Hello Renee, Chlorine dioxide works by having a concentration of it in contact with the pathogen for a specific period of time. This is referred to as the CT value, and it is determined through testing.
For example, if you are in the wilderness and want to purify your drinking water with chlorine dioxide, the CT is 1000. If you mix up a concentration of 4 PPM, you need to wait 250 minutes before drinking the water. Chlorine dioxide has been tested against a number of pathogens, and the CT to kill those pathogens is listed in the test results. The problem inside the body is that chlorine dioxide doesn't survive beyond a few minutes. A study was done with monkeys and they found that over 95% of the chlorine dioxide was used up within 5 minutes in the stomach. These were healthy monkeys, so it wasn't used up fighting pathogens. This is the main issue with ingesting chlorine dioxide solutions. There are too many things that chlorine dioxide reacts with inside the body so by the time it get to a pathogen (unless the pathogen is in your mouth, throat, or stomach) it is all used up. Trying to increase the concentration of chlorine dioxide results in oxidative damage to the stomach and lower GI tract which gives symptoms of nausea, vomitting, and diarrhea. Here is a test you can do that illustrates this. Mix up a 15 drop dose of MMS. Take a tablespoon of it into your mouth and swish it around in your mouth for 30 seconds. Now spit it out and examine it. The yellow color will be gone, the odor will be gone, and if you have test strips they will show 0 PPM chlorine dioxide. With all of that said, there is some evidence that a properly activated chlorous acid solution has greater antimicrobial properties that what you would expect from the chlorine dioxide alone. The very limited success with MMS may be due to these chlorous acid properties, but the MMS protocol is not the most effective way to activate sodium chorite. Candida overgrowth may respond better to a sodium chlorite solution letting it activate inside the stomach. If you can directly place chlorine dioxide in contact with candida, it will kill it, but the delivery is difficult. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Renee To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:54 AM Subject: Re: CS>Mike Monett---Mold & MMS Tom, because we have talked about using sodium chlorite mixed with an acidifier to kill mold and fungus spores on physical objects (and from the air) I'm wondering what your thoughts are on using AMMS to kill candida in the body. At first Jim said that AMMS would kill all virus, bacteria and fungus (internally). Then after a year or so he said that though AMMS would kill all virus and bacteria it would only kill a certain percentage of fungus, and that candida people needed other things besides AMMS to cure themselves. What do you think of this? If the chlorine dioxide is killing the mold spores on physical objects and even air, it seems it should kill candida--unless we cannot get enough chlorine dioxide to do the job without killing us in the process? Thanks, Renee
