The FDA is on the path to ban MMS, a popular alternative treatment it likens to industrial bleach. Supporters say the treatment is saving thousands of lives.
Daniel Smith of Spokane, Washington is currently facing 37 years in prison for selling a product that he says has helped to heal tens of thousands of people. That product is a mineral solution called MMS, (Miracle Mineral Solution or Master Mineral Solution), made of sodium chlorite in distilled water. Smith has been ensconced in a legal battle with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the last five years over the solution.
Photo: Daniel Smith with his wife and daughter. Via GoFundMe.
According to the MMS website, the solution boosts the immune system and treats a variety of ailments ranging between infections, viruses, dental problems, diabetes, malaria, kidney failure, hepatitis, HIV, cancer and even illness in pets. Many users report that they’ve turned to MMS as a last resort after they’ve exhausted all other options including prescription medications to cure their illness.
The name MMS was originated by a man named Jim Humble, who claims to have used it to successfully treat 100,000 victims of malaria in Africa, and thousands more around the globe. Humble founded a non-religious church, the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, in an effort to raise awareness about MMS. He also self-published a book on MMS in 2006 titled The Miracle Mineral Solution of the 21st Century.
Many of Humble’s claims about the solution are backed up by individual reports listed as testimonials on his MMS website, and several forums across the Internet.
In one testimonial, a post by “Donna Collins-Yamini” of the U.S. explains how MMS cured a severe ear infection. Another by “Les Barley” describes how MMS cured a skin infection:
“MMS is amazing for skin infections, which I have often been prone to. I woke up two years ago with a tiny red granuloma (benign) on my mouth. If I pricked it with a needle, it would gush and gush blood, as if a major artery had terminated on my face. Could not get rid of it. One day I nuked the thing with a couple drops of MMS in a tiny bit of water (I may have even done full strength). It instantly cauterized it. A couple days later, just to be thorough, I peeled off the tiny fleck of scab/skin and reapplied the MMS. It had not come back.”
The directions for use for MMS say to mix a few drops of the solution with a mild acid — like lemon juice, lime juice or citric acid — to create chlorine dioxide. There are dozens “protocols” listed for taking MMS to treat various illnesses from the flu to viruses to malaria that can be found on the MMS Wiki page which was set up by Humble’s church. The Wiki claims, “more than 20,000,000 have used MMS and hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved.”
More than 30 more testimonials are listed on Humble’s website, covering various infections. There are also online forums in which users connect MMS use with healing from cancer, HIV and other ailments.
According to the natural medicine community website Sacred Valley Tribe, ingesting the chlorine dioxide kills “virtually every known pathogen, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, molds, and yeasts,” and “produces a major boost to the immune system.”
Photo: MMS.
However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come out with a warning against the use of MMS, stating that the solution is actually a potent industrial bleach:
“The product, when used as directed, produces an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm to health. The product instructs consumers to mix the 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citrus juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment. High oral doses of this bleach, such as those recommended in the labeling, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration.”
The FDA has come out with much more serious warnings against several of its approved antibiotics. (MMS is often used as an alternative to approved antibiotics).
A 2010 warning regarding the antibiotic Tygacil alerts doctors to an increased risk of death:
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reminding healthcare professionals of an increased mortality risk associated with the use of the intravenous antibacterial Tygacil (tigecycline) compared to that of other drugs used to treat a variety of serious infections. The increased risk was determined using a pooled analysis of clinical trials. The cause of the excess death in these trials is often uncertain, but it is likely that most deaths in patients with these severe infections were related to progression of the infection.”
In 2013 the FDA put out a warning of nerve damage for a series of antibiotics that more than 23 million patients received under prescription in 2011 alone. These include the medications Cipro, Factive, Levaquin, Avelox, Noroxin, and Floxin.
Despite the FDA’s stance on sodium chlorite, it is sold in stores and online, and is legal to buy, sell, import, export, and possess in the U.S. While sale of the solution is not prohibited, the FDA shut down Smith’s business in 2011, alleging that he’d violated federal laws and engaged in smuggling in regards to MMS. As explained in a 2012 article in Spokane’s weekly paper the Inlander, he’d been importing sodium chlorite from Canada and then shipping it along with citric acid. The FDA alleges that action was in violation of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Screenshot of Jim Humble via “Jim Humble Responds to FDA Campaign Against MMS” on YouTube.
Depending on who you ask, MMS is either a profound, breakthrough natural medicine or a dangerous, faulty snake-oil scheme.
Articles in the Guardian and elsewhere call MMS dangerous and accuse Humble of fraud. MMS has been banned in Canada after reportedly causing a life-threatening reaction, and last year Health Canada issued a warning urging anyone who bought the product to stop use immediately. MMS was also linked in 2009 to the death of a Mexican woman traveling in Vanautu, who took MMS as a preventative for malaria and died hours later according to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2010 titled “Deadly Chemical Being Sold As Miracle Cure.”
In the same article, the director of the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, Naren Gunj, called MMS “a bit like drinking concentrated bleach,” and said that it causes vomiting, diarrhea and other negative symptoms.
FDA And Questionable Motives
As the blog Health Impact News points out, FDA-approved medicines are responsible for far more deaths than MMS has been associated with.
“According to statistics published by medical authorities themselves, FDA prescription drugs are one of the top causes of death in the United States, and probably the number one cause of death among Americans today. The CDC has previously stated that overdoses of FDA-approved prescription opioid pain relievers now exceed deaths involving heroin and cocaine combined.”
In 1998 the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study concluding that more than 2 million Americans became seriously ill each year due to toxic reactions to correctly prescribed medicines taken properly — and each year 106,000 people died from those reactions.
Since then, prescription drug use has only increased. An article in the LA Times in 2012 described how prescription drugs “kill more people than heroin and cocaine.”
Humble, Smith and others have implied that the FDA’s motives for cracking down on MMS have little to do with actual public safety concerns. They say the fact that MMS is very cheap to purchase (a few dollars per bottle) makes it a potential threat to the profitable pharmaceutical companies, which heavily fund the FDA. (The Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 allows the FDA to collect fees from pharmaceutical companies filing new drug applications. As explained in this PLOS blog article, those fees amount to a large portion of the FDA’s funds as it costs hundreds of millions to get a drug approved by the FDA.)
The FDA only approves “drugs,” and can’t monetize natural remedies. As the Health Impact News piece notes, “the FDA routinely attacks anybody making health claims that competes with any of these companies with products they have not approved, and they only approve products from this small select group of pharmaceutical giants. In recent years, the FDA has issued warning letters and threatened companies selling such natural products as coconut oil, walnuts, cranberries, elderberries, and essential oils, to name a few.”
Existing scientific research regarding chlorine dioxide is limited, but what exists doesn’t paint too threatening a picture of the solution.
A clinical evaluation of chlorine dioxide ingestion was published in 1982 by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC. It concluded that the solution causes no significant health impacts:
“The careful clinical evaluation of every subject in Phases I, II and III failed to reveal any clinically important impact upon the medical well-being of any subject as a result of disinfectant ingestion.”
Additionally, a 1999 article by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency explains that chlorine dioxide has been known as a powerful disinfectant in water since “it was first used at a spa in Ostend, Belgium,” and “approximately 700 to 900 public water systems use chlorine dioxide to treat potable water (Hoehn, 1992).”
The EPA article states the following (emphasis added):
“Chlorine dioxide functions as a highly selective oxidant due to its unique, one-electron transfer mechanism where it is reduced to chlorite… Chlorine dioxide is a strong oxidant and disinfectant. Its disinfecting mechanisms are not well understood, but appear to vary by the type of microorganism. In the first disinfection mechanism, chlorine dioxide reacts readily with amino acids cysteine, tryptophan, and tyrosine, but not with viral ribonucleic acid (RNA)… It was concluded that chlorine dioxide inactivated viruses by altering the viral capsid proteins.”
An article on the website RealRawFood.com argues that the above EPA description is evidence that chlorine dioxide can be relatively selective about what it attacks in the body. It states:
“When properly used at low levels of concentration it can select pathogens and not affect body parts.”
Red Cross Cover-Up?
Humble and others who support MMS claim that the Red Cross is covering up evidence from a field study performed using sodium chlorite in Uganda to treat malaria patients. Klaas Proesmans, CEO and founder of the Water Reference Center, which is affiliated with the International Association of Red Crosses and Red Crescents, narrates a controversial 2012 video, which appears to show the field study in action. The video’s introduction includes an audio speech by Humble about MMS. You an watch the video below:
Proesmans is shown explaining in the video that he traveled with the Uganda Red Cross to the village of Iganga for the field study to look at “the side effects that a certain way of purifying water has on the blood of certain patients.” He says in the video that the first recorded use of sodium chlorite is in Ostend, a Belgian town about 50 kilometers from his home town, and that before the first World War, a spa in the town used sodium chlorite to treat skin diseases and infections.
“It has been said and written that the use of sodium chlorite cleans the body within one hour to four hours of the malaria parasite,” Proesmans says in the video, adding that he came to Uganda to do a field study to determine whether it was worth doing a pilot study.
According to Proesmans’ narration, the 5-day field study assessed a total of 154 malaria-positive patients, together with the local health authorities and doctors. All of them were given a glass of the sodium chlorite and water solution, and within 48 hours, all of them were malaria-free “without any side-effects,” Proesmans says.
Klaus Proesmans has since said that the video was inaccurate, and the International Federation of Red Cross has distanced itself from the field study, releasing the following statement:
“The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) dissociates itself in the strongest terms from the content of the recent Master Mineral Solution newsletter (May 2013) entitled “Malaria finally defeated” and supporting YouTube video. IFRC does not support or endorse in any manner the claims made in relation to this project, and has at no time been involved in ‘clinical trials’ related to malaria treatment.
Malaria affects 219 million people every year, killing a child somewhere in the world every minute. As a matter of policy, IFRC adheres to World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines which state the only way to combat malaria is to scale up prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
The IFRC expresses its support to the Uganda Red Cross Society and recognizes that it has been spearheading prevention programmes across the country over the last decade, as auxiliary to their public authorities and in line with WHO guidelines.”
In an audio segment attached to the end of the video Leo Koehof — identified as the videographer and MMS trainer for the Red Cross staff in Uganda — says he was surprised by reactions to the video when he posted it in 2013.
“The doubters suggested the video was fake and wanted more detailed information,” he says in the audio recording. “This misinformation was put out by Klaus Proesmans himself.”
Koehof says that “to date the Red Cross has done nothing with the results, except of course to hide the truth and tell lies. This is equivalent to genocide… It is one thing to have fear of losing one’s job. But when we contrast that to the millions of lives lost each year to malaria, it is time they stop being cowardly and step into the light of truth.”
Daniel Smiths Fight Could Determine Legality of MMS
Daniel Smith’s five year fight with the FDA and Department of Justice will culminate in a court date set for March 3, 2015. The outcome of the case will likely determine the future legality of MMS in the U.S.
Smith is arguing that the FDA and DOJ participated in selective targeting, prosecutorial abuse, and judicial misconduct against him. While he has not yet been convicted, his coin collection and the contents of his bank accounts were seized by the FDA. His case is an onerous example of asset forfeiture, a practice which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has recently cracked down upon with the announcement of a new policy. Unfortunately for Smith it’s too late. A Change.org petition in support of Smith has collected more than 3,100 signatures. And, thanks in part to a supportive video “Stand By Daniel” with a voiceover by Jim Humble, a GoFundMe.com fundraising effort has raised more than $96,600 to help Smith with legal fees.
This is typical of the “politics of prohibition”.
Not everything is a conspiracy. There are many things in the world that can both help you and kill you. MMS sounds like there may be situations in which it would be appropriate to try (one person above said last resort) but not a cure all, which is how it is being presented.
Too bad that this article appeared in Reset.me. I thought you were going to advance efforts to recognize legitimate medicine, but you’re promoting lies and misleading your readers. Fortunately, some of the comments have called out your BS. What a joke you’ve become, not surprising, but still unfortunate. The psychedelic community doesn’t need you to malign our image further with the broader public.
Alright, Lojiko (who commented earlier). I’m a skeptic, too, but I’ll take you on. Your bias is apparent, and you choose to pettily attack the “semantics” in some cases, but that’s fair enough, since this is supposed to be a bonafide article. I can’t make this too long, so I’m sure there will be holes in some of my statements. I’ll use the same numbering as your points:
1. Yes, “natural” was probably a poor choice of words. However, the WAY that chlorine dioxide operates in your body is relatively natural, simply de-capacitating pathogens by stealing their electrons. They die & the remnants (both of the pathogen & the used chlorine dioxide) are eliminated by the body.
2. You can no more claim that the “testimonials are crap” than others can claim they are true. That is your subjective evaluation. Nothing scientific there. They would love to have millions of dollars to conduct proper research, like the rich pharmaceuticals do. But you know that’s never going to happen. Because the ONLY reason the big companies will invest that money is to make MORE money. That’s never been Jim Humble’s motivation, from day one until now. He gets nothing from MMS sales, only from his books about it.
—“Cauterize” was another poor choice of words. The fact is, she got rid of her granuloma, and suffered no harm. Obviously, that’s uncomfortable for you. It seems you would prefer that she still had the affliction.
3. Neither Jim Humble, nor Daniel Smith has ever ONCE claimed that MMS cures “everything”. Period! They state clearly what it does not help, or under what specific conditions it seems less effective. All of these people are as skeptical as you. They are just skeptical of different things.
4. The point being exposed here is that it’s very ODD that the FDA has sponsored a scare-campaign, including issuing information that they know is false to the Department of Justice in order to round up these harmless individuals.—When they routinely APPROVE (expensive) drugs that are much, MUCH more lethal.
5. The point here is that the FDA is NOT as nearly as concerned about people dying as they might lead you to think. The point is of course, not “TOTAL” deaths (because yes, MMS is hardly known or used) but that PER/capita, FDA-approved drugs are much more potentially-and-proven lethal than is MMS. You apparently haven’t grasped the INORDINATE amount of energy & taxpayers’ money the FDA is selectively expending to control the use of this little chemical. (Which actually is already FDA approved, and is and has been in use worldwide for decades.)
6. It’s amazing (probably to most level-headed headed people) that you would defend the big pharmaceutical companies and their “righteousness”. You won’t like this website, but check out the goodness of the pharmaceuticals here:
(http://www.naturalnews.com/044385_medical_conspiracies_historical_facts_government_collusion.html) — I’d say, if you want to keep your hands, reputation, and integrity clean, you’d better stay far from them. // If the product works, I agree with you that unfortunately probably some people are going to try to make a buck on it. Of course, we don’t get incensed at the big companies for that same “sin”, do we? I do hope that people with integrity will prevail in making MMS available. Like I said, Jim Humble is not in for avarice. He was already successful in other work. He could have saved himself a life of trouble, and constant danger, if he’d chosen to keep his mouth shut, and selfishly keep this knowledge to himself.
–“Hydrochloric Acid”—Oh my God!! You mean that same acid that is a component of the Gastric Acid that is in every healthy human stomach? (But I confess, until I educated myself, I was surprised, like you.) Did you know that there are other lethal compounds in Gastric Acid? One of them is—get ready, this is sinister—Sodium Chloride. That’s right–there’s your “Chlorine Bleach” again. Only most people call it table salt. Eat 20 tablespoons or so, and you are dead. Incidentally, Hydrochloric Acid reacts with Sodium Chlorite to form the notorious Chlorine Dioxide. This mix (in minute quantities) is to be performed in a glass, NOT in your body. THEN highly diluted with water.
7. Here again, I haven’t taken the time to do the math, but Jim Humble states that the recommended dose of Chlorine Dioxide is from 50 – 3000 times LESS concentrated than the FDA approved concentration of chlorine dioxide to be used in food preparation.
–You think you’ve really got ’em here, where you state that anything that kills pathogens is going to kill normal human cells. Although you’re calling for more science in this article, this is where you really expose that you’re stronger on bias and prejudice than education. The explanation of how chlorine dioxide attacks pathogens, but not human cells—unlike other commonly medically used oxidants, such as oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, and ozone—is all over the internet. Oxidants kill pathogens, apparently, by stealing their electrons–as stated above. Oxidants have an electric potential, stated in Volts (or mV). It happens that of the four oxidants I just mentioned, chlorine dioxide is the weakest, and is just below the electric potential of healthy human cells.–But higher than that of all pathogens. That is how it is selective and recognized as the safest of these oxidants in treating pathogens..
8. Nope, not wishful thinking. Science & chemistry. And no one here is proposing to either ship or medically use concentrated chlorine dioxide. Neither is anyone proposing to apply sodium chlorite directly to your skin. And most definitely not to “drink” MMS, which is what you are implying, by stating the 28% concentration figure. The directions for its use and dilution are very clear, besides the instructions in EVERY article or video I’ve seen regarding it, to start very slowly with tiny doses, gauge your reactions, and then increase as is effective. Because when pathogens are killed in your body, the body must dispose of them. In the meantime, their presence, and the elimination process itself can bring feelings of nausea. diarrhea, etc. This is characteristic of any de-tox process.
—-Finally, there have been NO confirmed cases of death related to MMS. The case mentioned in the article, regarding the woman in Vanautu, for example, was not even used by the Prosecution (none the less) in their indictment of Daniel Smith, for lack of facts surrounding the case. But you, like all other un-knowing readers, can only walk away with the intended mis-impression–“Yeah, MMS killed a lady in Vanautu!”
—-The evidence MAY be disputed by “every medical professional ASSOCIATION on the planet.” (I don’t know ALL of them, do you?) However, it is NOT by ANY means disputed by all medical PROFESSIONALS. There’s a BIG difference there. And I’ll tell you, with this witch hunt, and the Scarlet Letter that the pharmaceutical world is pushing these national medical associations to label anybody with who would DARE to state a positive opinion about MMS, it’s amazing that some HAVE been bold enough to state the truth.–At the risk of their profession & livelihood. Have you ever been in that precarious situation?
—-And the final amazing thing to me about you people (forgive me for profiling you, but I’ve been reading all about this subject for a long time, and “your type” seems to be very predictable:) You are perfectly willing to believe anything the Government or the FDA or big pharmaceutical companies say–you swallow it hook, line & sinker with nary a skeptical glance—despite the participation of these same bodies in myriad documented & illegal scams, schemes, and intrigue.–With the same corrupt executives passing through a revolving door between Monsanto, the FDA and all. (SEE http://rense.com/general33/fd.htm ) Yet when an honest, simple individual with NOTHING to gain by it, stands up (many of them also skeptical before they TRIED the product—have you TRIED the product?), and looks you in the eye and says, “Look, I had this disease. Now it’s gone.” You guys without flinching start berating them saying, “You SOBS, WITF do you think you’re talking about?! Shut up! Don’t you know it’s bleach? Don’t you know you’re stupid, duped? In fact, you’re a LIAR, you’re making up this story!” And on & on. People LIE for real motivations—ask the FDA & their partners. Normal people are not motivated to LIE because they feel better today than they did yesterday. Sure–placebo effect–we’ve all experienced it. But you don’t joke around when you’re talking about malaria, tumors, your autistic kid who has suffered for years & effected your WHOLE life, etc. Okay, enough said. Probably didn’t state some things here properly. Everybody fire away now, ha.
We can decide for ourselves what we want to take and what we don’t want to take. We are big boys and girls and we don’t need the Fatal Drugs Allowed goon squad to hold our hands and dictate to us what we can and cannot do. So your argument is completely pointless and without merit. By the way, since your so worried and concerned about my health and the health of others why don’t you get on a soap box about VIOXX, which the FDA DID ALLOW until it killed more people than the Vietnam War! Or what about all the drugs the FDA “ALLOWS” (as if!) that KILLS OVER 300,000 people in AMerica alone per year. MMS has killed NOBODY. What nauseating hypocritical repetitive spewage from all you shills who read from the same script. So damn sick of it. Anybody with the IQ level just above a WEED can see thru your bull $hit. Go drink a big tall glass of sodium fluoride (rat posion that the FDA/govt puts in your water) turn on American Idol or Honey Boo Boo and shut up. Nobody cares to read your paid shill drivel-vomit anymore. Everyone who can think for themselves does not NEED THE FDA or their paid liars, mockers and braindead shills to tell them what they can or cannot do. I don’t tell you what to do and you sure as hell aint gonna tell me.
Sorry, one more point: If someone wants to make money on a product or idea, they try to PATENT it. They try to make sure they are the ONLY ones who can use it, and that they can license or control all use of it. (Same reason we copyright music & works of art. Same reasons drug companies scramble for patents.–And as is known, they’re working on ’em right now, for the use of chlorine dioxide in the treatment of many diseases.)
—-So, uncharacteristic of someone trying to “control” and profit, Jim Humble has been trying to “spread the word” as much as possible.–And at considerable personal risk. I haven’t seen where any of the pioneers in the personal usage of chlorine dioxide as a killer of pathogens, has attempted to “corner the market”. Rather their true motivation to actually HELP people is proven by their free dissemination of the “how to”. Because once you’ve seen it, you don’t need them anymore—you can do it totally yourself. You’re no longer dependent on any person or company, if you prefer. This same freedom of information & action is what is absolutely driving the big guys BONKERS—because it would be a goldmine, if any of them can make a synthetic from it, patent it, and somehow keep it from the man on the street.
It’s very similar to drinking alkaline water, which you can simply make from water and a small amount of bleach.
It kills all the bacteria in your gut…good and bad. You will need to take probiotics after treating yourself like this.
Not all bleach is the same. Hydrogen peroxide is a bleach, and the Sun also acts as a bleach… they are both beneficial. But chloride, that is found in most water supplies and swimming pools, is a poison. The bleach in MMS is not chloride, but chlorite, and is beneficial in the prescribed dosage.
Jim Humble thinks he’s a space alien that has been protecting the earth since Adam &
Eve. That alone should tell you you’re an idiot for following anything he says before you even start to look at how science works.
The F.atal D.rugs A.llowed hypocrital sold-out thugs and goons should all be thrown in prison for becoming TYRANNICAL DICTATORS who think they have a right to tell us what we can and cannot do about OUR OWN BODIES AND HEALTH. Then this tyrannical overbearing parasite should be COMPLETELY ABOLISHED. Why the American people put up with their ridiculous ILLEGAL enforcement of UNJUST RIDICULOUS “laws” is beyond me! I WILL DO WHAT EVER THE HELL I WANT TO DO WITH MY HEALTH AND MY BODY. You can all kiss my a$$ FDA Goons.
And I will buy and drink ALL THE UNPASTEURIZED COWS MILK I want and ALL THE HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS I want. You will not be my RULER you Narcissistic Psyopathic bunch of satanic BASTARDS.
well said
And the obligatory paid shills come out from under their rotten logs immediately. Go stick your head back up the FDAs ass where it belongs.
No one trusts shills. The rule of thumb is that whatever a shill is attempting to convince you of, the opposite is true. 😂😂😂
Hydrogen peroxide is a bleach, sunlight also acts as a bleach… both are beneficial.
Chloride in our water supply is also a bleach, but is a poison, yet
ironically the FDA and the shills don’t have a problem with that.
MMS is not synonomous with Chloride… it is not a toxin in the prescribed dosage.
Chloride is a toxin at any dosage.