To understand the MMS one must understand chlorine dioxide as that is what is generated and what does the job in the body.
Chlorine dioxide is a high explosive. Therefore, wherever it is used it must be generated on site. It cannot be transported as chlorine dioxide. It will instantly destroy any container that one might try to house it in. It cannot even be moved through metal or plastic pipes. Numerous methods have been devised to generate chlorine dioxide and many different chlorine chemicals are used for that purpose. Chlorine dioxide is used for many industrial processes. It is used in paper mills to bleach the paper pulp white. It is used in cloth mills to bleach cloth. Probably the most important use is to purify water and thousands of water purification systems utilize chlorine dioxide throughout the world. In water purification systems it is selective for pathogens and other bio-organisms that might be harmful to larger animals and humans. It does NOT combine with hundreds of constituents with which free chlorine will combine. Free chlorine will combine with several items found in most water systems and will create carcinogenic compounds. Thus, although the initial cost of installing chlorine dioxide systems is higher, in the long run, the chlorine dioxide systems save money and they are much safer from a health standpoint.
One of the most popular methods of generating chlorine dioxide is by various methods of treating sodium chlorite. It is a white or slightly yellow flaky substance. Keep in mind that table salt is not quite the same thing. Note the spelling of the last two letters. Table salt is sodium chloride. We generate chlorine dioxide from sodium chlorite.
Throughout the world today sodium chlorite (the formula is NaClO2) is probably used to generate chlorine dioxide more often than any other method. For the formula for chlorine dioxide, we merely remove the Na which is sodium, and we have chlorine dioxide, ClO2. (Don’t worry; you don’t have to understand these formulas to understand the basics of what I am writing here.) There are possibly several dozen methods of using sodium chlorite to generate chlorine dioxide. The FDA approves several methods of just adding swimming pool acid to a watery solution of sodium chlorite for the purpose of making chlorine dioxide which is used to sterilize chicken or beef before it is sold to the public. The acid generates the chlorine dioxide from the sodium chlorite. In many cases of sterilizing vegetables, the chlorine does not have to be rinsed off as the chlorine dioxide soon turns into salt but not enough to make the vegetable salty.
Amazingly enough, in a hundred thousand health food stores in the U.S. one can also find sodium chlorite in a watery form known as Stabilized Oxygen. In almost all cases Stabilized Oxygen is manufactured by simply adding 3.5% sodium chlorite by weight to distilled water, that’s 35,000 ppm. You can do it in your kitchen. Just don’t use any metal pots and pans, not even stainless steel. Use only plastic or glass or Corning Ware. However, you will be much better off making the Miracle Mineral Supplement with my formula or buying it from someone who is using my formula. I’ll tell you exactly how to do that later in this book.
For 80 years hundreds of thousands of people have put a few drops of Stabilized Oxygen into their water or juice and drank it down thinking that it somehow furnished extra oxygen to their bodies. The few who realized that some form of chlorine was generated, mentioned it in passing but still insisted that the chlorite furnished the body with oxygen. Somehow during all those years, not one of the alternate medicine groups ever decided to have a good chemist look at the formula, or at least not one of them wrote about doing so. The fact is that simple chemistry shows us that no oxygen is generated that the body can use.
Chlorine dioxide is a powerful chemical and it has many uses. It is an oxidizer, less powerful than oxygen, but with a greater quantity available for oxidizing. Chlorine dioxide explodes when it contacts certain chemical conditions and is neutral with other chemical conditions. It is selective. What do we mean when we say it explodes? Well, an explosion is merely a fast chemical reaction, mainly oxidation that also releases energy. In the formula, ClO2, there are two oxygen ions. So why do these not get released so that the body can use them? It’s because they have a minus two charge. They had already done their oxidizing before they arrived in this position. They cannot oxidize further. But the chlorine combined with oxygen can. When chlorine dioxide touches a pathogen or a poison that is acidic in nature, it instantly accepts five electrons. It destroys anything that it can draw electrons from and generates heat at the same time (this action is called oxidation even when oxygen is not a part of it). The oxygen atoms are then released from the chlorine dioxide, but they are not elemental oxygen. They are ions of oxygen with a negative two charge. They are at the same charge as the oxygen in carbon dioxide, a gas that will kill you if you breathe enough of it. The carbon dioxide is not a poison. In other words, it doesn’t do anything to the lungs; it is sort of like drowning. It prevents the lungs from getting the elemental oxygen that they need.
Hydrogen and oxygen mix together to become water. That’s about all that the oxygen can do at this time. It becomes water or it can become part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The chlorine, after the explosion of oxidation, has also lost its charge and it becomes a chloride which is basically table salt, which again has no ability to oxidize as it no longer has any charge. There is nothing else left to cause any kind of side effect.
The basic idea is simply that oxygen and chlorine must be charged to the correct number of electrons, or they do not do the job of oxidizing. When oxygen is not capable of oxidizing it simply cannot do the job in the body that is required for oxygen. What sodium chlorite really does for us is it gives us chlorine dioxide, a chemical that is selective to destroy almost all bad things that might exist in the body. Each tiny chlorine dioxide molecule has tremendous power to destroy those things from which it can draw electrons, but it does not have the power to draw electrons from healthy cells or aerobic bacteria.
Chlorine dioxide does not last forever. It has too much energy bundled into a small area. It begins to lose some of its energy after a few minutes in the body and the same thing happens when it is released into public water supplies. In the body when it has lost some of its energy so that it no longer is explosive (unable to oxidize) it can then combine with other substances. There is some evidence that it helps make myeloperoxidase, a chemical that the body uses to make hypochlorous acid that is then used by the immune system to further kill pathogens, killer cells, and other things. Chlorine dioxide is the only chemical known that has these qualities and that can do these things in the body without creating side effects. In public water works or the bleaching of paper pulp in paper mills, chlorine dioxide is generated on the site where it is used. In the body, it is also generated on the site where it is used from sodium chlorite.
~ Jim Humble in Miracle Mineral Solution of the 21st Century Jim Humble Book Part 1