ANCHOR: His name is Paul Karason, and he is – blue.
REPORTER: Believe me, it’s not makeup or paint, Paul Kerason’s skin is a deep, blue, purple color. The 57-year-old started making the transition from fair skin and freckles to this about 14 years ago.
PAUL: The change was so gradual that I didn’t perceive it, and the people around me, likewise, it was just so gradual no one really noticed. It wasn’t until a friend I hadn’t seen in several months came by to my parent’s place to see me and he asked, “What did you do?”
REPORTER: What Paul did is use a substance called colloidal silver, might by extracting silver into water with an electrical current and drinking it. It’s billed as something that will cure just about anything that ails ya, and Paul swears by it.
REPORTER (To Paul): After it turned your skin blue, you’re drinking it.
PAUL: Yes, but much less.
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@salsablaeu: And ions can dramatically increase the levels of free-radicals in the body. I was trying to keep things simple, as not alot of the people who read consumerist have a strong science background.
@CMOWIRE: Actually, anti-oxidants can be helpful, but not in the majority of things that are marketed to help. And while we may not drink bleach, our bodies do produce hypochlorite ions to fight off bacteria.
@duncanfj: I think most Consumerist readers are smart enough to understand how oxygen causes cancer.
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Don’t tell Michael Jackson.
He could get a job on the TV show “King Of Cars” and take over for the current Blue Genie who never sells any cars anyways.
I use a colliodial silver throat spray when I get a sore throat. It’s unreal how fast it works & how much more effective it is than Chloroseptic, Vicks, etc.
@testsicles:
Actually, you’re wrong.
[www.cqs.com]
this guy is now my icon. lol.
@testsicles:
Yes, but again any antibacterial properties of silver are TOPICAL and not when ingested.
@tcabeen:
laffo you’re one of “them”
[www.quackwatch.com]
@testsicles:
So in other words you have no idea what you’re talking about.
He’s like the gum-chewing girl in “charlie and the chocolate factory” that blows up into a giant blueberry after chewing the full-meal gum.
Or one of those villains on Star Trek.
@Zogburn: Really? I assume you mean ROS and not oxygen? And what about RNS?
I can’t get this guy’s face out of my mind, he is giving me nightmares. Please take his picture off the front page. AHHHHH
So one of my late old-lady relatives had this condition, just less dramatically. I think she had been given a drug (antibiotic?) containing a silver compound back in the day (sorry, don’t really know the details). She had very fair skin and was just slightly bluish-grey all the time. Her hair also turned white when she was still quite young but I don’t know if that was related.
I wonder if he’s a NeverNude too.
14 years is a long time time to be taking CS.
I’ve been making own for 3 months, using it topically and drinking it. I think it’s a near-panacea.
My question is; how much CS was Poppa Smurf drinking per day? There is such a thing as over-indulging.
It is interesting to note, however, that there has never been a case of Argyria reported from the use of electro-colloidal silver, free of salts or other impurities.
Argyria, while not being a deadly condition, certainly is undesirable. It is usually caused by the massive intake of silver salts, such as silver nitrate, silver sulfate, and silver chloride.
Hi Harold,
We address the Rosemary Jacobs disinfo story in the introductory notes to our book Silver, The Forgotten Antibiotic which came out in 1998. We even have a few articles put out by CNN in our Silver book II about her when she first appeared on the scene around 1997 I think.
Anyway, she’s a shill for the pharmaceuticals and the AMA Quackbuster gang. She was a poor woman from either West Viginia or Kentucky, can’t remember for sure off the top of my head. Now, she’s a full time debunker against colloidal silver with a big web site. In the late 90′s, the pharmaceuticlas were hauling her around to different doctor’s conventions so she can tell her ghastly tale of the curse of colloidal silver. Do you think she did that without compensation? They , of course, got a big media campaign going behind her, so she her photo showed up in everything from JAMA to major magazines and newspapers.
The only problem is that she’s being misleading and deceptive about her claim, while avoiding any legal liability. She and the people behind her want you to believe that the colloidal silver sold in health food stores, etc. caused her skin problem. That’s not the case at all. She got her condition by taking nose drops of a PROTEIN compund (probably silver nitrate) that contained silver. It is correctly labeled Colloidal Silver Protein or CSP. It’s very important to remember that little detail.
The CSP was prescribed to her by her licenced, orthodox medical doctor and she had to have a prescription to buy it from the drug store, since it was made by a pharmaceutical company. She took it for 35 years if my memory serves me. Since skin is made up of protein, it’s possible for a protein compound containing silver to bond with her skin protein and leave deposits of silver. However, even for the very small percentage of people who use CSP, only a very small percentage actually get Argyria. The condition is EXTREMELY RARE.
The vast majority of people today are using colloidal silver and NOT colloidal silver protein or CSP. Colloidal silver simply contains submicroscopic particles of silver and distilled water and nothing else. It has NEVER been demonstrated that ordinary CS (colloidal silver) causes or can cause Argyria; only CSP can do that. But does Rosemary and the pharmaceutical hacks writing about her explain that to the reader?
They avoid the legal liability by repeatedly refering to Rosemary as having used CSP, without ever defining for the reader what “CSP” stands for. Cute huh?
This single woman, with drug company money behind her, has likely caused MILLIONS of people to back away from ever trying CS because most people can’t think on their own feet and look to authority figures for advice. A single scare story like Rosemary’s will win out 99% of the time over hundreds of positive testimonials lauding the benefits of CS. These people always resort to instilling FEAR as their number one method of debunking any type of alternative medicine.
Know thine enemy and Know the truth, for the Truth shall set you free.
So P. Dipwad Karason basically made hisself immortal (or so he thinks) by making himself immune to disease and infections. He’s gonna live forever, which is an awfully long time to have the whole world point and laugh at you.
Sir, I don’t think you have thought your cunning plan through.
STAY SICK!
TURN BLUE!
I think he is a cute Shiva manifestation. And with that smile what can you say. i guess you are so pragaarmmed you would rather face and communicate with 99% of our current American sufferers without the ability to even smile like that let alone be blue. And of course, I am about the only one out of a handfull of participants to dig into the issue scientifically. All you other idiots are just the very dumb Americans I am talking about. Live on Shiva Smurf, but, use distilled water when making Colloidal Silver, and thereby avoid silver nitrate, silver sulfate, and silver chloride. And, keep the micron size down: Long Live Colloidal Silver and curse the Pharmaceutical Trillion Dollar Rip off Industry…
What color does he turn after eating too many carrots?
@plumn: The more people who can be talked out of using an unproven and idiotic, woo woo “treatment”, the more people we’ll have who respect science and doctors. I can’t see how that’s a bad thing.
@plumn: So… you keep ragging on Rosemary Jacobs as a “shill” when you’re shilling for your own book. You’re a class act.
Hey Ive never been to this site before but I just have to tell you that I think you all need to give him a break. I grew up with this guy & he is super intelligent. He started taking this shit when he was caregiving for his dying parents in Bellingham WA. He is a very private person who doesn’t like publicity at all. How the media got ahold of him is a mystery. He’s private, kind AND blue.
Holy Star Trek! He’s an Andorran!