Chlorine Dioxide and Blood Chemistry

To understand why the Miracle Mineral Supplement works one must understand some of the chemistry of chlorine Dioxide and some of the chemistry of blood. Chlorine dioxide is a gas that is dissolved in water when in the body. Chlorine and chlorine dioxide have been used as disinfectants for more than a hundred years and there is little doubt that they simply destroy pathogens of all kinds. Both have been used in water purification systems for more than 50 years. In recent years, in water purification systems chlorine has been used less and chlorine dioxide a great deal more as it has many benefits over chlorine. Chlorine dioxide is used extensively in water purification systems throughout Europe. Although chlorine dioxide is somewhat more expensive than chlorine, its many benefits over chlorine has resulted in it being more extensively used in water purification systems than chlorine. In 1998 The American Chemical Society, Analytical Chemistry Division said chlorine dioxide is the most powerful antimicrobial agent known to man.

Chlorine dioxide kills pathogens by oxidation, a completely different chemical reaction than that of chlorine (chlorination) and oxidation results in no harmful chemicals. A 10-ppm drink of chlorine in juice will cause a healthy person several hours of nausea, while a 10-ppm drink of chlorine dioxide causes no nausea at all for a healthy person, and yet it is more efficient in killing pathogens than chlorine. None of the functions or elements of the human body including friendly aerobic bacteria are affected by chlorine dioxide in diluted solutions of 50-ppm or less. On the other hand, solutions of 0.1 to 1- ppm seem to induce a spectacular immune response reaction attacking anaerobic bacterium, viruses, parasites, harmful molds, yeasts and other pathogens. Without realizing it, hundreds of thousands of Americans have been drinking diluted solutions of chlorine dioxide for more than 100 years in various health waters sold to the public. Diluted solutions of salt treated with electricity have been sold as “health water” under various names such as “Willard Water” which is still being sold. Most of these waters contain low levels of chlorine dioxide as a result of the electrolytic treatment. The chlorine dioxide concentration in such water was very low and thus was never strong enough to do a thorough job of killing pathogens in the body, however the benefits claimed for these health waters were more than likely caused by the chlorine dioxide as there is no other element in the water that would seem beneficial. Other health drinks have been sold that contain various chlorine derivatives. Stabilized Oxygen which is a diluted solution of sodium chlorite when diluted further with water very slowly gives off chlorine dioxide. The MMS is just a stronger solution to which a food grade acid has been added. The acid such as vinegar or citric acid often used in soft drinks reduces the solution to an acid condition but still within a food range which releases up to about 1-ppm chlorine dioxide, a level of concentration that is sometimes found in processed food but is 100’s of times that which is produced in Stabilized Oxygen.

Because of the acetic acid in the vinegar, or citric acid, when added to a sodium chlorite solution, the solution begins to release chlorine dioxide on a linear timed basis for up to 12 hours. Stomach acid does not tend to significantly change this timed release. The amount of salts and vinegar is calculated to release one milligram of chlorine dioxide per hour. An hour is the amount of time that it takes one milligram of chlorine dioxide to deteriorate into table salt and other harmless chemicals plus one very useful chemical. The linear production of chlorine dioxide and its constant deterioration into table salt and chemicals brings about a constant level of chlorine dioxide in the body for approximately 12 hours at which time all chlorine dioxide deteriorates leaving no trace and nothing that is deleterious to the body. Thus the poison index after that period of time is zero.

Hospitals and laboratories have used chlorine and chlorine dioxide for more than a hundred years as a disinfectant for cleaning floors, benches, and tools. No pathogen can resist them and no disease, either bacterial or virus has ever developed a resistance to chlorine dioxide. The human body has very few mechanisms that can differentiate between oxygen and chlorine dioxide. Since red blood cells cannot tell the difference, strong evidence indicates as the MMS enters the stomach, absorption mechanisms in the stomach walls allow the red blood cells to absorb the chlorine dioxide and carry it to various areas of the body where oxygen ions are normally taken. The natural pH of the human body is approximately 7. At pH 7 chlorine dioxide, in the absence of light, is fairly stable for a few minutes. However, disease pathogens are essentially all anaerobic and have a different fingerprint than that of friendly aerobic bacteria as do malaria parasites. As mentioned above, the red blood cells readily absorb the chlorine dioxide and once in the cell they attack the malaria parasite because the surface of the parasite has a lower pH than the blood.

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