Hello Renee, 100 pounds of sodium chlorite will keep you going for quite awhile. However, there are thousands of uses for it, so it may not last as long as you think.
A comment on safety... A 28% concentration sodium chlorite solution is dangerous to handle, and also has mailing restrictions. You would be far better off, and much safer, and not in violation of most mailing codes offering a 5% concentration solution. You can do everything with a 5% solution that you can do with a 28% solution, you just use a little more. Sodium chlorite solutions are considered stabilized chlorine dioxide solutions. The concentration of the solution is directly related to the available chlorine dioxide in the solution. The 28%, by weight, solution made with 80% technical grade sodium chlorite is actually a 22.4% sodium chlorite solution and it has 224000 PPM available chlorine dioxide. A 6.25%, by weight, sodium chlorite is actually a 5% solution and it has 50000 PPM available chlorine dioxide. In industry, chlorine dioxide is used to remove sulphur compounds from the air and from solutions. Since MSM has a sulphur component, as does DMSO, I would expect some reaction between an activated sodium chlorite solution and MSM. I have not tested that specifically, but will put it on my list of things to check out. I have checked chlorine dioxide and DMSO, and DMSO acts as an anti oxidant and reduces the concentration of chlorine dioxide. What I find interesting is that DMSO and MSM have a small molecular weight that lends them to easily penetrating the skin. Chlorine dioxide has a molecular weight about 15% less than DMSO (DMSO is 78, MSM is 94, chlorine dioxide is 67.45) so it also easily penetrates the skin. Unfortunately, it is so reactive that it doesn't get very far. Roy boasts about taking extremely large doses using his MMS-Lite combination. I can assure you that if there wasn't an interaction between MMS and MSM, he would be suffering some side effects. You can do a similar thing by adding something like organic apple juice to a normal MMS dose. I once took three 15 drop doses, mixed up according to the MMS protocol, in 30 minutes and suffered no side effects at all. I mixed each dose with some organic apple juice (the label indicated that no additional vitamin C had been added). When I later tested a similar solution, the chlorine dioxide concentration had been reduced to nearly 0 PPM. As people were pushing to reach 15 drops three times a day, I was sending emails to Jim Humble telling him to cut back on the drops and go to fewer drops more frequently. Eventually, many others also reported this to him and he changed the protocol. The average body can tolerate about 8 drops of MMS mixed according to the MMS protocol. Keep in mind that the MMS protocol is citric acid heavy and produces a chlorous acid/citric acid solution with a PH of around 3 or lower. At about 8 drops, there is a high enough concentration of free chlorine dioxide that it actually makes it to the stomach or lower GI tract. This is what causes the nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, which is actually a mild form of chlorine dioxide poisoning. Chlorine dioxide doesn't last long inside the body (minutes at most) but quickly breaks down to chlorite ions. The chlorite ion has a half life of around 42 hours in rats. When dealing with chlorine dioxide poisoning, you can expect delayed reactions to occur during the first half life reduction. This is caused by the chlorite oxidation reaction, and when the chlorite makes it to the lungs, chlorine dioxide can be formed again causing respiratory distress. Now when you add sodium chlorite to water and get its PH below about 8, you also form a chlorous acid solution, but the activation takes place over hours or days. The stomach acid can kick the activation up a notch, but it is still a rather slow reaction. Roy is adding sodium chlorite to his MSM solution and that may actually offer some time release benefit. I have spent over 30 years adding anti oxidants to my diet in an effort to reduce free radical damage brought on by oxidation within the body. I have a very hard time with the idea of taking an oxidizing chemical daily. It may make sense under special conditions but its effectiveness had better been verified for the circumstances. I view MMS as a broad spectrum chemotherapy. You may not loose your hair, but you most likely will suffer some oxidative and free radical damage. On the other hand, drinking water with 5-10 PPM available chlorine dioxide from sodium chlorite has demonstrated some wonderful results in animals and people. I am working with a research scientist on trying to figure out why. She says that it appears, upon first examination, that for some reason the sodium chlorite/chlorous acid/chlorine dioxide solution seems to be acting as a catalyst for the electron transport chain. Then she carries on rapidly in a language beyond my understanding with quiet excitement. I think I am excited by all of this, but I really don't know what is going on. My job is to provide accurate solutions and verify their concentrations through testing. If I ever understand what is going on, I will be sure to pass it on. Tom
