MIRACLE MINERAL
SUPPLEMENT
An Integrated MMS
Therapy
By Walter Last
Sodium
chlorite is presently being promoted as a miracle mineral supplement or MMS
with superior antimicrobial activity. You can appreciate its power from a
statement by its discoverer, Jim Humble, that all 75,000 individuals with
malaria that have been treated were cured within a day (1).This obviously is
important not only for self-healing but also for the drug industry and medicine
which so far try to ignore or suppress this development. However, there are
also considerable problems associated with using MMS. In the following I
suggest to minimise these problems by integrating MMS with other natural
therapies rather than using it as a stand-alone treatment for all conditions.
Conventional
Use of Sodium Chlorite
In
solution sodium chlorite (NaClO2) is very alkaline and stable but when
acidified it forms the gas chlorine dioxide (ClO2) which smells the same as
chlorine and probably is the strongest all-round antimicrobial and parasite
remedy. While it destroys all anaerobic microbes and parasites, it does not
damage the beneficial lactobacteria of our intestinal
flora. The only residue left in water, food, or in the body after treatment
with MMS is a tiny amount of table salt or sodium chloride (NaCl).
Acidified
sodium chlorite is being used in many countries, including
In
2003 the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code was changed to permit
the use of sodium chlorite acidified with citric acid or other food acids for
antimicrobial surface treatment of meat, poultry, fish, fruit and vegetables
(3). The time between mixing and application is less than 5 minutes, and
chlorine dioxide levels do not exceed 3 ppm. The
safety assessment report concluded that if properly used no residues would be detected
in the raw foods following treatment and prior to sale, and therefore there
would be no toxicological concerns.
In
solid form sodium chlorite is unstable and commonly mixed with about 20% sodium
chloride. Commercially it is produced and shipped in
Even
in conventional medicine chlorine dioxide has been shown to sterilise red blood
cells for transfusion. It was found that a solution of 2.8% sodium chlorite
activated with 15% lactic acid at a concentration of 1:100 killed all HIV in
the red blood cells (4). Furthermore, low concentrations of chlorine dioxide
are also effective against the influenza virus (4a).
Curiously,
stabilized chlorite, commonly called Stabilized Chlorine Dioxide or SCD, that
does not generate chlorine dioxide has been patented for intravenous use in the
treatment of autoimmune diseases, hepatitis and lymph cancers. It supposedly
prevents or reduces antigen activity and autoimmune responses (5).
A weak solution of SCD is
approved by the FDA and available in many countries as mouthwash; it is also in
some toothpastes. The idea is that colonies of bacteria in the mouth produce
acids that release chlorine dioxide locally to kill these bacteria.
SCD has a pH of about 7.5 to 8.5
and is in effect a weak solution of sodium chlorite stabilized with sodium
bicarbonate, and sometimes also with additional hydrogen peroxide.
The Wikipedia mentions for sodium chlorite
that a weak acid can be added to SCD to "activate" it and make
chlorine dioxide in-situ. SCD is used as a broad spectrum disinfectant and
anti-microbial, it is currently being used against bacterial and viral
outbreaks including MRSA,
Legionella, and Norovirus. Therefore, if MMS is not available a
suitable mouthwash may be used in about a 10 times larger volume or about 1 ml
of mouthwash for 2 drops of MMS.
MMS Therapy
The
discovery and initial developments of MMS therapy were outlined by Jim Humble
in a 2008 Nexus article (6). MMS is activated to release chlorine dioxide by
mixing with 5 drops of acid for every 1 drop of MMS. Originally lemon juice and
vinegar were used which are now commonly replaced by a 10% solution of citric
acid. This is about 5 times more acid and releases considerably more chlorine
dioxide with a stronger antimicrobial effect. After waiting for 3 minutes half
to one glass of water or juice is added and one may then drink it.
You
may add herb tea or juice without vitamin C, e.g. commercial apple or grape
juice but not orange juice. The initial strong and somewhat nauseating smell is
now greatly reduced as the chlorine dioxide remains dissolved in water rather
than escaping into the air. Do not take any antioxidant supplements close to
MMS. If it is too acid for you then partly neutralize the liquid with
bicarbonate shortly before drinking. Carefully add only small amounts of
bicarbonate so that it still tastes slightly acidic when ingesting.
Therapy
can be approached in two ways. Jim Humbles recommendation is to start with a
low dose and gradually increase by 1 drop each day until a slight feeling of
nausea develops and then cut down by 2 drops. After several days you try
increasing again, and so gradually work your way up to 15 standard drops 1 to 3
times daily for about one week. But many individuals do not get that far
because they become sensitised, and nausea starts already at low levels without
sufficient antimicrobial effect.
Nausea
can be reduced by taking the remedy after a meal, but this also reduces the
antimicrobial effect compared to taking it on an empty stomach. It
may be best to take MMS just before going to bed. MMS works very fast, and
people often become sleepy after taking a dose of MMS. Also it is easier to
cope with nausea if you can fall asleep.
An alternative method with acute
infections is to take a very high dose or even a high double dose one hour
apart and accept that you will feel nauseous and may vomit for a day or longer.
Nausea or vomiting usually starts 2 or more hours after ingesting a very high
dose, and by then the chlorine dioxide has already been absorbed so that
vomiting does not cause any loss in effectiveness. This method has been used in
the successful treatment of malaria, blood poisoning, and other acute
infections. It commonly clears the condition in one hit. For details of oral
MMS therapy see my Sodium Chlorite article (7) and also Jim Humble’s
Standard MMS Protocol (8).
An alternative method for intensifying the
antimicrobial program or for overcoming an infection is by taking 3 to 4 drops
of acidified and diluted MMS every hour and a half for several days.
Temporarily reduce the dose if any nausea should occur. You may do this by
swallowing the MMS or with oral absorption or a combination of both.
Other Delivery Options
Because frequently nausea causes
individuals to stop using MMS before the infection or cancer is cleared,
different ways of using it have been explored. Most common among these is transdermal application. When bypassing the stomach nausea
is not normally a problem.
A given number of drops of MMS are
activated with 5 times more drops of acid, after 3 minutes DMSO is added at the
same rate as the acid. After another 3 minute wait the solution is rubbed into
the skin. A variation of this uses 10 drops of MMS and 1 tsp each of acid and
DMSO. This method has also been adopted for cancer treatment, including by Jim
Humble (9).
While this method does not cause
nausea, there is no real evidence that it works. There is even strong
theoretical evidence that it cannot work. DMSO can act as a mild oxidant, but generally, and especially in the
presence of stronger oxidants, it acts as an antioxidant. The main metabolite
when DMSO is oxidised is MSM, which may also be written as DMSO2. If you search
Google for DMSO +antioxidant you find expressions like: “DMSO-The King Antioxidant”
and “It turned out that DMSO was a powerful antioxidant…”
You just cannot combine the most powerful oxidant with a powerful antioxidant
and expect that they do not talk to each other.
However, I still regard it as useful
to apply activated MMS on the skin for topical treatment of local infections
and tumours. While MSM is less effective as a carrier than DMSO, it does
improve passage through the skin, and it is not an antioxidant, so it is safe
to use with MMS. But absorption will be slow, and therefore it is not suitable
for getting chlorine dioxide into the blood.
In contrast, absorption through the
mucous membranes will be fairly fast, and may give better results. Possible
absorption areas are the rectum, the vagina, and the mouth.
Rectal
absorption is similar
to using coffee enemas which is already firmly established in natural cancer
therapy. First you clean the lower bowel with an enema.
Then insert a small number of activated drops of MMS in a large glass of water.
Hold for 10 to 20 minutes, expel, use again a cleaning enema, and then insert a
larger number of activated drops in a glass of water.
Try to hold for up to 30 minutes. You
may be able to move around during this time but preferably just sit or lie
down. Protect the anus with some fat, cream, or Vaseline. You may make the
solution less acid by adding some bicarbonate as explained for oral
application.
Afterwards you may feel weak for a while and have much bowel activity for
several hours, and possibly longer. With cancer and other chronic conditions
you may repeat this once a week with increasing numbers of drops. This will
be good with problems in this area, such as rectal or prostate cancer,
irritable bowel, and infections, cysts and cancers of the female organs.
Vaginal
application is
suitable in case of vaginal thrush to kill the roots and spores of Candida that
will be embedded in the mucous membrane and may cause flare-ups. Start with 1
activated drop in a small glass of water and gradually increase on subsequent
occasions. If the acidity of the solution is a problem you may nearly
neutralise it with bicarbonate several minutes after adding the water. Also try
using the mouthwash solution.
Oral absorption is my
preferred method. I believe that just swishing acidified and diluted MMS in the
mouth may be the best general method to get it quickly into the blood, in
addition to clearing the head spaces. After using 6 activated drops this way
and keeping it in the mouth for about 20 minutes I now always have a pink
tongue on rising in the morning while before it used to be partly coated. A
fragile elderly woman who was afraid to swallow it just kept a few activated
drops in juice in the mouth for a few minutes and then spat it out. After doing
this twice she had much better mobility. This shows that the chlorine dioxide
went quickly into the circulation.
Keeping
it in the mouth is not too unpleasant, and the taste buds soon stop
complaining. However, it is advisable to
nearly neutralise the solution with bicarbonate to
protect the teeth. This should not reduce the effectiveness very much because
the chlorine dioxide that produces the peak systemic effect will have been
released in the first 3 minutes. Furthermore after diluting it one may still
wait for several minutes for further saturation of the solution before neutralising it.
To 1 part of MMS add 5 parts of
10% citric acid and after 3 minutes dilute with 30 ml or a big mouthful of
water. Finally add up to 8 parts of a 10% sodium bicarbonate solution to
protect the teeth from acid attack. This gives a pH of about 5 to 6, and one
can keep it in the mouth for 5 to 20 minutes before spitting it out. You make
the 10% sodium bicarbonate solution by dissolving one level spoonful of bicarb in 9 spoonfuls of water. Instead of plain water you
may also use herb tea or flavor with some fruit juice, or sweeten with Xylitol or Stevia.
Mouthwash: I also recommend that you make
yourself a mouthwash by diluting a teaspoon of MMS in 500 ml of water. This is
only slightly alkaline and tends to release small amounts of chlorine dioxide
in contact with acid-forming bacteria. It is also commercially promoted as the
most effective method of removing bad breath or halitosis. It does this by
oxidising smelly sulphur compounds in the mouth to non-odorous sulphates. Swish
a mouthful around for a short time, gargle, and spit it out. You may also
flavour the solution or make it weaker. Some people claim that regular use has
protected them from ‘catching’ infections.
Even
more important is the observation that the combination of occasional oral
absorption of chlorine dioxide and regular use of MMS mouthwash tends to
eliminate pathogenic microbes and inflammations in the mouth. Such microbes and
inflammations, be they from root canals, deep tooth pockets or gum
inflammations and other periodontal diseases, are strongly implicated in the causation of arteriosclerosis, heart attacks and other
heart diseases as well as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, prostate cancer and
other cancers.
You
may also combine the stronger antimicrobial effect of oral absorption with the
convenience of a mouthwash: add a drop or two of lemon juice or citric acid to
a teaspoonful of mouthwash solution and immediately start swishing this in the
mouth for a minute or two before spitting it out. This has a relatively mild
effect on the taste buds. One teaspoonful of mouthwash contains about one drop
of MMS.
Intravenous
MMS
Intravenously MMS commonly has been
used without acid activation. Jim Humble has had it many times, and also used
up to 2 times 30 acidified drops orally without getting a reaction.
But recently he had one acidified drop
intravenously and that caused a Herxheimer reaction.
He believes that acid activation increases chlorine dioxide release by up to
300 times. Next day another drop did not cause a reaction but 2 drops the
following day reacted again. The same happened with further increased drops
(10).
The effectiveness of antimicrobial
therapy can often be judged by its ability to trigger a Herxheimer
reaction. This is caused by the waste material of a large number of microbes
being killed suddenly. It consists of extreme fatigue, chills, diarrhoea,
muscle and joint pains, and other flu-like symptoms for several hours or days.
During a reaction you stop the antimicrobial therapy and instead have a high
intake of good quality water, juices and herb teas.
The question now is what kind of
microbes resisted an extremely high double dose of 30 oral drops but then
readily died from one acidified IV drop? The oral doses would have cleared
these microbes from the blood and lymph system, and probably from most tissue
and organs. I can think of only one explanation, that these were so-called nanobacteria. They attach to blood vessel walls and protect
themselves with a calcified shell, and in the process also calcify the tissue,
thereby causing arteriosclerosis and related symptoms (11). Even one drop of
acidified MMS would have caused a high peak concentration of chlorine dioxide
in the blood vessels, apparently enough to penetrate the calcified barrier of
some nanobacteria.
Few individuals in Western countries
will have the opportunity to use IV MMS therapy, and I also regard this as a
rather inefficient way of dealing with tissue calcification. There are better
ways, such as preventing the formation of nanobacteria
in the first place, and then dissolving existing calcifications with magnesium
chloride and lemon juice or cider vinegar. Deprived of their calcium protection
the immune system can then easily deal with the nanobacteria.
Integrating Therapies
Often individuals find it difficult to
continue with the MMS program because of frequent nausea. This is especially a
problem with advanced cancer and other long-term conditions. Therefore I
generally recommend a program of intestinal sanitation and antimicrobial
therapy with milder agents before starting MMS therapy. This will remove most
of the toxic load with less discomfort than by starting immediately with MMS.
As part of this preliminary program I recommend a period of intestinal
sanitation with garlic, psyllium, sodium bicarbonate and probiotics,
followed by a 3-week course of Lugol’s iodine
solution (12).
In the case of cardiovascular diseases
and arteriosclerosis it has been
suggested that with MMS therapy cholesterol deposits may be removed too fast and
lead to a weakening of the affected blood vessels. To avoid or minimize
problems it has been recommended to take high amounts of vitamin C, up to 10 g
daily in divided doses, for several weeks before starting MMS therapy. This is
to strengthen the blood vessels and make them more elastic. Some other
nutrients to improve elasticity are lemon juice, green juices, copper salicylate, magnesium chloride, MSM, and N-Acetylglucosamine.
For
cancer I believe that MMS treatment as a primary therapy has shown good results
only with lymph, blood and skin cancers. It will be much more effective to
integrate MMS therapy into a holistic program as outlined in my article The Holistic Solution to Overcoming Cancer
(13).
With
colds chlorine dioxide kills the virus but does not stop the beneficial mucus
release. This can be stopped with the Sugar Cure: Keep a teaspoon of fine sugar
in the mouth until it is dissolved, then spit out and take another teaspoonful.
Continue with this for one or two hours and repeat on subsequent days as
required. The sugar draws mucus combined with lymph fluid from the lymph glands
and so gradually clears the headspaces.
With
Influenza I recommend taking several high doses of MMS for only one or two days
and then taking instead high amounts of antioxidants and especially sodium ascorbate, e.g. half a teaspoon in liquid (e.g. fresh
citrus juice) every 2 hours until recovered.
Some individuals, especially with
advanced degenerative diseases, may become very weak on prolonged MMS therapy
seemingly unrelated to die-back reactions. Also the eyesight may rapidly
deteriorate. I believe that this is mainly due to antioxidant deficiency, and
especially to lack of glutathione and superoxide
dismutase.
This again raises the question of
the appropriate use of MMS therapy. In my article How to Overcome Autoimmune Diseases (14) I show that most chronic
degenerative diseases are associated with nanobacteria
and pleomorphic microbes that appear to arise from
the inside, out of diseased body cells, rather than from outside of the body.
The main cause of this microbial uprising is seen as the accumulation of toxic
metabolic residues inside the cells, especially affecting the energy-producing
mitochondria.
Experience shows that it is
definitely beneficial to eliminate the higher bacterial and fungal forms of
this microbial overgrowth, and MMS is an effective part of an integrated
antimicrobial therapy. But it is generally not possible even with MMS to
eliminate the lower forms of nanobacteria and
endogenous viral particles. Even if one continues with a long-term MMS
maintenance therapy, these microbes will continue to rise up, and the
accumulating toxic residues will in time cause increasing health problems in
other ways. Therefore, the rational solution is to remove these toxic residues
by the time-honored method of raw-food cleansing combined with an effective antimicrobial therapy.
While
some viral infections can be effectively treated with MMS, others such as
hepatitis C, Lyme disease and even HIV, while often showing improvement, are
overall much more resistant. On the other hand, there is good evidence that
high antioxidant therapy is very effective against viral conditions. For
instance there are countless publications in the literature of Orthomolecular
Medicine (http://www.orthomolecular.org) about the quick and effective
treatment of serious viral infections with very high amounts of vitamin C. Also
hepatitis C can be effectively treated with high amounts of various
antioxidants (15).
Therefore,
I believe that it is much more effective to use both treatments in an
integrated way. With a serious or resistant viral disease I would alternate a
short high-dose MMS treatment with a longer period using high amounts of a wide
range of different antioxidants.
Oxidants versus Antioxidants
Besides nausea also inflammations
may arise as a side effect of MMS therapy. To understand this effect we need to
have a look at the function of inflammation and the role of oxidants and
antioxidants in this process. Inflammations increase blood and nutrient supply
to an area and are essential for the immune system to work, and for healing of
damaged organs and tissue to occur. If the immune system is not strong enough
to eliminate invading microbes and diseased body cells, originally healing
immune inflammations become destructive chronic inflammations, and this is a
symptom of our present epidemic of chronic diseases.
Oxidants support the immune
system by killing microbes outright and by giving the immune system more firepower.
This results in increased inflammation and body acidity when using strong
oxidants such as chlorine dioxide. Therefore as during any real health
improvement various healing reactions, including temporary inflammations, may
develop during MMS treatment. This is beneficial for healing in the long-term
even if uncomfortable in the short-term. For a more detailed explanation of
this process called a healing crisis or healing reaction see www.health-science-spirit.com/healingcrisis.html.
Antioxidants have the opposite
role to oxidants. They protect our body cells and functions from being
oxidized. Oxidation needs to take place only in well established and protected
pathways to generate energy or to eliminate invaders and harmful agents. If we
step up the intake of oxidants, we also need to increase the intake of
antioxidants otherwise we may get unnecessary inflammations due to irritation
of tissues and other degenerative changes. An example of this is deteriorating
eyesight that may occur when using high doses of MMS for more than a few days.
Jim Humble’s
position is that antioxidants are not necessary with MMS therapy. He states:
“You don’t have to protect the body from the small quantities ClO2 generated by
MMS. It simply does not oxidize any beneficial bacteria or body cells. No side
effects have been reported in hundreds of thousands of clinical trials and
tests (16).” I find this statement surprising as even from a small number of
users I received several communications that I interpret as damage due to
antioxidant deficiency. Therefore I strongly disagree with the position of Jim
Humble in regard to antioxidants.
My view is supported by Dr Thomas
Lee Hesselink (17). In an exhaustive literature
search he shows that chlorine dioxide kills the malaria parasite by oxidizing
its vital antioxidants, including glutathione, alpha lipoic
acid, and coenzyme A. He writes:”… no amount of intraplasmodial
glutathione (GSH) could ever resist exposure to a sufficient dose of chlorine
dioxide (ClO2). Note that each molecule of ClO2 can disable 5 molecules of
glutathione.” If parasites are being killed by disabling their glutathione and
other essential antioxidants then the glutathione and antioxidant systems in
our body will be just as vulnerable.
I believe that all those who live
on a conventional diet, or who have an infection or a chronic disease or who
smoke or with advancing age are highly likely to be antioxidant deficient. Any
of these conditions will be made worse by having persistent exposure to
oxidants, be it from chlorinated water, polluted air, fried food, or from a
strong oxidant such as chlorine dioxide.
The problem is not in chlorine
dioxide oxidizing beneficial bacteria or body cells but rather that it reacts
strongly with a wide variety of antioxidants, and so makes an
antioxidant-deficient body even more deficient. There is evidence that
antioxidant deficiency is a main cause of the accumulation of oxidized waste
products and protein debris inside cells that lead to chronic degenerative
diseases and the uprising of nanobacteria and pleomorphic microbes (14).
Therefore, I regard long-term MMS
therapy without antioxidant protection as contributing to the development of
chronic diseases. It is important to increase antioxidant intake when using
MMS. However, oxidants and antioxidants should be separated during the day or
they may neutralize each other. Jim Humble recommends a 3-hour period of
separation, and I agree with that. For instance you may use MMS before
breakfast and at bedtime and antioxidants from mid-morning to mid-afternoon.
This does not only apply to
antioxidants in supplement form, such as vitamin C and E, B-complex, coenzyme
Q10 or grapeseed extract, Beta 1,3D Glucan and immune stimulants, but also to
food high in antioxidants, such as purple berries and juices, fresh fruit,
polyunsaturated oils, turmeric, black or green tea, cocoa and others. Because
chlorine dioxide reacts especially well with vitamin C, it is advisable to take
1 gram or more when on a high dose of MMS for more than a few days to protect
oxidation-sensitive structures, such as heart, brain and eyes.
Conclusion
The
discovery of antibiotics was hailed as the greatest advance in modern medical
history. I believe the internal use of MMS is even more important. But just as
antibiotics have a darker side by causing dysbiosis
and Candidiasis if improperly used without a fungicide, so MMS carries the
danger of causing health deterioration if used without antioxidant protection.
In
a more enlightened future when the medical system refocuses on healing rather
than profit the treatment of serious infections may just require one
intravenous infusion of acidified MMS. Until then we have a variety of other
methods to choose from.
I
believe the most effective approach for a serious acute infection is a high
dose of 15 drops or a high double dose of 10 to 15 drops, and just accept that
you will vomit for a day or two. If the problem is less serious then a double dose of 6 drops followed by another 6 drops
an hour later has been shown to be very effective. Even this may cause nausea
and some vomiting. Alternatively you may experiment with absorbing a high dose
through the mucous membranes of the mouth or the rectum, depending somewhat on
where the infection is centred.
With
a chronic degenerative disease I would alternate short periods of high MMS
intake with longer periods of high antioxidant intake from foods and
supplements. In addition I would use other therapies such as cleansing to
remove the basic cause of the disease.
I
would also apply activated MMS to infected areas close to the skin. When
starting on a health program I would first attempt intestinal sanitation and
reduction of any microbial load with milder agents, such as Lugol’s
iodine solution before starting with a gradually increasing dose of MMS as in
the standard program.
Presently
MMS is still available over the Internet. There are 2 types with slightly
different composition. The product used by Global Light (http://www.globallight.net)
and its distributors is made from technical-grade sodium chlorite flakes
containing 20% sodium chloride, while the MMS from StrideintoHealth
(www.strideintohealth.com)
is a pure sodium chlorite solution as used in the food industry. Nominally MMS
is a 28% solution of the flakes but because of its high sodium chloride content
the effective concentration of sodium chlorite is 22.4% which is the same in
both products. A Canadian distributor is www.mmsdr.com.
Also check for new protocols at www.jimhumble.biz.
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