This might help. I found this somewhere in my recent travels. It might even come from another post on this forum.
All pathogenic microorganisms cells and heavy metals have an oxidation potential below + 95mV, which allows oxidation of chlorine dioxide. During oxidation, electrons are removed so that the micro-organisms lose their properties and are therefore no longer harmful and are removed. Healthy cells and healthy micro-organisms have an oxidation potential that is above + 95mV.
Chlorine dioxide is too weak to oxidize with healthy cells.
www.clo2.nl/index.php/en/how-does-clo2-work-when-you-drink-it
How do quacks explain that ClO2 works? Since I have not yet been able to find an explanation, but now I come across an explanation on a website where quack Coelho also publishes, I will take that explanation. When MMS is taken as a medicine, it kills all pathogens below 7Ph neutral while keeping the good bacilli and cells intact without leaving any residues. A widely heard untruth from scientists who want to put MMS in a bad light is that the claim that MMS only kills the diseased cells and leaves the good ones alone is absolute nonsense. It is believed that MMS / chlorine dioxide is so harmful that if it kills the bad bacteria, it will of course do the right thing.
However, any scientist familiar with chemistry certainly knows why chlorine dioxide does not kill the good bacteria. Now things are getting complicated again: every substance has a measurable electrical value, which is called an oxidation potential. The oxidation potential of chlorine dioxide is + 95mV.This means that chlorine dioxide can only oxidize with substances that have a lower oxidation potential., diseased. All pathogenic microorganisms cells and heavy metals have an oxidation potential below + 95mV, which allows oxidation of chlorine dioxide. During oxidation, electrons are removed so that the micro-organisms lose their properties and are therefore no longer harmful and are removed. Healthy cells and healthy micro-organisms have an oxidation potential that is above + 95mV.
Chlorine dioxide is too weak to oxidize with healthy cells.
(The above about oxidation is composed of information in the book MMS Pro and Contra by author Leo Koehof, but this information can of course also be found on the Internet.)
If the experts here (I'm not an expert) disagree with this description, please fell free to correct any errors.
TIA,
Jim