Can Colloidal Silver Protect Against Cell Damage from Alcohol?

Today I want to share an interesting article I came across discussing a study that found silver nanoparticles can protect cells against damage caused by alcohol (specifically, ethanol).

Of course, for those who have studied the healing power of silver for any length of time, this information comes as no surprise.

After all, silver’s healing effects have been known for centuries, and have been “re-discovered” by enterprising researchers many times.

But what could this study’s findings mean for those who partake of alcohol? Could colloidal silver really aid in protecting and possibly even healing cells and tissues damaged by alcohol use?

Here’s what you need to know…

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…

Take a look at this article I found titled, “Silver Nanoparticles Mitigate the Cell Damage Caused By Ethanol, Study Suggests“.

It discusses an intriguing study by researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neurosciences of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona, along with researchers from several other institutes, who discovered that very small numbers of silver atoms can protect cells against damage caused by ethanol (study is titled, “Silver Sub-nanoclusters Electrocatalyze Ethanol Oxidation and Provide Protection against Ethanol Toxicity in Cultured Mammalian Cells“).

The most obvious use for this discovery would be in aiding the healing of damage to cells and tissues caused by alcohol use and even alcoholism.

According to the article:

“‘The results of the study show that these clusters of small numbers of silver atoms catalyze ethanol oxidation at similar concentrations to those found in the blood of alcoholics and at values of membrane potential and pH that are compatible with those exhibited by mammalian cells,’ explains Gustavo Egea, a professor with the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neurosciences of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona.”

In other words, silver seems to neutralize the damage to cells caused by ethanol alcohol. Again, according to the article:

“Alcohol has particularly harmful effects on nerve cells, and in the specific case of astrocytes it induces programmed cell-death and an alteration of the actin cytoskeleton.

Following application of the silver nanoparticles to ethanol-exposed cells, the actin cytoskeleton shows marked improvements and cell-death does not occur.

‘So, the harmful effect of ethanol on astrocytes is mitigated by the silver nanoparticles, which act as a cytoprotective agent,’ explains Javier Selva, a lecturer with the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neuroscience and first author of the paper.”

Of course, the term “cytoprotective agent” means the silver protects the cells.

The article continues:

“The study combines analysis of the electrocatalytic properties of silver nanoparticles with examination of their potential biological applications.

‘This is a promising field in electrochemistry applied to cell biology, which harnesses the different properties of nanoparticles formed by very small numbers of atoms, referred to generically as atomic clusters,’ explains Gustavo Egea.”

The article concludes:

“The authors have also found that the [silver] nanoparticles prevent alterations induced by other primary alcohols such as methanol and butanol….”

So, silver can help protect cells from damage caused by other primary alcohols, as well as ethanol.

This new discovery regarding the protective effects of silver on cells exposed to excessive amounts of alcohol may one day even help in mitigating the serious disabilities in babies affected by fetal alcohol syndrome, “…. a disease that develops in some unborn babies when the mother consumes excessive levels of alcohol and which leads to a range of severe neurological disorders.”

Silver’s Healing Effects Long Known

Of course, for those who have studied the healing power of silver for any length of time, this information comes as no surprise.

After all, silver’s healing effects have been known for centuries, and have been “re-discovered” by enterprising researchers many times.

In fact, back in the early 1980s, it was Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D., of Syracuse Medical University, who documented the fact that electrically generated silver ions have the remarkable ability to trigger tissue healing in wounds, and even cause cancerous cells to revert to non-cancerous cells.

Here is a pertinent quote from his study, “Effects of Electrically Generated Silver Ions on Human Cells and Wound Healing,” published in the journal Electro- and Magnetobiology 19(1), 1-19 (2000), describing what he discovered when he used small micro-currents of electricity to drive silver ions directly into damaged and infected wounds:

“A standardized technique was evolved using silver nylon fabric placed as the anode in open osteomyelitic lesions with the application of 0.9 volt DC between the fabric and a cathode of carbon-impregnated rubber.

The electrical current was provided by a simply battery-operated DC generator limited to 0.9 volts output. Initial treatments were limited to 4-hour periods twice a day.

As the bacteriologic monitoring revealed useful results and no overt local or systemic side effects were noted, the treatment time was gradually extended to be continuous, with once daily electrode removal and replacement with a new silver nylon anode.

… As the clinical study progressed, improvements in electrical generator design and the silver nylon fabric were made, with a resulting increase in antibacterial effect and the appearance of several unexpected clinical phenomena.

A profuse, sterile exudates began to appear in the wound during the second and fourth day of treatment.

Shortly thereafter it became evident that an enhancement of wound healing was occurring beyond that which could be attributed to infection control. Open cavities began to fill with abundant, healthy granulation tissue, producing rapid coverage of exposed bone surfaces.

This was followed by rapid ingrowth of full thickness, innervated skin and healing of bony non-unions. These observations have been under evaluation since 1979.”

Becker concluded his study by stating:

“Exposure of normal human cells in wounds to electrically generated free silver ions results in the production of an exudate containing approximately 10-15% of cells with the same primitive morphological characteristics (as stem cells).

Healing rates in these wounds are significantly accelerated and are accompanied by enhanced healing of bone, soft tissue, nerve and skin, with replacement of missing tissues by histologically normal tissues.”

In other words, tissue damaged by the infection was repaired, and grew back normally, in the presence of the electrically generated silver ions.

In a later study, “Induced Dedifferentiation: A Possible Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cell Transplants,” Becker wrote of his results:

“Induction of local tissue regeneration in humans would best be accomplished if the patient’s own cells at the desired site could be caused to dedifferentiate into the required embryonic stem cells.

A system involving the electric iontophoretic introduction of free silver ions into human wounds for their antibiotic effect has been in clinical use since 1975.

… The technique was found to produce the regeneration of all local tissues, apparently by stimulating dedifferentiation of mature human cells.

… Both silver ion treatment methods used have been shown to be safe and lacking significant side effects.”

In short, Becker proved that even when silver ions were electrically driven straight into damaged tissues, massive healing took place as mature human cells were triggered to become healing stem cells, resulting in the complete regeneration of injured tissue!

Silver sulfadiazine cream was also developed during the 1980s. This prescription silver-based cream, also known as Silvadene, has been used for decades now in hospitals and medical clinics to prevent infection and to trigger healing of cells and tissues in the skin of severe burn victims.

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