A reader posted what sounded like some reasonable concerns about MMS in response to my article, “MMS: Reflections on Balance and Toxicity”. I don’t purport to be the authority on chlorine dioxide by any stretch of the imagination, but I know what I think I know. I’m willing to be corrected if my thinking is not correct. So I’ll post his concern, in full, as written, then my thoughts on each:
A lot of this MMS data concerns me that recommendations made could be dangerous. Firstly 28% NaclO2 which MMS is is a hazardous chemical product and should be marked accordingly and transported accordingly. 28% NaClO2 has 168,000 ppm of available chlorine dioxide, that’s right 168,000 and when activated with citric you produce 20% of the available Chlorine Dioxide with a residual of chlorous acid so you still produce 33,600 ppm of free chlorine dioxide (Hence the ClO2 gas coming off when mixing.). I specialize in anti-microbial intervention programs using chlorine dioxide and acidified sodium chlorite technologies. We treat town water at 0.8 ppm free ClO2, swimming pools for crypto and giardia etc at 3ppm free ClO2, fresh produce, meat and seafood at 5 to 10 ppm of free ClO2. And if you want to know what it is doing to your insides at the strengths recommended by MMS remember your gut contains HCL (Hydrochloric acid). HCL is used commercially to activate NaClO2 to produce 100% of the available Chlorine Dioxide. So take the 18 drops of MMS and add 18 drops of HCL to them and watch, BUT DO NOT USE OR INHALE FUMES.
There you have it.
Now let’s break it down.
Thank you for your insights. To better understand your position, I have a few questions:
Alot of this MMS data concerns me that recommendations made could be dangerous.
Dangerous to who or to what? Since the chlorine dioxide molecule only oxidizes that which is acidic, anaerobic, or toxic, including all the microorganisms that you use it to control professionally, where is the actual focus of your concern?
In other words, since it:
- does not affect cells or tissue that is oxygen rich,
- healthy,
- of an alkaline pH, and
- breaks down into harmless natural byproducts in a matter of two hours,
…then what do you feel is, or could be endangered by chlorine dioxide, and why?
Firstly 28% NaclO2 which MMS is, is a hazardous chemical product and should be marked accordingly and transported accordingly.
Perhaps if you had 55 gallon drums of it under certain situations. But are you really suggesting that each 4 oz bottle of NaClO2 (which the MMS comes in) in solution should be marked as a hazardous chemical? Why?
Adequate cautions are given in the instructions, but if someone spilled their sodium chlorite out of the 4 oz bottle that it comes in onto the table, do you really think it would warrant a call for a “Hazardous Materials” Unit to respond?
28% NaClO2 has 168,000 ppm of available chlorine dioxide, that’s right 168,000 and when activated with citric you produce 20% of the available Chlorine Dioxide with a residual of chlorous acid so you still produce 33,600 ppm of free chlorine dioxide (Hence the ClO2 gas coming off when mixing.).
Let’s say that you’re right about that. If I understand it correctly the first number is “stabilized,” or latent and not nearly as powerful as chlorine dioxide. So now, let’s say you activate it, and you’ve got an army regiment with 33,600 chlorine dioxide molecules per million. It’s not ingested. The next thing one does is add water or juice which dilutes the solution, and dramatically reduces the ppm count.
You also haven’t addressed the variability of the dosage. A person taking 1, 6, 15, or even 50 drops of MMS is going to have a different ppm count. Your “one size” logic doesn’t appear to fit all situations.
Beyond that, each individual has his or her own issues that involve:
- degree of toxicity (body and mind)
- location of toxicity (body and mind)
- type of toxicity (microorganism, inorganic deposits)
- degree of will (determination)
- commitment to self healing
- confidence in one’s own authority and ability to heal
- willingness to let go dis-ease, and its associated story
These variables CANNOT be applied across the board. They cannot be measured, except by the owner/holder of the perceptions. This is why two people with the same external factors may have entirely different experiential effects.
On the other hand, what about the billions of colonizing anaerobic microorganisms that inhabit the average person who has Lyme, arthritis, cancer, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s, AIDS, Morgellons, or the latest flu, or even the common cold?
When a person comes down with the flu, do you think that they got “bit” by one bacteria? Or do they already have a colony in their body numbering in the billions?
In that context, it’s a wonder that 33,600 ppm, if that is the number that an average dose of MMS would represent, would be adequate. But you’re right about concentration. That amount would be unhealthy, just like taking too many aspirins could be deadly. If you look at the results that people are getting, these factors have been taken into consideration.
As I understand it, the actual concentration of chlorine dioxide in the MMS protocol — once NaClO2 is activated, ClO2 generated, and water is added for ingestion — is somewhere around 1 ppm, well within even FDA guidelines. And that can be lowered even further by simply drinking more liquid at the time of intake.
I specialize in antimicrobial intervention programs using chlorine dioxide and acidified sodium chlorite technologies. We treat town water at 0.8 ppm free ClO2, swimming pools for crypto and giardia etc at 3ppm free ClO2, fresh produce, meat and seafood at 5 to 10 ppm of free ClO2. And if you want to know what it is doing to your insides at the strengths recommended by MMS remember your gut contains HCL (Hydrochloric acid).
You talk as though the chlorine dioxide in the MMS protocol functions as a liquid might, which could mean that tissues become saturated. An example of what I’m saying is where a stream of water over the nostrils might inhibit breathing and cause one to drown, whereas a stream of steam might open the bronchial tubes.
Your concerns about high ppm count would be valid if one were actually doing an intake at such a high ppm. But some people have taken what appear to be insanely high amounts of sodium chlorite, either inadvertently or deliberately so, and have lived to tell about it. In that context, any substance can be abused, even soda pop. But in the concentrations outlined in the MMS protocol, no such harm has happened to anyone. I wish you would acknowledge this fact. It would make your cautions more credible, and not simply alarm-causing.
Chlorine dioxide remains in a gaseous state even when suspended in water, which carries it into the body where the molecules are picked up by a blood cell and transported on a journey through that lasts all of two hours before each either has an oxidizing encounter, or loses electrons and breaks down into NaCl and H2O.
HCL is used commercially to activate NaClO2 to produce 100% of the available Chlorine Dioxide. So take the 18 drops of MMS and add 18 drops of HCL to them and watch, BUT DO NOT USE OR INHALE FUMES.
You’re right about HCl as another activator. Personally I can’t imagine many people wanting to inhale the chlorine dioxide fumes (although there’s no telling what people will try). However, based on the examples you’ve given, your initial intimations of potential danger still escape me, especially in light of the fact that:
1. So many people with a wide variety of health issues, from mild to acute, are experiencing positive results when used as recommended, and
2. Outside of various chelation protocols, which themselves are actually considered “alternative” modalities, modern medicine offers nothing that works like MMS, which disinfects, and produces no harmful side-effects, all at a reasonable price.
Many prescription drugs are KNOWN to be dangerous, and people take them nonetheless, without a second thought. And they pay a high price for them.
Your concern about the proper and careful treatment of water is not to be discounted. It is very important indeed.
You use chlorine dioxide in your profession because it is one of the best ways to disinfect water without producing harmful residual chemical reactions. Disinfecting the water that makes up 70% of the human body is even more important, but we tend to ignore this to death.
Instead of sharing only your fears, I’d love to hear your advice, based on your experience treating water, of how to enhance the benefit from using ClO2 because it is very clear that in the relatively small doses that are recommended, people are benefiting, and pathogen loads are being reduced.
This is not to say that caution isn’t warranted, but we should acknowledge that caution has been a factor throughout the evolution of the MMS protocol, and will continue to be one.
Finally, this isn’t about who is “right” or who is “wrong.” We tend to think that what we think is “right” is true for everyone, which means that what we think is “wrong” is true for everyone. Not so.
Belief empowers our truths… not the beliefs of others, but our own. The only way that another’s belief can empower our truth is (1) it’s our belief too, or (2) we think that individual has more power than we do, which means we believe we have less than they do.
Beliefs are transitory until they become knowing. That is when our ability to consciously, powerfully, and lovingly create our life experience “stabilizes.”
This I KNOW: It is better to approach any healing modality with balance, intelligence, patience, hope, and positive belief, rather than with fear of consequences. Fear is merely positive negativity, empowering and drawing that which we dread, or wish to avoid, to us.
“Positive negativity” is not positive in the healthy, joyful, peaceful, or pleasurable sense. The term “positive” describes a mental openness to, a focus on, and a pulling toward. The term “negativity” refers to the absence of one’s natural harmonic resonance. It is inner conflict, which obstructs the connection to our highest knowing, and energy.
The effectiveness of any modality will be directly proportional to the degree that we are totally at peace with the intended and desired result, including the way that said result is achieved.
