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Notes From the Road: Thoughts on Authenticity

Bridge over Table Rock Lake, MO

Bridge over Table Rock Lake, MO

KANSAS CITY, MO – It’s just a few hours before I wing back home after a fly/drive road trip that included time in four different states – Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, and Kansas. Illinois had been on the list, but has been rescheduled. Only sporadic access to a good WI-FI signal and full days of activity favored observation over participation in the flurry of exchanges in the Thought For Food comment forum.

It is almost laughable to see the current “resident skeptic,” “mmsdebunked,” himself a faceless, nameless, anonymous person — in some part of the world — express his doubts about the authenticity of my account of the young lady from Greece, some may remember Maria, who rid herself of HSV1 and HSV2 (herpes simplex virus) over a three-month period, using MMS. This relief, confirmed by lab tests, came after 10 and 2 years of standard and ineffective medical treatment, respectively.

The sheer effort that mmsdebunked has given in an effort to cast doubt and maintain a position of being at odds, over the simple sharing of information, reveals… well I don’t know what it reveals.

I don’t know this man, since he prefers not to subject himself to public scrutiny for “fear” of some form of reprisal – as if anyone cares that he is simply acting as a misinformation shill. Yet, he writes with a mock familiarity, as though he knows MMS, and me.

There is an irony in seeing someone talk as though they know, but coming from a place of NOT knowing. They want so hard to be believed, and make such an effort to appear as though they are knowledgeable, spouting every negative and incorrect or non-relevant interpretation that they can find while talking to people who do KNOW what they’re talking about from first-hand experience.

MMS has so not been “debunked,” that the opposite is actually true. It is being recognized as a superior and grossly under-used disinfectant. Its merits have become so obvious to those who SEE and KNOW that even continuing to portray one’s self as a “debunker” only reveals a disingenuous agenda, and not a desire to help the public.

During my travels, I came to meet and a husband and wife team of health practitioners, Tom and Joy Watson. Tom is a clinical kineseologist, and Joy is a Doctor of Naturopathy (ND), with practices in Healing Tree Health Club, in Blue Eye, Missouri and Osage Health Center, Berryville, Arkansas. They use natural, energetic, non-invasive and non-toxic methods to help their patients restore their health.

Tom and Joy Watson

Health Practitioners Tom and Joy Watson

Both have overcome major illnesses to restore their own health; Tom a debilitating back injury that suddenly took his life and livelihood away and had him in a cast for an extended time, and Joy, fully healed herself of breast cancer, without surgery, without toxic drugs. Not a “survivor,” she thrives once again.

During her healing journey, Joy used MMS. She didn’t stay on it – this was in the days of taking up to 15 drops one or more time daily (since modified to smaller, hourly doses over an 8 hour period each day). Her choice to seek methods other than MMS had to do in large part to the detox itself… which can be an unpleasant experience. While one is going through an MMS-induced toxin release, it may not be evident that it is (1) temporary, and (2) helpful. In addition, early MMS users were most often lone wolves, with very little in the way of familial or medical support.

Dr. Watson acknowledged to me that MMS is a superior antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal product, that warrants more study on how to give patients the best results and the best experience. Given its wide availability – derived from an unprocessed salt (sodium chlorite) and low cost, it could dramatically impact both the results as well as the economics involved in health care today, rendering a multitude of marginally effective, metabolically damaging pharmaceutical medications useless.

I am not saying that MMS is the only thing that works, because it is not. I’m saying that it provides a vital and viable therapeutic function on polluted human physiologies, as evidenced by the results that so many people are reporting.

You can bet that IF pharmaceuticals did offer superior results than MMS, (1) they would be quick to prove it, and (2) we’d not be spending this time talking about using MMS, or (3) see federal agencies trying to dissuade the public from using it.

I did not go there to talk to them about MMS. Our conversation about it was over breakfast that Joy prepared on their beautiful 65 acre property on a mountain top just outside of Berryville, Arkansas. Their Osage Natural Health Center is also on the property. They showed me some of the other tools that they use, which I have captured on camera and will be in upcoming articles.

At home with Jeffrey Smith

At home with Jeffrey Smith

Yet, it is amazing to go places and meet people who have not only heard of, but are using, or know someone who is using MMS, such as Jeffrey Smith’s wife, Andrea. Jeffrey is the author of Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette. I interviewed him at their home in Fairfield, Iowa. Great, down to earth, genuine, and caring people.

For 15 years Jeffrey has traveled the world calling attention to the true dangers of genetically modified (GMO) foods, dangers that the Food and Drug Administration claims to have “seen no evidence of.” The more truthful statement would be to have admitted no evidence of harm, because evidence exists that they were informed about but chose to ignore such warnings and silence the whistle blowers.

Jeffrey founded the Institute for Responsible Technology to help raise public awareness of how pervasive GMO products are, and how to inform yourself, since neither the information released, nor policies issued by said federal agencies can be relied upon to work in the public’s behalf. If there is an “erring” by the agency, it is on the side of the industries that feed them.

Yet, who feeds the industries? Is it not you and me?

No one has any obligation to “stand up” for MMS unless they want to, or “prove” that it works to skeptics. There is such a thing as natural skepticism, but it’s not a place where anyone with an open mind takes up residence. People who need someone else to “prove” a concept to them are simply wasting their own time, and the energy of anyone who tries to convince them.

If your own energy, research, and intelligence isn’t part of how you go about deciding what modalities work for you, then you’re not really trying to learn anything, because such methods won’t yield any useful understanding.

Understanding isn’t the most important thing to people who are dealing with chronic diseases either; results are. I would go to Tom and Joy Watson any day because they have taken journeys that most medical doctors – if left to their training – never successfully work their way from. They are happy and healthy, and are helping their patients restore their health too… the happiness, as well as the healing is always, up to you.

I’ll be sharing more, but now it’s time to take another flight home.

A Little Good News Amid Much Fear

With all the fear and panic going around related to the possible effects of nuclear radiation, let me break up the angst with a little mundane good news.

A young lady from Greece visited this blog in December 2010, looking for some guidance as to how to use MMS to help eradicate an HSV1 and HSV2 (Herpes Simplex Virus) condition that has persisted for 10 and 2 years respectively. Preferring to keep her situation “private,” we exchanged occasional emails; she or me asking questions, and she or me answering them.

Then silence.

The other day I received an email from her… she had just received lab test results that confirmed she was VIRUS FREE! She becomes one more who KNOWS that MMS disinfection WORKS.

The fear and panic that so many people are demonstrating these days, comes from YEARS of using APPROVED, but medically ineffective treatments and methods.

It is time that we began favoring EXPERIENCED RESULTS over peer-reviewed, but meaningless OPINIONS.

It’s clear that we have much to learn about nature. Our problems escalate when we spend so much energy discrediting solutions that come from unconventional or even unconfirmed sources, while continuing to rely on ineffective, even harmful methods that come from “trusted” sources.

There is likely a way to safely remediate the nuclear toxicity threat that Japan and the rest of the world faces.

You almost have to wonder, if anyone other than a group of acknowledged “peers” brought it to the world’s attention, would anyone listen?

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I’m about to take to the road for memorable journey, this time over a week-long sojourn that includes trips to Branson, Missouri, Fairfield, Iowa, and South Beloit, Illinois.

I have to get ready for my flight, but I’ll have more to say as the journey commences.

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It was a pleasure to be invited to be a guest on the John Barbour program. The time appeared to pass very quickly.

My side of the Barbour interview. [03/03/2011]

Video allows more information to be shared per moment experienced. Since it wasn’t possible to visit him in Las Vegas and do the interview in person, I did the next best thing… record it on camera from my side.

An MMS Potpourri

It is ironic how we have made distrust of personal experience the rule rather than the exception, in an attempt to give dominion to professional biases and impersonal conjecture over outcomes that really happened. This appears to be the modus operandi of critics of MMS. It’s not limited to MMS though… it applies to virtually any method that can be shown to mitigate many of the consequences of current social and medical thinking. Personal experience, a priceless guide, has been dubbed “anecdotal,” is routinely discounted or dismissed if it differs from the norm. The maverick approach is not to be believed unless a group of elite “peers” have studied the subject and given it their blessing. Furthermore, a publication… another elite one, must decide to publish the information.

Such thinking has brought us to where we are; at a crossroad.

All of these learned individuals are beholding to someone — personal or impersonal — who facilitates their ability to buy groceries, pay their rent, mortgages, auto loans, medical bills, put their children through school, and support their personal quirks. All are servants of the Money god, to which intelligence, honor, compassion, and humanity often takes a back seat to budget limitations, supply issues, and political expediency. Under these circumstances, objectivity is the first casualty. Truth may then be seen through a biased lens… that is, if it is ever seen at all.

This form of impersonal logic often shows itself in conversations with MMS detractors. The amazing results of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people are dismissed by apparently intelligent critics who have not exercised the courage to look into it on their own, forming a knowledge-based opinion, or respect the people who have. They hide behind initials and credentials that imply they (or their peers) know what they’re talking about, even when evidence of such knowledge is nowhere to be found.

Instead of being joyful at the specter of actually finding viable answers (including MMS or others) – that may be right under our noses to a wide spectrum of ailments that have robbed so many of their health, vitality, financial security, and their lives — we hear skepticism, consternation, personal judgment, misinformation, and disbelief. Furthermore we see disinterest in confirming the positive claims. The only interest the agencies and the critics have shown is in dissuading more use (even with misinformation), and going after sellers of the product.

Yet, the positive buzz continues.

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andreas_kalcker

I had a wonderful conversation yesterday, via Skype, with Andreas Ludwig Kalcker. He is a German researcher who, after using MMS to mitigate a medical condition of his own, began researching it himself, has personally introduced it to various parts of Africa, and envisions producing a documentary series in which MMS is looked at in the context to a greater look at our current practices of, and attitudes toward health care.

I’m pleased to be invited to be part of this undertaking.

Andreas also took umbrage to the Gabriela Segura slam of MMS, as I did. I got a copy of it the other day, and will share here. While fluid in English, it’s not his first language, so he’s pretty direct in his writing.

My name is Andreas Ludwig Kalcker and after reading this article i had no choice than to answer….i am researching 2 years from now on ClO2 related health issues on scientific bases, and definitively this Article is equal to: “The earth is Flat syndrome…….

Enjoy:

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Many people do not know that MMS is essentially bleach. – GS


Is a wrong Statement and lack of chemical knowledge!

it is used to potabilize drinking water without cancerous trihalomethanes for more than 100 years now
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142001-093734/unrestricted/thesis.pdf

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In truth, the potential long-term and dangerous side effects of regular MMS use should give anyone the shivers. – GS


What long term side effects? ClO2 disintegrates when oxidizing to oxygen and salt !!!! nothing else.

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Before we continue, an important lesson on oxidation and free radicals is needed, Oxygen is an essential element that supports life, but in the wrong place or at the wrong time, oxygen can wreak much havoc on our cells, causing cancer, contributing to cardiovascular disease, degenerative diseases, and aging through a process called oxidation.You have seen the effects of oxidation whenever you have observed an apple turn brown and go bad after being exposed to air, or when you see the flame of a candle. – GS

Wrong again !!!:
The free radicals theory is a postulate from Denham Harman in 1958 !!!

The oxidative capacity of oxygen is 1.3V and the mitocondria can handle this very good, but Ozone has an oxidative potential of 2.07V and is too strong and would do harm. Clo2 has only 0.97V and Can not harm our cells due to too low electron potential. Oxidative stress is proven to elongate lifespan! Free radicals = electric potential, the voltage counts! 12V is not the same as 220V

The free-radical theory of aging (FRTA) states that organisms age because cells accumulate free radical damage over time. A free radical is any atom or molecule that has a single unpaired electron in an outer shell. While a few free radicals such as melanin are not chemically reactive, most biologically-relevant free radicals are highly reactive. For most biological structures, free radical damage is closely associated with oxidative damage.

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Oxidation can even cause debilitating changes to your DNA. – GS

Wrong again:
The scientific proof :

Glucose Restriction Extends Caenorhabditis elogans Life Span by Inducing Mitochondrial Respiration and Increasing Oxidative Stress

Tim J. Schulz1, 2, Kim Zarse1, Anja Voigt1, 2, Nadine Urban1, Marc Birringer1 and Michael Ristow1, 2, Go To Corresponding Author,

1 Department of Human Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition, University of Jena, D-07743 Jena, Germany
2 German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, D-14558 Nuthetal, Germany

· Summary

· Increasing cellular glucose uptake is a fundamental concept in treatment of type 2 diabetes, whereas nutritive calorie restriction increases life expectancy. We show here that increased glucose availability decreases Caenorhabditis elegans life span, while impaired glucose metabolism extends life expectancy by inducing mitochondrial respiration. The histone deacetylase Sir2.1 is found here to be dispensable for this phenotype, whereas disruption of aak-2, a homolog of AMP-dependent kinase (AMPK), abolishes extension of life span due to impaired glycolysis. Reduced glucose availability promotes formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), induces catalase activity, and increases oxidative stress resistance and survival rates, altogether providing direct evidence for a hitherto hypothetical concept named mitochondrial hormesis or “mitohormesis.” Accordingly, treatment of nematodes with different antioxidants and vitamins prevents extension of life span. In summary, these data indicate that glucose restriction promotes mitochondrial metabolism, causing increased ROS formation and cumulating in hormetic extension of life span, questioning current treatments of type 2 diabetes as well as the widespread use of antioxidant supplements.

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By now, you should understand why anti-oxidants are so important,…This is the reason why we are fond of so many antioxidants such as vitamin C, E, carotenoids, resveratrol, taurine, coenzyme Q10, and melatonin, to name but a few. – GS

Wrong again:
The scientific proof:

Almost 70 clinical trials with more than 230,000 participants have shattered the supposed benefits of antioxidant supplements. A review published in the journal ‘The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)’ reveals that not only beneficial, but that beta-carotene and vitamins A and E slightly increase the risk of mortality.

“Our findings contradict the claim that antioxidants improve health. Given that between 10% and 20% of the adult population in North America and Europe consume the products evaluated, the public health consequences may be substantial “, say the authors, from the Hospital of Copenhagen (Denmark).
more links ( spanish):
http://www.doctorperu.com/articulo-510-consumir-suplementos-antioxidantes-resulta-nocivo-para-la-salud.php
http://www.madrimasd.org/informacionidi/noticias/noticia.asp?id=29546

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The toxic effects of chlorine dioxide are associated with those of sodium chlorite - a very strong oxidant that at a dose of is considered to be lethal. – GS

10-15 grams of a lightweight gas is really a lot!!!! 70 grams of table salt are deadly too !!!
the scientific DATA:

Controlled clinical evaluations of chlorine dioxide, chlorite and chlorate in man.

Lubbers JR, Chauan S, Bianchine JR.

To assess the relative safety of chronically administered chlorine water disinfectants in man, a controlled study was undertaken. The clinical evaluation was conducted in the three phases common to investigational drug studies. Phase I, a rising dose tolerance investigation, examined the acute effects of progressively increasing single doses of chlorine disinfectants to normal healthy adult male volunteers. Phase II considered the impact on normal subjects of daily ingestion of the disinfectants at a concentration of 5 mg/l. for twelve consecutive weeks. Persons with a low level of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase may be expected to be especially susceptible to oxidative stress; therefore, in Phase III, chlorite at a concentration of 5 mg/l. was administered daily for twelve consecutive weeks to a small group of potentially at-risk glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient subjects. Physiological impact was assessed by evaluation of a battery of qualitative and quantitative tests. The three phases of this controlled double-blind clinical evaluation of chlorine dioxide and its potential metabolites in human male volunteer subjects were completed uneventfully. There were no obvious undesirable clinical sequellae noted by any of the participating subjects or by the observing medical team. In several cases, statistically significant trends in certain biochemical or physiological parameters were associated with treatment; however, none of these trends was judged to have physiological consequence. One cannot rule out the possibility that, over a longer treatment period, these trends might indeed achieve proportions of clinical importance. However, by the absence of detrimental physiological responses within the limits of the study, the relative safety of oral ingestion of chlorine dioxide and its metabolites, chlorite and chlorate, was demonstrated.

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The popularity of MMS and its fervent, almost religious marketing involved the claim of curing malaria in tens if not hundreds of thousands of people. Sounds very noble indeed, but this is only natural as MMS’ sodium chlorite is well known to cause hemolysis in red blood cells - meaning that red blood cells are ruptured and destroyed. It is actually by killing red blood cells that the malarial parasite is killed since it invades red blood cells. – GS

Wrong as usual,
the scientific Data:

Chlorine dioxide and hemodialysis.

Smith RP, Willhite CC.

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03756.

Abstract

In the United States chlorination of potable water supplies has been the standard method of disinfection for about 75 years. In recent times concern has been raised about the propensity of chlorination to introduce potentially carcinogenic trihalomethanes (THM) such as chloroform into finished water.. The levels of THM introduced depend on many factors including the quality of the raw water. Numerous community water treatment facilities are experiencing difficulty in meeting current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards, and it is likely that the permissible levels may be lowered in the future. An alternative to chlorination which does not generate THM during disinfection is chlorine dioxide, but there are concerns about the acute and chronic toxicity of ClO2 and its disinfection by-products, chlorite and chlorate. Deleterious effects of moderately high levels of these oxychlorines have been demonstrated experimentally on red blood cells, thyroid function, and development in laboratory animals. Adverse effects in controlled prospective studies in humans and in actual use situations in community water supplies have as yet failed to reveal clear evidence of adverse health effects. Among groups who may be at special risk from this suggested alternative are patients who must undergo chronic extracorporeal hemodialysis. The special needs, precautions, and experience to date in regard to finished water are reviewed. Again, very limited human experience has failed to reveal adverse health effects. Further study, caution, and extreme vigilance are indicated, but dialysis patients in carefully controlled facilities may be at no greater risk than the general population.

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FDA advises consumers to stop using MMS immediately and throw it away. – GS

Microcyn Technology has a FDA aproved CLO2 product
http://www..oculusis.com/us/technology/
Basically the same product as MMS …….

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In short, MMS should NEVER be a health treatment, alternative or otherwise! – GS

THIS IS TRUE…..
SINCE YOU CAN NOT PATENT A MINERAL SALT ( NACLO2) OR CITRIC ACID
YOU Can MAKE NO MONEY AS A BIG-PHARMA-PRODUCT AND WORSE OF ALL….
IT CAN CAUSE ” SPONTANEOUS REMISSIONS” OF MANY EVEN LIFE-THREATENING DISEASES!

( RESEARCH bY Andreas Ludwig Kalcker an affected person with spontaneous remissions on all his diseases)
Please give this article to any MMS consumer. They have the right to know what is going on within their bodies - and DNA - when they take this Trojan Horse!

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While Andreas and I were talking, we were oblivious to the event that was unfolding in Japan… although it became obvious as the day unfolded.

As I heard reporters mention how safe drinking water can quickly become a challenge, I decided to shoot this short video.

Short tips using chlorine dioxide to make potable drinking water.

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My conversation with John Barbour went well. We even talked about MMS, in the second half of the show.

You can listen by going to www.realpeopleradio.com and selecting the 03/09/11 podcast. I also had my video camera going, and have combined the audio from the podcast, so that it can somewhat experience it from my perspective.

I will provide a link here of the 45 minute piece as soon as it is available online.

More to come…

Sircus On MMS: A Response

Little bottle with the big drops.

Little bottle with the big drops.

You had to know that the new article by Mark Sircus, Magical Mineral Supplement (MMS), would be brought to my attention. Since I’m on his mailing list, I was aware of it already. And why not? While I don’t really treat anyone, or even advise people for a living, I have had a thing or two to say about MMS. And yes, I have a thing or two to say about Mark’s opinion.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but some people believe that their opinion is truth; not just truth, but the absolute, unquestionable truth, one that everyone else should live by.

I’m not saying that this applies to Mark, as much of what he writes — one of his works being so important that I became his first publisher — rings quite true to me. But even then, it’s only true until we learn something new; that is, if we’re open.

Where it relates to MMS, Mark and me are of differing minds. Anyone who has read my rebuttals to articles on MMS by Gabriella Segura and Jonathan Campbell, are pretty clear where my differences lie, so I won’t parse Mark’s article line-by-line, as he relies strongly on Dr. Segura’s misanthropic musings, to make his (or her) point.

While I make a modest income from sales of my documentary on MMS, I am not a member of Jim Humble’s church; a point that he respects. My opinions are my opinions too. I don’t purport to speak for Jim, who will not hesitate to give you his opinion.

While the church thing isn’t for me, I believe that Jim Humble has done the world a great service in bringing this approach to the preparation, deployment and use of chlorine dioxide to our awareness. If it were not effective, it would have been evident a long time ago. It is fascinating that the loudest voices in opposition to the medicinal use of chlorine dioxide are the ones who have studied it with disdain and suspicion, know the least about its therapeutic behavior, and have committed themselves to currying the public’s disfavor against its use.

MMS must be a threat to something, don’t you think? If the Alphabet Agencies had a track record of providing reliably beneficial information to the public on health matters, then their warnings against the use of MMS would have some credence. However, the burden of truth applies to all. The public can tell the difference between THM (trihalomethane) producing, as in chlorine, and non-THM-producing, as in chlorine dioxide. Even if the FDA and Dr. Segura don’t appear to be able to tell the difference, it hasn’t escaped notice.

I don’t believe Mark Sircus is intentionally lying to his audience. I believe he’s relying on others’ opinions and recommendations. However, “there are holes in them thar opinions!”

All this turmoil over MMS only leads me to respect Jim Humble’s fortitude and resolve to write, articulate and explain the potential of chlorine dioxide through his book that much more. Who would knowingly want to subject themselves to such criticism? Yet, one day, I believe history will look kindly on what he did, and the acrimony that clouds some current conversations about MMS will be long forgiven and forgotten.

Seeing what Humble was getting at after doing research of my own, I have given my energy to explaining what I’ve seen, experienced, and learned. MMS has helped many people, as others are now helping others do the same thing, in the same spirit. Approaching the completion of his 80th time around the sun, he has not slowed down.

While it doesn’t mean Jim Humble’s protocol is a panacea, there is clearly something to MMS/chlorine dioxide. Instead of arguing about how much better something else is (even though one doesn’t know or believe how good the criticized product can be), we should be learning as much as we can how to use MMS in the best way. This does not invalidate anything else that also works.

Instead, the FDA is all up in arms at how “dangerous” MMS is. Yet, they are so comfortable with transgenic, or genetically modified food products, that they’re not simply allowing producers to enjoy undifferentiated labeling, they’re been attempting to block, yes, actually prevent producers from saying that their products are GM-FREE. (See article.)

Below is what true-in-labeling regarding GM products, looks like… in The Netherlands. Imagine that happening in your country, if it doesn’t already exist.

The next best thing to NOT having GMO products.

Beyond GMO labeling policy, the agency has given the green light and its blessings for the public to purchase and consume seafood from the “Corexit® seasoned,” Gulf of Mexico. Yet, Sircus, Segura, et al, turn a blind eye to the consistent, anti-health thinking that is behind these policies, holding their noses while they suggest that the Agency is right on MMS. Chemical science doesn’t support their description of chlorine dioxide behavior, especially at the scaled down levels that MMS is used at, and the results just don’t support their claims of danger, when used as recommended.

Critics claim danger because they haven’t used MMS themselves, and seem to take greater “humbrage” at the product’s progenitor, i.e., the crusty, but genuine to the core, Jim Humble, who is no Jim Jones.

For all the cries of “danger!” MMS’ detractors have mostly conjecture and misinformation about chlorine (transposing chemical behavior of chlorine and chlorine dioxide), to hang their authoritative hats on.

The problem is exacerbated when MMS critics are unwilling to acknowledge that the buzz that has proliferated since Humble went public might actually be legitimate. Instead, they accuse him of selling “snake oil;” a claim that some might have even brought against Sircus when Transdermal Magnesium Therapy was published. Fortunately, neither Mark nor I, as the original book’s editor, designer, and publisher, cared about that then.

(I am about to step down from that title as Mark prepares to rollout the second edition of the book, which looks beautiful!)

It is ironic that magnesium oil (MgCl2), and the byproduct of MMS activation, chlorine dioxide (ClO2), share the same binding element in chlorine. Yet, we have come to look upon chlorine as an evil element unto itself.

In actuality, we don’t appreciate how vital the elements are. That is what riled me about Dr. Segura’s piece. If you read it, you’d be afraid of oxygen, perhaps of taking too deep a breath. Everything that she said was bad, was real bad.

In Mark’s book, an entirely different appreciation for the metabolic process is engendered.

Chloride is required to produce a large quantity of gastric acid each day and is needed to stimulate starch digesting enzymes. Using other salts is less advantageous because these have to be converted by the chlorides by the body anyway.

Many aging individuals, especially with chronic diseases who desperately need more magnesium cannot produce sufficient hydrochloric acid and then cannot absorb the oxide or carbonate. – Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy

Perhaps it is not the presence of chlorine, but the molecular form and combination that is important… also, it might not be what is there, but what is not there, such as trace minerals, to accompany the chlorine.

MMS, which starts its life as a form of unprocessed salt, sodium chlorite (NaClO2), appears to be converted into an ionized form when dissolved in water after the acid “activator” is introduced. If Mark’s statement above is correct, it looks like the body has a need for the ionic chloride as well as the oxygen that has been liberated from the sodium, a metabolic “win/win” situation.

It could also be that, since the salts are unprocessed, additional minerals, which are oftentimes processed out as “impurities,” may be metabolically active in a significant and beneficial way. This is conjecture on my part, but the positive results that people have reported can’t continue to be dismissed away.

What does this have to do with MMS? Nothing.

What does this have to do with MMS? Nothing.

An impression is given that any chlorine is “bleach,” and therefore, dangerously harmful. Yet, chlorine, or its ionic component, chloride, is necessary for many metabolic activities. You can’t get a chloride without chlorine.

It goes even deeper. Take a look at chlorine ion levels – one of the electrolytes that the body needs – in blood plasma and interstitial fluids.

Notice the electrolytes in the body.

Notice the electrolytes in the body.

Looks like chloride ions are important when converted to a form that is bio-beneficial. Results might give us a better clue than fears over what might happen.

In the absence of clinical trials, what is wrong with evaluating the results that people have actually reported, both good and bad? Mice and rats can’t tell us the real story of what they’ve gone through, but we base a lot of science on empirical information gleaned from such tests. People can say exactly what did, and didn’t happen to them, to the plus as well as the negative; yet, the FDA and Jonathan Campbell, in their calls for reports on MMS, only asked for negative information, with no interest in positive. Mark also chose to only post three sad stories, to support an opinion that MMS is bad for you.

Chlorides which, according to Dr. Mu Shik Jhon’s The Water Puzzle and the Hexagonal Key, are structure-breaking (as in water) ions. Magnesium is also among the elements that tend to break down the hexagonal structure in water clusters, to a pentagonal order. This doesn’t make either of them “bad”. Indeed, we can’t have life without either, and cannot have health if they are not both present, in proper balance and proportion. When both oxygen (O2) and magnesium (Mg) bind with chlorine ions, beneficial things happen in the body.

If a person is chronically ill, then the balance and proportion in the mineral elements (ions) is already out of whack. Therefore, one way of determining the efficacy of any treatment modality is does it work, and if so, how well?

Gulf Coast MMS Calamity

I have had lengthy telephone conversations with two people in the Gulf Coast who, after 2010′s BP oil spill, used products distributed by the Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors, to help residents who were coming down with a myriad of ailments. The recipe was clearly conceived, prescribed, and blessed by Chef Sircus. The bottom line; they did not provide relief, much to the consternation and belligerence of the products’ proponents, who had hoped for a favorable report by some of the most prominent voices in the Gulf, which did not happen.

Wil Spencer, The Body Electrician

Wil Spencer stepped in, reaching out to some of the same people, and presented a package that included MMS, which he re-branded as Advanced Oxygen Therapy. I said, included; but not limited to MMS. Nonetheless, when his protocol and telephone assistance brought longed for relief to one of the most visible and vocal residents of the area, it started such a firestorm, rife with outrage, accusations and innuendo, that she was led to feel misled and betrayed, by the very people whose answer had not helped her gain relief.

At the end of the day, she was unsure as to what really had helped (although she was sure what had not). She still did not feel free to share her good news with the Gulf Coast community, even though they could indeed benefit; not by MMS alone, but with an effective way to reduce the chemical overload.

Spencer was attacked editorially by Debra Dupre (www.examiner.com) in one of her articles. Anyone that has had even an inclination to say that MMS had helped them publicly, immediately became targets of slander and ridicule.

Tullio Simoncini

Dr. Tullio Simoncini

I have recently come to know a man here in Arizona, who has not only met Tullio Simoncini himself, who wrote that cancer is a fungus, but has taken his sodium bicarbonate therapy for a cancer condition. It didn’t work for him. This man had the wisdom and grace not to demean Dr. Simoncini, or claim that his protocol was suspect, which cannot be said for many of his own colleagues in the medical profession, who hung him out to dry.

The lack of personal success in using MMS doesn’t invalidate it as a viable, and even beneficial detox tool when used as recommended. It also doesn’t mean that there aren’t alternatives.

Some of the factors that make MMS further consideration and expanded medical use are:

  • Readily Available – no shortage of sodium chlorite
  • Inexpensive – No need to pay hundreds or thousands to help get trash out of the body
  • Natural – it is a salt, not a man-made chemical whose sole intent was or is to kill
  • Superbug proof – chlorine dioxide is proven to be effective on MRSA after standard medications proved to be of no value
  • Compatible – works with other natural agents, and denatures the unnatural ones.
  • Improves Electrical Conductivity – being a form of unprocessed salt, MMS helps facilitate a cellular “reboot” within the body, even as it breaks down or eliminates bio-electrical shorts.
  • Delivers Oxygen – Oxygen can’t be patented, otherwise Monsanto would have tried to genetically modify it. As such, when body is low on oxygen, it is low on energy. Yet, when MMS is taken, charge does happen.
  • High Dosing Variability – An individual can go as fast, or slow as they dare with MMS. There is much flexibility with oral dosing, as well as many ways of intake that don’t require swallowing, such as transdermally, through the skin. This is one reason for genuine care and caution when using it, because…
  • A LITTLE Goes LONG way – you use a small number of drops of MMS. We have grown accustomed to thinking that, if a little of something will help, the a little more will help more. It is sometimes better do use less of something that you know is helpful, rather than more. The art is in discerning when it is best to do what.
  • Water Delivers Ions – without requiring the energy to break down molecular products, MMS dissolved in water, naturally ionizes, turning the elements that it contains into information and energy.

Wil Spencer’s regimen didn’t rely only on MMS. He used other supplements intended to restore balance; which is, in fact, the intention of the Sircus regimen presented by the Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors. However, healing is a personal journey, and instead of remaining in the “either/or”, “right/wrong,” “mine or theirs” mode of thinking, the well-being of the person seeking to heal should be put above opinions; mine or anyone else’s.

With the number of MMS users now in the millions, it is simple head-in-the-sand thinking that would prompt a person to say there’s no evidence that MMS is helpful. Yes, a few people claim to not have healed themselves. They tend to be sketchy with details, and very ready to argue for the damage they’ve sustained, all the while maintaining their anonymity.

For anyone who didn’t get the memo, the case in the death, in August 2009, associated with MMS intake, was closed, well over one year later, after the media and FDA had had a chance to make specious claims without any burden of proof against its use. The coroner in Vanuatu could no longer keep the case open, because there was no evidence of what these agencies were desperately trying to prove.

The predominant tenor in the results that people who have used MMS have reported, is a consistent improvement in oftentimes long-standing chronic and degenerative conditions. Chlorine dioxide is the water treatment method of choice, considered superior to chlorination – for hundreds of cities around the world. Only a precious few are in the U.S.

Yet, for all the cries of danger at the specter of taking MMS, there is a very conspicuous silence over the damage that is being done day in, and day out, through standard predominant water treatment practices. Blame the problems that society is coping with, on a product most of society hasn’t taken, and yet raise money for “cures” for problems that this new product is showing itself to resolve.

That, my friends, is the American Way.

Does this make MMS the answer in all situations? No. It would be foolish to think so. On the other hand, it is utter foolishness to ignore and disrespect the results reported by people who have actually used MMS through suppositions posited by people who have not, or who used it only enough to get their feet wet. A true scientist is not afraid to use his or her product.

Even though we have never met in person, Mark Sircus and I go back quite a few years, over a decade. I don’t believe that it was by accident that it happened. No matter where he goes from here – and I wish him all the best – I will, in this life, be the one who brought his first book, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, into printed form, turning it from a Microsoft Word file, into a breakthrough resource on magnesium.

I have done a similar feat with MMS… not as a proponent of Jim Humble, although he is now a friend, but as a proponent of something that works as described, in a time where kept promises oftentimes remain inconveniently and sadly, out of mind’s reach.

Chicken Little Revisited: ‘MMS is Falling!’

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I’m going to begin this lengthy post with gratitude to Jonathan Campbell for writing his article, What is Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS), and Why is it Dangerous? Mr. Campbell is a health consultant, whose motto is helping people take charge of their health. You may have guessed that he and I presently are not in agreement as to the dangers that are posed by MMS, but he presents his thoughts with such conviction, it’s quite possible that some people will take them on face value. That’s what millions of people do with their doctors these days while their health continues to decline. I have no problem listening to, or taking an expert’s advice, as long as I feel it represents the best available understanding on the subject.

Unfortunately, from the research that I’ve done, Mr. Campbell’s representation of MMS is full of holes. Since these variances from the truth are so glaring, it is almost perplexing to understand why such lengths would be taken, if his concerns were genuine. I’ll let you decide for yourself.

His statements are indented and italicized.

Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS) is being touted on the Internet as a natural antibiotic and cure-all for a wide range of diseases and afflictions: colds and flu (including swine flu), malaria, cancer, “HIV & AIDS,” fungus, and, more recently, autism. But MMS is actually a synthetic industrial chemical - it is a concentrated (28%) chlorine bleach - sodium chlorite. When MMS is “activated,” it creates CLO2, chlorine dioxide, a very strong chemical oxidizer and bleaching agent. CLO2 is the active molecule in many water purification systems. It does kill germs, but it is toxic. If you ingest it in the concentrations recommended, it can cause you direct harm.

I talked about this paragraph on my radio show.

  • I did a short video on the concentration, and by the time you ingest activated MMS, it is around 0.00166389% if drank in 3 oz of water. The dilution would be even higher if more water is used to wash it down.
  • He claims MMS is “toxic,” but what does that mean? Heavy metals in the body are toxic, but go down after taking MMS. How can anything that will reduce toxicity levels be labeled toxic itself? He doesn’t warn people against heavy metals, which can cause direct harm.
  • If you drink MMS directly from the bottle, it would be caustic, but even that wouldn’t be toxic. It should be handled with care and awareness, but not fear.

It’s not that chlorine dioxide is toxic, as in poisonous. The need for caution is in determining the best dosing method (via drinking, osmotic through the skin, sprayed on and rubbed in, vapors, etc.), and amount.

Jim Humble has worked out a framework by which to beneficially use chlorine dioxide inside the body. The specifics, of what works best for the individual, are best to be worked out by the individual, hopefully with the assistance and/or guidance of his health care professional. This includes the guidance of one’s own Inner Wisdom. This is something we’re not practiced at, and through fearful tactics, are too often dissuaded from using.

CLO2 is a toxic chemical oxidizer

CLO2 can cause direct oxidation harm to mucous membranes and epithelium (lining of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines).

This is not true if used as outlined. If it were true, then the buzz on MMS would be about how people had harmed their mucous membranes when they correctly followed the outlined protocol. It doesn’t happen because the protocol doesn’t result in such damage. People have taken MMS for such recurring conditions as migraines and discovered that their asthma went away.

It can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, and reduced blood pressure.

This is untrue. The operative instrument of falsehood is the word cause. Chlorine dioxide does not cause nausea, vomiting, etc. If it did, vomiting would occur under all circumstances… as happens in some FDA approved medications for cancer. In the case of MMS, nausea and other detoxification effects may happen through a purge effect. It’s not always pretty or comfortable. However, a purge is to be expected as a part of one’s healing process if they have become chronically toxic. The upside is that when the even is over, the individual may find that pain that had been constant has now disappeared, and they have regained precious energy that had been routinely siphoned off by the toxicity.

Once ingested, it is absorbed into the bloodstream and can cause harm to tissues, to red blood cells, and to the developing brain of infants, children, and the fetus in pregnant women.

This is pure fiction, not supported by experience. People have reported amazing improvements among autistic children and Alzheimer’s patients, because the chlorine dioxide cleared the heavy metals (such as mercury) that had accumulated in the brain. Many vaccines – which are mandatory in some cases, – are laced with mercury which is used as a preservative. It “preserves” the shelf life of the drug while killing human cells and tissue.

Because CLO2 is a chemical oxidizer (called a “free radical”) it depletes vitamin C.

This is a false and misleading statement. The writer presupposes that the person using MMS had an adequate store of vitamin C before ingestion, which was therefore depleted due to the introduction of chlorine dioxide. This is unrealistic for a number of reasons.

An individual that has a chronic or degenerative disease will, by definition, already have had an ongoing vitamin C deficiency. The idea that chlorine dioxide “depletes” vitamin C is a fantasy. If it does anything, it will oxidize the synthetic and bio-unavailable vitamin C imposters that most people are being sold, thinking that they are taking care of their health while remaining on the slippery slope of chronic disease.

What Mr. Campbell is saying is important, because vitamin C is important (as are many other vitamins and minerals that have been co-opted by commercial process). Tagging MMS as a depleter of vitamin C masks a larger issue. Here’s some great information on vitamin C from a company that produces plant-cell grown vitamin and mineral products.

Human bodies cannot manufacture vitamin C as most animals do. We are dependent upon getting it in our diet. Vitamin C plays a vast and significant role in our health. It enhances immunity, protects against the harmful effects of pollution, maintains collagen in the formation of connective tissue in skin, ligaments and bones, and it effects arterial walls, capillaries, and the healing of wounds. It is a powerful antioxidant, active in the formation of red blood cells and the production of interferon and anti-stress hormones, effecting the body’s ability to withstand stress, resist infections, and support the body’s natural defenses. It also reduces the effects of some allergy-producing substances, and plays a significant role in adrenal gland function and healthy gums. Vitamin C is also involved in the body’s absorption, assimilation, and metabolism of other vitamins and nutrients. Stress, alcohol, smoking, analgesics, oral contraceptives, antidepressants, and steroids may all deplete the body’s levels of vitamin C in a short time.

Almost without exception, all vitamins utilized in the manufacturing of supplements are made from what are called hydrocarbonaceous intermediates. So they can technically be called “natural,” since they can be said to be derived from “natural sources.” But their isolated state is not at all the same as their “natural form” as found in food.

According to the redefinitions of technology, what is natural as nature created it, may not qualify as “natural” as technology defines it. When research scientists discovered how to isolate d-alpha tocopherol (a form of vitamin E) from food in a lab, for example, the accepted generic term for that structure came to be known as “Natural Source Vitamin E”. D-alpha tocopherol, however, does not exist as an isolated molecule in food. Food contains multiple tocopherols in a highly complex molecular structure that assures that “dl,” rather than “d,” is present. Isolated pure molecules rotate light, and once molecules are isolated to reveal their exact structure, molecularly the form they take can no longer be considered food. Thus, D-alpha tocopherol is not food as nature defines it, and wholistically it is not vitamin E as nature creates it. Still, patents exist for synthesizing d-alpha tocopherol, which is then labeled “Natural Source Vitamin E,” and the impression given to those buying and consuming it, is that they are getting something nature created as it would be found in food.

THE BODY IS AN ECOSYSTEM

Our cells eat, drink, breathe, “go to the bathroom,” generate electricity, do their job, and replicate themselves, twenty four hours a day. Each and every one of them is totally dependent upon the integrity of the resources available to them to perform these functions efficiently. To the extent the quality of these resources is lacking, the quality of the cell’s performance is diminished. Quality goods cannot be created from inferior resources.

In other words, junk in, junk out.

When a body’s cells are formed from inferior resources, our bodies are handicapped by a diminished capacity for health that continues to diminish throughout each subsequent generation born and raised on deficient resources. Our bodies have only what we consume to supply the materials with which our cells are generated, maintained and restored. Deficient, processed, adulterated food provides a deficient quality of material considerably different from what nutrient-rich, non denatured foods produce. A cell membrane made from damaged or deficient raw materials lacks the integrity to fulfill its healthy function. The body is designed for vital health, and nature provides all the resources by which such health can be accomplished and enjoyed. Nature is our ally, and supplementation and food production which looks to nature’s wisdom as its mentor, is nature’s ally. Lifestar and nature are allies.

Until recently, and almost without exception, USP-grade material was the only vitamin material available in the world for formulating and tableting vitamin supplements. Unknown to most consumers, there are no brand name vitamin companies that actually manufacture their own vitamins. There are close to 3,000 brand name vitamin supplements in the marketplace in the United States whose nutrient contents are all purchased through distributors from the same seven sources in the United States or from their seven foreign counterparts. (Source: www.LifeStar.com)

Even if a person were taking vitamin C supplements, there is a strong likelihood that the product is delivering only a fraction of the nutritional value it purports to supply.

In addition, people who have compromised health or are in chronic pain are very likely to be under stress. They may also drink, or have habitually drank alcohol, smoke, taken analgesics, antidepressants, steroids, and many other chemicals, which would deplete vitamin C, if the vitamin C they were taking was actually real.

Add to this the crippling effects of processing that vitamin supplement products go through, and you see that the problem of vitamin C availability precedes MMS.

You would think that Mr. Campbell would be aware of such nuances and able to guide his audience accordingly. The people who run the FDA haven’t seen it, so why should he? But you should. You should know for yourself.

Putting it another way, the vitamin C in our body gets depleted in its attempts to detoxify CLO2; vitamin C is our “free radical scavenger.”

The first part of that statement is false. The second part is true only if we add the word, real before vitamin C.

The instructions provided with MMS specifically warn people not to take vitamin C while they are taking MMS because vitamin C “interferes” with it.

Not true. The advice is to spread your dosing between vitamin C and MMS in order to gain the full benefits of both. Chemical vitamin C will inactivate the generation of chlorine dioxide. Yet, when you want to mask the taste, you can use fruit juices that contain natural, bio-available vitamin C as a substitute for water.

This is a red flag that MMS is a toxic chemical, since vitamin C is our primary detoxification agent. Vitamin C depletion is extremely dangerous: it is the bulwark of our immune system, and it is needed for dozens of other body functions.

IF vitamin C was our “primary detoxification agent,” as Mr. Campbell asserts, then you’d think he’d note the myriad factors that work against having an adequate supply, which have nothing to do with chlorine dioxide. To hear him tell it, you have enough vitamin C already, and the evil MMS comes in and takes it away. The real and present danger is ignored while a promising alternative is demonized and defamed through a “grim” fairy tale.

“Activated” MMS contains elemental chlorine

Despite the claims of its “inventor” Jim Humble that MMS is elemental chlorine free, the fact of the matter is that when CLO2 is created in water, it immediately reacts with the water to create elemental chlorine and hypochlorous acid.

False. ClO2 is not elemental chlorine. Even the MMS-biased Wikipedia describes ECF, elemental chlorine free technique, as a wood pulp whitening process that does not involve elemental chlorine, meaning that it is safer than the chlorine-based process. According to the EPA, chlorite is one disinfection byproduct of chlorine dioxide. Salt (NaCl) and water (H2O) are others.

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Commercial bleaching operations that use only CLO2 end up with elemental chlorine in the processing tanks and organic chlorine compounds in their wastewater. (Thornton, page 321-322) What does this mean to you?

What it means to me is that you either have your information mixed up, or you’re doing it intentionally. This goes against everything that any unbiased source has said about chlorine dioxide (when they weren’t talking about MMS). That includes the National Institutes of Health, EPA, and even the FDA. It’s not even about the dangers of ingestion of MMS. The FDA simply wants to be the one who approves what you and I ingest. They don’t know what’s best for you. If they did, why would they approve Corexit-laced seafood from the Gulf Coast? Is it more important to put people back to work than it is to provide toxin-free food?

If the FDA is protecting the public interest, why would they approve transgenic (genetically modified) food and fish products? Their priorities are different than the public’s. Their take on GMO foods involves whether to require labels so that the public can tell what they are buying.

The real problem with MMS is the effect; not the harm, but the benefit that disinfection can bring It represents an available solution – not THE solution, but an available and viable one – that has been in our midst for almost 100 years, that doesn’t cost billions of dollars to develop or produce, or hundreds of billions more to charge for.

When elemental chlorine comes in contact with human tissue, it immediately destroys the molecules it comes in contact with, harming tissue and organs. In doing so it also combines with the natural biological chemicals (aromatic hydrocarbons) in your cells, forming chemicals that could never exist in nature, called polychlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons.

This is the description of the chemical behavior of chlorine (Cl2), which chlorine dioxide (ClO2) is not. The writer should be up in arms over chlorination, the huge municipal water treatment elephant in the room that he seems oblivious to. But to read this, you’d think that chlorine didn’t exist. What he and the FDA have been banking on, is a belief that the public won’t know, or figure out, the difference.

These new chemicals are almost always carcinogenic (cause cancer) because they mimic chemicals that look like them but do not include chlorine. So when you ingest MMS, you create cancer-causing chemicals from your own body fluids and tissue. These bio-accumulate in fat tissue, eventually causing cancer.

This is total fiction. Is it hard to conceptualize that most people who are suffering from degenerative diseases have already been saturated with the effects of chlorination, processed foods, airborne pathogens, mal-illumination and electrosmog for many years?

Chlorination byproducts are understood, by the Environmental Protection Agency, for example, to be different from the byproducts of chlorine dioxide. Yet, Mr. Campbell writes as though they are one in the same.

However, he’s not writing about how chlorination is dangerous, which it is, and would be true. He’s not writing about the consequences to health, such as various forms of cancers, that are happening among people who have been, and are exposed to chlorination year in and year out. He’s writing about what can happen with chlorine dioxide, and then justifying his argument by describing the behavior and effects of chlorination.

What are the effects of chlorination? THM’s – trihalomethanes, one of which is chloroform. The EPA includes them among what it terms “disinfection byproducts” for chlorine. The only disinfection byproduct of chlorine dioxide is chlorite. The EPA doesn’t explain anything about the chlorite ion, but additional research confirms that it is a triggering mechanism for the electron exchange by any pathogenic bacteria that is host to the respiratory nitrate reductase enzyme. Salmonella and E. Coli are two such bacteria. Aerobic microorganisms are unaffected by either chlorine dioxide or its chlorite byproduct, as they do not host the respiratory nitrate reductase enzyme.

The danger is in what’s already in the water that hundreds of millions of people are consuming right now based on currently prevalent water treatment methods. If you followed Mr. Campbell’s assertions to his suggested conclusion – meaning that MMS was no longer used – it would infer that the problems he warns against would never happen.

But the problems are already, and have been happening well before MMS came along. Then he describes the chemical effects of chlorination and attributes them to MMS and chlorine dioxide. By virtue of its oxidative method, it appears that chlorine dioxide actually reduces toxicity (heavy metals, etc.) whereas chlorination increases toxicity.

MMS attacks healthy tissue

CLO2 is actually even more dangerous than elemental chlorine for healthy tissue. According to the data on CLO2 cited to support its use for disinfection, it destroys amino acids and sulfurous bonds, both of which are integral to healthy human tissue. CLO2 cannot differentiate healthy tissue from diseased tissue. It is a universal biocide, not for human internal consumption.

If Mr. Campbell’s statement were true, then this would be corroborated (1) in the science associated with chlorine dioxide, and (2) in the outcomes that MMS users have reported.

There has been no such corroboration because this is not what people are reporting.

As mentioned earlier, a link has been established to the chlorite ion and an enzyme that triggers the electron release which destroys the pathogen. In that sense, chlorine dioxide doesn’t differentiate. The enzyme determines whether conditions have been met that fulfill the purpose for the anaerobic microorganism’s presence in the first place – a lack of sufficient oxygen. When that oxygen arrives, the enzyme – respiratory nitrate reductase – shoots off an electron which destroys the anaerobe. In a cascade fashion, up to 5 electrons may be given up.

MMS invokes the poison reflex

Many people report that when they take MMS they get nauseous or vomit. This is the autonomic poison response of the human body. Jim Humble’s literature says that this is an indication that MMS is “working” and not to worry about it. He attributes it to a detoxification (Herxheimer) reaction. This is not the case. The nausea and vomiting that people experience is caused by the recognition by the body that MMS is poisonous.

Writing a lie in boldface only makes it a boldface lie. While it is possible to experience one, MMS does not inherently cause vomiting or Herxheimer response. It depends on the degree to which the individual is toxic. In other words, how much has the individual already been poisoned?

I experienced the Herxheimer response on my fourth day of using MMS, and on just 4 drops. Vomiting, diarrhea, the works. Something was inactivated, and the body got rid of it as soon as possible. I have taken larger doses since that time, and have not even experienced nausea, much less other, more dramatic examples of purging.

It is juvenile to call one’s self a “health consultant” and not recognize or acknowledge that a person who is chronically ill is already toxic, and likely has been so for some time, before ever coming across MMS. The more acute the illness, the higher the toxicity, and lower the available oxygen in the system. But then, most traditionally trained medical doctors are just that juvenile, as they don’t acknowledge the toxicity that they add to their patient’s environment by reciting scriptures from their “Pharmacology Bible,” a book that has been good for the for profit medical industry, but not for the health – of patients.

Toxicity levels increase inside the human body in direct relation to the decrease in available oxygen, which gets bound up by synthetic materials, much like the hydrocarbons and the petrochemical Corexit bound up the oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico, killing masses of oxygen breathing aquatic life.

MMS can’t bring back life that has been killed off inside the body, but it is delivering oxygen, which immediately affects the affected area’s ability to safely support new aerobic microorganisms, which includes healthy cells, once again.

Water that is oxygen deficient, which tends to be on the acidic side, will not support cell health, nor will water that is too alkaline.

MMS is the wrong approach to immunity - it is chemotherapy!

The entire approach of Jim Humble is to treat the human body as if it were a simple plumbing system, and MMS is akin to Drain-O, chemically killing pathogens. But the human body does not work that way. Your body does not need chemicals from a factory to kill pathogens.

Mr. Campbell’s last statement is true. The body does not need chemicals from a factory in order to kill pathogens. It doesn’t need the chlorine or fluoride that is put in municipal drinking water. It doesn’t need chromium 6 and other contaminates that are now found in water. It certainly doesn’t need the many additives and synthetic hormones, from aspartame to rBST, to transgenic products developed in laboratories, in order to maintain our health. But none of these have anything to do with MMS being dangerous. MMS doesn’t portend the dangers that this long list of FDA approved bioactive agents do.

MMS is used to generate chlorine dioxide, and there is no such thing as “synthetic” oxygen. When chlorine dioxide is introduced to the system, pathogens are oxidized, turning them into debris. It breaks down into salt (NaCl) and water (H2O). All of the other items that I mentioned above produce new chemical derivatives. Chlorine dioxide reduces the chemical load in the body. The art and science of using MMS to greatest effect is in determining the best dosing method, striking a balance to achieve a manageable rate of toxin reduction. The body has remarkable ability to repair itself when this chemical drag has been lifted.

When fortified properly, your body has the capability to fight literally any pathogen or illness.

Yes, another true statement.

A healthy immune system automatically and selectively targets pathogens with an array of antibodies and white blood cells. MMS disrupts this natural immunity by depleting antioxidants.

The first sentence is true, the second is not. The results do not support Mr. Campbell’s claim. The results suggest that the opposite is true.

I am not suggesting that MMS is the answer to every situation. I’m saying that it is not the scourge that is being portrayed here. It is a legitimate tool that produces the valuable service of chemical disinfection. I suggest that chemical toxicity is the reason for microbial imbalance, particularly the upsurge in anaerobic factors.

Modern medical practices actually further infect the body when bio-antagonistic chemicals are used. They don’t give you Salmonella directly. They simply introduce agents that deplete oxygen and block other natural metabolic functions, thereby requiring the body to bring in organisms that do not require oxygen in order to keep us alive. However, while we may still live, the vital ecological and microbial balance within the body is upset, and cannot be restored until environmental balance is restored. This is why degenerative and chronic diseases evolve. This is why cancers return. They are helped along by the medication, both medical and commercial, in the form of processed, nutrient-deficient foods.

MMS is Toxic - Do Not Use It

Even if you didn’t understand all of the explanations above, please take my word for it - Miracle Mineral Supplement is very toxic to your body. It may seem to get rid of bacteria - chlorine bleach does do that - but at great expense to your long-term health: tissue and organ damage, compromised immunity, and possibly cancer.

Mr. Campbell’s explanations were purposefully made to be misunderstood, just like the FDA’s. Anyone willing to do a modicum of fact checking can see his misstatements on chlorine versus chlorine dioxide. He’s not alone; the FDA did it too.

If you look for scientific descriptions of chemical behavior produced by agencies that have no agenda, you’ll see that chlorine dioxide is clearly different than, and superior to chlorine as a disinfectant. Yet, chlorine is by far the predominant water disinfectant modality, which affects 100’s of millions of people every day, and contributes to the growth in our population of “functional dysfuncts” – people who are too sick to enjoy life, but not sick enough to stop what they’re doing. They become today’s Zombies.

There is nothing natural about MMS, it is not a supplement, and the only mineral in it is sodium. It is a synthetic industrial chemical. And the only thing miraculous about MMS is that it hasn’t been taken off the market.

Salt is sodium chloride (NaCl). If you took pure sodium and put it in water, it would ignite and burn. Combined with a chlorine ion, it is a staple for life. Yet, according to Mr. Campbell, sodium is the only mineral in MMS. Chlorine is a member of the periodic table, but in Mr. Campbell’s view, it doesn’t qualify as natural. Neither does the oxygen that is bound with the chlorine ion to make chlorine dioxide. According to Mr. Campbell, these are “synthetic.” This is also consistent with FDA thinking, because they believe that the only “cures” are drugs.

Not true on either count.

The writer only shows that he hasn’t had any direct experience with MMS (as have others who have slammed it), and in the absence of actual knowledge, he’s intellectualizing with faulty information.

Chlorine dioxide is used in many industries to reduce or eleminate Salmonella and E. Coli. It is approved by the FDA to be sprayed on meat and poultry before final packing for the same purpose. It doesn’t have to be rinsed off. Why do you think that is so? Because it safely disinfects while leaving NO toxic residue.

Chlorine dioxide is used to disinfect mold in homes. Mold is a living organism that thrives when oxygen levels are down. Humans can live when oxygen levels are down too, but not be healthy. When mold grows in our homes, it is not unreasonable to see how mold can grow inside our physical body too. If chlorine dioxide can safely and effectively inactivate mold in the volume of a home, then it will do the same, in appropriately scaled down amounts, within the human ecosphere. This is not rocket science. It’s simple logic that needs further study and benign examination, not fear.

In October 2009, and man named Doug Nash reported on the curezone website that MMS had killed his wife, Silvie Fink. Her death certificate states that the cause of death was MMS. Jim Humble issued a cruel, blithering response, attacking this man who was grieving the death of his wife, for filing the report. Humble went even further: he included an outright falsehood: “MMS is a natural chemical manufactured by the human immune system to help prevent diseases and to keep the body healthy.” The truth is this: your body cannot create sodium chlorite or chlorine dioxide. MMS can only be created in a chemical factory.

Jim Humble’s response was to Doug Nash’s assertions that Silvie’s death was due to MMS. Some people took umbrage with that, but he was right. Even with an unprecedented amount of influence on Mr. Nash’s part in pointing the finger at MMS, which included contacting the FDA and filing a complaint, going to sites and forums pleading his case as a victim, the scientific facts could not, and did not support his claim. The prosecutor finally closed the case in November 2010, noting that the toxicological facts did not support the claim. Unfortunately, the true cause was left in question, but I will speculate that it has something to do with chemical toxicity that she was exposed to before MMS had time to inactivate it.

In the meantime, two articles were published in the Sydney Morning Herald (January 2010) demonizing MMS, followed by the FDA warning. They both cited the Sylvìa Fink case, not waiting for validation, which people who understood how MMS works knew would not be forthcoming.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a press release on July 30, 2010, warning people not to consume MMS.

Please, please do not use this substance. If you have any, don’t use it, but save it for evidence. If it has harmed you, please obtain the services of a lawyer to sue the distributor who sold it to you and the manufacturer. Jim Humble must be held accountable for creating this fraudulent product and thereby harming people. Send a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission. The website is https://econsumer.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/.

This is the same plea that the FDA issued. They also did not ask for any balanced information. They asked only for negative information. They tried to make an example out of one MMS supplier to dissuade others from selling the product, severely disrupting his operations. Thankfully, he’s back in business.

I was going to leave Mr. Campbell with the last words, but they merit occasional comment:

Note: I am not attempting to “compete” with Jim Humble. I am astonished that it has come this far, that he has fooled so many people into thinking his remedy is safe. It is not.

I wonder how gullible does Mr. Campbell think people are, that they can’t tell the difference between pain being constant before MMS, and it being gone afterward. Tumors being present before, and gone afterward; headaches, viral and bacterial or respiratory problems being present before, and gone afterward. How is that being “fooled?” This is not to say that such effects have happened for every person that has tried MMS, because each person is unique. If you’re trying to “cure” a condition, MMS cannot produce uniform results any more than any other product can. However, if you’re trying to safely oxygenate and disinfect your body, it is one of the most simple and flexible options available

My only concern is for you and for your health. This is my life work. I don’t make a lot of money doing it. I do not have multi-level marketing people selling for me. I do not even sell the supplements that I recommend. I just tell you where to buy them, inexpensively and reliably. My goal is to help you become healthy and stay healthy throughout your life, and not to be harmed by pharmaceutical drugs and “alternative” medical frauds like MMS.

This “holier than thou,” “I’m on your side, but the other guy is not” approach is familiar. Call someone else a fraud to prop himself up. And yet, with his science not holding up, his main tools are misinformation and fear.

End Notes: The documentation presented by Jim Humble for Miracle Mineral Supplement is replete with biological misinformation and fraud. They make no sense.

He offers no examples that support his point, and his description of accepted science is replete with misrepresentations.

Humble claims that activated MMS (chlorine dioxide) is absorbed into the body through the stomach lining. No nutrients are absorbed through the stomach lining; the first place in the alimentary canal where anything can be absorbed is the small intestine.

Water passes through every aspect of the body. It carries its contents as both intracelluar and extracellular fluids. If oxygen is in it, you can bet it passes through the stomach lining. By the way, once activated, chlorine dioxide can also be absorbed through the skin, because water travels everywhere.

Humble claims that red blood cells “armed” with chlorine dioxide will destroy “parasites, fungi, or diseased cells that all have low pH.” Red blood cells do not and cannot have this capability - their function is to carry oxygen to cells all over the body, not to kill pathogens. (It is white blood cells that are the components of the immune system that destroy pathogens, and they don’t need MMS to help them.) When red blood cells pick up chlorine dioxide, they can no longer pick up oxygen, and they become useless. In essence, they are destroyed, and this can cause reduced oxygen to your body, similar to carbon monoxide poisoning.

He’s saying that the opposite of what is actually happening, can happen. There is a very strong desire for you to not see what is happening, not acknowledge what people are saying they’ve experienced by way of MMS disinfection. I’m not saying that this is the only way. You should simply understand that this is a viable one.

Humble claims to have cured thousands of people in Africa of malaria, hepatitis, cancer, and AIDS with MMS. But the only public evidence is that he provided MMS to people; there was no standardized medical evaluation of the results. He appears to me to be someone who knows just enough about chemistry to make his claims believable by people who don’t study chemistry or human physiology, intent on making money selling his books and supporting the people who sell the product and his book..

 

Jim Humble explains oxidation at his workshop in the Dominican Republic.

The only really important factor here is whether the science is credible. Jim Humble has spent more time studying the health effects of MMS disinfection by way of application on willing human beings (not mice or rats), for a wider variety of conditions than anyone else earth. Irrespective of whether “mythbusters” can follow an audit trail of his travels, he described the science correctly enough to show people how to do it. Mr. Campbell has taken great effort at misquoting the science of chlorine dioxide in his attempts at dissuasion. If the truth isn’t convincing or supportive of your reasoning, then lie.

 

Humble claims that MMS kills the “little bugs” in cells that cause cancer. By this claim he proves himself to be a complete charlatan or know-nothing.

This sounds pretty personal to me.

Cancerous cells are genetically deformed cells; they have no “little bugs” in them, and they are not affected by MMS.

Mr. Campbell is entitled to his opinion, just as Jim Humble. I don’t know if Mr. Campbell has helped anyone mitigate cancer using methods that he discovered, but I do know people who have done so using Jim’s protocol.

Quite the contrary: MMS depletes the antioxidants the human body uses to destroy cancer cells. Humble has likely caused the deaths of thousands of people, by negligently promoting this false “miracle” cancer cure that people then rely on instead of seeking a real, proven natural therapy. There are proven cures for cancer, developed by Matthias Rath and Hugh Riordan, which use natural food-based substances such as vitamin C to enhance immunity, stop cancer spread, and kill cancer cells.

The beauty of MMS is that it doesn’t compete with any method that actually works. It enhances the effectiveness of natural modalities. This “sky is falling” story is worse than Chicken Little.

Humble’s product has sickened many, many people, killed at least one person, as I noted above, and has likely lead to the death of many others.

This is an example of how truth takes a back seat when there is an agenda. Not only is the assertion false, unsupported even after an investigation that lasted over one year, since no other deaths are even remotely connected to MMS use, he speculates on what he believes is likely to happen.

Humble and/or his supporters appear to have created an organization called the Health Freedom Alliance which heavily promotes MMS along with information about some valid health and environmental concerns on its website and mailing list. Its website is hosted in The Netherlands, the site owner and contact information are privacy protected, and the website has no information about the organization or contact information, no address, no phone number. This is all extremely unusual - and very suspicious - for a supposedly public purpose organization.

This has nothing to do with whether MMS works or not.

And now (this really takes the cake) Humble has founded a new church (Genesis II Church of Health and Healing) and made himself a Bishop of it! So now, assumedly, his words will have the backing of God Almighty.

 

Chlorine dioxide was around before Jim Humble was a gleam in his parents’ eyes. It was doing what it does right under our noses. It doesn’t need a church to protect it. It needs intelligent people who have eyes to see the environmental, nutritional, and cultural contributors to disease, and have the courage change our ways. I can’t change you, only you can change your ways. I can give you the best information as I understand it, and update it when I learn something better.

Jim Humble is a human being just like Jonathan Campbell. Mr. Campbell is in no position to judge Jim Humble’s actions, whether he knows the difference between chlorine and chlorine dioxide or not. MMS is just one way that we can safely and effectively disinfect the body.

If anything, Mr. Humble’s most significant contribution and influence, outside of gaining the insight and working out the MMS protocol, was to insist that the pricing remain low, so as to be accessible and available to everyone. Outside of deep, conscious breathing exercises, and conscious reorganization of water, which cost nothing, there are precious few products that can do so much for a person’s toxicological repair, for so little money.

A Visual MMS Response and New Beginning

A Happy New Year to ALL!

2012 – 1 is here, and so are we.

Here’s to 2011 being a year of discovery and recovery; discovering our innate gift of healing that is within us all, and recovering not only health that has been hijacked by years of chemicalization and medication, but the sublime joys of living in health once again .

I am yet writing my response to Jonathan Campbell’s article, “What is Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS), and Why is it Dangerous?,” but I have spoken about it, making it the subject of my Talk For Food radio show, which I uploaded yesterday.

However, in a first for me, not only did I record the entire show on camera, but I produced it on video. Normally I take only the audio and post it to webtalkradio.net’s server.

After receiving a notice from YouTube that they had removed the 15 minute restriction on my account this past week, I had additional incentive to make my show visual.

So here it is:

I will say here that I spoke longer than I had time for the show, and you may notice it toward the end. Omitting Mr. Campbell’s comments on vitamin C, I somewhat abruptly shifted from talking about toxicity, to vitamin C. I hated cutting that out, but it’s done now.

You will be able to read my comments, and perhaps I’ll isolate the missing video, when I finish writing, and am ready to publish my article. I’ve included some wonderful insights on vitamin C that are clearly not considered by Mr. Campbell.

In the spirit of the New Year, and the new medium, we’ll see where this visual journey takes us.

Best wishes!

MMS: Brouhaha in the Gulf

The work isn't done yet in the Gulf.

The work isn't done yet in the Gulf.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 — As we stand in the twilight of 2010 awaiting the dawn of the New Year, the next chapter in MMS’ advancement onto the public stage opens. Given the events that have impacted the region this year, it was only a matter of time before MMS would surface among the residents of the Gulf Coast. The atmospheric chemical soup that has engulfed the region is sure to manifest itself in dramatic ways.

In spite of warnings by the FDA against its use, anyone who knows that MMS actually works and how to use it would be compelled to suggest it eventually. Anyone who is starting to experience the effects of chemical saturation – such as bleeding from all off one’s orifices – are likely to be willing to listen. I know that I certainly would, especially when conventional medical responses amount to little more than a round of antibiotics and a box of Tylenol. Everyone knows they won’t be effective. Some of the doctors will display a “deer in the headlights” perplexitude; scratching their heads in feigned wonderment over what’s wrong, as if they really don’t know. I saw this on CNN when the oil spill was the top news story, and wondered how the BP doctor that was being interviewed could, with a straight face, act as though he had no clue as to what might be causing the influx of new cases that they were treating.

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"Gee, I wonder what could have caused that!"

It’s all good though. Medical professionals want to give the impression that they and the medical response system are doing everything they can, and that they are concerned about the public welfare.

That is, until an inexpensive “off book” approach is introduced to some of those “desperate,” “vulnerable” and “gullible” people. To add insult to exploitation, medical personnel have been warned by The Medical Authority not to go near this dangerous “snake oil.”

What happens when the gullible try it, and it actually show signs that it may be helping? When the new method comes face-to-face with convention, the new incurs the wrath of the old, even if the latter group represents naturopathic methods. A brouhaha breaks out, looking more like a turf war. When this happens, the health and welfare of the people take a back seat.

Wil Spencer VMSP (which means Vibrational Medical Science Practitioner) (www.bodyelectrician.com), is the outlaw from out-of-town who defied medical convention by introducing people to what he called Advanced Oxygen Therapy, which sounds, looks and works just like an approach also known as MMS. Meaning no disrespect to MMS, he hoped to create a framework where a dialogue based solely on scientific facts and free of ecumenical politics might be established.

It didn’t work.

Spencer’s efforts were brought to the attention of the Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors, an organization dedicated to “publishing information on detoxification and assembling and distributing Survival Detox Kits containing supplies and instructions to assist in counteracting the adverse effects of the poisons that have been bombarding our bodies.”

The protocols supported by the GCBD aren’t of the allopathic variety. They are natural, and include some of my favorites:

  • sodium bicarbonate
  • magnesium sulfate
  • bentonite clay
  • activated charcoal
  • nascent iodine
  • magnesium oil (magnesium chloride)
  • vitamin C
  • B-complex
  • superfoods with spirilina
  • antioxidant teas and foods

This is all good stuff. Great stuff, actually.

I support all of these products and what they do. They are natural and beneficial. They help the body reduce its toxic load and also help it to repair itself.

And yet, a controversy has emerged. An article written by an anti-MMS writer quoted a nurse who likened MMS to “pool shock”.

With all the goodness that this collection of healing tools represent, people on the Gulf Coast are still getting sicker and sicker. I was shocked to learn that, according to the GCBD site, the chemical dispersants are still being dropped. If this is still true, the concentrations of toxicity are unprecedented, and they are being replenished daily.

It appears that the GCBD is making their kits available due to the generous sponsorship of several companies, along with public donations. However, this is model is inherently old school, and hence limited, because the supply is based on the depths of a small number of pockets, and the need can never be sufficiently satisfied by the providers, given the unprecedented levels of toxicity which are replenished daily by continued spraying. It is virtually impossible to actually reduce toxin levels with these methods alone.

As much as I respect magnesium oil and living clay, you need to use much more on a regular basis to achieve beneficial and therapeutic changes in health. A gallon of the best quality magnesium oil retails for about $200. Even at cost, if it were $20, an individual could go through it in a few months if used regularly. 8 lbs of living clay will retail for over $100. It can be hydrated and drank as part of a detox regimen, and used quite effectively as a poltice to draw out bacterial and other positively charged contaminants. But you can go through your supply fairly quickly, and who can give that much clay to millions of people and not go broke? Then you’ve still got to get them to use it.

A 4 oz bottle of MMS retails for less than $30, and could service the needs of several individuals for a year.

The new kid on the block in the MMS community, which Jim Humble dubbed, MMS2, is calcium hypochlorite. It is just as available and inexpensive as the original (sodium chlorite), if not more so. Ingesting just a quarter capsule (size 0) of MMS2 generates hypochlorous acid in the stomach upon release, bolstering the available supply of this chemical that is otherwise naturally produced by the immune system. It’s not something you do for the rest of your life. You do it to support your immune system, allowing your body complex to regain the energy to repair itself.

MMS is inexpensive. The supply is plentiful (it is, after all, a salt), only a very small amount is needed for dosing, and it is very effective at what it does. Of the available options for helping the people of the Gulf address the chemical poisoning that they are receiving, the only practical, realistic one is MMS.

Only MMS can be made available in sufficient and affordable amounts to address the potential needs of several million people, 10’s of millions, or even more that are likely to need it. Anyone who cares about helping all, and not just some people, would seek to validate these claims rather than denounce them without consideration.

For all of the reasons that even naturopaths might want to thumb their noses at Advanced Oxygen Therapy or MMS, there’s no denying that it actually offers the highest amount of availability (supply), variability (dosing) and scalability (situations) for the lowest price.

You’d never think it by reading Deborah Dupre.

She has taken great exception with MMS and has written an article that was published on examiner.com. Her point of view is supported by Jonathan Campbell, a health consultant who wrote an article titled, What is Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS), and Why Is It Dangerous?

Ms. Dupre refers to Campbell’s article to support some of her assertions about MMS.

These articles were brought to my attention by Bruce Tanner, who publishes The RealTruth Blog. Actually, he wrote a response to Deborah Dupre’s article, which now follows (italicized comments are mine):

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Hi Adam, I hope this isn’t TOO off-topic, but my partner accidentally stumbled across this article today – http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/gulfleak-from-crude-oil-to-snake-oil – and you might want to check it out. I wrote a reply and sent it to the author, Deborah Dupree, which follows:

I hope that this will get to Deborah Dupree, as it’s regarding her recent article “Crude oil, Corexit and now, Snake Oil to fix it” on Examiner.com. If Deborah is reading this, I apologize for speaking of her in the third person.

In my opinion, this article is full of false information, half-truths, and aspersions based on an incomplete understanding of the science around so-called MMS/sodium chlorite solution.

In the first place, sodium chlorite (NaClO2) is not “Pool Shock,” and has never been used for that purpose to my knowledge. The pool shock that is starting to be propagandized against, by people who seem to be associated with the Big Pharma/FDA quasi-official campaign against the use of sodium chlorite (I would argue because of its effectiveness against a wide range of challenges to human wellness), is calcium hypochlorite [Ca(ClO)2] (a.k.a. MMS2).

Calcium Hypochlorite becomes hypochlorous acid when put in solution in water, and is taken up and used by white blood cells in dissolving the foreign particles they absorb. Thus, Ca(ClO)2, though putatively a “pool shock,” aids the immune system in its effectiveness when taken internally in small amounts. However, I digress.

If Deborah Dupree intends to use her no-doubt extensive scientific background for the good of humanity, instead of adding to the fear and suffering experienced in places like the Gulf region, she will need to do some research on the chemistries she’s writing about. In particular, take a deep look at the remarkable and unique characteristics of Chlorine Dioxide (paying particular attention to how it differs from chlorine).

The statement quoted from nurse Patricia Springstead, “The historical fact of MMS is, that when, activated, it becomes what is equal to pool shock, to shock bacteria, fungus and other pathogens from swimming water,” is entirely specious, as one might expect someone with a Masters of Science to recognize. (However, according to Dupre, so nurse Springstead’s husband is a medical doctor, her position is a bit more understandable.)

In actuality, as Dupree might have informed us accurately, sodium chlorite, when activated with a weak food acid, releases Chlorine Dioxide (ClO2), used not as “what is equal to pool shock,” but as a water purifier in municipal water-treatment facilities across America, and as a disinfectant approved for spraying without needing to be rinsed off, on vegetables and meat before sale. (This is true, but as a percentage, chlorine dioxide use as a primary method of disinfection is statistically insignificant in the United States compared to chlorination.)

What is the point of including quotes from Springstead like “Would you want to ingest pool water that you swim in on a daily basis?” in this article? Does the distaste invoked have anything to do with the effectiveness or danger of a particular chemical?

Anecdotal and questionable assertions are made throughout this article. While Dupree quotes health consultant Jonathan Campbell regarding MMS’s “destruction” of amino acid and “sulfurous” (sic) bonds, she might, with a short investigation on Google, have found a study published by the EPA in 1982 when chlorine dioxide was first considered for use in municipal water purification, entitled “Controlled Clinical Evaluations of Chlorine Dioxide, Chlorite and Chlorate in Man” – (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569027/pdf/envhper00463-0059.pdf) – which found 12 weeks of exposure to the 50 subjects who actually received chlorine dioxide or its metabolites “failed to reveal any clinically important impact upon the medical well-being of any subject as a result of disinfectant ingestion.”

Interestingly, also in 1982, the first of three patents was issued for the use of sodium chlorite internally in humans for blood purification. One would suspect that, to attain such a patent, the authors would have had to demonstrate the harmlessness of the substance.

And it is reliably (I think) estimated that by now in excess of 250 thousand people, mostly in Africa, have been freed from the suffering of Malaria through the use of MMS. Jim Humble’s book “Breakthrough, The Miracle Mineral Supplement of the 21st Century” has sold an equivalent number of hard-copies or copies of the electronic version of Part II, meaning that many tens of thousands of people have probably used MMS to one extent or another based on what they read. And yet, after years of use of the product by thousands of people, even considering that many people haven’t clearly understood its proper use, there is at this point only ONE (highly contested) claim of a fatality from its use.

Compare this to the sordid record of commercial pharmaceuticals (conservatively estimated at over 200,000 a year) in America alone, without a hue and cry for “responsibility to protect vulnerable people…from…those pushing them.” This fear-mongering may shortly result in the “recall” of sodium chlorite due to its “danger” by an FDA newly re-empowered by the recently passed “Food Safety Modernization Act.”

Crucially, Dupree makes a major mistake in quoting health consultant Campbell’s statement that “ClO2 cannot differentiate healthy tissue from diseased tissue.” Of course, the molecule cannot make such a distinction itself, but one of the vital unique properties of chlorine dioxide is that it has a low Oxygen Reduction Potential of 950 millivolts, lower than any other oxidizing agent used in the body (the ORP of ozone is 2,070 mv). (It is now also evident that an enzyme, respiratory nitrate reductase, which resides in anaerobic microorganisms such as Stapholoccus and E. Coli – but NOT in aerobic or human blood cells –actually triggers the electron transfer that destroys its host when contact with a nitrate or chlorate is detected. Just so happens that ClO2 also is also bonded with O2.)

Because of this, ClO2 will only draw electrons from the field of weakly bonded molecules, and will consequently NOT hurt healthy tissues. It will only act against pathogens – anaerobic bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi, and also against toxins and heavy-metal compounds lodged in tissues, which tend to surrender electrons easily.

MMS is not necessarily easy to use. For chronic conditions (unlike Malaria, which is eliminated in about 4 hours) it requires an understanding of its chemistry, and of how to support the health of the body while using it (for instance, it’s important to stay hydrated and to use anti-oxidants appropriately). However, when understood, it is, because of its unique properties, a safe and effective answer to many health issues that have, until now, been intractable or dangerous to deal with.

In the case of the massively tragic Gulf oil disaster, we have a situation where perhaps millions of people have been exposed to toxins that have now been stored as compounds in their tissues, where they can continue to cause health crises indefinitely. When chlorine dioxide first starts to act in a body that is very toxic, it quickly breaks up a lot of material that then must be flushed from the body before what’s dumped into the bloodstream can cause a detoxification reaction known as a Herxheimer reaction. If too much is released into the bloodstream too fast, this reaction takes the form of occasionally severe headache, nausea, sweating, or diarrhea as the body struggles to clear itself out. Simply backing off on the intake of MMS can bring the reactions down to where it isn’t unbearable. Remember, the goal with people who have ingested dangerous loads of toxins is to clean them out. While a detox reaction can be unpleasant, it can be mitigated by careful monitoring of dosages.

Dupree quotes Dr. Rodney Soto, a doctor working in the Gulf as saying “No toxins are a ‘safe level’ of toxins.” While, if we’re talking about persistent chemicals that are entirely foreign to our biology, this is essentially true, it’s patently false when talking about substances that are bio-compatible. For instance, an excessive amount of table salt or water can be fatal, but no one is going to label them as toxins. When it comes to the dosages involved with MMS, we’re talking about fractions of a milligram per pound of body weight! For instance, a “6-drop” dose of activated MMS will provide at most 0.225 to 0.45 mg (depending on drop size) per pound of body weight in a 120 pound person. Tests for toxicity in rats on which many of the extreme claims about the toxicity of chlorine dioxide are based, involved amounts above 10 mg per pound up to 100 mg per pound, and in some cases the ClO2 was put in the water the rats drank throughout their lives. And even then, the developmental problems suffered by rat pups were not life-threatening.

To cite just one more obvious comparison, chemo-therapy drugs for treating cancer are severely toxic, yet supposedly responsible doctors prescribe them to immune-compromised people every day.

Reliable witnesses inside the FDA have stated that the agency has been studying the therapeutic uses of sodium chlorite since at least 2003. After all that time, and in the face of a distinct threat to the profits of their masters, the Pharmaceutical Industry, the worst that FDA can come up with to attack this valuable bio-purifier with is that it causes understandable reactions as it causes the body to release toxins, and that it can contribute to preventable dehydration. Considering this, how can we understand the vehemence of the developing campaigns against MMS? Do you, Deborah, want to contribute to a pogrom against a simple chemical that potentially promises a massive improvement in human health, conceivably in the very near future?

Sincerely, Bruce Tanner – http://genesis2forum.org

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After reading Ms. Dupre’s article myself (and I understand she has written a second one), and Mr. Campbell’s, I felt the urge to reply on camera. 35 minutes later, I finally stopped talking.

In Conclusion, a New Dawn

While on Will Spencer’s web site, I decided to call the phone number on the Contact page and was pleased to have him come to the phone when I asked if he was available.

We had a great visit. He told me how he came to be involved with Gulf Coast residents and what they are going through. He has a multi-modal approach that includes what MMS does (by whatever name). He says he’s seen some amazing recoveries, which he is willing to talk about.

He’s visiting family in Minnesota right now, but we agreed to talk with me next week about this. I’ll record this on camera, with him on the speaker phone.

MMS Successes Offer a Compelling Call for New Chlorine Dioxide Understanding

MMS Face-to-Face

It's time to see chlorine dioxide's potential with fresh eyes.

Warnings by the FDA et. al, about the personal and therapeutic use of chlorine dioxide as a disinfectant, via Jim Humble’s MMS protocol are not being heeded by people who look at the available science. I’m not talking about toxicity reports, but about the fundamental behavior of the oxidant known as chlorine dioxide.

The published toxicological data about chlorine dioxide were produced with a specific application in mind; i.e., large-scale pathogen eradication, which require large-scale concentrations of chlorine dioxide. These concentrations are too high for human use. Given that internal human use had never been considered in spite of chlorine dioxide’s fundamental behavior, it was rightfully deemed hazardous, and left at that.

However, Jim Humble has now upset that applecart. Given what we have learned since he came on the scene, the “hazard” must be a qualified one because, far from being “toxic” unto itself (such as chloroform), chlorine dioxide is actually beneficial for its ability to safely reduce the active toxic load that an individual may be carrying.

This stands in stark contrast to the fact that medicine today still relies on methods that add toxicity to an already overloaded environment; a strategy that yet appears to be unquestioned among medical professionals. And why should they? The System considers these methods to be sacrosanct. Insurance companies pay the exorbitant prices, and then extract exorbitant premiums from those who can pay, and deny services to those who can’t.

Simple disinfection through the medical use of MMS would solve a host of medical problems for tens of millions of people around the world, in the same way that we get more longevity and reliability from our cars by regularly changing the oil, flushing the cooling system and other fluids.

I believe that day is coming, but not without additional examination of present-day thinking that has become outmoded. Critics and pundits who bash MMS cite a litany of allegations based on outmoded, but still current thinking on chlorine dioxide.

One of the most vocal MMS denouncers on this blog sent this link about the dangers of chlorine dioxide, published by the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry. It is a Public Health Statement for Chlorine Dioxide and Chlorite, published September 2004.

The document is the summary chapter from the Toxicological Profile for Chlorine Dioxide and Chlorite.

You could say that this document represents how information from a “credible source” may not be providing the best understanding of the subject that it covers. When you consider the application that chlorine dioxide has been used for, this advice is most appropriate. However, the RESULTS that people have reported from preparing and using MMS is compelling evidence of a need to hone and fine tune our thoughts on this natural chemical element.

Instead of producing a long treatise, let’s look at the first point, and see what we can learn or unlearn from it. All the excerpts from the Toxicological Profile will be indented.

1.1 What are chlorine dioxide and chlorite?

Chlorine dioxide is a yellow to reddish-yellow gas that can decompose rapidly in air. Because it is a hazardous gas, chlorine dioxide is always made at the location where it is used.

Chlorine dioxide decomposes rapidly in air is a true statement. In the next line they say it has to be prepared on site because it is a hazardous gas. This is not true. Chlorine dioxide has to be prepared on site, not because it is a hazardous gas, but because it does not hold together – i.e., it decomposes rapidly – in air. The first sentence is the reason for the second.

If you activate chlorine dioxide in concentrations for what have been its traditional uses, the gas will indeed be “hazardous.” However, in comparatively minute concentrations, it can be highly therapeutic.

Chlorine dioxide’s rapid decomposition can easily be seen when you activate a small amount, for example 3 drops, of MMS (adding 3 drops of citric acid) in an open dish or shot glass. Within 30 seconds it will turn from clear to dark, which notes the chlorine dioxide formation (from the sodium chlorite) in solution (as shown in the opening photo).

Naturally rising, the chlorine dioxide will “offgas” from the solution it was formed in, which you can readily smell. If left alone, the dark liquid will clear up again in 30-60 minutes.

Chlorine dioxide is almost gone in 42 minutes.

Chlorine dioxide is an oxidizer. The term “hazardous” is misleading. A highway that has no traffic, or even sporadic traffic is not hazardous. The traffic itself is not even hazardous. However, if the traffic is heavy and swift, the highway environment will then have become hazardous. Yet, when traffic ebbs, and becomes light and sporadic again, the highway environment will have once again become benign.

An environment where temperature and humidity support mold growth is hazardous, as mold colonies produce mycotoxins which are known health hazards. When molds exist in sufficient numbers to colonize, mycotoxin levels are high. Yet, introducing sufficient amounts of oxygen into such an environment will reduce or eliminate these harmful elements, making the environment itself benign.

Chlorine dioxide will safely and effectively inactivate mold colonies and their mycotoxins byproducts, leaving behind no toxic residue. It will do this if the environment is a building (involving amounts that do require great caution), or a gut (requiring significantly smaller amounts). The hazardous quotient of chlorine dioxide is strictly a matter of concentration. It is as therapeutic when applied, in appropriately reduced concentrations, to a correspondingly small environment as it is in a large one.

The Wikipedia article on mycotoxins is pretty informative. The proliferation of mold byproducts, microscopic spores that contain mycotoxins, can result in anything from “the common cold,” to allergic reactions, to certain forms of cancer.

Mycotoxins themselves point to another factor; that is, the lack of sufficient coherent energy within the environment to maintain a state that supports life and health. The key is energy’s coherency. Environments that are high in positive charged ions lack such coherency, cause significant stress, and support the growth of lifeforms (i.e., anaerobic microorganisms) that begin the breakdown process, otherwise known as decay, that allows new life to be formed.

Some mycotoxins, such as Patulin, are involved in the rotting and decay of fruits and vegetables. They actually break down the apple or fig after it has passed its ability to enhance life so that it can be transformed into something else that can support and enhance life. This is part of life’s natural ebb and flow.

Oxygen will halt the decay process because it brings energy that had been lacking or insufficient.

Chlorine dioxide has been shown to safely inactivate mycotoxins as well as the molds that produce them. Unlike chlorine, it produces no derivative chemical toxicity as a result of its activity.

Here’s a news story on how chlorine dioxide was used to inactivate molds in Louisiana after hurricane Katrina.

Chlorine dioxide is used as a bleach at pulp mills, which make paper and paper products, and in public water-treatment facilities, to make water safe for drinking. It has also been used to decontaminate public buildings.

The only way that a building (or any environment) can be de-contaminated, and therefore made safe for human re-habitation, is by removing or inactivating the elements that threatened health or may have brought about death. Chlorine dioxide has clearly proven itself in that regard.

Contrast this to some methods of eradicating infestations with pesticides where, by using chemical sprays, the environment has actually be further contaminated. The bugs are gone (temporarily), but the air, carpet, clothes and surfaces are loaded with toxicity. Initially you can smell it, but the aroma wearing off doesn’t mean it’s gone.

The statement below has some fuzziness that can support misperception.

Chlorine dioxide is soluble in water and will react rapidly with other compounds. When it reacts in water, chlorine dioxide forms chlorite ion, which is also a very reactive chemical. Because chlorine dioxide is very reactive, it is able to kill bacteria and microorganisms in water.

The “reactivity” of chlorine dioxide has nothing to do with its ability to kill bacteria. The statement suggests that all bacteria and microorganisms in water will be killed off. That is not true. All bacteria and microorganisms that have respiratory nitrate reductase enzyme will be killed off. This enzyme, carried in certain anaerobic strains, such as Salmonella and E. coli, governs the electron transport function.

Some people have criticized Jim Humble for saying that chlorine dioxide “blows a hole” in the pathogen. It appears that the respiratory nitrate reductase enzyme actually pulls the trigger on contact with the chlorine dioxide molecule, setting off a chain reaction that blows up its own host.

There is no “good” or “bad” connotation here. There is only purpose being served naturally by all involved parties.

About 5% of large water-treatment facilities (serving more than 100,000 persons) in the United States use chlorine dioxide to treat drinking water. An estimated 12 million persons may be exposed in this way to chlorine dioxide and chlorite ions. In communities that use chlorine dioxide to treat drinking water, chlorine dioxide and its by-product, chlorite ions, may be present at low levels in tap water.

A friend who lives in Spain informed me that chlorine dioxide is the predominant water treatment method for 90% of France. However, he says that their water also contains high amounts of uranium.

The report fails to note that an estimated 75% of the American public, approximately 240 million people, are “consuming” chlorinated water in one way or another. We are paying a dear price for our deep and long-standing immersion into this and other chemical agents. Who decided that the course we have taken could not be reversed, or the effects, not mitigated? The term “incurable” only applies if we continue to embrace the same way of thinking in our efforts to change.

In this profile, the term “chlorite” will be used to refer to “chlorite ion,” which is a water-soluble ion. Chlorite ion can combine with metal ions to form solid salts (e.g., sodium chlorite). Sodium chlorite dissolves in water and forms chlorite ions and sodium ions. More than 80% of all chlorite (present as sodium chlorite) is used to make chlorine dioxide to disinfect drinking water. Sodium chlorite is also used as a disinfectant to kill germs.

We have cultivated a perception that all microorganisms are “germs” and therefore, should be killed off. We think that all “germs” are harmful, and therefore allow people to give us synthetic medications that will kill the “bad guys”. This is part of the problem with our thinking. Imagine what life would be like if chemicals rushed into an environment and bound up available oxygen, as the hydrocarbons did into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP Oil Spill, suffocating a large proportion of the marine life population. If this happens in the human body and anaerobic microorganisms don’t show up, what would such oxygen deprivation do to the body? Necrosis would set in, and do so in short order. So how “bad” can anaerobic microorganisms be?

Yet, we create a condition of gross over-chemicalization via our predominant method of water treatment, knowing full well the potential outcomes. When the disease pathologies eventually show up, which is now projected with the same anticipation as a bull market, we respond medically with treatment regimens that is largely chemical-based. This is why diseases come earlier in life and last longer. It’s a great way to get you sick, keep you sick and dependent on chemical medications, and appear to prolong your life.

I’ll continue examining the Toxicological Profile for Chlorine Dioxide and Chlorite and see what else comes up.

Jim Humble Responds to Another MMS ‘Dis-Information’ Alert

Dr. Segura’s rant that was critical of MMS, Jim Humble’s redubbed Master Mineral Supplement, wasn’t the only one. Another article was posted on the Yahoo Group Community Alert.

The article was brought to my attention by one of my Facebook friends, who has also experienced health improvements with MMS. The original article content is indented. I forwarded it to Jim, inviting his comments… which follow with no additional comment by me.

 

Jim Humble collects MMS2

CAPITAL LETTERS ARE WRITTEN BY JIM HUMBLE

 

FIRST I’D LIKE TO SAY THAT THE PERSON WRITING THIS PAPER (the small letters) DID NOT INCLUDE HER NAME (I ASSUME FROM THE WRITING IT IS A HER). YOU CAN USUALLY BELIEVE THAT ANY PAPER WHERE THE NAME HAS BEEN WITHHELD THAT THERE IS A HIDDEN AGENDA. IN THIS CASE AN ATTEMPT TO DEBUNK MMS, A SOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN USED BY 5 MILLION PEOPLE AND THAT HAS SAVED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES THEY WOULD LIKE TO STOP.

THE GOVERNMENT, THE FDA, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES WILL LOSE TREMENDOUS MONEY IF PEOPLE ARE HEALED FOR PENNIES INSTEAD OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF INEFFECTIVE TREATMENT.

Community Alert and Bulletin

November 8, 2010

What is Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS), and Why Is It Dangerous?

Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS) is being touted on the Internet as a natural antibiotic and healing agent. But MMS is a synthetic industrial chemical - it is a concentrated (28%) chlorine bleach - sodium chlorite. When MMS is “activated,” it creates CLO2, chlorine dioxide, a very strong chemical oxidizer and bleaching agent. CLO2 is the active molecule in many water purification systems. It does kill germs, but it is toxic. If you ingest it in the concentrations recommended, it can cause you direct harm.

YOU CAN LIE BY REFUSING TO TELL THE FACTS OR BY LEAVING THE FACTS OUT. FIRST IN ACTUALITY IT IS NOT A CHLORINE BLEACH, IT IS A CHLORINE DIOXIDE BLEACH, SORRY BUT A TOTALLY DIFFERENT CHEMICAL.

THE AUTHOR MAKES IT LOOK LIKE IT IS USED IN THE BODY AS A BLEACH, BUT ONLY THREE DROPS ARE TAKEN FROM THE BOTTLE FOR A DOSE AND THOSE THREE DROPS ARE DILUTED BY 675 TIMES, WHEN YOU TAKE IT, IT’S LESS THAN THE AMOUNT OF TABLE SALT THAT YOU WOULD PUT ON A SMALL DINNER SALAD FOR ONE PERSON. AND PERCENTAGE WISE, THAT 28% THAT THIS LADY MENTIONS ABOVE TURNS OUT TO BE .OOO4% WHEN ONE INGESTS IT. DOES ANYONE SEE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 28% AND .0004%?

THERE IS ANOTHER LIE BY OMISSION HERE. THE SENTENCE THAT SAYS, “BUT IT IS TOXIC.” YOU CAN SAY THAT ABOUT ANY CHEMICAL ON EARTH IN LARGE QUANTITIES. TABLE SALT IS USED TO MELT ICE ON ROADS IN THE WINTER AND IN LARGE QUANTITIES IT WILL HARM THE BODY AND IT IS TOXIC.

CLO2 is a toxic chemical oxidizer

CLO2 causes direct oxidation harm to mucous membranes and epithelium (lining of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines), potentially causing vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, and reduced blood pressure.

THIS SENTENCE IS STRICTLY THE AUTHOR’S OPINION. SHE IS TALKING AS IF SHE KNEW WHAT SHE IS SAYING. AS I SAID ABOVE TOXICITY DEPENDS UPON STRENGTH OF THE CHEMICAL. ALL CHEMICALS ARE TOXIC DEPENDING UPON THE STRENGTH. THIS IS WHERE SHE LIES BY LEAVING THE BASIC DATA OUT. AND LIES BY SAYING SHE KNOWS MORE THAN SHE REALLY KNOWS. NO EVIDENCE OF DAMAGE TO THE FETUS IN A PREGNANT WOMAN AS EVER BEEN SHOWN AND MANY FETUSES HAVE BEEN SAVED AROUND THE WORLD AND DEFINITELY IN AFRICA WHERE I WORKED.

Once ingested, it is absorbed into the bloodstream and can cause harm to red blood cells and to the developing brain of the fetus in pregnant women. Because CLO2 is a chemical oxidizer (called a “free radical”) it depletes vitamin C. Putting it another way, the vitamin C in our body gets depleted in its attempts to detoxify CLO2; vitamin C is our “free radical scavenger.” The instructions provided with MMS specifically warn people not to take vitamin C while they are taking MMS because vitamin C “interferes” with it. This is a red flag that MMS is a toxic chemical, since vitamin C is our primary detoxification agent. Vitamin C depletion is extremely dangerous: it is the bulwark of our immune system, and it is needed for dozens of other body functions.

ANOTHER LIE BY OMISSION. A PERSON IS INSTRUCTED NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN C WITHIN 2 HOURS. IT’S OK TO TAKE LARGE AMOUNTS 2 HOURS BEFORE OR AFTER TAKING MMS. ALSO THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE BODY GETS DEPLETED IN ANY WAY OF VITAMIN C WHILE TAKING MMS. THAT’S ANOTHER OPINION TO PLANT FEAR OF MMS.

“Activated” MMS contains elemental chlorine

Despite the claims of its “inventor” Jim Humble that MMS is elemental chlorine free, the fact of the matter is that when CLO2 is created in water, it immediately reacts with the water to create elemental chlorine and hypochlorous acid. Commercial bleaching operations that use only CLO2 end up with elemental chlorine and organic chlorine compounds in their wastewater. (Thornton, page 321-322)

AGAIN THIS WRITER LIES BY LEAVING IMPORTANT DATA OUT. THE FACT IS, WHEN CLO2 IS CREATED FROM SODIUM CHLORITE (MMS) IT CREATES NO CHLORINE. IN THE COMMERCIAL BLEACHING OPERATION THEY DO NOT USE SODIUM CHLORITE TO GENERATE CHLORINE. THEY USE MUCH MORE COMPLEX MACHINERY. SHE LIES BY LEAVING OUT THAT FACT AS WELL AS LEAVING OUT THE FACT THAT CHLORINE CAN ALSO BE GENERATED BY WASTE COMPOUNDS IN THE WASTE WATER. AND YES IF YOU CHECK THAT COMPANY THEY WILL SAY THERE IS CHLORINE IN THEIR WASTER WATER, AND IF YOU CHECK CLOSELY YOU WILL FIND THEY USE NO SODIUM CHLORITE (MMS) TO GENERATE THEIR CHLORINE DIOXIDE.

What does this mean to you?

When elemental chlorine comes in contact with human tissue, it immediately destroys the molecules it comes in contact with, harming tissue and organs. In doing so it also combines with the natural biological chemicals (aromatic hydrocarbons) in your cells, forming chemicals that could never exist in nature, called polychlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons.

THIS LADY IS GOOD AT COPYING CHEMICAL NAMES, BUT SHE KNOWS NOTHING OF CHEMISTRY. SODIUM CHLORITE CANNOT CHEMICALLY GENERATE CHLORINE AND IS USED THROUGHOUT INDUSTRY BECAUSE OF THAT FACT, IT CANNOT GENERATE CHLORINE THEREFORE THERE WILL BE NO CHLORINE IN THE BODY TO CAUSE DAMAGE AND THIS FACT HAS BEEN PROVEN THOUSANDS OF TIME THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

These new chemicals are almost always carcinogenic (cause cancer) because they mimic chemicals that look like them but do not include chlorine. So when you ingest MMS, you create cancer-causing chemicals from your own body fluids and tissue. These bio-accumulate in fat tissue, eventually causing cancer.

THE LADY HAS NO BUSINESS CLAIMING THINGS THAT SHE CANNOT PROVE. I HOPE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THE COMPLETE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THIS PAPER. THIS PAPER IS BEING PRESENTED TO PEOPLE SOME OF WHOM WILL BELIEVE IT, AND THUS IF THEY HAVE A DISEASE FROM WHICH THEY SUFFER OR MIGHT EVEN DIE THEY WILL NOT EVEN GIVE MMS A CHANCE. THUS THEY WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER BECAUSE THIS LADY IS EITHER JEALOUS OR SHE IS BEING PAID BY AN INDUSTRIAL PHARMACEUTICAL TO HELP ELIMINATE MMS. SHE WOULDN’T LIE FOR FREE UNLESS SHE IS JUST JEALOUS.

It means that if you consume MMS you will end up with these compounds - which cause cancer - inside you.

NOT TRUE AS I HAVE ALREADY SHOWN. NO CHLORINE ENTERS THE BODY FROM MMS AND THUS NO CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS ARE GENERATED.

MMS is Toxic - Do Not Use It

Even if you didn’t understand the explanation above, please take my word for it - Miracle Mineral Supplement is very toxic to your body. It may seem to get rid of bacteria - chlorine bleach does do that - but at great expense to your long-term health: tissue and organ damage, and possibly cancer.

5 MILLION USERS AND NO ONE REPORTED ORGAN DAMAGE, AND ORGAN DAMAGE COULD NOT RESULT UNLESS ONE ABUSED THE MMS TERRIBLY AND ORGAN DAMAGE COULD ALSO RESULT FROM TAKING TOO MUCH TABLE SALT.

There is nothing natural about MMS, it is not a supplement, and the only mineral in it is sodium. It is a synthetic industrial chemical. And the only thing miraculous about MMS is that it hasn’t been taken off the market.

AGAIN THE LADY DEMONSTRATES SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT. REMEMBER HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY? ANYTHING THAT IS NOT AN ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE IS A MINERAL. HOWEVER, SODIUM CHLORITE (MMS) IS FOUND IN THE GROUND IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD. LOOK IT UP ON THE INTERNET.

In October 2009, and man named Doug Nash reported on the cure zone website that MMS had killed his wife, Silvie Fink. Jim Humble issued a blithering response, attacking this man who was grieving the death of his wife, with an outright falsehood:

DOUG NASH DIDN’T EVEN WAIT ONE DAY. HE BEGAN A PROGRAM TO HURT MMS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE THE VERY NEXT MORNING AFTER HIS WIFE’S DEATH. HE EMAIL BLOGS ALL AROUND THE US. SAYING 2 DROPS OF MMS HAD KILLED HIS WIFE. I HAVE GIVEN 2 DROPS TO BABY MICE AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN GET SICK.. NASH CONTINUED TO DO HIS BEST TO TEAR DOWN MMS UNTIL I ATTACKED HIM WITH A QUESTION AND THAT WAS, WHAT WAS HE DOING WITH HIS WIFE FOR 8 HOURS AFTER SHE WAS SICK. IT WAS 8 HOURS BEFORE HE CALLED FOR HELP. WHEN I ASKED THAT, HE QUIT THE EMAIL CAMPAIGN AGAINST MMS. I CREATED MMS, IT’S MY JOB TO PROTECT IT. MANKIND’S FUTURE IS AT STAKE.

“MMS is a natural chemical manufactured by the human immune system to help prevent diseases and to keep the body healthy.” The truth is this: your body cannot create sodium chlorite or chlorine dioxide. MMS can only be created in a chemical factory.

THE LADY IS STILL CONFUSING THE ISSUE. PLEASE CHECK WITH THE WHO (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION). THEY HAVE RESEARCH PAPERS SHOWING THAT EVERYONE HAS CHLORINE DIOXIDE IN THEIR BODIES. THE ONLY WAY THAT IT GETS THERE IS BECAUSE THE BODY MAKES IT. IT HAS BEEN REPORTED FOR MANY YEARS THAT CHLORINE DIOXIDE IS GENERATED BY THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a press release on July 30, 2010, warning people not to consume MMS.

Please, please do not use this substance. If you have any, don’t use it, but save it for evidence. If it has harmed you, please obtain the services of a lawyer to sue the distributor who sold it to you and the manufacturer. Jim Humble must be held accountable for creating this fraudulent product and thereby harming people. Send a complaint to the FDA. Call the FDA’s MedWatch program at 800-FDA-1088 or file a report online at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm. As much as I detest the FDA, their job is to get dangerous products off the market, and MMS should be banned.

THIS LADY IS WRONG ONCE AGAIN. I DO NOT MANUFACTURE, NOR HAVE I EVER MANUFACTURED MMS NOR HAVE I EVER SOLD IT, NOR HAVE I EVER ACCEPTED ANY MONEY FROM THE SALES OF IT. THIS LADY DOESN’T KNOW OF A SINGLE PERSON WHO HAS BEEN HURT BY MMS NOR CAN SHE PRODUCE ANY.

FINALLY LET ME ADDRESS YOUR ABILITY TO USE LOGIC. THE PATHOGEN IS MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS, PROBABLY ABOUT 1000 TIMES SMALLER IN DIAMETER THAN THE DISTANCE YOUR SKIN IS THICK, AND ABOUT THE SAME FOR THE WALLS OF YOUR INTESTINES AND STOMACH THAT THIS LADY IS SURE IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED.

NOW, THINK OF HOW THICK THE SKIN OR OUTER WALLS OF A PATHOGEN IS GOING TO BE. THINK A MINUTE, THIS LADY CAN’T. THE PATHOGEN IS LESS THAN ONE THOUSANDTH OF AN INCH IN SIZE, AND HIS SKIN IS A HUNDRED TIMES THINNER THAN THAT.. SO IF YOU TAKE A TINY TINY AMOUNT OF MMS (CHLORINE DIOXIDE) IT CAN BLOW A HOLE IN THAT TERRIBLY THIN SKIN BEFORE IT EVEN TOUCHES THE SKIN IN THE BODY. AND GUESS WHAT? THAT IS EXACTLY HOW THE MMS KILLS THE PATHOGEN, BY BLOWING A HOLE IN ITS SKIN.

OH, I GUESS ONE LAST THING. ABOUT THE MMS (CHLORINE DIOXIDE) HURTING THE BODY IN DILUTE AMOUNTS SUCH AS MMS. YOU SEE MMS HAS A POSITIVE 950 MILLI VOLTS OXIDATION POTENTIAL. (REMEMBER SHE TOLD YOU IT WAS AN OXIDIZER). WELL THE BODY HAS A POSITIVE OXIDATION POTENTIAL OF ABOUT 90 MILLIVOLTS. REMEMBER, YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY AGAIN. RUDIMENTARY SCIENCE TELLS US LIKE CHARGES REPEL AND UNLIKE CHARGES ATTRACTS. THIS RULE ALSO WORKS IN CHEMISTRY. THAT’S WHY YOU LEARN THE RULES. THE LIKE CHARGE OF THE MMS (POSITIVE) REPELS THE LIKE CHARGE (POSITIVE) OF THE BODY AND THEY NEVER COME TOGETHER. AND THUS MMS CANNOT DO DAMAGE TO THE BODY UNLESS IT IS EXTREMELY CONCENTRATED AND THEN EVEN SALT WILL DO DAMAGE.

I AM 79 YEARS OLD, AND THE LADY THAT HAS WRITTEN THIS PAPER THE (small letters) HAS BEEN TREATING PEOPLE FOR SOME TIME USING NATURAL REMEDIES AND THAT I APPROVE OF. SO I MUST ASSUME THAT SHE ISN’T WORKING FOR THE FDA OR GOVERNMENT SO THE ONLY OTHER REASON FOR HER TO DEBUNK SOMETHING THAT SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT IS JEALOUSY. AND FOR THAT I AM TRULY SORRY FOR HER AS SHE HURTS HERSELF AND A LOT OF OTHERS.

AS ALWAYS WITH LOVE

JIM HUMBLE

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In Response to Dr. Segura on MMS

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Friendly, professional mis-advice.

 

After the FDA came out with its public warning against the use of MMS, one of the first widely circulated articles in support of the warning was written by Gabriella Segura, MD. I’ve posted the article in its lengthy entirety below, with my own comments.

You can read the unsullied original by following the link.

MMS: Miracle Mineral Solution or Trojan Horse? Your Body and DNA Decide

The Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) is marketed feverishly as a miraculous alternative treatment for AIDS, hepatitis, malaria, herpes, tuberculosis, cancer and many more of mankind’s most feared diseases. The truth is that MMS is a dangerous poison, and as such it has no business whatsoever in the alternative health arena.

Strong statements. Let’s explore her hypothesis.

Many people do not know that MMS is essentially bleach.

What fewer know is that sodium chlorite, from which MMS is derived, is a salt. On the other hand, chlorine is also considered a bleach. If you have a chronic disease, it is FAR more likely that you have been exposed to chlorine for YEARS. People using MMS to generate small amounts of chlorine dioxide, are actually mitigating chronic diseases.

It’s very effective for killing bacteria in toilets, but you certainly shouldn’t be swallowing it.

This statement applies more to chlorine than chlorine dioxide (which is produced by activating MMS… however, the public is swallowing, and bathing in chlorinated water every day. Doctor Segura either doesn’t know this, doesn’t think it is significant, or doesn’t know the fundamental chemical differences between chlorine and chlorine dioxide.

The toilet reference is cute too. Bacteria in toilets is not a problem. Very expensive drugs, much stronger than chlorine dioxide, are being prescribed and administered daily for medicinal use inside the human body, not toilets. Yet, are becoming increasingly ineffective at killing pathogens, and more so at increasing one’s toxic load.

The active ingredient in MMS is not a mineral, but chlorine dioxide (oxygenated chlorine),

Calling chlorine dioxide “oxygenated chlorine” is like calling salt “sodiumized” chlorine. She’s attempting to assign the chemical properties of elemental chlorine to chlorine dioxide, when in fact, it has its own unique and very different chemical behavior.

which is formed from the chemical combination of sodium chlorite and acetic acid (vinegar) or citric acid. MMS as a poison does kill intrusive germs in your body, but it would be naïve to believe it to be carefully selective in what it kills and destroys, or to think that the damage done has only limited consequences.

What is a “poison”? Chlorine dioxide is an oxidant. On the other hand, chlorine interaction produces byproducts that could be correctly termed, poisonous.

It is shocking that MMS is recommended so widely, that it is recommended to already weakened individuals AND that it is recommended for long-term use. In truth, the potential long-term and dangerous side effects of regular MMS use should give anyone the shivers.

The writer appears oblivious to the travesty that the public is presently undergoing as a result of officially sanctioned and approved water treatment methods, along with other factors that follow below. Chlorination IS affecting the public now.

I found the following from www.friendsofwater.com.

“A study published in the November 2006 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology has reported a link between exposure to chlorinated water and an increased risk of bladder cancer. According to researchers, ingestion of, and bathing, showering, and swimming in chlorinated water can all lead to increased incidence of cancer.

“The study of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona, Spain, found that “long-term THM exposure was associated with a twofold bladder cancer risk” in households with high levels (50 or more micrograms per liter) of THM. (THMs, or trihalomethanes, are chemical by-products of chlorination.) Researchers discovered that these chemicals invade the human body through ingestion of water, by inhalation and dermal absorption. They also believe that THM that is absorbed or inhaled into the body does not go through a detoxification process in the liver, which may make the chemical much more dangerous in those situations.

“The results of that study showed that drinking highly chlorinated water raised the cancer risk by 35 percent and that swimming in chlorinated pools raised the risk by 57 percent. Those who took longer showers and baths in THM-contaminated water saw their risk of bladder cancer increase 83 percent.”

Dr. Segura talks about chlorine dioxide as though it could it be such a danger when used in concentrations associated with MMS. Those who know the difference understand that chlorination is a present danger, whereas chlorine dioxide disinfection, with its entirely different chemical personality, is showing itself to be effective at mitigating the danger, helping the user’s body restore its own health.

The news about MMS was spread largely by word of mouth as the public read Jim Humble’s story, listened to the available audio conversations on the product and protocol. Some watched and shared my documentary, then decided to try it out for themselves. A large percentage of them had already undergone years of debilitating illness and pain, for which medications were seen to be the symptom suppressants that they are.

Dr. Segura’s admonitions are made in a vacuum of evidence of harm, yet she appears oblivious to, or unwilling to acknowledge, ample evidence of beneficial effect.

Before we continue, an important lesson on oxidation and free radicals is needed to help us understand the long-term consequences of the use of MMS1 and its successor MMS2. This information is crucial to see why MMS is NOT an alternative health solution.

This is a “scientist?” No. This is a person with an agenda; to sell the reader on the idea of being fearful of MMS. She leaves no room for any interpretation of why chlorine dioxide use could make sense.

In spite of the damage that it can be shown to cause today, I can see how chlorination may have made sense when it was selected as the water disinfection method of choice many decades ago. But who could have imagined just how pervasive chlorine use would be?

As a further aside, did you know that 93% of all pharmaceuticals that are manufactured use chlorine? Did you know that chlorination is an industry that does $46 billion in sales?

Oxygen is an essential element that supports life, but in the wrong place or at the wrong time, oxygen can wreak much havoc on our cells, causing cancer, contributing to cardiovascular disease, degenerative diseases, and aging through a process called oxidation. You have seen the effects of oxidation whenever you have observed an apple turn brown and go bad after being exposed to air, or when you see the flame of a candle.

You can’t live without oxygen, and neither can normal human cells. On the other hand, where there is disease, there is normally an oxygen deficiency. Molds, yeasts, fungi, and tumors, all can exist where there is insufficient oxygen to support life.

Yet, if you took Dr. Segura’s explanation to heart, you’d be afraid of oxygen and normal metabolic activity.

What she also doesn’t tell you is that, if that apple turns brown, it’s because it lacks sufficient oxygen (energy) to sustain life, and is essentially dead. Nature is then signaled to begin the decay process. When there is insufficient oxygen within the body, the same process occurs. Chlorine dioxide differs from chlorine in that it delivers oxygen, and even then it’s only where needed, as determined by the activity of enzymes (respiratory nitrate reductase) that naturally occur in certain anaerobic bacteria such as Salmonella and E. coli.

Chlorine dioxide also has a net reducing effect on chemical toxicity. When you take it and it acts, your body will be less toxic afterwards than it was before. This may be one reason why people are reporting improvements in their health, because when pharmaceutical-based medicines are administered, the patient’s toxic load is increased. Nausea, diarrhea and vomiting under those circumstances are simply coping mechanisms by the body, with little actual improvement, because the environment itself – that supported the pathology (and dysfunction) in the first place – has not been improved.

Don’t you find the incredulity that MMS could be actually helping people – by the FDA, et. al, and by the writer, fascinating?

We use oxygen in order to take electrons from the sugar and fat molecules that we use for fuel.

Nowhere in any science book will you hear this kind of description of why we use oxygen. We need oxygen to breathe. Oxygen is one of the fuels that is needed to produce usable energy. And yet, we exhale carbon dioxide (CO2). We are constantly exchanging oxygen in one form or another. It’s part of how life as we know it is perpetuated.

The molecules we wish to keep intact, however, are subject to oxygen’s burning influence and they are at risk of losing electrons as well. The fire from a candle flame aptly illustrates oxidation in which the electrons of the candle wax are ripped off by oxygen in the atmosphere with the resulting, self-perpetuating release of light and heat. As oxygen makes its way through the body, many of its molecules lose an electron. This means that they become chemically unstable and highly reactive ions as free radicals are formed. These unstable metabolic by-products of energy production in cells strive to stabilize by ‘stealing’ a replacement electron from any neighboring molecule, leaving even more damaged molecules in their wake. This is how free radicals in our bodies are produced and cause inflammation, a process that is best known as oxidative stress or oxidative damage. Oxidation can even cause debilitating changes to your DNA.

This is simply a bunch of gobbledygook. She appears to be making a case against oxygen, something we cannot either live, or be healthy without!

Depending on where this oxidative damage takes place, it can lead to any number of the following diseases: atherosclerosis (plaque in blood vessels), cancer, arthritis, cataracts, neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, autoimmune diseases, and many other health problems generally related to aging. Any free radical involving oxygen can be referred to as a Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS).

She is blaming these diseases on oxidative damage, when they are more likely caused by the lack of sufficient oxygen. I mean oxygen in sufficient amounts to nullify the effects of low level chemicals, heavy metals (aluminum, mercury, etc.).

By the way, some of the anaerobic microorganisms that tend to proliferate in oxygen deficient environments also go away when chlorine dioxide is introduced. Tests run by the USDA confirmed the presence of an enzyme, respiratory nitrate reductase, which governs the electron transfer function. Electrons aren’t “stolen” by ClO2, but given up when the right stimulus is encountered.

This enzyme appears to be responsible for releasing the ClO2 from the sodium chlorite (NaClO2), which in turn, kills the pathogen, its host. Aerobic bacteria are not hosts to respiratory nitrate reductase, and therefore, are not affected by the action of ClO2.

This finally answers the question of selectivity, which MMS denouncers have claimed is impossible. The chlorine dioxide does not “select” anaerobic microorganisms to destroy. An enzyme carried by the anaerobic microorganism triggers the transfer of electrons, thereby destroying the bacteria. Why? Because something that was needed for proper metabolic function — i.e., oxygen — had arrived, thanks to chlorine dioxide.

A perfect example of a ROS is hypochlorous acid, which is now also known as Miracle Mineral Solution 2 (MMS2). Keep in mind that the loss of electrons from molecules whose integrity is vital to the structure of our cell membranes, DNA, skin or eyes results in damage and disease. Oxidation is the most toxic force affecting all the molecules of the body; it’s the enemy of youth, the ally of all diseases, and the fundamental mechanism of all injury, all aging, and eventually, of death [1].

The only molecules that give up electrons are those connected to organisms that live in oxygen deficient environments. The lack of sufficient oxygen is a primary stress factor unto itself. There is no anaerobic presence without a preceding lack of sufficient oxygen.

If oxygen is delivered to the environment, then normal function has a chance to be restored, thereby ending the need for the anaerobic presence. Thus, the enzyme transfers electrons of its anaerobic host, and the host no longer exists, with no new toxic chemistry, e.g., chloroform, being created.

By now, you should understand why anti-oxidants are so important.

Although they are, it was not evident to me from her explanation.

Antioxidants help to counteract or neutralize the free radicals before they can damage our healthy cells by lending a hand (actually, an electron) when stabilization is needed. This is the reason why we are fond of so many antioxidants such as vitamin C, E, carotenoids, resveratrol, taurine, coenzyme Q10, and melatonin, to name but a few.

Chlorine dioxide is considered a free radical. However, it is a well-behaved one. Holding an oxidation potential of .95 volts, it is less potent than ozone, hydrogen peroxide, and even oxygen (O2), and doesn’t affect healthy cells, tissue, or aerobic microorganisms. That can’t be said about the other oxidants, or about antibiotics either.

Each person is exposed to oxidants and each one of us has a variety of antioxidant defenses and DNA repair ability. These factors together determine the extent of oxidant-induced DNA damage in each of us, and the levels of such damage may well contribute to cancer risk, especially in tissues where other changes may have already occurred. But keep in mind that DNA protection is essential not only to guard us from cancer, but also because in all of our cells, DNA carries our ancestral identity and the instructions and information that maintain our bodies. We might also wonder what other special properties could be lying dormant in our DNA.

A lot of talk about DAMAGE that hasn’t been supported by the evidence. What HAS been demonstrated is that present environmental practices, facilitated via current methods of water treatment as one example, are already causing the very damage that Dr. Segura projects might come from MMS usage. She fully ignores the positive effects that are being voluntarily reported by people who have used MMS.

Also, as for hypochlorous acid. It is a chemical that is naturally produced by the human body. That is, when the immune system hasn’t been literally saturated with toxic chemicals. Given the regular exposure to chlorinated water that Westerners get, along with the chemical remedies that doctors prescribe when their bodies finally get overloaded, it was a stroke of genius for Jim Humble to devise a way to give the immune system a boost of its own medicine. A small capsule of calcium hypochlorite when ingested, will provide a hypochlorous acid boost inside, where help is needed.

But for now, let’s get back to MMS1, which is basically the combination of sodium chlorite and acetic acid (vinegar) or citric acid which together form chlorine dioxide (oxygenated chlorine). The toxic effects of chlorine dioxide are associated with those of sodium chlorite – a very strong oxidant that at a dose of 10-15 grams is considered to be lethal.

She may be right about a dose of 10-15 grams of sodium chlorite being lethal, but what does that have to do with MMS? 10-15 grams of table salt, may kill you too. Sodium chlorite is a salt. It is natural. Too much of anything, taken out of context, can be damaging. Where is her acknowledgment of this simple truth?

Even small amounts of about 1 gram can be expected to cause nausea and vomiting.

Even 1g of MMS would be considered a VERY large dose. However, what one can *expect* from using MMS in recommended amounts, is a reduction of toxicity. If an individual is very ill, they are already very toxic. Dr. Segura writes as though healthy people are taking MMS, and it’s going to make them sick.

Conventional “modern living” is making people sick on its own. Then the medical treatment that most people are guided to keeps the condition in tact while appearing to mitigate symptoms. We’ve seen it enough. We get it. The jig is up!

Now get this: the MMS protocol suggests that taking up to 60 drops per day is within reason.

Some people have taken this much, but this amount has never been part of the protocol. And even that has changed, as Jim Humble has continued to refine the protocol from feedback he has received. The protocol now calls for a smaller number of drops (up to 3) spread out hourly over an 8-hour period (10 hours for acute cases).

There are 20 drops in one gram, which means that the protocol may call for the ingestion of 3 grams or more of what amounts to household bleach.

This is alarmist. If she correctly stated that chemotherapy is ingesting pharmaceutical grade mustard gas, then there would at least be some balance here. However, the characterization of MMS to “household bleach” is false.

I wonder how would she justify chlorination? Whether it is inadvertent or intentional, she is actually intermixing the chlorination chemical behavior with chlorine dioxide oxidation. They are distinctly different unto themselves.

If she were sincere (which I question), she’d beg the question of why the vast majority of the population is already being exposed to such “bleach” every day? I don’t hear her saying that chlorine is dangerous, although it is. She’s saying that chlorine dioxide might, and should be dangerous, although when used as outlined, it is not.

This is three times the amount required to produce nausea and vomiting and 20% of the amount required to kill you [2]. Even though we are told that nausea and diarrhea are positive signs of detoxification when following the MMS protocol, you can be sure that they are actually the way our body tells us that we’ve just been poisoned.

That’s certainly true for chemotherapy and a long list of other drugs, but doctors prescribe them anyway. The difference is that when diarrhea or other effects happen with MMS, the body will have actually reduced its toxic load. Healing can then occur.

If you happen to vomit, then be reassured that it might have saved your life by way of avoiding a lethal overdose of MMS! There are in fact several testimonials of negative side effects and at least one death related to MMS which you can easily find on the internet [2].

This is almost funny, but it’s not. With over 5 million people now, or having used MMS, there is but one death associated with its use, and MMS has not been shown as the cause. It was coincidental; it was involved, but that is as far as the evidence has taken anyone, over a year after she passed away. If chlorine dioxide was actually the cause, it would have been proven by now.

This is not to say that a death could never occur concomitant with MMS use. People will continue transition from this world as long as they enter it. The issue is whether chlorine dioxide is, and can be, an effective disinfectant, and whether simple disinfection is a viable treatment strategy in a myriad of disease pathologies. The answer appears to be yes.

Supporting this hypothesis are numerous reports of people who were virtually used up by the present medical system and its modalities, and on death’s door, who are not only still with us, but have restored their health. If even one such case can be documented (many more have), that would be reason to explore MMS with sincere interest, and not as a witch hunt.

The popularity of MMS and its fervent, almost religious marketing involved the claim of curing malaria in tens if not hundreds of thousands of people. Sounds very noble indeed, but this is only natural as MMS’ sodium chlorite is well known to cause hemolysis in red blood cells – meaning that red blood cells are ruptured and destroyed. It is actually by killing red blood cells that the malarial parasite is killed since it invades red blood cells. MMS probably kills the parasite and the red blood cells. In fact, MMS consumers may develop anemia.

Conjecture is conjecture, no matter who conjects it. She’s projecting her own false hope once again. The people who got over malaria with MMS (and I’ve met a few), knew when they had been cured versus when they were sick. For me, their knowing will trump Dr. Segura’s conjecture any day.

MMS really does sound like a dangerous allopathic drug, similar to antibiotics or chemotherapy.

Big difference. People from all over the world are reporting that they’ are getting better after using MMS. Not so with either antibiotics or chemistry (or steroids, coumadin, or yada yada yada).

Why is it that we don’t see many efforts to remove this poison from the market when in recent times there has been a push to remove healthy vitamins and antioxidants by agencies like the FDA and Codex? MMS is more of a killer than antibiotics and has the potential to kill all kinds of microbes including viruses.

This is actually an irresponsible statement, although since facts aren’t important, I guess it’s no more irresponsible than the rest of the article. Antibiotics kill in two ways, (1) by the imbalance that they exacerbate in an already compromised system, and (2) by the time, energy, and attention not given to giving the patient what was really needed… i.e., a restoration of balance. Balance cannot be achieved via synthetic chemicals. Chlorine dioxide is a chemical compound, but it is not synthetic. It is natural, and it very effectively reduces overall toxicity.

Such a killer weapon has other consequences for your body, and killer therapies should never be the first course of action when dealing with disease. They should never be an option when we are able to take control of our health through diet and appropriate, real alternative health therapies.

I agree with her here. However, she doesn’t seem to have a problem being the harbinger of incorrect information.

Let us review some safety data sheets of MMS ingredients: Chlorine dioxide is a strong oxidant, and as such it reacts violently with combustible materials, mercury, ammonia, sulphur and many organic compounds [3]. Sodium chlorite is a strong irritant of the skin, eyes, and respiratory tract; a strong oxidizer that promotes combustion; concentrated solutions may be corrosive to the skin and eyes; mild hemolytic anemia and increased methemoglobin in males was observed in animal feeding studies [4]. Acute health effects of chlorine dioxide: ingestion is not a normal route of exposure (except thanks to MMS!), harmful if swallowed, can cause irritation to mouth, esophagus, stomach, and mucous membranes (hence, the diarrhea, nausea and vomiting!). Eye contact: contact causes redness, irritation, pain, blurred vision, tearing, corneal injury and burns. Inhalation: harmful if inhaled, coughing, headaches, labored breathing, nausea, shortness of breath, pulmonary edema. Chronic health effects: may have effects on lungs, resulting in chronic bronchitis and permanent lung damage [5]. In short, MMS should NEVER be a health treatment, alternative or otherwise!

All of the statements above are true, IF you’re using sodium chlorite by the gram, pound, barrel, or drum. That’s not happening with MMS. You would think that an intelligent doctor would able to discern and articulate the difference. I bet that she can, but is selectively choosing what she will, or will not see.

Now here is where things get even more interesting. Enter MMS2, which works more subtly and therefore more dangerously than its predecessor.

So what we saw above was the appetizer.

MMS2 is basically calcium hypochlorite, which is a chemical compound widely used for water treatment and as a bleaching and disinfecting agent (bleaching powder). This one is indeed a mineral, but a mineral that reacts to produce hypochlorous acid when ingested. Hypochlorous acid (HOCl), which is a combination of hydrogen, oxygen, and chlorine, is what some of our white blood cells produce in order to kill bacteria through the well-known process called oxidation. HOCl is a powerful oxidant indeed, and as I mentioned before, it is the perfect example of a hazardous reactive oxygen species (ROS). Just as with MMS1, pathogens can’t develop a resistance to MMS2 and this is related to the powerful free radicals that it liberates. Sound good? Well, not really. MMS2 is meant to create high concentrations of this dangerous oxidative hypochlorous acid in our bodies in order to kill ‘powerful and incurable’ diseases, or so it is claimed. Unfortunately, the amount of HOCl that our body is already capable of producing on its own is dangerous enough. In fact, some of our white blood cells have toxic and damaging effects on our DNA through the formation of hypochlorous acid [6, 7]. What is more, antioxidants are being studied and used successfully to block hypochlorous acid from creating DNA damage [7, 8, 9, 10]. Yes, DNA damage! This is dangerous to the extreme!

She’s saying that the natural HOCl output of the body is “dangerous?”_medium_bruce-lipton_49424[1]

The healthy human body is a symphony of diverse microbial and metabolic processes, that work so well together we would be in awe, not in fear. A wonderful treatise on the workings of the human body and the evolution of knuckleheaded thinking that we endure today, is Spontaneous Evolution, by Bruce Lipton, PhD and Steve Bhaerman.

The oxidative process described by Dr. Segura reads like that of a mine field, to be traversed with great caution and trepidation. It is devoid of the innate intelligence and wisdom that is built in to each cell of the body.

Listen to this “grim” fairy tale.

Another way in which MMS2 can cause damage is through activation of ‘evil’ transcription factors. Free radicals such as hypochlorous acid and other toxins may cause transcription factors to initiate a series of genetic reactions that result in cancer.

She’s essentially saying that natural chemicals and metabolic processes initiate genetic reactions that cause cancer! The human body is a chemistry factory unto itself. Producing hypochlorous acid is just one of its ways to protect the host – meaning you and me. Dr. Segura would leave an uninformed reader nervous to simply be human!

Transcription factors are proteins that facilitate gene expression – that is, they cause genetic material to do something.

“They cause genetic material to do something?!”

A particular transcription factor, NF kappa B, is influenced by free radicals or toxins which usually activate it. Once activated, this transcription factor goes into the nucleus of our cells where our DNA resides and may activate genes that might change a potentially malignant cell into an absolutely malignant cell [8]. Hypochlorous acid (MMS2) activates this infamous NF-kappa B transcription factor, especially in the absence of antioxidants like taurine [11,12]. NF-kappa B has also a crucial role in inflammation, and thus ultimately it induces illness. That MMS2 is promoted as a cure for cancer and many other illnesses is just plain baffling.

People who have a compromised immune system that take MMS2 already have a deficiency in their capacity to produce hypochlorous acid. The positive results they’ve reported indicate that the small boost must have helped.

It’s not hard to comprehend how such a shortage in producing hypochlorous acid “immune factor” could come about. The following is but a short list of metabolic stressors that we expose ourselves to each day either as a function of environmental, nutritional, or medicinal action.

  • Chlorination
  • Fluoride
  • Aspartame
  • Synthetic vitamins and minerals with missing cofactors that pass through the body unabsorbed
    • Beta carotene and Vitamin E (dl-tocopheryl acetate) – caused heart attacks, lung cancer (New England Journal of Medicine 1994)
    • Vitamin A – 22,000 women 400% increase in birth defects (New England Journal of Medicine 1995)
    • Synthetic Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) – caused thickened arteries in men (Reuters Health, March 2000)
  • Synthetic Vitamin D
  • MSG
  • Calcium Carbonate
  • Sucralose or glucose
  • Titanium Dioxide
  • Antibiotics, acetaminophen, steroids, and thousands of other allopathic medicines
  • Genetically modified (transgenic) products.
  • The list goes on, and on, and on…

Each one of these, and the many thousands of others that could have been listed, do not appear on the list of components and materials needed to “construct” or “repair” the human body. Instead, we are presented with what some laboratory scientist has convinced someone are “suitable substitutes” from trusted professionals… not just water treatment and the health care system, but agriculture (antibiotics and pesticides) and dairy (antibiotics and hormones), and the food and beverage industries (chemical additives) as well.

All of these are foreign to the human body and therefore either require supplemental metabolic actions in order to be utilized, or destruction, via oxidation, if they cannot be. Given the enormity of our synthetic addiction, it’s easy to see how the body could simply exhaust its ability to produce enough of its own natural chemical defenses, such as hypochlorous acid, which would safely oxidize these low level interlopers.

Again, the results will confirm or debunk the theory. Dr. Segura simply provides a fearful smokescreen while failing to see, or acknowledge the very real need for assistance that the body, especially a chronically ill one, might have.

But that’s not all, folks. It gets worse! In fact, hypochlorous acid (MMS2) has the power to chlorinate the building blocks of DNA, breaking the DNA double helix apart and thus interfering with its vital biological functions [13]. By the way, the new airport security scanners can break apart our DNA’s double helix as well [14]. Do we see a pattern here?

I rest my case. Yes, we see a pattern of doubt and fear being promoted without regard to, or concern for, observed results. If a person says that he or she experienced an improvement by taking MMS1 or MMS2, it would behoove a true scientist to say something like, “what did you do?” and see if the results are reproducible. Dr. Segura, the FDA, et. al, are running in the opposite direction. They want nothing to do with true observation, discovery, and reproducibility.

The public is discovering, learning, and understanding on its own.

Some claim that hypochlorous acid is hazardous only to intrusive germs, but there are actually studies that have determined that the properties of hypochlorous acid that make it such a potent bug killer agent can damage our bodies by the same mechanism used to destroy the invading pathogenic bugs [15]. One such study could not have a more appropriate name: “Living with a killer: the effects of hypochlorous acid on mammalian cells [15].

I trust nature to know what to do with hypochlorous acid, especially after learning that it is one of the body’s natural products of immune system response.

It has been well documented that there are a variety of disorders tied to the deleterious effects of hypochlorous acid in our bodies including diabetes, obesity, depression, hypertension, gout, kidney failure, and autism, among other conditions [12].

This is another example of where laboratory study, devoid of any natural context, provides us with useless understandings. The referenced article makes room for the presence of absolutely no other environmental factors. HOCl can be examined on its own to see how it behaves against lycopene, but this is not representative of the environment inside the human body. What will be present there? When HOCl is produced, it is with a specific purpose and intent, which is to protect the host. Dr. Segura doesn’t appear to believe such intelligence is innate at that level, or perhaps at any level outside her own skewed perspective.

This makes sense in view of our brief review of oxidation: wherever there is oxidative damage, there is disease.

Wherever there is oxygen deficiency, there is disease. Wherever there is synthetic chemical saturation, there will be oxygen starvation, and there will be disease. My description makes more sense than the doctor’s.

What is more, our brains have a high oxygen demand, and thus are particularly sensitive to oxidative damage. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that our mind is often the canary in the coal mine. We often notice our body’s first inflammatory effects through brain fog, memory problems, and insomnia. Hypochlorous acid has the potential to be extremely neurotoxic to our brains, where it literally oxidizes certain lipids and proteins, preventing them from performing their functions and contributing to neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis [16].

Talk about shooting the messenger. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, and even Multiple Sclerosis, are likely caused by damage due to heavy metal toxicity, from mercury and aluminum, as well as fluoride. Hypochlorous acid and chlorine dioxide appear to be effective at oxidizing, thereby inactivating these chemical luddites.

In addition, hypochlorous acid can be very dangerous in certain settings [17]. Its strong oxidative power makes the chemical very dangerous, because it can become explosive when combined with certain substances. Adding acids to a hypochlorous acid solution will precipitate this process, making the mixture unstable, releasing chlorine gas, and potentially causing an explosive chemical reaction. The compound needs to be handled carefully because it can release dangerous chlorine gas if mixed with seemingly safe household products. Chlorine gas can cause considerable health problems or death, especially in poorly ventilated spaces, which is one reason why it is inadvisable to mix household chemicals like bleach at random.

If you view the sun from the planet Mercury or even Venus in Bermuda shorts, you’re not going to enjoy the view very long. Yet, we cannot live without sunlight. It is a mischaracterization to paint chlorine dioxide, or even chlorine in such wide and negative brush strokes. Nature has a reason and a wisdom all its own that we should honor and respect. We should also recognize the sincerity of those who have used MMS and reported their results. Clearly, we haven’t won the war on disease. Perhaps we should declare a truce and engage in substantive talks with people who have cured themselves, rather than deny that such cures are even possible outside a laboratory.

Further complicating this tragedy, MMS is now being promoted with the use of DMSO [18]. DMSO (Dimethylsulphoxide) is a solvent which enhances the availability and effectiveness of many drugs throughout our bodies, thus potentiating their effects. It has the capacity to distribute a drug deep into our bodies. The worrying thing is that DMSO also very easily crosses the blood-brain barrier. This property is exactly why DMSO is widely used as an effective transporter of certain substances into our brains that may not otherwise cross the mentioned barrier [19]. Even though DMSO by itself is a powerful antioxidant, keep in mind that it has the ability to potentiate and carry a dangerous poison such as MMS1 and MMS2 into the brain. By now, I hope that it is clear why this is a very, very bad idea.

DMSO actually mitigates the harmful effects of many drugs, thereby “enhancing” their perceived effectiveness. And yet, it has very narrow FDA clearance for use in humans. You can buy it at a feed store to rub your horse down with it. Ninety percent of the DMSO purchased at such stores find human use, because it is as effective as Dr. Walker describes in his book. On the other hand, while it is an antioxidant, DMSO has also enhanced the penetrability of MMS. The two can be used topically, to great benefit, effectively reducing one’s toxic load.

Please give this article to any MMS consumer. They have the right to know what is going on within their bodies – and DNA – when they take this Trojan Horse!

I agree, because, dressed up under the guise of a wise and helpful physician, this article represents a clear example of the proverbial “pot calling the kettle black.” It shouts, “Trust me while I misinform and frighten you!”