Blue Man Exposed
Next time you’re feeling a little blue, spare a thought for a man who has been really ‘blue’ for over a decade.
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking – it’s a gimmick and the guy really just wants to join the Blue Man Group. But no, it’s the real deal with a simple explanation.
Plagued by a bad case of dermatitis, Paul Karason started self-medicating with colloidal silver, a liquid made by extracting silver from metal. He both drank it and rubbed it on his face. And as a result, he ended up with a condition known as Argyria, an irreversible blue-gray discoloration of skin, gums, and nails.
This treatment, by the way, is not recommended by the FDA. In fact, they consider it neither safe nor effective for any disease. Besides turning blue, taking colloidal silver can result in other more serious side effects such as seizures, neurological problems, kidney damage, headaches, fatique, and indigestion.
That’s enough to discourage most people, but Paul is continuing to drink the colloidal silver solution. He’s just not rubbing it onto his face anymore.
Paul talks to CNN…
wow, that is a real life papa smurf. weird.
you know, I’d forgotten all about the smuf’s but he does a good impression of a real life smurf.
Fourteen years? This guy has been drinking this for fourteen years??? Where does one even get colloidal silver?
I do feel bad for him, though. Imagine, moving to a new state because so many people weren’t nice to him. I wonder what it was about Madera to make him think things would be different.
Fourteen years is a long time to be drinking something like this…especially if all the evidence appears to indicate that’s the reason his skin’s turned blue…but maybe he thinks it will make no difference now.
Colloidal silver is sold as a health supplement and can be bought all over the internet…there is much debate as to it’s effectiveness. The best thing to do is research the pros and cons and then make up your own mind. Don’t forget though that the FDA does not recommend it.
Don’t know what happen to make him move…let’s just hope he’s happy in his new location.
Several things about this news video strike me as odd right off the bat:
First of all, the man is really blue. I mean really blue. When people contract argyria (i.e., skin graying) from ingesting excessive amounts of colloidal silver over long periods of time, they usually turn grey, not blue. That’s because the excessive silver buildup in their body has worked its way to the skin (the human body’s largest organ of elimination), and when the sun strikes the skin it tarnishes the large number of silver particles lodged there, turning the skin slate grey.
It is quite possible this man actually has a heart disease resulting in cyanosis (skin bluing from oxygen deficiency in the blood). Nevertheless, he says his condition is the result of taking colloidal silver for the past 14 years, so we have to take his word for it.
As I have been warning for the past 12 years, drinking excessive amounts of colloidal silver on a daily basis for long periods of time will indeed result in argyria for many people, particularly those with poor kidney and liver function. That’s because the excessive daily intake of silver particles is more than their kidneys and liver can expel at any one time. This can result in a residual buildup of the silver particles in the body’s tissues each time a person drinks more silver than their excretory organs can expel. Eventually, over time, the body tries to push this residual buildup of silver from the tissues out toward the skin, at which point the skin turns grey upon exposure to sunlight.
Also, note that the news video from CNN doesn’t tell us how much colloidal silver this man was taking daily. This is a typical ploy of the corporate news media. They want you to believe that any amount of colloidal silver is potentially dangerous, when that is in reality the farthest thing from the truth. But to create the illusion, they don’t bother to tell you how much colloidal silver was taken each day for those 14 years, even though that is the most critical factor in the story! As one experienced colloidal silver user stated in a blog regarding this news video, “This idiot would had to have drank Colloidal Silver by the gallon to have that happen to him!” While we disavow the name-calling, the point is well taken. You have to try real hard to discolor your skin by drinking colloidal silver. It is actually easier to turn your skin orange from drinking too much carrot juice than it is to turn your skin gray (or blue) from drinking colloidal silver.
We also noticed that that the gentleman in the CNN video is shown using a conventional colloidal silver generator distributed by a company in Canada. We are familiar with the company that makes the exact generator displayed in the news video, and personally like the people behind the company. We have spoken with them several times in the past, and they are clearly very sincere about helping, educating and empowering people to be responsible for their own health. But as we have warned you for many years now, most conventional colloidal silver generators produce overly-high levels of silver (i.e., ppm, or silver by weight) in every batch, and the particle size of the silver is also often overly-large. So you have to be very careful if you are using a conventional colloidal silver generator.
This is precisely the reason why we chose to distribute the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, which allows you to produce silver particles so small it takes a Transmission Electron Microscope operating at a whopping 175,000x magnification to see them. In comparison, silver particles produced by conventional colloidal silver generators can generally be seen under a standard microscope operating at only 20,000x magnification. This means the silver particles produced by the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator are an astonishing 875% smaller than those produced by conventional colloidal silver units. In other words, they are far smaller than any blood cell, blood vessel, virus, bacteria, or fungus. You can see a Transmission Electron Microscope photograph of these tiny sub-microscopic silver particles by going to our home page at http://www.thesilveredge.com and scrolling down until you get near the bottom of the page, where you will see it on the right-hand side. As you will see, the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator produces silver particles as small as .0008 microns, which is eight ten-thousandths of a single micron. As far as we know, these are the smallest silver particles produced by any low-voltage colloidal silver generator on the face of the earth. This is probably why the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is now the world’s most popular colloidal silver generator.
Finally, this gentleman’s contention that his skin turned blue from rubbing colloidal silver on it, rather than from drinking it, is…well…rubbish. If the colloidal silver actually did cause his condition, then it was from drinking it in excessive quantities over long periods of time. If he rubbed anything on his skin and turned it blue, I can assure you it was not colloidal silver. This man is apparently blue nearly from head to toe. It is highly unlikely he was rubbing colloidal silver all over his body. And even if he was, it would not have turned him into a Smurf.
Also I would be extremely remiss if I did not point out one more vital fact in regards to this news video: Out of the estimated seven to 10 million regular colloidal silver users in the United States alone, this is only the second or third person the news media have been able to find in the last 20 years (to my knowledge, anyway) who has “turned blue.” (For the inside scoop on the last news media “blue man,” see our web site at http://www.thesilveredge.com and scroll down to the link titled “Did Colloidal Silver Turn This Man Blue?” As you will see, the news media claimed a man turned blue from taking colloidal silver back in 2002, but that story turned out to be highly exaggerated.)
At any rate, I still find it absolutely amazing that the news media will find two or three people who get this benign but unsightly skin condition out of the literally millions of regular colloidal silver users in the U.S. and Canada, and then broadcast it from the rooftops as if it were the norm. But they won’t mention the astonishing 2.2 million people who suffer serious and quite often life-threatening adverse reactions from prescription drug use every single year, or the 100,000 Americans KILLED each year from prescription drug use, which is 30 times more than all of the U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war each year! Let’s see now: two or three people turning blue in 20 years from excessive colloidal silver usage, versus 100,000 people a year being flat-out put into their graves by common drugs their doctors prescribed them. Which is more newsworthy? I’ll leave that up to you to decide.
This man’s case is obviously an extremely rare one. But it is a good example of what we have been saying for years: In much the same way you wouldn’t eat a half a bottle of vitamins a day unless you want to endure some potentially nasty side effects over time, you also can’t take excessive amounts of colloidal silver daily without eventually provoking a nasty side effect called argyria. Most people are intelligent enough not to take the kind of huge daily dosages that would be necessary to stain your skin like this man has apparently done over the course of the past 14 years. But there are still many web sites out there that claim colloidal silver has “no side effects whatsoever” and that you can “drink all you want with no risk.” Those are blatantly untrue statements. And we have been sounding the alarm against such statements for years.
Again, just as you can’t take all of the vitamins you want every day without risk, so you can’t drink all of the colloidal silver you want each day without risk. If you take excessive quantities of colloidal silver daily for long periods of time, you do indeed risk contracting argyria (i.e., skin graying). It is not a guarantee you will become argyric. But it is a very real risk. The key to avoiding side effects from colloidal silver, or from any other natural supplement for that matter, is the same one your mother taught you when you were a little child: “Don’t overdo it; use MODERATION in all things.” If an ounce of colloidal silver a day works good for you, then for goodness sakes don’t start thinking that maybe 16 ounces a day will be even better. It is that “more must be even better” mentality that ultimately produces these rare cases of side effects which the news media in turns capitalizes on in order to scare people away from using this otherwise safe and powerfully effective all-natural infection-fighting agent and immune system booster, which has been used by tens of millions of people worldwide since it was first invented in the late 1800’s shortly after Edison harnessed electricity.
For those interested in learning more about colloidal silver dosage, please to our web site at http://www.thesilveredge.com and download our NO COST special report titled “What’s the “Safest” Daily Dosage for Colloidal Silver?” which uses the EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) own figures to determine how much colloidal silver is safe to take daily. Just use the blue link in the turquoise-colored box located in the upper left-hand corner of the home page. You might also want to scroll down the page and find the link titled “Buyer Beware: Not All Colloidal Silver Generators Are the Same” and read that article, which is posted right on the web site.
What’s more, our home page article will explain how we became the largest colloidal silver generator distributor in the world, and it also reveals our role in helping develop the world’s most popular colloidal silver generator – the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator – which produces silver particles so infinitesimally small the human body is able to absorb, utilize, and successfully excrete them with greater ease than any of the silver solutions produced by conventional colloidal silver generators. This superior absorption, utilization and excretion alleviates the need to take huge daily quantities of colloidal silver, giving you all of the benefits of this powerful natural infection-fighting agent and immune system booster without the risk associated with excessive usage.
Finally, if you want to learn even more about the safe usage of colloidal silver, I am happy to announce that Life & Health Research Group has recently placed their one-hour, studio-quality Colloidal Silver Secrets video on sale for only twenty bucks. If features yours truly being interviewed relentlessly by television personality Kristyn Burtt on just about every aspect of colloidal silver usage you can imagine. I even demonstrate how to make a crude, emergency colloidal silver generator out of common household implements in under two minutes. I don’t know how long they will keep this great 60-minute long video (available in DVD or VHS) available at such a low price, so you should check it out now at http://www.lifeandhealthresearchgroup.com
Regards and good health!
Spencer Jones for TheSilverEdge.com
Hey Spencer, thanks for such an interesting and informative comment. You spell out two things that I thoroughly agree with – one, that the media will often sensationalize only a small part of a complex story and two, that moderation is the key to all things.
What you have written is definitely food for thought and I, for one, will be checking out the references you have provided to learn more about this topic.
Again, thanks for taking the time to provide such indepth information.
Cheers,
Liz
My dad’s skin is grey and his fingernails turned blue because of he drinks silver. He’s been drinking it in small amounts for about 5 years. He decided to save himself some money so he bought the necessary items to make his own silver. That’s when his fingernails turned blue, right before my wedding. My dad is a retired auto mechanic and later in life became a truck driver. He’s the furthest thing from a metrosexual that you can get, but he sucked it up and got a manicure (got his nails painted skin color) to hide the blue for my wedding. He was embarressed by the blue nails and when we scolded him for his silver habits he said it wasn’t the silver, but rather it was because his homemade techniques made the molecules too large? Well, he gave up the homemade process and resumed buying his silver. Now, 2.5 years later he is grey. His face looks like he’s dying. Everyone who sees him thinks he’s very ill. He’s convinced it has nothing to do with the silver, but rather his chiropractor thinks his blue skin has to do with his blood pressure medicine. I asked my dad if he informed his chiropractor of his silver habits and of course his answer was no. He decided not to share that little tidbit with him. Instead he decided to stop taking his blood pressure medicine.
It’s frustrating to worry about my dad’s health, but I guess he’s a grown man so what can I do? All I know is that his nails are permanently blue and his skin is permanently grey, and I know he drinks silver. He said he takes a few tablespoons per day. I’m not sure if that’s a lot or a little, but he’s turning blue.
So, it may be rare, but it happened to my dad!
Hey Terry, thanks for sharing this with us. Having to worry about a parent’s health is very difficult. We get used to them worrying about us and then suddenly one day it seems to change. Sounds like your father is very set in his ways when it comes to taking the silver solution. I always find it fascinating that people self medicate with things like silver and then conveniently ‘forget’ to tell the medical professionals they visit.
Good luck with things.
Mark Metcalf was gray, a full blown case of Argyria when I met him at a Las Vegas health show in the early 90s.
Today he is as pink as ever having chelated out those nasty large gray colloids he initially taught people to make by inadvertently teaching the use of salt to aggregate ions into colloids.
He even had a photo of himself holding one of those color charts on his website at one time.
Argyria is reversible. I think the chelation protocol I’d use if needed would include A, C, E, selenium, EDTA, cilantro juice, zeolite, and mabey even Dr. O. Brown’s 1920s protocol of oil & egg white flushes…
Small clear ions or the same ions aggregated/grouped into clear yellow colloids or perhaps a higher dose/PPM golden colloid is key.
I invented the free phone-line powered MicrGenerator and have given away thousands since ‘98…Mark turned it into a $120 black box.
Grab an AC/DC transformer out of the junk drawer or the garage/basement & hook some silver to the wires & submerge them in some hot distilled water for 1-3 minutes per ounce.
Hitting that with enough ascorbic acid to ‘dust the head of a pin’ brings ions into golden colloids; try a bit more till you get it. Creating colloids is easy, just fickle. Smaller batches to start…till you have success.
Johnny Silverseed
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I have been using collodial silver for at least three years both when i feel ill, or when I know that I may become ill. As a sufferer of chronic strep thoat and other sinus issues, silver has been a staple in my healthcare regime, and trust it 100%. Furthermore, I urge everyone to compare the side effects of common pharmacuticals which are very common to the rare incidence of turning blue. I feel safer taking collodial and running the very small risk of turning blue than running the gauntlet and taking a perscription. As to the fact that the FDA does not endorse collodial, let me remind you of the thousands of perscriptions that they have endorsed that have later been pulled from the market due to serious side effects and death linked to use of said prescription. Also, keep in mind, that one cannot patent a natural remedy and therfore, drug companies and the FDA cannot make money off them. Why would they encourage the use of collodial? It is common knowledge that taking vitamin c will boost your immune system and yet read the label of your vitamin c and the disclaimer will tell you that ‘this product is not meant to cure, treat or diagnose any disease.’