In the last post I talked about my huge family who was sadly living on the other side of the country from me but who was still involved in my life from day to day. We were close – always close – and I was happy to have whatever advice could be offered me from my aunts, cousins, sisters, brothers, and of course the matriarch of the family – my grandmother. I guess some things just became engrained in our family and the use of colloidal silver has always been something that we just do for our health. It’s a part of our day – like brushing our teeth.

Colloidal silver is the combination of pure silver and distilled water that has been given an electrical charge. It is a completely natural mixture that can be ingested or applied to the skin to treat burns and other skin conditions. In my grandparents’ day colloidal silver was what was prescribed to them by their doctor. There were no antibiotics. Silver was always known as a powerful substance that helps to support the immune system and to promote a healthy body.

Today, we take colloidal silver every day as a way to stay healthy and support our own immune system. I figure something that has worked for my grandparents all this time is good enough for me. And when you come from a family like mine you become part of a lot of traditions. I guess taking colloidal silver is one of our traditions – a tradition of good health handed down generation to generation.

I come from a huge family. You wouldn’t know it to look at my family unit now; it’s just me, my husband, and our son. And because we live on the other coast from my seventeen cousins, and five brothers and sisters, people would just naturally assume that it was just us. But it’s far from just us in spirit. I love having such a large family – the entertainment during meals is enough of a reason. Living so far away has only strengthened my love for them and makes the time that we do spend together so special. But the distance has not stopped their daily involvement in my life; believe me I get more advice on a weekly basis than anyone I know. Not many people can say that their 92-year old grandmother calls to tell them to wear a jacket because she watches their weather report even though she lives on the other side of the country.

One of the great things about having so many generations to turn to for advice is having a different prospective on things. For instance, in our family antibiotics and all the over the counter medications that people turn to like it’s nothing is generally the last thing we will resort to when we’re sick. It’s not that we won’t go to the doctor or take antibiotics if we need them but we’re more apt to try other things first. We have a lot of family remedies that have been passed down from generation to generation. Colloidal silver is something that my grandparents took when they were young and they continue to take today and because of this it has become something that we all take in my family. More in the next post…

Staying healthy isn’t always easy especially when you’re burning the candle from both ends and running around with two little kids that are essentially immersed in germs all day at school. As a young mother I was quickly discovering how much of my immunity was going to be tested simply by taking care of my children day to day. They would get a cold and I would get the flu; anything they got I got ten times worse. It had quickly gotten to the point where I was going to have to think of something or become resigned to being sick most of the school year.

I tried everything that I could think of and anything that was recommended to me – from over the counter medications to prescriptions that my doctor assured would help to make me feel better. And they did. But the problem was that none of these products stopped me from getting sick the next time. It was a constant revolving door of sickness in my house.

But the last thing I tried was what took the cake – colloidal silver. Out of all those products that I tried – all the bells and whistles of the medicine cabinet – it was the natural product that wound up doing the most for me. Colloidal silver is nothing but natural – simply silver and water that have been mixed together and given a positive charge. But my taking colloidal silver on a day to day basis I was finally feeling the strength that I had so desperately sought and the support of my immune system that would allow me to face the world unafraid of every germ.

In the last post I talked about my not-so-stellar history in the health department; about how I continually ran myself ragged and put everything before myself on my priority list. Between the late nights, the unhealthy eating, and the lack of exercise I was ripe for anything that came down the road and was sick far more often than was necessary. Being sick I was good at because at least I took that opportunity to take care of myself and get some rest. But it finally dawned on me that if I just took a few dedicated hours a day to make myself a priority I could save myself days spent on the couch feeling lousy. So I set to work on a new way of life.

My new regime includes dedicated time in the morning and at night during which I am wholly focused on ME. It includes exercise, meditation, stress relief, eating right, and simply doing those things that I enjoy. It has been a great way to refocus my priorities and to take control of my health.

Additionally, while I have used colloidal silver at times when I wasn’t feeling well I have begun to take it on a regular basis. Colloidal silver has always been enormously effective at helping me to feel better – shortening my sicknesses and getting me back on my feet. But it has been equally successful at helping me feel good day to day. Colloidal silver as a part of my regular routine has allowed me to stay strong, stay healthy, and stay proactive.

I have learned a whole lot about prevention in the course of the last couple of years. While life may get the better of me sometimes and I always feel like I’m working three steps back from where I should be, I have learned – the hard way – that it is more than worth it to be proactive; especially when it comes to my health. I have a long history of putting off doctors’ appointments, eating less than healthy, and running around all day to do a list of tasks a mile long without ever doing anything physical for myself. Where has this gotten me? Sick way too often. At which time I wind up on the couch nursing the body that I should have been taking care of all along.

This was the way it used to be. Medication and anything even remotely healthy was reserved for nursing my body back to a state of stability rather than used as a tool to stay healthy all along. Now with a solid eating and exercise plan in place I have been able to change my life for the better. No matter what is going on during the course of the day I always set aside an hour for myself in the morning when I work out, have my breakfast, and get ready for the day; as well as an hour at night when I stretch, meditate, read a book, have some tea, or whatever else calms me from the day and gets me ready for a good night’s sleep.

Another part of my new plan is the use of colloidal silver – something that I had actually been taking when I didn’t feel well but now something that I recognized as a great way to stay on top of my health day to day. More to come in the next post…

In the last post I talked about the nightmare I had found myself facing last year when having taken a job that I thought would provide me with the best challenge – and a salary to match – I found instead my life completely taken over by the stress of such a position. I had no time to myself; in fact the hours that I devoted to the job all but ate me alive and ruined many of my relationships. Worse still was the terrible health that I found myself in when the stress had finally managed to ruin my appetite, sleep, and whatever semblance of immunity that I had left.

When I finally came to my senses and left that job I spent the remainder of the year trying to get well again as well as committing myself to a far less demanding position. I had to relearn to sleep, to eat, to take the time to exercise, and to do those things that would allow me to better manage stress in my life. Meditation and yoga became weekly mainstays in my life as well as the taking of colloidal silver – something that a yoga teacher of mine recommended.

Colloidal silver is the mixture of pure silver particles and water – the entirety of which has been given a positive electrical charge. Silver delivers natural power to the cells where it eradicates bad bacteria and helps support the immune system.

Everything that I did helped to rebuild my health but colloidal silver was chief among the many things that allowed me to get back to myself again.

There are few among us who don’t know the negative impact that a stressful job can have on our overall life. It can spread like a cancer through every part of your existence and darken even the sunniest of days. A year ago I was living the nightmare of just such a situation. I had taken a job that I knew was going to be a far faster pace than I was accustomed to but that would pay me handsomely. Before long, however it became clear what I had gotten myself into; the hours were insane and weekends were non-existent. Every moment of my life – from sun up to sun down became this job and it was destroying everything else that should have brought me peace. My relationships suffered and my health was going down the toilet.

That was the worst part – feeling just as sick physically as I did emotionally. I hardly ate, I never slept, I didn’t have time to exercise, and I was sick all of the time. Forget about taking a day off; I just had to continue onward no matter how ill I was and no matter how exhausted I was.

It finally came to a head and through the worst weeks of my life I made the decision to leave and followed through with that decision. I have made better choices for myself and am just feeling better physically. It took me the better part of a year to regain my strength and colloidal silver was a huge part of that effort. More in the next post…

There’s nothing better than seeing the change you hope for happen right in front of your eyes. When I first began taking colloidal silver I must admit that my expectations were far from high. The only confidence that I really had was in my wife. She is one of the healthiest people I know. She takes really good care of herself – eating well, working out, meditation, going to sleep early; she has always been this way for as long as I have known her. I regret to say that her good habits never really rubbed off on me too much but she has been so patient with me and never once hounded me into doing anything that I didn’t want to do. She figured I would come around to it when it was really important and I did.

It was a cancer scare that finally got me to change my ways. I was so overjoyed at being declared cancer free (when it was looking like it was going to go the other way) that I decided right then and there to make a change in my lifestyle. My wife helped me every step of the way with my eating plan and my fitness routine. It has been difficult but the changes I have seen in my body and the way that I feel have propelled me forward.

My wife is also a strong believer in the powers of colloidal silver – something that she has taken daily for a great many years. I decided that if she thought it was worthy of taking then I would trust her even though I initially had no real belief in such powers. I didn’t think it would do any harm but I didn’t think it would change my life.

However, colloidal silver has me feeling stronger than ever and I am so much less susceptible to colds and other illness than I ever was previously. I guess going forward the rule of thumb will be to listen to my wife!

I am thought of as a cynic among my closest of friends (and probably very small minded among those who are not considered my closest friends). But all I know is this: I do not believe until I see and I am unwavering in this resolution on all fronts. This, of course, absolutely maddens many of my friends and family who are most passionate on a variety of subjects but I am who I am and I can’t help that I am a slave to concrete information.

This was the way it went with colloidal silver – something that a great many of my friends had suggested that I try for years now. You see, my friends are what you would call the natural sort and they are much more inclined to take vitamins and supplements to stay healthy than they are to simply pop a pill when they feel sick. I’m all for anything that makes you feel better but I was not just going to start taking something that I knew nothing about simply because my friends said I should.

This way of thinking, of course, preceded my unhealthiest of years. During this particular twelve month stretch I had every infection, every sickness, and every allergy you could think of – anything that came down the pike I would get. I was unhealthy and spinning in a cycle that I could not break. This was when – with my defenses down and my resolve shaken – I began to take colloidal silver. I didn’t do it blindly, however; I had done my research and found all the information I needed to make an informed decision.

Now, six months after I have started taking colloidal silver I have to say that I am a believer. I feel strong, I feel well, and, most of all, I feel transformed in my thinking.

The flu is ordinarily not something that people struggle with during the summer but I have always been anything but ordinary. I always get sick in the summer. Over the years it has become so expected that it has almost become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I blame this yearly occurrence on the rhythm of the season. With school out and the kids at home our family definitely experiences a lull in activity even though my husband and I are still working. It’s almost as if my body knows that if there is a time to get sick this is it; there is no day to day school routine, no carpooling to extracurricular activities, no projects, no playdates – it’s like I hit the wall and collapse.

Last year about this time I had decided that enough was enough and I was going to take charge of my health and try to be preventative rather than just reactive to a sickness to which I had all but resigned myself. After doing much reading about colloidal silver I decided to give it try and see if I could shake these summer sick blues once and for all.

It was a success. I had some days where I felt less than ideal but it was a much shorter sickness than normal and I was able to recover much quicker. I had laid the groundwork for having a healthier body and felt the rewards almost instantaneously. By taking colloidal silver on a regular basis I was feeling stronger, healthier, and was already showing more resistance to things that would normally have me under the weather.

This summer marks one year taking colloidal silver and my first summer (so far) without a sickness of any kind. I owe it all to starting a healthier routine and taking much better care of myself.