I recently changed computers and just yesterday got the old one going again so I could export the bookmarks from FireFox to .html and access them again so will see what I got there and get back to you.
I've just now started taking 2 tsp/day to see what's up. Many people say to take up to 4oz per day but I think that's where it's way beyond sensible. This new stuff I'm making leaves a stronger metallic taste on my teeth if I swish it around in my mouth than I remember the older stuff doing. I have some of that left over so tonight I'll try that before going to bed to see what it's like. If used that way the silver absorbs directly into the blood bypassing the stomach acids and is said to be more effective. Same with things like Vit. B-12 and the melatonin I take 3 times a week or so.
Thing is I don't just jump in willy-nilly and start doing different shit. I trained as a chemist and know how to observe and replicate results using as little bias as I possibly can tho no one is ever completely bias free so I try to take that in account too.
Like treating my arthritis. Doc had me tested for inflammation and it came back negative but he prescribed me 3 months worth of an anti-inflammatory med called Arthrotec. Ok I took one dose that day as it was the end of the day when I got them, with food as it said on the bottle. Next morning I ate a half sandwich and washed it down with milk tho I rarely ever eat before I've had a few coffees. Felt a bit of a gut ache that didn't go away with more food. Ate a good early dinner and took another pill. 2 hours later my gut really ached so drank a glass of milk and that helped a bit. Had a late night snack, took the last pill of the day and woke up in the middle of the night with pretty severe gut pain so stopped the pills for a couple days. Tried again with the same results so quit taking that shit and saw the doctor. He said it was good I stopped as some people that don't tolerate that class of drug can develop ulcers in less than 2 weeks. I've never had an ulcer. As an aside I did not feel any pain relief.
I started using CBD pot first by smoking it and that really took the sharp edge off the pain so bought 10g from a dispensary in BC when I was out for a visit and made that into cocobudder. Whoo-hoo! Just a tsp in the evening let me sleep like a baby and wake up with the usual agony reduced a whole bunch right off the bat. Withing a few days I just had the dull achy pain I call a good day all day long.
Happy camper until the budder ran out and within a week the pain was coming back hard and I was having to resort to Demerol that I used to get for breakout pain until this f'n opiod crisis came along and the doc cut me off cold. He claimed that the AMA, (Alberta Medical Association), told him to do it. Bullshit but they did start cutting lots of people off. I had been getting 30 - 50mg tabs every 4 - 6 months for about 3 years. Does that sound like I was getting dependant? No way. I never doctor-shopped or used the BM to get any. I can't tolerate morphine and puke when it's been given to me in the hospital. Codeine gives me hives and itch all over. Neither work as good as Demerol for the pain either.
He wanted me to go on an anti-depressant drug called Cymbalta that was said to be useful for ongoing pain like that. I had already researched that drug for a friend that used it and it's f'n horrible, My buddy had to pay about $120/mth for it and when he ran out and couldn't afford it he had withdrawl like a junkie. I just toughed it out until my first CBD plants finished flowering a month later and that's all I take for it now. 3 or 4 tsps/wk is enough to keep the pain levels way down.
That same buddy takes a lot of meds and has hep 2 or 3, type 2 diabetes, borderline obese, high blood pressure, horrible psoriasis all over and told me he hasn't had an erection for over 10 years. Has a dozen different pill bottles to dig thru every day and smokes legal pot instead of getting mine for half the price and twice the quality. Some buddy eh.
Type II diabetes is a self inflicted disease that can be cured by diet and exercise but today's MDs have almost zero training in nutrition so are just legal pill pushers IMO. Our processed food-like substances are engineered to addict us and those horrible fats we've been lied to about the last 50 years are now being touted as healthy especially for our brains that are 50% cholesterol.
Do you wonder yet why we are having an epidemic of diabetes, obesity and dementia? Not to mention the heart disease, joint failure and all the other complications of a poor diet and being overweight for most of a person's life.
Saturated fats were labelled bad so they replaced that with sugar which they replaced with High Fructose Corn Syrup cause it's cheaper than sugar. Sugar is just bad for you anyway and I need to get off it myself but have always had a sweet tooth. Got less of those now so maybe my cravings will subside.
Something like 90% of the western world is deficient in zinc, Mg, Vit. D3 and a host of other things. For men the prostate needs zinc only secondary to the heart so if you're having to get up to pee during the night go get a bottle of zinc tabs at your local drug store and take 2/day the first week then 1/day after that and see if that doesn't help. Sure does for me and I take some Saw Palmetto with it. Most nights I don't have to get up at all if I stop the coffee a few hours before bed but usually am sipping on coffee right up to bedtime.
If I had a life threatening condition where only a pharma med could keep me alive then damn sure I'd take it and when my leaky appendix blew a couple years ago I f'n called an ambulance and went to the hospital. Doc there said I was constipated and gave me a shotglass of something and said I could go home after I had a crap. I have never been constipated in my life. I eat so much fiber you could knit a shitty sweater out of my crap.
2 days after getting back from the hospital horror show I got a sharp pain in my lower left side that soon went ballistic so called the ambulance again. A few miles from the hospital the pain reached astronomical levels then suddenly dropped off rapidly. Turned out to be a 4mm kidney stone that was noted on my CAT scan report that found my bad appendix. Nobody bothered telling me. The only reason we called the ambulance was both times we were drifted in with snow and couldn't drive out. No charge to me for any of it. That damn socialist medical system does have it's good points. lol
The wife had a supposedly benign tumour on an adrenal gland so it had to be removed 12 years ago. Turned out to be malignant but nobody said anything about that until she got diagnosed with liver tumours a year ago but that's another long story.
