Is a higher PPM more effective, or less safe? Is a lower PPM safer, or less effective?
This is a topic that seems to confuse many people, perhaps because many manufacturers circulate very misleading claims in this area. The answers are very straightforward. The only thing that PPM refers to is how concentrated the silver is in the bottle, or, to put it another way, how much the silver in the bottle is diluted in water. It’s really the same as saying “percent concentration” but since the amounts are so tiny, rather than use percent, which is “parts per hundred,” we typically use PPM, which is parts per million. Think of it like the difference between coffee and espresso. Which one will put more mg of caffeine into your body? The answer, of course, is that how much caffeine you’re going to get in your system is not determined by whether you’re drinking coffee or you’re drinking espresso. What matters is how much of it you drink! That’s what determines how many mg of caffeine you’ll get, which is what determines how “effective” it will be and how “safe” it will be! With ion
