Garlic and oolloidal silver BOTH kill bad and good bacteria

I surely do like garlic and echinacea - and I eat a lot of garlic as well as take echinacea whenever I feel cold-like symptoms.  HOWEVER, I would point out a couple of things here:

First of all, ANY anti-fungal kills both good and bad bacteria and that includes garlic, which has over 100 antibiotic compounds.  No anti-fungal knows the difference between good and bad bacteria and that includes both garlic and colloidal silver.  Neither does any anti-fungal "know" what a good intestinal flora balance is.  Anti-fungals do not "know" anything - they simply kill bacteria.  So I would have to question how much difference there is in using garlic in large amounts versus using colloidal silver, which is a natural mineral that is essential to life itself, to kill pathogens.  Either way you are putting an excess of a natural substance in your body and killing off both good and bad bacteria.

If colloidal silver were dangerous, where is there one single documented instance of true colloidal silver causing harm?  There isn't one.  Harm from virtually any kind of silver is in fact extremely rare.  What should be pretty much definitive proof is the infamous blue man, Papa Smurff Karason, who has been paraded back and forth across the country by the mainstream media - much to the glee of mainstream medicine - as "proof" of the dangers of colloidal silver.  In actuality, Karason took his own homemade large particle ionic silver which he contaminated with salt to produce silver chloride and he drank over a quart a day for over a year.  What is almost unreported is that Karason took a complete physical at Mount Sinai at the invitation of Good Morning America and was given a complete clean bill of health.  I doubt that very many people in the entire world have taken that much silver in any form for that long.

I would also ask where are all the people who have developed candida fungal overgrowths from taking colloidal silver?  I don't find them, and I myself have taken large amounts of colloidal silver for extended periods with no signs of candida whatsoever.  As many people as there are who take colloidal silver, it that were a problem or if it were otherwise unhealthy, one would expect to find large numbers of unhealthy silver users around.  Just as if silver were really a threat to cause Argyria one would expect to see entire tribes of Smurffs roaming the planet.

I have been on many forums discussing colloidal silver and have encountered many people who have a wrong opinion regarding it's safety. I have never once found anyone who could offer any proof other than their opinion that true colloidal silver is not safe.  One could even make the claim that silver is more natural and more essential than garlic - because actual silver receptors have been found on human cells (thus identifying it as an essential mineral) wheras I am not aware of any receptors for any unique compound found in garlic having ever been identified.

The bottom line is that both garlic and silver are natural items.  Both are anti-fungal, both have many other benefits and both may be safely used for health benefits.   Garlic has been around for a long time and it's benefits are proven in my mind.  Silver has been around in our soils, plants and water since the first days life was found on this planet.

When it comes down to it, a tincture or solution made from natural plants is no more natural or unnatural than a solution made from elemental and natural silver.  I no more believe that colloidal silver is dangeous than I believe Bob Beck's warning against taking garlic because he maintains that it is a dangerous poison.