Owens isn’t the only far-right figure to endorse silver as a fringe medical cure. According to medical research, a 56-year-old man who took a teaspoon every day for “allergy and cold medication” noticed that his fingernails were turning blue. Owens laid out her colloidal silver regimen in a follow-up Instagram comment to a fan asking for more information about colloidal silver, claiming she takes a “teaspoon a day” and “more when I’m sick” in a post first highlighted by liberal activist William LeGate.Īs little as that one teaspoon of silver a day could be enough to cause argyria, depending on the concentration of the silver solution. Montana Libertarian politician Stan Jones, for example, turned his skin blue by consuming colloidal silver. Despite those risks, colloidal silver has sometimes been embraced by political outsiders, including some libertarians seeking treatments for a variety of illnesses outside the medical system. While he no longer takes the supplement, the. His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago. government.Owens didn’t respond to a request for comment.īut colloidal silver’s most famous side effect is argyria-a condition that turns users’ skin a bluish-gray color, usually permanently. He started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear Y2K disruptions would cause a shortage of antibiotics. All "news" today is propagated with an agenda just like the phony economic statistics put out the U.S. Theres no proof it works, but there is proof that taking too much can leave. The Blue Man charade demonstrates once again that the mass media cannot be trusted to report anything that even resembles a truthful "news" story. Enthusiasts of colloidal silver believe the metals antibacterial properties will keep them from getting sick. The moral of the story is to know the difference between true colloidal silver and ionic silver or silver proteins, and don't try to make either at home! (True colloidal silver cannot be made at home.) To finish himself off, he used a tanning bed to "fix" the silver in his body. He further applied the compound to his skin causing him to become an internal and external photographic plate. To make the solution even more dangerous, he added salt to the brew and then used electrolysis to make a high concentration of silver chloride with large particles which is well known to cause argyria.
When he prepared the solution he believed he was making colloidal silver. The claim: 'It’s impossible for colloidal silver to turn you blue' Some people on social media are promoting the. He got this condition by taking his homemade silver compound that was mostly a highly concentrated ionic silver solution. Octoat 3:12 PM 4 min read Fisher draws medicine into a syringe. The fact is that Paul has a condition called argyria that turns the skin a blue-gray color.
The entire story as presented is a study in blatant misrepresentation. The tactic was to claim that the Blue Man's condition was caused by his use of colloidal silver thus implying that anyone who uses colloidal silver would suffer a similar fate. The purpose of this campaign was to scare the public away from using colloidal silver products. The Blue Man story became a major media disinformation event which was produced by a public relations firm and paid for by a pharmaceutical interest. Although the news media has continually said that he was taking colloidal silver, nothing could be further from the truth. By now nearly everyone has seen the story about Paul Karason who the news media has dubbed "The Blue Man".
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