What makes Vulcan Silver such a unique and unstoppable antibacterial and why is it relevant?
The World Health Organisation has called antibiotic resistance 'a major health problem' and it is a 'major threat to healthcare across the globe'. The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that about 2 000 000 Americans are contracting some form or another of antibiotic resistant bacteria causing an estimated 23 000 deaths per annum. So what makes Vulcan Silver an ideal alternative and the only available broad spectrum treatment to drug resistant bacteria? The answer lies in its method of action.
The World Health Organisation has called antibiotic resistance 'a major health problem' and it is a 'major threat to healthcare across the globe'. The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that about 2 000 000 Americans are contracting some form or another of antibiotic resistant bacteria causing an estimated 23 000 deaths per annum. So what makes Vulcan Silver an ideal alternative and the only available broad spectrum treatment to drug resistant bacteria? The answer lies in its method of action.
Bacteria have a cell membrane and a cell wall where animal cells only have a membrane and no walls. Antibiotics in general attack that specific bacterial cell wall preventing synthesis of the cell wall so that it can neither divide or repair itself and the life cycle is halted. With time the bacteria mutate so as to change the cell wall making it impervious to antibiotics and it can continue its lifecycle.
Vulcan Silver on the other hand, through its unique formula specifically target and inhibit the transport of essential ions into the cell by blocking off its transport channels on the bacterial cell wall thus shutting down the flow of essential nutrients (Potassium or Calcium) to the bacterial cell.The cell dies. Animal (human) cells without a cell wall and different transport mechanisms, are essentially untouched.
Upon the death of the bacterial cell the attraction between the protein in the transport channel and the silver is ended and the silver may be released to repeat the cycle.
