Re: Urgent Public Notice The Legal Problem With MMS

Hello Oceanman,

I don't think you are confused at all... [smile icon] You are correct, you are mixing up and ingesting chlorous acid.

The problem in the body is that chlorine dioxide does not exist for any length of time. You can demonstrate this to yourself by mixing up a 3 drop dose, then taking a sip of it and swish it around in your mouth for 30 seconds, then spit it out into another glass. You can test for chlorine dioxide using test strips, or you can simply check the appearance and odor of what you spit out. The mucous of the body uses up all the free chlorine dioxide.

This is where additional study is needed. My "best guess" is that since chlorine dioxide rapidly reduces to chlorite, and chlorite has been observed to have a half life of a little over 40 hours in rats, and it shows up in all the bodies organs, including the brain, it is the chlorite that is doing the work. The problem with chlorite is that it is a free radical and can do other damage in the process.

The "next best guess" is that the body actually absorbs chlorous acid and some of the benefits are achieved by the high oxidation reduction potential of chlorous acid. However, chlorous acid effectiveness is dependent upon PH and the body has a wide variety of PH values. It also reduces to chlorite, so once again we are looking at the possibility of chlorite doing the work.

People have for may years been putting sodium chlorite in water and drinking that and reporting many favorable results. This is where Jim Humble started out, but he was unsatisfied with his 70% success rate and claims that activating the solution and using a much higher concentration of sodium chlorite brings the success rate up to closer to 100%. You can review the information on sodium chlorite in water by searching for articles on Stabilized Oxygen.

The problem with using sodium chlorite in water is that the body can be less than perfect in activating the solution, and the concentrations are much lower. This means that instead of instant relief, it takes some time to work. I recently ran across a study done in 1967, if I recall correctly, where sodium chlorite was added to the drinking water of honey bees. The bees that had 1 PPM lived normal length lives. The bees that had 10 and 100 PPM lived much longer than normal with the edge going to those that drank the 10 PPM. The bees that had 1000 PPM died within 2 weeks. Note that the original Miracle-Mineral-Supplement protocol goal was to get to 15 drops, and that resulted in a concentration of 950 PPM. While bees are not humans, I have had very good results using concentrations in the 7 - 10 PPM range with cats, dogs, cows, goats, horses, and some people have tried this and reported slow steady progress against ailments.

Chlorite is the problem child of all of this. There are regulations on the amount of chlorite that is allowed for ingestion. Chlorine dioxide technology gives the most bang for the amount of chlorite produced and that is why it is used for water purification. Acidified sodium chlorite is used in food processing, and the studies have revealed that the amount of chlorite ingested by people consuming the product is within the chlorite regulation guidelines. Chicken carcasses, for example, are subjected to a 3 - 10 second spray or 30 second dunk in chlorous acid. They then go on to be cut up and packaged. Most people rinse the chicken off before cooking and the amount of chlorite left is minimal.

Oxidation therapies work by having a concentration of the oxidant in contact with the pathogen for a period of time long enough to kill it. Chlorine dioxide, chlorine, chlorous acid, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, are all oxidants that will kill pathogens if allowed to work. Inside the body the biggest problem is delivery. How do you get the oxidant into contact with the pathogen? On a hard surface, or with water, that problem is easy, but inside the body things get much more complex.

You can simulate chlorine dioxide technology by changing the acid used to activate the sodium chlorite. Using hydrochloric acid you will basically release all of the available chlorine dioxide as free chlorine dioxide. You can dilute down from there. If you decide to try this, use extreme caution. At higher concentrations the reaction can be somewhat explosive and proper safety precautions should be in place prior to attempting it. An easier way would be to visit a camping store and find the tablets that you can add to water to purify it using chlorine dioxide. A single tablet will give you a concentration of 4 PPM chlorine dioxide in 1 liter of water.

Some questions to ponder...

What concentration is needed to kill pathogens inside the body?
Does that concentration cause oxdative stress and how do you measure oxidative stress in the body?
Is there a better way to deliver the oxidant to the pathogen?
How do you confirm the results?

Tom