Hello Johny,
There seems to be some differing information that is being presented...
Dr. Hesselink states that a lethal dose, in humans, is speculated at 100 mg per kg of weight. A 68 kg person would be skirting with death if they took 6804 mg of sodium chlorite.
MMS contains 224 mg of sodium chlorite per ml. If we take 6804 mg (the speculated lethal dose in humans) and divide it by 224 (the amount of sodium chlorite per ml in
Miracle-Mineral-Supplement ) we end up with 30 ml, or about 2 tablespoons.
To complete this exercise, 45 drops of
Miracle-Mineral-Supplement is about 2.6 ml.
I think we all pretty much agree that in the short term we are not going to die from taking
Miracle-Mineral-Supplement .
However, it has become apparent that in some cases MMS does not seem to work in the short term, so people are experimenting with long term treatment using it. Jim Humble recommends a 6 drop a day maintenance dose. In looking at long term use we now need to look at the No Observable Adverse Effect Levels, and the Lowest Observable Adverse Effect Levels obtained from the various studies done with animals.
Going a little further with this, we should actually be paying attention to the minimum risk level, which is 0.1 mg per kg of body weight per day. This is based on an intermediate duration of 15 - 364 days.
Let's go back to the 68 kg person and see where this minimum risk level falls with respect to MMS doses. If we take 68 and multiply it by 0.1 we end up with 6.8 mg. Since MMS has 224 mg of sodium chlorite per ml, we take 6.8 and divide it by 224 to come up with 0.03 ml of MMS. This works out to just over a half a drop.
This means that if you continue to take MMS over an intermediate duration of time (15 - 364 days), and take over half a drop a day, you are exceeding the minimum risk levels set out by the toxicology report on chlorine dioxide and chlorite. I happen to think that the result of exceeding the MRL is oxidative stress on the body.
This MRL is derived from both the no observable adverse effect level and the lowest observable adverse effect level on rat studies. It is worth noting that the no observable adverse effect level works out to about 15 drops of MMS per day for a 68 kg person.
Since this toxicology report was issued in 2004, I have no idea why Jim Humbles test results were not incorporated into it. He seems to be at odds, and also seems to have more detailed human studies. However, it may be that what Jim Humble calls a "herx" reaction is viewed by
Science as an "adverse effect..."
I was looking for the reference to sodium chlorite being 50 times more toxic than chlorine dioxide, and was unable to find it. Are you sure they were talking about sodium chlorite? I see a lot of references to the chlorite ion, but was unable to find the exact reference to sodium chlorite.
Tom