Since everyone is talking about alkaline and acidic nature I thought I would add this information.
Question to Jim Humble:
Do you have any scientific proof that MMS attacks only pathogens and toxins due to their acidic nature?
In your DVD and elsewhere you state that pathogens, toxins, etc. have an acidic nature, which makes the alkaline MMS only attack (oxidize, or rip the electrons off) the bad things. Do you have any scientific proof that this is generally or 100% applicable?
Answer:
Further research on the Internet and interviews with various chemists and professors of biochemistry I have more data. It turns out that chlorine dioxide has the lowest oxidation potential of all the major oxidizers used in the body, that is, oxygen, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, and hypochlorous acid (the body makes them all in small quantities). Yet, it provides 2.5 times more oxidation capacity (number of electrons that it will accept) than the other oxidizers. This just happens to be the reason that it has been used in water purification systems through out the world for the past 70 years which has pretty well proven out the theory. It kills the pathogens in the water systems with out killing the friendly bacteria. It does not have enough potential to oxidize or rust the machinery that is in the water as well. Keep in mind that we are talking about very weak solutions of chlorine dioxide in water systems and in the body. (When powerful solutions 10,000 times that used in the body are involved chlorine dioxide can and will do more damage.)
Chlorine dioxide has 2.5 times the oxidization capacity (but much lower oxidation potential) than chlorine and it oxidizes in a totally different manner. When chlorine exchanges electrons (call chlorination) it combines with the item being oxidized thus creating more chemicals, some of which are harmful. In comparison, chlorine dioxide does not combine with the item being oxidized, it merely tears it apart.
Since the body is more than 70% water, chlorine dioxide works well in the body. My original discussion of this concerning pH may or may not be significant. That was as a result of discussions with chemists at the time I was writing the book. For a complete discussion of the chemistry and use of chlorine dioxide refer to the Lenntech brochure on the industrial uses of chlorine dioxide. In this brochure there is much scientific data concerning industrial use and much data allowing one to extrapolate the results one would get in the body.
http://www.lenntech.com/water-disinf...ne-dioxide.htm
So we have 70 years of proof that chlorine dioxide has the ability to selectively kill pathogens, but why does this happen. Why does it select out the pathogens. The first point is that pathogens are anaerobic. The skin (cell wall) of an anaerobic microbe is of a nature that is quite different than beneficial bacteria. It is oxidized when touched by chlorine dioxide. Chlorine dioxide kills anaerobic microbes by blowing holes in the cell wall. This is the reason that microbiologists have said that microbes will never develop a resistance to chlorine dioxide. Antibiotics kill by attacking the nucleus of the cell in some way, and there are hundreds of ways that the cell can develop a resistance to that, but there is no developing a resistance to blowing a hole in the cell wall. It’s like trying to develop a resistance to dynamite. No matter what you do, the dynamite is still gong to blow a hole in your skin. You may notice that molds and other fungus are very weak. The big one ones can be torn apart by hand. They are anaerobic and put together weaker. Chlorine dioxide has all that it takes to kill them.
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