MMS: Brouhaha in the Gulf

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 — As we stand in the twilight of 2010 awaiting the dawn of the New Year, the next chapter in MMS’ advancement onto the public stage opens. Given the events that have impacted the region this year, it was only a matter of time before MMS would surface among the residents of the Gulf Coast. The atmospheric chemical soup that has engulfed the region is sure to manifest itself in dramatic ways.

In spite of warnings by the FDA against its use, anyone who knows that MMS actually works and how to use it would be compelled to suggest it eventually. Anyone who is starting to experience the effects of chemical saturation – such as bleeding from all off one’s orifices – are likely to be willing to listen. I know that I certainly would, especially when conventional medical responses amount to little more than a round of antibiotics and a box of Tylenol. Everyone knows they won’t be effective. Some of the doctors will display a “deer in the headlights” perplexitude; scratching their heads in feigned wonderment over what’s wrong, as if they really don’t know. I saw this on CNN when the oil spill was the top news story, and wondered how the BP doctor that was being interviewed could, with a straight face, act as though he had no clue as to what might be causing the influx of new cases that they were treating.

It’s all good though. Medical professionals want to give the impression that they and the medical response system are doing everything they can, and that they are concerned about the public welfare.

That is, until an inexpensive “off book” approach is introduced to some of those “desperate,” “vulnerable” and “gullible” people. To add insult to exploitation, medical personnel have been warned by The Medical Authority not to go near this dangerous “snake oil.”

What happens when the gullible try it, and it actually show signs that it may be helping? When the new method comes face-to-face with convention, the new incurs the wrath of the old, even if the latter group represents naturopathic methods. A brouhaha breaks out, looking more like a turf war. When this happens, the health and welfare of the people take a back seat.

Wil Spencer VMSP (which means Vibrational Medical Science Practitioner) (www.bodyelectrician.com), is the outlaw from out-of-town who defied medical convention by introducing people to what he called Advanced Oxygen Therapy, which sounds, looks and works just like an approach also known as MMS. Meaning no disrespect to MMS, he hoped to create a framework where a dialogue based solely on scientific facts and free of ecumenical politics might be established.

It didn’t work.

Spencer’s efforts were brought to the attention of the Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors, an organization dedicated to “publishing information on detoxification and assembling and distributing Survival Detox Kits containing supplies and instructions to assist in counteracting the adverse effects of the poisons that have been bombarding our bodies.”

The protocols supported by the GCBD aren’t of the allopathic variety. They are natural, and include some of my favorites:

• sodium bicarbonate
• magnesium sulfate
• bentonite clay
• activated charcoal
• nascent iodine
• magnesium oil (magnesium chloride)
• vitamin C
• B-complex
• superfoods with spirilina
• antioxidant teas and foods

This is all good stuff. Great stuff, actually.

I support all of these products and what they do. They are natural and beneficial. They help the body reduce its toxic load and also help it to repair itself.

And yet, a controversy has emerged. An article written by an anti-MMS writer quoted a nurse who likened MMS to “pool shock”.

With all the goodness that this collection of healing tools represent, people on the Gulf Coast are still getting sicker and sicker. I was shocked to learn that, according to the GCBD site, the chemical dispersants are still being dropped. If this is still true, the concentrations of toxicity are unprecedented, and they are being replenished daily.

It appears that the GCBD is making their kits available due to the generous sponsorship of several companies, along with public donations. However, this is model is inherently old school, and hence limited, because the supply is based on the depths of a small number of pockets, and the need can never be sufficiently satisfied by the providers, given the unprecedented levels of toxicity which are replenished daily by continued spraying. It is virtually impossible to actually reduce toxin levels with these methods alone.

As much as I respect magnesium oil and living clay, you need to use much more on a regular basis to achieve beneficial and therapeutic changes in health. A gallon of the best quality magnesium oil retails for about $200. Even at cost, if it were $20, an individual could go through it in a few months if used regularly. 8 lbs of living clay will retail for over $100. It can be hydrated and drank as part of a detox regimen, and used quite effectively as a poltice to draw out bacterial and other positively charged contaminants. But you can go through your supply fairly quickly, and who can give that much clay to millions of people and not go broke? Then you’ve still got to get them to use it.

A 4 oz bottle of MMS retails for less than $30, and could service the needs of several individuals for a year.

The new kid on the block in the MMS community, which Jim Humble dubbed, MMS2, is calcium hypochlorite. It is just as available and inexpensive as the original (sodium chlorite), if not more so. Ingesting just a quarter capsule (size 0) of MMS2 generates hypochlorous acid in the stomach upon release, bolstering the available supply of this chemical that is otherwise naturally produced by the immune system. It’s not something you do for the rest of your life. You do it to support your immune system, allowing your body complex to regain the energy to repair itself.

MMS is inexpensive. The supply is plentiful (it is, after all, a salt), only a very small amount is needed for dosing, and it is very effective at what it does. Of the available options for helping the people of the Gulf address the chemical poisoning that they are receiving, the only practical, realistic one is MMS.

Only MMS can be made available in sufficient and affordable amounts to address the potential needs of several million people, 10’s of millions, or even more that are likely to need it. Anyone who cares about helping all, and not just some people, would seek to validate these claims rather than denounce them without consideration.

For all of the reasons that even naturopaths might want to thumb their noses at Advanced Oxygen Therapy or MMS, there’s no denying that it actually offers the highest amount of availability (supply), variability (dosing) and scalability (situations) for the lowest price.

You’d never think it by reading Deborah Dupre.

She has taken great exception with MMS and has written an article that was published on examiner.com. Her point of view is supported by Jonathan Campbell, a health consultant who wrote an article titled, What is Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS), and Why Is It Dangerous?

Ms. Dupre refers to Campbell’s article to support some of her assertions about MMS.

These articles were brought to my attention by Bruce Tanner, who publishes The RealTruth Blog. Actually, he wrote a response to Deborah Dupre’s article, which now follows (italicized comments are mine):

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Hi Adam, I hope this isn’t TOO off-topic, but my partner accidentally stumbled across this article today – http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/gulfleak-from-crude-oil-to-snake-oil – and you might want to check it out. I wrote a reply and sent it to the author, Deborah Dupree, which follows:

I hope that this will get to Deborah Dupree, as it’s regarding her recent article “Crude oil, Corexit and now, Snake Oil to fix it” on Examiner.com. If Deborah is reading this, I apologize for speaking of her in the third person.

In my opinion, this article is full of false information, half-truths, and aspersions based on an incomplete understanding of the science around so-called MMS/sodium chlorite solution.

In the first place, sodium chlorite (NaClO₂) is not “Pool Shock,” and has never been used for that purpose to my knowledge. The pool shock that is starting to be propagandized against, by people who seem to be associated with the Big Pharma/FDA quasi-official campaign against the use of sodium chlorite (I would argue because of its effectiveness against a wide range of challenges to human wellness), is calcium hypochlorite [Ca(ClO)2] (a.k.a. MMS2).

Calcium Hypochlorite becomes hypochlorous acid when put in solution in water, and is taken up and used by white blood cells in dissolving the foreign particles they absorb. Thus, Ca(ClO)2, though putatively a “pool shock,” aids the immune system in its effectiveness when taken internally in small amounts. However, I digress.

If Deborah Dupree intends to use her no-doubt extensive scientific background for the good of humanity, instead of adding to the fear and suffering experienced in places like the Gulf region, she will need to do some research on the chemistries she’s writing about. In particular, take a deep look at the remarkable and unique characteristics of Chlorine Dioxide (paying particular attention to how it differs from chlorine).

The statement quoted from nurse Patricia Springstead, “The historical fact of MMS is, that when, activated, it becomes what is equal to pool shock, to shock bacteria, fungus and other pathogens from swimming water,” is entirely specious, as one might expect someone with a Masters of Science to recognize. (However, according to Dupre, so nurse Springstead’s husband is a medical doctor, her position is a bit more understandable.)

In actuality, as Dupree might have informed us accurately, sodium chlorite, when activated with a weak food acid, releases Chlorine Dioxide (ClO₂), used not as “what is equal to pool shock,” but as a water purifier in municipal water-treatment facilities across America, and as a disinfectant approved for spraying without needing to be rinsed off, on vegetables and meat before sale. (This is true, but as a percentage, chlorine dioxide use as a primary method of disinfection is statistically insignificant in the United States compared to chlorination.)

What is the point of including quotes from Springstead like “Would you want to ingest pool water that you swim in on a daily basis?” in this article? Does the distaste invoked have anything to do with the effectiveness or danger of a particular chemical?

Anecdotal and questionable assertions are made throughout this article. While Dupree quotes health consultant Jonathan Campbell regarding MMS’s “destruction” of amino acid and “sulfurous” (sic) bonds, she might, with a short investigation on Google, have found a study published by the EPA in 1982 when chlorine dioxide was first considered for use in municipal water purification, entitled “Controlled Clinical Evaluations of Chlorine Dioxide, Chlorite and Chlorate in Man” – (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569027/pdf/envhper00463-0059.pdf) – which found 12 weeks of exposure to the 50 subjects who actually received chlorine dioxide or its metabolites “failed to reveal any clinically important impact upon the medical well-being of any subject as a result of disinfectant ingestion.”

Interestingly, also in 1982, the first of three patents was issued for the use of sodium chlorite internally in humans for blood purification. One would suspect that, to attain such a patent, the authors would have had to demonstrate the harmlessness of the substance.

And it is reliably (I think) estimated that by now in excess of 250 thousand people, mostly in Africa, have been freed from the suffering of Malaria through the use of MMS. Jim Humble’s book “Breakthrough, The Miracle Mineral Supplement of the 21st Century” has sold an equivalent number of hard-copies or copies of the electronic version of Part II, meaning that many tens of thousands of people have probably used MMS to one extent or another based on what they read. And yet, after years of use of the product by thousands of people, even considering that many people haven’t clearly understood its proper use, there is at this point only ONE (highly contested) claim of a fatality from its use.

Compare this to the sordid record of commercial pharmaceuticals (conservatively estimated at over 200,000 a year) in America alone, without a hue and cry for “responsibility to protect vulnerable people…from…those pushing them.” This fear-mongering may shortly result in the “recall” of sodium chlorite due to its “danger” by an FDA newly re-empowered by the recently passed “Food Safety Modernization Act.”

Crucially, Dupree makes a major mistake in quoting health consultant Campbell’s statement that “ClO₂ cannot differentiate healthy tissue from diseased tissue.” Of course, the molecule cannot make such a distinction itself, but one of the vital unique properties of chlorine dioxide is that it has a low Oxygen Reduction Potential of 950 millivolts, lower than any other oxidizing agent used in the body (the ORP of ozone is 2,070 mv). (It is now also evident that an enzyme, respiratory nitrate reductase, which resides in anaerobic microorganisms such as Stapholoccus and E. Coli – but NOT in aerobic or human blood cells –actually triggers the electron transfer that destroys its host when contact with a nitrate or chlorate is detected. Just so happens that ClO₂ also is also bonded with O₂.)

Because of this, ClO₂ will only draw electrons from the field of weakly bonded molecules, and will consequently NOT hurt healthy tissues. It will only act against pathogens – anaerobic bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi, and also against toxins and heavy-metal compounds lodged in tissues, which tend to surrender electrons easily.

MMS is not necessarily easy to use. For chronic conditions (unlike Malaria, which is eliminated in about 4 hours) it requires an understanding of its chemistry, and of how to support the health of the body while using it (for instance, it’s important to stay hydrated and to use anti-oxidants appropriately). However, when understood, it is, because of its unique properties, a safe and effective answer to many health issues that have, until now, been intractable or dangerous to deal with.

In the case of the massively tragic Gulf oil disaster, we have a situation where perhaps millions of people have been exposed to toxins that have now been stored as compounds in their tissues, where they can continue to cause health crises indefinitely. When chlorine dioxide first starts to act in a body that is very toxic, it quickly breaks up a lot of material that then must be flushed from the body before what’s dumped into the bloodstream can cause a detoxification reaction known as a Herxheimer reaction. If too much is released into the bloodstream too fast, this reaction takes the form of occasionally severe headache, nausea, sweating, or diarrhea as the body struggles to clear itself out. Simply backing off on the intake of MMS can bring the reactions down to where it isn’t unbearable. Remember, the goal with people who have ingested dangerous loads of toxins is to clean them out. While a detox reaction can be unpleasant, it can be mitigated by careful monitoring of dosages.

Dupree quotes Dr. Rodney Soto, a doctor working in the Gulf as saying “No toxins are a ‘safe level’ of toxins.” While, if we’re talking about persistent chemicals that are entirely foreign to our biology, this is essentially true, it’s patently false when talking about substances that are bio-compatible. For instance, an excessive amount of table salt or water can be fatal, but no one is going to label them as toxins. When it comes to the dosages involved with MMS, we’re talking about fractions of a milligram per pound of body weight! For instance, a “6-drop” dose of activated MMS will provide at most 0.225 to 0.45 mg (depending on drop size) per pound of body weight in a 120 pound person. Tests for toxicity in rats on which many of the extreme claims about the toxicity of chlorine dioxide are based, involved amounts above 10 mg per pound up to 100 mg per pound, and in some cases the ClO₂ was put in the water the rats drank throughout their lives. And even then, the developmental problems suffered by rat pups were not life-threatening.

To cite just one more obvious comparison, chemo-therapy drugs for treating cancer are severely toxic, yet supposedly responsible doctors prescribe them to immune-compromised people every day.

Reliable witnesses inside the FDA have stated that the agency has been studying the therapeutic uses of sodium chlorite since at least 2003. After all that time, and in the face of a distinct threat to the profits of their masters, the Pharmaceutical Industry, the worst that FDA can come up with to attack this valuable bio-purifier with is that it causes understandable reactions as it causes the body to release toxins, and that it can contribute to preventable dehydration. Considering this, how can we understand the vehemence of the developing campaigns against MMS? Do you, Deborah, want to contribute to a pogrom against a simple chemical that potentially promises a massive improvement in human health, conceivably in the very near future?

Sincerely, Bruce Tanner – http://genesis2forum.org

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After reading Ms. Dupre’s article myself (and I understand she has written a second one), and Mr. Campbell’s, I felt the urge to reply on camera. 35 minutes later, I finally stopped talking.

In Conclusion, a New Dawn

While on Will Spencer’s web site, I decided to call the phone number on the Contact page and was pleased to have him come to the phone when I asked if he was available.

We had a great visit. He told me how he came to be involved with Gulf Coast residents and what they are going through. He has a multi-modal approach that includes what MMS does (by whatever name). He says he’s seen some amazing recoveries, which he is willing to talk about.

He’s visiting family in Minnesota right now, but we agreed to talk with me next week about this. I’ll record this on camera, with him on the speaker phone.

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