Re: Is there dangers using MMS?

Hello Heaah,

Sodium chlorite has many uses. As you have discovered, it comes in various concentrations. 5% solutions (and lower) have no hazardous classifications with regard to shipping, but once you get above that, things change. They also have far less hazards while handling.

Jim Humble started off using a 3% solution ("stabilized oxygen") and gives his conversion formula in his book. He claims he was unable to get the lower concentrations to work properly, but seems to be unwilling to share his test results or reasons why. Experts in the industrial use of sodium chlorite disagree with this, and the only difference I have been able to discover is that you use more of a lower concentration solution to match the results obtained from a higher concentration solution.

Since I find it much easier to measure and use a 5% solution, and also since there are far fewer hazards associated with handling it, I simply dilute Miracle-Mineral-Supplement to a 5% solution. When my supply of Miracle-Mineral-Supplement is used up, I will limit my purchase to 5% solutions of sodium chlorite. I believe it is available in 6 gallon buckets at a decent price from industrial suppliers. Since there is no hazardous classification for this strength product, there should be little difficulty in finding it locally.

The cost of sodium chlorite solutions is very interesting... I believe it only costs a dollar or two to make a liter of the various solutions, so there seems to be a healthy mark up on these products. However, one must keep in mind that the cost of raw materials is only part of the cost of selling a product...

If you add 0.75 ml (15 drops) of 5% sodium chlorite to 1 liter of water, you end up with about 22 PPM available chlorine dioxide. If you can find anything scientific on the use of chlorine dioxide for health effects, you can get an idea of the concentrations used during the clinical trials and see how this matches up to those results.

Unfortunately, I am having a very difficult time finding any clinical results following this type of application, so it appears that the claims made have no basis in science...

I should also point out that your stomach contains acids that will activate the sodium chlorite. When you activate it outside of the body, you have better control on how much of the available ClO2 is released as free ClO2, but when it is activated in the stomach all of the available ClO2 is released. This is one of the reasons you have to be very careful when playing with these chemicals.

I am glad your friend is able to hold her breath longer during dives. However, since ClO2 is a respiratory irritant and destroys lung tissue, I am not convinced that her results are from the ingestion of a sodium chlorite product...

Tom Tweet