It is known that the gentry of society, also called the aristocracy, outlived the peasantry by a vast margin during the centuries of The Plague. Many people connect their culture, which included using sterling cups and bowls, and it does appear that there was some truth to this. With more research it may become very clear that there are health benefits to ingesting colloidal silver.
Better nutrition and being clean is often cited as the reason wealthy outlived poor during this time. While there may be some truth to the benefit of better nutrition, wealthy aristocrats were not all that much cleaner than their peasant counterparts. Due to fears of being accused of witchcraft, all cats were killed in the wealthy houses as well as the poor, and bathing was not regarded as a necessity for anyone.
Their clothing was often much cleaner than their bodies. People at this time had gotten the notion that lice were good luck, and fleas in the bed kept one from having impure thoughts. Leave it to fundamentalist Christianity to bring about a dark age of ignorance, paranoia, and overall backwards thinking.
It was tradition and a sort of vanity of lifestyle which allowed the aristocracy to continue eating and drinking from sterling. People from the Renaissance may have had some knowledge, now lost, telling them that this material promoted good health. However, the unwashed masses of Dark-Age Europe did not knowingly seek to protect their health in this way.
One cannot say that none of the wealthy families within that society fell victim to plague. However, when compared to the peasantry, a greater percentage of the gentry survived the Plague despite having similar habits. Even more telling is the fact that members of the Christian Priesthood who also had the luxury of eating and drinking from sterling, the monks and nuns who tended to victims of both leprosy and plague, survived in a vast larger percentage than the peasants.
As many people lean towards more homeopathic solutions to their health problems, an interest has grown around the methods that people used in the past to maintain health. This has brought many to analyze the habits of people during the Plague, and question why some survived while others did not. Many homeopathic practitioners cite that this metal acts as an agent which aids the blood in fighting bacteria, viruses, and even fungus.
Limited research has been performed, and seems to back up this widely held theory. However, there are no universities willing to provide funding for this research, as it acts in opposition to the wishes of pharmaceutical companies who provide much of their funding. If the pharmaceutical giants are doing active research on this, it is being kept quiet.
The fact is, these attributes are well-established even if they are not accepted openly by any official source. There is little doubt that the pharmaceutical companies themselves probably have something in store as far as research is concerned, for they must be able to synthesize sterling as well as create a monitoring of the dose to make sure the public does not get too healthy. If they do, in fact, find a way to synthesize sterling, they will have either shut Pandora back in a box, or opened several cans of worms.
Better nutrition and being clean is often cited as the reason wealthy outlived poor during this time. While there may be some truth to the benefit of better nutrition, wealthy aristocrats were not all that much cleaner than their peasant counterparts. Due to fears of being accused of witchcraft, all cats were killed in the wealthy houses as well as the poor, and bathing was not regarded as a necessity for anyone.
Their clothing was often much cleaner than their bodies. People at this time had gotten the notion that lice were good luck, and fleas in the bed kept one from having impure thoughts. Leave it to fundamentalist Christianity to bring about a dark age of ignorance, paranoia, and overall backwards thinking.
It was tradition and a sort of vanity of lifestyle which allowed the aristocracy to continue eating and drinking from sterling. People from the Renaissance may have had some knowledge, now lost, telling them that this material promoted good health. However, the unwashed masses of Dark-Age Europe did not knowingly seek to protect their health in this way.
One cannot say that none of the wealthy families within that society fell victim to plague. However, when compared to the peasantry, a greater percentage of the gentry survived the Plague despite having similar habits. Even more telling is the fact that members of the Christian Priesthood who also had the luxury of eating and drinking from sterling, the monks and nuns who tended to victims of both leprosy and plague, survived in a vast larger percentage than the peasants.
As many people lean towards more homeopathic solutions to their health problems, an interest has grown around the methods that people used in the past to maintain health. This has brought many to analyze the habits of people during the Plague, and question why some survived while others did not. Many homeopathic practitioners cite that this metal acts as an agent which aids the blood in fighting bacteria, viruses, and even fungus.
Limited research has been performed, and seems to back up this widely held theory. However, there are no universities willing to provide funding for this research, as it acts in opposition to the wishes of pharmaceutical companies who provide much of their funding. If the pharmaceutical giants are doing active research on this, it is being kept quiet.
The fact is, these attributes are well-established even if they are not accepted openly by any official source. There is little doubt that the pharmaceutical companies themselves probably have something in store as far as research is concerned, for they must be able to synthesize sterling as well as create a monitoring of the dose to make sure the public does not get too healthy. If they do, in fact, find a way to synthesize sterling, they will have either shut Pandora back in a box, or opened several cans of worms.
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