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Why The Need For ASAP?
Many bacterial infections are beginning to defy all antibiotics. Many doctors and hospitals are finding bacteria increasingly difficult to eradicate as resistant strains develop, sometimes even changing their natural structure to fight off the antibiotics. The application of stronger, more toxic antibiotics is not an option since these concentrated doses pose a threat to humans, many of whom may already be allergic or are having strong reactions to these cures. The fact that these bacteria are becoming resistant is not new information.
On October 23, 1994, the Los Angeles Times printed an article titled: Arsenal of Antibiotics Failing as Resistant Bacteria Develop. The article goes on to state, In the last decade, a broad resistance to antibiotics has begun to emerge. And because the bacteria can transfer genes among themselves, experts only expect the resistance to grow. The potential nightmare is an Andromeda strain, a super-microbe immune to all antibiotics that could wreak havoc.
In 1994 Newsweek featured a six page article titled, Antibiotics, The End Of The Miracle Drugs? It was the cover story. The article states, The rise of drug-resistant germs is unparalleled in recorded history. It goes on, Penicillin and tetracycline lost their power over staph back in the 1950's and 60's. Another antibiotic, methicillin, provided a backup for a while, but methicillin-resistant staph is now common in hospitals and nursing homes worldwide...Trying to cripple the bacteria's defences...will not do much more than buy us five to ten years...A better strategy might be to abandon antibiotics altogether in favour of different kinds of drugs.
The September 1995 issue of Time Magazine featured an article titled, Revenge of the Killer Microbes. The article states, Faced with AIDS and with an ever increasing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, doctors were forced to admit that the medical profession was actually retreating in the battle against germs. The question ceased to be, When will infectious disease be wiped out? and became Where will the next deadly new plague appear?...Humanity once had the hubris to think it could control or even conquer all these microbes. But anyone who reads today's headlines knows how vain that hope turned out to be. New scourges are emerging -- and older diseases like tuberculosis are rapidly evolving into forms that are resistant to antibiotics,...In 1992, 13,300 hospital patients died of infections that resisted every drug doctors tried.
Has drug resistance slowed down since 1995? No! Quite to the contrary, bacteria are becoming more resistant and deadly strains can develop very quickly, sometimes within hours. Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, for example, the leading cause of infection in hospitals, also known as just staph now has over 2,800 different strains to its evolutionary credit. In an article released on July 10, 2001 on the Washington (AP), it states: Staph bacteria can quickly swap genes with relatives to turn into virulent, dangerous germs that can cause disease and resist antibiotics, a new study shows... This is occurring at a far more greater frequency than we anticipated, said Musser (the scientist who did the study), the drug resistant strains can be created many times. It is not a single strain that is created once and then spreads. Slayers, who is president of the American Society for Microbiology, said the work by Musser is important because it confirms what has long been suspected - that whole gene structures can jump from bacteria to bacteria, creating new strains of antibiotic resistant bugs within a matter of hours.
The question now becomes an individual one. What can I do to keep my family and friends safe from these news strains of deadly bacteria? We as parents are obviously not willing to sit around and watch our loved ones die of diseases that were once so easily treated! But what can we actually do?
Stronger antibiotics are not the answer, despite what some may claim. The side effects of these drugs are dangerous and deadly. The question may not be if you can survive the disease, but will you survive the treatment? On May 29, 2001, in the USA Today responses to editorials section, NNFA CEO, David R. Seckman wrote, How safe are prescription drugs? According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, safe enough to make them the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States. And what about over-the-counter medications? Popular painkillers such as ibuprofen, the New England Journal of Medicine says, cause 17,000 deaths per year.
This does not mean, however, that prescription antibiotics do not have their place. Antibiotics save many lives every year. But the best use of antibiotics may be one of last resort, instead of being used for every little problem that an individual encounters. Most doctors will readily agree that it is the huge over-use of antibiotics that is causing the resistance problem in bacteria. So, what can a mother or father use to treat sick children or loved ones - not to replace - but as an alternative to antibiotics? Is there any other product that will kill bacteria and also be safe to use on a daily or weekly basis?
The Solution
One of the few answers to this dilemma may be the use of the ASAP Silver Solution. Silver is already being used throughout the medical industry to fight and eliminate bacteria, extra-cellular viruses and fungi. The uses of silver in the medical industry are many and varied. Silver compounds are being used in bandages with a new slow-release technology that kills bacteria on wounds for days. It is now being used in new water filters for public water works in cities such as Milwaukee, Marquette and Kenosha, where it kills the bacterial growth on the filters. (Milwaukee had previously experienced a problem where 400,000 people became ill and 100 people died after drinking contaminated water from the old system.)
Silver compounds and solutions have also been widely used in creams and lotions for burn victims, to kill bacteria and thus promote faster healing. Silver compounds have also been used since the 1800's in newborn babies eyes. Later silver solutions were actually mandated by law to be administered to the newborns, because it dramatically reduced eye infections and the transmission of diseases like venereal disease which are encountered in the birthing process. Manufacturers have announced many new silver-based products including a new line of socks from Great American Knitting Mills (Gold Toe), which has created a new yarn that contains pure metallic silver. The new silver yarn is designed to kill bacteria on the feet, and thus naturally eliminate the odours those bacteria cause.
Historically Used on and in the Body
In ancient Greece and Rome, people used metallic silver containers to keep liquids fresh. American settlers and miners used silver dollars in their water barrels to kill bacteria, to help make the water drinkable. Early farmers also placed silver bars and coins in their milk containers to delay its spoiling. It has also been stated that the reason many members of the royal houses never suffered from the same illnesses that the peasants suffered from, was that royalty ate and drank from silver plates and cups, and their food was kept in silver containers, which have been proven to kill bacteria. During the plague in Europe, children from wealthy families were given silver spoons to suck on, hence came the saying, Born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Metallic silver has been used for centuries as a natural antibacterial mineral.
What Form Of Silver Product Should I Use?
Over the years silver has been used in many forms. Some types of silver products are more benign in nature and some much more caustic. The more caustic forms of silver that are used are chemical, not metallic, such as silver nitrate or silver salts. In the past, silver salts have been used for various medical conditions and also as an anti-bacterial for medical purposes. Some of the silver salts have been used and abused at unheard of levels, even as high as 305,000 ppm (parts per million), used without dilution. That is over 30% straight silver in chemical form. Silver salts can stain and burn the skin. They are even used to cauterize wounds.
The more benign forms of silver have also been used for many years to kill bacteria and to treat medical problems. The more benign forms of silver are products that use silver in the form of a metal, where the metal has been broken up in very small, or submicron size particles, and then suspended in highly purified water. With this form of silver, the user can obtain the bacteria - killing power of silver and yet not suffer any of the side effects associated with the stronger silver chemicals.
What is the ASAP Solution?
The ASAP Solution is a silver solution, that has a patented process of making the bacteria- killing - yet safe - small particles of silver. The ASAP Solution is the only patented silver product of this kind in the world today. The ASAP Solution is so effective at killing bacteria that even after being diluted to 1/200 of the original 10 ppm level, the ASAP Solution was still able to kill all the bacteria in raw river water in less than 20 minutes. The ASAP Solution has also been proven very safe to use. Even when tested at 200 times the normal adult dosage, the ASAP Solution was found to be completely non-toxic. The ASAP Solution is the only silver solution of this type on the market that has been proven both safe for use and very effective at killing bacteria.
There are thousands of silver solutions on the market today, but there are none that have data that can compare with the ASAP Solution. American Biotech Labs, the manufacturer of the ASAP Solution, has been able to accomplish numerous things that no other silver company has ever been able to accomplish before, including:
Patented: American Biotech Labs ASAP Solution is the only silver solution producer with a product so effective that it was deemed a new product, and therefore approved for patent by the United States Patent Agency. American Biotech Labs' first patent was issued on 4/10/01. American Biotech Labs second patent has already been approved and is currently awaiting issuance. American Biotech Labs' is now the only manufacturer in the world with patents to make this type of silver product. The patents have been filed for patent protection in 95 countries, and the patent has also been filed in Japan.
FDA: American Biotech Labs ASAP Solution is the only silver solution product of this type that has been able to be filed with the FDA for drug approval. American Biotech Labs has already received approval by the FDA to begin testing of the product. The ASAP Solution has been filed for use in both humans and animals.
EPA: American Biotech Labs' ASAP Solution has just passed the US-EPA tests for water treatment and also as a hard surface disinfectant. Tested under worst-case conditions, the ASAP Solution was able to eradicate 177 of 180 strains of Salmonella choleraesuis in less than five minutes. In the testing, the ASAP Solution was also able to kill 179 of 180 strains of both Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas areuginosa in less than 15 minutes. One of the most notable facts of the testing was that the ASAP Solution passed all of the EPA tests at a concentration of just 4.4 ppm, a dilution of 56% from the 10 ppm supplement currently being sold worldwide. One third of the EPA tests were successfully completed with product that was three years old, which has also proven the stability and long-term storage capabilities of the ASAP Solution. The ASAP Solution was able to kill every single strain of the bacteria that it was tested against in the EPA tests, but not all were killed in the allotted time. In total, the ASAP Solution was able to kill 536 of 540 strains of bacteria at the diluted 4.4 ppm level, in just 15 minutes of contact time.
Testing: Numerous independent hospitals, universities and private laboratories have been, and currently are, doing test work on the ASAP Solution as an antibiotic alternative and as a safe, external bacteria killing agent. Test work completed so far includes: antibiotic test comparisons; thousands of tests against many different kinds of bacteria; yeast elimination work; safety and toxicity data; independent tests against other, similar silver products; water treatment tests, etc.
Humanitarian
Aid: The ASAP Solution is the only colloidal silver approved by an international health consortium for use as both an antibiotic alternative in its hospitals and also for use in their water treatment units in Africa, South America, and Asia.
Testing
Thousands of tests have been completed measuring the ASAP Solution's ability to kill problematic bacteria at less than 10 ppm. The independent tests have proven the ASAP Solution very effective at killing bacteria and yeasts, including the following: 60 different strains of Staphylococcus aureus (Pneumonia, eye infections, skin infections boils, impetigo, cellulitis, and post-operative wound infections, toxic shock syndrome, meningitis, food poisoning, osteomyelitis, and many others); E. coli B. (food poisoning); Shigella boydii (violent food poisoning); Salmonella arizona (food poisoning); Salmonella typhimurium (food poisoning, enteric fever); 60 different strains of Salmonella choleraesuis (food posioning); Haemophiles influenzas (flu, ear infections); Klebsiella pneumoniae (pneumonia, meningitis, nosocomial infections--infections spread in hospitals); Klebsiella Oxytoca; 60 different strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (diphtheria-like illnesses, burn and cut infections, meningitis, pneumonia, etc.); Streptococcus pneumonia (pneumonia, meningitis, sinusitis, otitis media-ear infections); Streptococcus pyogenes (strep throat infections, skin infections, etc.); Streptococcus faecalis (urinary tract infections and endocarditis); Streptococcus mutans (a major cause of tooth decay); Streptococcus gordonii (tooth decay, also implicated in infective endocarditis-an infection of the heart valves); Enterobacter aerogenes (wound infections, urinary tract infections, bacteremia, and meningitis); Enterobacter cloacae (wound infections, urinary tract infections, bacteremia, and meningitis); Tuberculosis type B (tuberculosis is the number one human-killing bacteria world wide); S. cerevisiae var Yeast; Montrachet Yeast.
The ASAP Solution has been able to kill every harmful bacteria that it has been tested against so far, at concentrations of 10 ppm.
Jason Henrie, a masters student at UC Davis, after testing the ASAP Solution against a number of yeasts, concluded, It is evident that a single 10 ppm application could prevent the further growth of a small population of yeast for 24 hours, allowing one's immune system time to respond. Even more, multiple 10 ppm applications could conceivably prevent the growth of yeast indefinitely.
ASAP Solution Beats Prescription Antibiotics In Tests
In the second round of testing, Brigham Young University researchers have released new test findings, in which the ASAP Solution was tested against one antibiotic from each of the five major prescription antibiotic groups. In the head-to-head independent tests against 15 different bacteria (like Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, E. coli, Salmonella, etc.), the BYU researchers concluded, The data suggests that American Silverís ASAP Solution exhibits an equal or broader spectrum of activity than any one antibiotic tested.
An Alternative to Antibiotics
At the conclusion to the antibiotic tests, Dr. Ron Leavitt Ph.D. stated, The data suggests that with the low toxicity of elemental silver in general, and the broad spectrum of activity of the ASAP Solution, the ASAP Solution may be effectively used as an alternative to antibiotics.
New Information
American Biotech Labs is constantly striving to gain new and important information on the safety and effectiveness of its product. American Biotech Labs currently has three independent studies and a double-blind clinical trial underway, with several more studies already in the planning stages. Along with Array International, American Biotech Labs management is committed to produce an ever-increasing volume of information backing up it our mineral supplement.
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Silver vs. Antibiotics
To: American Silver, LLC From: David Revelli Brigham Young University The following page contains data from seven strains of potentially pathogenic bacteria. They are the same strains that have been tested in Minimum Inhibitory Concentration tests (MIC) against American Silver's ASAP solution. This data contains, along with the data on the ASAP solution, MIC's performed on each bacteria versus representative of five different classes of antibiotics. These tests were performed to ascertain the relative antimicrobial activity of the ASAP solution when compared to other antibiotics. As the data suggests, the ASAP solution has a greater ability on average to kill the bacteria tested than four of the five antibiotics to which it was compared. Each antibiotic has its own nice to fill, but not one of the antibiotics tested work equally well on every bacterial strain that it was tested against, the ASAP solution had similar results for each bacteria - it was able to kill each bacteria tested. Furthermore, there are antibiotic-resistant strains that may or may not succumb to a given antibiotic. This is where the ASAP solution data comes in-although the ASAP solution may not have inhibited a strain of bacteria at a lower concentration than a given antibiotic, it inhibited every strain of bacteria tested, which is more than can be suggested for some of the other antibiotics, given the data. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration of Antibiotics from Five Different Classes versus ASAP Solution performed by D. Revelli, Brigham Young University
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