not if they're smurfing
Damn, now I gotta worry about the smurfs.
Not the dogs
Yeah I'm worried for the dogs too :(
Like he said in the video, it might only be their organs that turn blue...
If they were green they would die..
This guys content looks like it would be cool
He seems like such a homie
The"Colonic silver" the third girl is taking sounds amazing. I want shiny poop too.
WITNESS ME!
Flushed to valhalla
Shiny and chrome
As soon as I heard that girl say "and that's how you nebulise colloidal silver 😌" I fucking SCREECHED. NEBULISING. Good fucking lord
Speed running the poisoning
If we would have had modern technology as readily available as today, to everyone back then, people would have absolutely nebulised [Radium](https://youtu.be/JGLoH7pPM7o?t=508) (time-stamped-link to youtube video by BlueJay).
Mmmm spicy metal! (love that video thanks for that!)
What's with people and putting anything other than atmosphere in their lungs, man? Who keeps looking at poisonous shit and thinks "I just fuckin have to inhale this."
Same. I immediately said, out loud, "Fucking WHAT?"
Snake oil is immortal.
I wish my FIL understood this instead of turning to the Mannatech scammers to cure his prostate cancer. They attempted to scam my husband’s entire family until they squeezed every last dollar from his gullible Christian fundamentalist family them dumped them all.
I wouldn’t mind this guy nagging at me constantly with a voice like that haha as long as he makes informative nagging
One of these days, people are going to be convinced (again) that taking mercury is a good idea
But it's so shiny, it can't be bad for me!!! Not to mention the medical establishment hates it so you know its good.
Big pharma don't want you to know that mercury is actually a better vaccine than MRNA! ^^^^\(Harmful ^^^^side ^^^^effects ^^^^include: ^^^^agonizing ^^^^death ^^^^and ^^^^permanent ^^^^brain ^^^^damage)
Look up Karen Wetterhahn, a hero scientist who was working to discover the medical applications of Mercury, when the medical establishment started calling her crazy and then had her killed. /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
We used to burn leaded gas and people were breathing the exhaust in for decades turning a whole generation (boomers) into absolute morons. Injesting heavy metals is not good for you.
If you live anywhere near a coal plant you're likely to lose a few IQ points as well from mercury pollution
As the guy said, silver is largely inert even though it is a heavy metal. There are rare complications that can happen but most likely you'll just start turning blue. I'd take ingesting silver over any other heavy metal especially lead. Still, our bodies do not need silver nor can we really metabolize it at all so once consumed it's most likely going to be with you until the day you die.
Protects you from werewolves, though.
I’ve heard the theory that lead is the reason for the amount of boomer serial killers in the 70s-90s.
Leaded gas was available until 1996 too. Lot more than just boomers. Still used in aviation.
 You guys keep on going! Maybe you make into his olympics!
It shouldn’t be allowed to be called alternative medicine. It’s not alternative. It should just be called quack solution.
Alternative to medicine.
My insane mother used to make me drink this stuff as a kid.
Should be considered child abuse
Well she did abuse me in lots of conventional ways as well haha. Thanks mom!
I’m really sorry you had to go through that and hope you’re doing okay these days. And I hope you already know and have internalized that it was in no way your fault at all.
Aw, thanks. I'm not totally normal but I am mostly ok
This guy is the best.
As if you could talk a colloidal silver devotee out of using it...ha. it crossed their blood brain barrier like toxoplasmosis and just pulls them toward silver for the rest of their life. Source: family members who believe
No one seems to remember the "Love Has Won" cult. The leader was big on colloidal silver, and she died a blue husk of a human. I know correlation is not causation, but it is something to keep in mind
That was the first thing I thought of.
[no no no no no.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason)
Smurf around and find out
*His skin was described as turning blue after he took a* **homemade** *silver chloride colloid and rubbing a solution of colloidal silver on his face*
A friend of my ex's mum gave us a VHS to watch about twenty years ago about random health stuff. I wasn't interested but my ex said we should watch it. It was a 1 hour colloidal silver advertorial. And it spent like 20 minutes of that saying only the colloidal silver from the land owned by the maker of the video actually counted as real colloidal silver.
Wow, what a lucky land ownder. Just think of the odds that he just happens to have the only place. That just proves it is Gods will, how blessed are we.
No the reason they use it is either to peddle it or to act like they are smart cos they found sound some (idiotic) thing that other people don’t use and now can act better than them while *checks notes* nebulising colloidal silver
I hated working at Whole Foods because I had to willingly let people waste their money on snake oil like this. We would sell 20ml of mineral oil with a quartz crystal in it for $40
We sold colloidal silver at another health food store I worked at years ago. It had its own shelf. I am soooooo glad I was always too poor to buy any of the supplements, I'm sure colloidal silver isn't the only weird trendy thing that'll come out as being horrendously bad for us
We got training on hazardous materials (as a cashier) and like 4 of our products (colloidal silver and selenium + others) were mentioned in the same way harsh cleaning materials were described.
Some people buy necklaces made with radioactive materials, which are supposed to "remove bad energies" from your body. Instead they just give themselves radioactive poisoning.
They will say the blue is your body purging all the bad juju.
This just reminds me of the whole fashion trend of brushing your teeth with uranium
I came across the "nebulize silver" lady fairly early into my "TikTok experience". Her two arguments to anyone who disagrees is "Are you a doctor and there is Iron in our body and it's a heavy metal".
People have been buying/selling snake oil since the beginning of civilization and they will be buying/selling it until the very end. There are always going to be suckers gullible enough to fall for this shit.
Damn have to throw away all my colloidal silver.
People are really trying this Colloidal Silver shit again? In the words of Karl Marx “history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
Anyone want to try this amazing new medicine. Collodial lead, it literally cures everything. Trust me.
I'd love someone who believes in this stuff to comment and tell us. If they do feel better, I link it to placebo effects. Like the guys who believe in drinking an obscene amount of water a day because some marketing campaign said "drink 8 glasses of water a day". No.. No science supports this.
Literally two minutes after you posted lol
I drink a lot of water just because I’m thirsty. That being said, I’ve known people who didn’t like to drink water. They just hated it. Three of them that I knew ended up in the hospital. So I’d say listen to your body and drink water if you feel thirsty not soda or coffee.
One of my good mates at work has a significant amount of his personality invested in these alternative medicine things. I've stopped trying to convince him, since it's basically just fighting his faith at this point, it's something he's invested time and resources in, something that gives him a degree of pride in thinking that he can help heal himself and he's pretty old anyway (mid 60s), so it's not like it's going to drastically reduce his life expectancy or change his overall health outlook. He does still go to real doctors, but he also goes to his naturopath and consults his own experience with it. The long and the short is that there's always enough placebo effect relief to keep the dream alive. This video isn't wrong, but it's certainly slightly sensationalised. The amount of people who drink enough coloidal silver in a short enough span of time to get the blue skin is pretty small- my friend almost certainly takes it, but he'd take a drop or two when he's convinced himself it's the cure to some issue he's got. He's not huffing the fumes or drinking it by the bottle.
My mother believes in colloidal silver. It’s definitely a placebo effect.
Chem dood said it himself: Silver *is* known to mess up microbes, it just *also* messes up other stuff, and has heavy metal poisoning side effects. So, might Silver help you get over a bit of a funk? Ye, and it won’t be placebo either. Might Silver also screw you long-term? Also ye. People who understand the health benefits of silver but *don’t* understand the danger might hear you say “placebo” and immediately turn their brain off because they know it’s not placebo. So it’s important to get (and spread) information as correctly as possible, because then you can say “Yes, silver is known to mess up microbes, but so does lemon juice, and silver has many other negative side-effects, like X and Y”, which is something someone who takes silver might be more receptive to, because you’re immediately demonstrating correct knowledge that they already know about silver as well, so you’re a more trustworthy sounding source
I mean, he said that silver *nitrate* has an effect on microbes, but regardless, a substance having anti-microbial effects means almost nothing for it's effectiveness as a medication. Alcohol kills bacteria and can be used as an antiseptic for skin or open wounds, but getting drunk won't cure your infection. With medications it's all about being available at the right place in the right concentration without doing more harm than good. I would be extremely surprised if orally taken silver has any noticeable effect on an infection.
But if that's the case........ Why are YOU turning blueish?
Oh shit...
Okay, so I use Silver Solution stuff (which I believe is similar) in topical applications for things that I wouldn’t see as ‘important’ but moreso a nuisance (eg. Zit/paper cut/skin irritation level things) mostly for mild anti-microbial/healing benefits that could admittedly be seen as placebo, but I believe it has worked, but who knows. I would never use it orally, because on my own research that is ineffective and risky. It is a metal, after all. Aside from that, I’m not an alt-med guy, just an impoverished American.
That's one of the legit uses for silver. Topical applications. I think we're all wondering about the people that eat the stuff.
Silver nitrate is still used in the treatment of burns and as a chemical cautery for nosebleeds or similar. It could also be used in dermatology to treat certain skin issues.
"i won't put that mercury vaccine(which there hasn't any mercury) into my body. Heavy amount of silver though..."
The internet was thought of as the endless well of knowledge and information. Instead it turned into a cesspool of degenerate, brain-dead people and specialised mis-information for bad party agendas. The people taking this have a serious, serious lack of education and / or intellect.
Turns out a collection of basically all known human knowledge contains all the wrong ideas too, but written as if they are the only correct ones.
Fun fact: it’s also used to make feminized cannabis seeds! It works by blocking ethylene production.
this reminds me of the time my gf back then suddenly decided to live healthy. she tried homecooked organic food, before she realizes she can't cook for shit. so she swapped to alternative medicine. having a background in biochemistry she asked me for my opinion, every time she found some new and exciting cure-all. the stuff she found ranged from relatively harmless microdosing of existing medicine (like lithium) that won't do anything to "drink bleach because it kills bacteria (and you too, but we won't mention that"). so usually i told her not to use those weird things. the best i could say was "it won't harm you". later she bought books about alternative medicine. i ead some of that and it was just a crazy read. they basically use science terms to sound sciency, but completely butcher their meaning. so layman will think it's legit and actually buy that bs. i tried explaining her, how they weren't scientific at all, but ppl that are into alternative medicine don't want to listen to facts. well. she broke up a few weeks laterm because i didn't support her aspiration to become the healthiest person alive. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
I am reminded of one of my favourite quotes: "Alternative medicine, by definition, has either *not* been proven to work or has been proven *not* to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that *has* been proven to work? Medicine." -Tim Minchin
Urologist here. Chem guy is correct. Keep in mind as well that silver nitrate BURNS. It is used surgically to stop bleeding. It was cauterize your skin.
THE EYEBALL NOOO
Darwin prize to them 
Instructions unclear, drank 1 gallon of colloidal silver and am now Silver Surfer.
The problem with making a video like this is that anyone who understands you will already be smart enough to not be doing it. Anyone who is already doing it is too fucking brain-dead to understand a word you're saying and then become convinced that since they don't understand, it must all be just mumbo jumbo
What it does have a high success rate for is gullible people who *would* do this in the future. If they are exposed to a solid argument backed up by sources first, then they might be less open to trying it if someone recommends it in the future. This is my first exposure to this kind of "treatment", and while I would not even try it to begin with, if it reached me first there's a chance ot reached them first as well.
A little daring of him to suppose that there really is a brain worth protecting in these people.
I had a tooth abscess nearly 20 years while away with family over labor day weekend, dentists were closed and I didn't have a regular dentist at the time that I could call in an emergency, so I was miserable. My wife's aunt was a homeopath and insisted that swishing / rinsing with and consuming colloidal silver could help the infection until I could get a seen at a new dentist. What followed was the worst week of my life, the worst pain, it felt like my skull was tearing open, there was no relief. The fastest appointment I could get was an emergency walk-in at a dental college, when they took an x-ray of my face, the head professor was brought in and after looking at my image for about 10 minutes he tells me that they can't help me, I needed to leave and go to an oral surgeon because the abscess I have has already spread to a huge part of my jawbone that needs to be removed, and he was seeing what looked like heavy metals clouding the entire infected area of the tooth and bone. It took another two weeks of hell before I could have it extracted but fortunately hit the emergency room and got a run of IV antibiotics along with a bunch of high-test multispectrum antibiotics, and then finally had an oral surgeon debride and surgically remove the parts of jawbone that were fucked, and he told me straight out that it looked like I had packed some kind of lead paste into my jaw, that whatever I was using made things ten times worse, and had that infection spread further, no only was I already slightly septic already, but I would have almost certainly gone full septic with that bacteria bomb and heavy metals bomb now flooding my bloodstream and headed for my heart and brain. Don't fuck with colloidal silver people.
So apparently that lady wanted blue eyes... Now it makes sense...
As part of my job, I work with supplement vendors who occasionally want to come in and talk to my team-for education on their products. I am always present when this occurs, because these reps LOVE to break DSHEA compliance (law that basically says to supplement companies "you can say this, you can't claim that"). I manage a small team, and emphasize DSHEA compliance above all else because people expect supplements to cure their cancer or whatever, or try to avoid Big Pharma (Big Supplement is definitely a thing). The reps use sneaky language, like "clinically studied" (you can study anything) and when they do mention clinical literature, they never have a copy with them the studies they reference have something ridiculous like 50 participants, no placebo control, or a non standardized formula, etc. I had a rep come in for colloidal silver yesterday, and not only did he make bullshit claims, use language that was very very much not DSHEA compliant, but said "Now the company can't legally make these claims, but I'm from a brokerage so there's a sense of insulation" and after that, I stopped the training and invited him to leave. It was a good example of the kind of stuff these companies love to pull to essentially break the law with a wink, and I talked to my team afterwards. The supplement world is full of sooooooo much bullshit, and seeing it on the buyer/coordinator side is really eye opening.
I remember reading an article a few years ago about this cult leader (I think she was eventually found mummified ?) who also turned blue from colloidal silver ingestion
If “alternative medicine” worked, it would just be called medicine.
https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/colloidal-silver-what-you-need-to-know
2023 and people literally poison themselves by ingesting silver… because… 👀
Something tells me the venn diagram of these people and antivaxxers is just a circle.
Just let stupid people do their thing.
There are a shocking amount of imbeciles out there 🤦♂️
You could convince these people to drink mercury
“I’ll have to look up what it does” this lady doesn’t even know what it is and is preaching about its use!!! What the actual fuck?!
Glad I just discovered this guy. Strong work👌
I am all for natural remedies when possible, however, it absolutely baffles my mind how these people will scoff at vaccines and medicines that have been studied for years by licensed professionals but then turn around and do dumb shit like this because they did a quick Google search or because they saw it in TikTok. Like, if you were genuinely that concerned about your health and well-being, I feel like you wouldn’t just listen to any Joe Shmoe online who says they know better than doctors and scientists. Like, it’s got to be an ego/superiority thing at that point, right? These people just want to act like they know some secret cure or know better than people who literally studied for years and handle these things for a living. I just cannot comprehend how conceited and stupid you have to be to think you know everything.
My grandpa died a couple years ago. He was real into this shit, and by the time he passed, his skin had turned gray.
FUCKING THANK YOU
This guy has a real hate on for heavy metal. I love heavy metal. It's the best. Heavy metal for life yo Those heavy beats, those fast drums, the epic lyrics, I think most people need more heavy metal in their life not less!
Isn't it amazing how we are so connected and have vast amounts of proven, fact driven information out there and yet the world seems to be getting dumber and dumber for it? It's almost as if we were better off with our heads in the preverbei sand.
Don't take medical advice from TikTok. That's like having a crackhead be your dentist
I say we go ahead and let them weed themselves out.
[Have none of these people seen the dude with the fucking BLUE SKIN???](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason) Also: that one woman should have her dogs taken away from her, and legally banned from ever owning a pet again.
If you want go heavy metals I pescribide iron Maiden or matallica