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During my alchemy training I learned a thing or two about colloidal metals, specifically colloidal silver and gold.

Colloidal silver used to be a widespread antibiotic and, if I'm not mistaken, silver is still used in some burn creams. I wouldn't recommend taking colloidal silver internally or using it for a prolonged period. It will turn you as blue as a smurf.

Colloidal gold is interesting, but I'm not aware of any proven effects that it can have. There are a lot of people that claim it can increase psychic abilities or induce enlightenment or whatever, but I'm pretty sure that gold has no biological effect on the human body. I'm also not aware of any gold toxicity, but I'm not sure enough is known to say for sure as gold is too valuable for people to be ingesting lots of it anyway.

The really interesting stuff is the ORMES white gold powder. Look it up if you don't know what it is. I wouldn't really recommend downing this either expecting it to open up your psychic senses or cause you to ascend into a higher plane. All haughty claims aside, there are not enough facts known about it and the methods I have seen for making it can yield a dangerous product if you don't get the pH just right.

On all of this, use at your own risk. Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable ingesting any of this stuff, especially not for the alleged benefits commonly attributed to these substances.

i use silver everday for a year im still pale XD the only blue in my skin is from my tattoo

Argyria

Use at your own risk is all I'm saying. You may not turn blue, but I'm not willing to take the risk considering a lot of the claims about colloidal silver are unsubstantiated.

Due to the relative ease of production and the lack of any kind of certification, anybody can be claiming to sell you colloidal silver that may not necessarily be true colloidal silver. Use your best judgment, please.

To those that have used silver internally before: I'm curious as to how you knew you were actually getting colloidal silver as it's colorless if prepared properly.

So you don't take it internally then? My understanding is that argyria is only a risk if you take silver internally.

My understanding is that you have to consume a large amount of silver. If people are willing to take that risk then so be it. I'm just not willing to. I'm not denying that it could have benefits; I just don't think there's any evidence that it will give you psychic powers or anything like that. Ditto with colloidal and ORMES gold.