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.
Blue Man Seeks Acceptance [ABC30]
]]>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.
]]>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...
]]>STAY SICK!
TURN BLUE!
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.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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
]]>@Zogburn: Really? I assume you mean ROS and not oxygen? And what about RNS?
]]>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.
]]>So in other words you have no idea what you're talking about.
]]>Yes, but again any antibacterial properties of silver are TOPICAL and not when ingested.
@tcabeen:
laffo you're one of "them"
this guy is now my icon. lol.
]]>Actually, you're wrong.
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.
]]>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.
]]>@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.
]]>Ouch!
]]>Colloidal silver is great for topical bacteria killing. We know this. Same sort of thing as bleach.
But... ehrm... we don't drink bleach.
]]>My aunt has used colloidal silver for some time to great (placebo?) effect when she has any major sinus issues pop up(hell, my ENT actually suggested it as an option for me once after surgery, said it'd speed up the healing), but only when needed, and is as pink as ever.
Maybe if I chug some CS and carrot juice every day I can turn green, then yell "ZEKE SMASH" whenever I get mad. That'd be great.
]]>@m4ximusprim3: hey, I'm no silver expert. Silver ions prepared in a certain way (I'm not sure what exactly this is) do have anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties and possibly anti-cancer properties as well. That is they have them in petri-dishes and test conditions and when used as topical disenfectants. I have no idea whether drinking them has any benefits. I was stating my personal opinion in that I'd be surprised if he got skin cancer or a bacterial infection. I'm just saying.
]]>Why did he blue himself? Because he could.
]]>SIGN ME UP!
]]>@testsicles: Not to call you out or anything, but I can't find any conclusive studies on colloidal silver. The best I can find is the quote that dreamwriter just posted about how the FDA has concluded that the risks outweigh the rewards.
Also, he's too bald to be famous and too blue to join the blue man group- fresno is about the only option I can see :)
]]>"Long-term use of silver preparations can lead to argyria, a condition in which silver salts deposit in the skin, eyes, and internal organs, and the skin turns ashen-gray."
"FDA laboratory studies have found that the amount of silver in some product samples has varied from 15.2% to 124% of the amount listed on the product labels. The amount of silver required to produce argyria is unknown. However, the FDA has concluded that the risk of using silver products exceeds any unsubstantiated benefit"
"A 16-year-old boy developed blue-gray pigmentation of his entire body after ingesting a silver-containing dietary supplement for a year. The product, packaged so that it was identical to bottled water. was touted as a preventive for everyday infections"
]]>i figured out that it is my monitor at work which is the reason the color looks gray. but, he looks worse everytime i look at it. how does that make sense?
]]>@jbalsle: OH DAMN YOU NOW IT'S IN MY HEAD.
Haaaaaaaate.
]]>'Cause he aint got nobody to listen: ...
I'm blue (da ba dee)
o/~
Sorry, couldn't resist....
(And you have to respect the music group who has their lead singer abducted by UFOs in the music video. :) )
]]>Let's play how many "Arrested Development" references can we fit into a thread!!!
]]>The silver is antibacterial. Cures sore throat quicker than honey. Great for sinus infections, too, though it's not salinated, so it hurts a bit up in the sinuses.
A few drops every few weeks certainly won't turn you blue.
Colloidal silver isn't the problem. The abandonment of moderation seems to be at fault here...
]]>@uconn: Why wouldn't he? It's got known antibiotic properties, and the only real downside is it might turn you blue. What's he got to lose?
]]>One of the choices to replace the Pope had this condition. He was popular, and while doing missionary work in Africa he had lost an arm and one eye in a plane crash.
But drinking colloidal silver turned his skin purple, destroying his chances to become the new Pope. No-one was ready for "a one-eyed one-armed flying purple papal leader".
]]>i think he looks more grey than blue.
]]>Anyone see a real life blue man's group coming up in about 14 years now?
]]>FRESNO?
]]>[www.youtube.com] go here and watch the smurf video. hilarious.
]]>i bet he can profit off of this somehow. talk show circuit or something.
]]>@num1skeptic: I don't know how long he'll live but I'd be surprised if he died from cancer or a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection.
]]>And I agree, a change is a change. He had to notice it by himself someday or he was really really blind.
"Darling, don't you look a bit... corpsey this morning?"
]]>@testsicles: i wonder how long he'll live for.
]]>I would bet he's immune to skin cancer, he's got like a natural SPF 1000.
]]>@gokor: i'm not arguing that he's blue, tard, just how blue is he really. that how could even he not notice, overtime or not, let alone friends, or clerks at stores he frequents.
i know its hard to let someone be a skeptic, and even harder to be on a thread without bashing someone, but quit looking for an arguement.
i'll save you some time, i win you lose, i'm right you wrong, my dad can beat up your dad, and no amount of insults you could hurl will ever change the way i feel. happy?
]]>@num1skeptic: as far as I understand, the silver ions basically "shred" bacteria, fungi, virus, and maybe even cancer cells. The silver ions, if provided in sufficient quantity create something like 4 or 5 different reactions and processes in the cells. Therefore it's almost impossible to build up a resistance to it. A random mutation may get around 2 processes, or even 3 but a random mutation that perfectly adapts to 5 different processes the silver creates has almost a zero probability.
]]>Someone get Randi!
]]>He's freakin' blue.
]]>@nbenko: actually i thought they did look more blue during the interview. and i'm sure the camera costs more than my house, and therefore if they wanted to turn up the blue (only when he was on the screen) they could.
]]>Da ba de, da ba die....
]]>@testsicles: great name, also, my question is since he has obviously overdosed (overtime) on this, wouldn't that be like taking antibiotics for 14 years? i mean your body will most likely build up a tolerance for it, making it that much worse if you do get sick.
]]>@num1skeptic: i'm pretty sure the folks at abc news would have pro gear; not quite "low grade." these aren't handi-cams they use for this stuff. and look at the rest of the colours in there. nothing else looks blue-tinged.
]]>Specialized silver molecules do actually act as fantastic anti-bacterials, anti-fungis and anti-virals. Not sure if it works the same as drinking it but I don't think anyone can say 100%.
Also, silver is not toxic to humans, even in large quantities, unless you get shot with a silver bullet or drink a bunch of Silver Bullets.
]]>football fans everywhere are going to ditch paint and move for this.
on a different note, paul karason is being sued by the blue-man group.
]]>@kc-guy: lol. if i was him i'd sit really still on my lawn chair in the front yard during winter, and see how many people i could freak out.
]]>La la lalalala....
]]>Where do I get one?
]]>So people are selling toxic heavy metals as a health suppliment these days? What a time to be alive.
]]>is it just me, or does the camera add to his blue-ness. i'm just thinkin they turned up the blue on the camera to make it look more dramatic. this guy claims no one noticed? with the way it looks on camera, he must have never left the house. how could you not see it? unless like i said, the camera makes it look worse.
]]>someone get this man a blanket and a space heater.
]]>i think the color of the video is jacked. not saying he's not blue, but the low grade camera just makes it look worse.
]]>it must suck to have blue balls permanantly
]]>Maybe it wasn't from an infomercial but something that yanks silver from a metal source into water qualifies as "an odd gadget".
Also, it's BECAUSE it's allowed as a legal health supplement by the FDA that this is a consumer issue. He didn't come up with this on his own. He bought a product (making him a consumer) that turned his skin blue when he used it.
Paul moved to Madera about six months ago after living in Oregon. He says too many folks there weren't nice to him.
People gave him shit because his skin turned blue? Damn.
]]>dibs on his cremated remains
]]>Here I thought I had to create multiple accounts.
]]>2) "Paul Kerason's skin is a deep,... purple color" Perhaps he should try coming out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline? /loves DP, sorry had to pick this song for its recognicibility purposes.
@Maude Buttons:
Ha! I love you.
@crnk: Would he have turned blue without the "odd gadget"?
And as to it not being "consumer related news" -- how's your consumer website doing these days?
]]>On the other hand, I suppose it makes that layer of skin quite anti-bacterial...
]]>It's not rude to make fun of Quacks and idiots for being Quacks and idiots.
]]>No. Like the article says, he extracts silver FROM a metal source and puts it INTO the water.
]]>I don't know if I'd be that cheery if something turned me blue..
]]>Add head tentacles and he'd be a twilek.
Hey, is this a permanent condition, or if he stopped, would it go away or fade?
]]>I usually blue myself
]]>(DO SOMETHING!)
Stop...Help...Police...
Take this gentlemen to the squeezing room...
(Oompa Loompa, Doopity Doo...)
]]>Oh, I guess so.
]]>He still drinks it too!
]]>This guy is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Colloidal silver turns people blue, period.
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