i do think that disinformation poses a problem but not like from the angle of china is turning our kids into hamasniks but from the angle of "this conservative wellness influencer who's paid to say all this shit about canning is legitimately going to get someone killed"
any mention of colloidal silver now sends me into a blind rage
Please tell me about the forbidden silver.
Colloidal Silver sounds like it will give me superpowers. (Cancer)
In fact it WILL make you a bit more like a low-budget X-Man, but only in the bad way:
Ingesting silver turns you blue.
our bodies need differing levels of many vitamins, and even some metal (namely iron) but one that we do NOT need, and are in fact completely unequipped to process, is silver. Colloidal silver is just the name for the way it exists in many fake medicine supplements. It isn’t a special kind that is safe to ingest or anything. It’s still just silver. And when your body receives more silver than it can remove from your body via waste… it goes to your skin, and you get something called Argyria, which is basically just the medical term for “you et silver and now you’re blue”.
So why do people take it??
Silver *does* have antibacterial properties- in a Petri dish. Many things which have absolutely no place in the human body kill bacteria in a Petri dish. Bleach. Fuckin, lava, I assume. Many things that kill bacteria would also kill *you*. But scam artist fucking assholes have taken advantage of misinformation, ignorance (neutral, not derogatory) and the public’s completely reasonable distrust of the for-profit medical system and uses it to push this stupid fucking poison. Anyway. If you’d like to learn more about this there’s a medical history podcast which I love called Sawbones that has a silver episode, the transcript is also available here.














