Not so fast there - the REAL facts about Argentyn versus Mesosilver

When you look at Argentyn's much hyped test, I think the key consideration is that the company designed and performed their own self-serving test. You will similarly find no end of other self-serving tests, articles and hype from all kinds of ionic/colloidal silver makers, many of which are actually no more than garage operations.

In vitro petri dish tests are often far removed from what happens in vivo (in the body) and the Argentyn test is a good example. What the Argentyn test fails to disclose is the fact that colloidal silver content is essential in order for ionic silver particles to best be able to be utilized once they pass into the bloodstream.

This excerpt from "The Real Facts about Colloidal Silver" by Marshall Dudley explains how colloidal silver content is important:

The colloidal portion diffuses through the stomach wall rather quickly and enters the blood stream as long as the particles are small enough.

The ionic portion is a combination of silver hydroxide and silver oxide. While in solution they continually convert from one to the other and back again. Each has a solubility of about 13 ppm, so any EIS which is less than about 26 ppm and a pH of 7 will be totally dissolved. Upon contact with the HCl (hydrochloric acid) of the stomach both of these compounds will immediately form silver chloride. The silver chloride has a solubility of .8 ppm, so most of the silver chloride will precipitate out, but the remaining part will quickly move into the blood stream. As it does, that which precipitated will redissolve and move into the blood stream as well. The end result is that most of the silver chloride will move into the blood stream over time, but at a lower rate than the colloidal portion.

Once it is in the blood stream it is exposed to the same effects we discussed for silver compounds above. Basically it will try to plate out on any silver particles it finds. Since there will be colloidal silver which already passed into the blood, there will be lots of particles for it to plate out on. So in short order the silver in the silver chloride plates out onto the colloidal particles already there, and they grow by a small amount. Typically for an EIS of 10% particulate content, the particles should grow to about double in size. This is insufficient to cause them to get caught up into tissues, and they eventually get removed by the kidneys.

So, as it turns out. colloidal silver is actually a prophylactic against argyria, instead of a cause as some would have you believe.

So there you have a much more accurate indication of the real "human body factor" instead of a gimmicky petri dish test.  By only having 5% colloidal content, what Argentyn has done is produce something that works well in a petri dish but limits its effectiveness in the actual human body.

There is, however, an even bigger problem for Argentyn, a huge one in fact - and that is particle size.   Particle area is THE key to effective silver solutions.  The smaller the particle, the greater the surface area per PPM.  When Argentyn's particle sizes are compared to Mesosilver, you find that Argentyn has 0.355 square centimeters of surface area per milliliter of solution.  Mesosilver on the other hand has104.7 square centimetets of surface area per milliliter of solution.

Thus Mesosilver has a whopping 295 times more surface area than does Argentyn.  Even if ionic were somehow superior, which it isn't, Mesosilvers 10% ionic content would still have 29.5 times as much ionic surface area as Argentyn. Utopia Silver's Advanced Colloidal Silver also has huge advantages over Argentyn due to particle size alone and, as explained above, due to far more colloidal silver content.

The bottom line is that if you want to kill pathogens in a petri dish, then Argentyn might be a good option.  For those who want to kill pathogens in the body, the choice is quite clear - and it isn't Argentyn.