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What is Chlorine Dioxide?

Antimicrobial Properties / Mode of Action
Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) acts as an oxidizing agent and reacts with several cellular constituents, including the cell membrane of microbes. By "stealing" electrons from them (oxidation), it breaks their molecular bonds, resulting in the death of the organism by the break up of the cell. Since chlorine dioxide alters the proteins involved in the structure of microorganisms, the enzymatic function is broken, causing very rapid bacterial kills. The potency of chlorine dioxide is attributable to the simultaneous, oxidative
attack on many proteins thereby preventing the cells from mutating to a resistant form. Additionally, because of the lower reactivity of chlorine dioxide, its antimicrobial action is retained longer in the presence of organic matter.

Sporal vs bacterial inactivation?
The difference between sporal and bacterial inactivation can be likened to the difference between sterilization and disinfection.
For example, for a chemical agent to be classified as a sterilant, it must be demonstrated to have sporicidal activity. For this reason, spores are commonly used as a challenge in sterilization process development. Disinfection, on the other hand, does not require the complete inactivation of microbial life and in some cases disinfectant claims may be substantiated by demonstrating bacterial inactivation capability.
The following is a simplistic explanation of the differences between a spore and a bacterium. Bacterial endospores are one of the most persistent forms of microbial life and typically require aggressive inactivation procedures. Vegetative bacteria are generally much more easily inactivated than are bacterial endospores. This is primarily because the sensitive areas of bacteria are easily contacted by chemosterilizing agents. The spore, however, has a more complex structure than the vegetative bacterial cell. Its sensitive material is contained within a core and that core is surrounded by a cortex and spore coats. These coats tend to act as a permeability barrier to the entry of chlorine dioxide and other compounds (Knapp).

CD Antimicrobial Spectrum of Activity:
Vegetative Bacteria: Bacterial Spores: Fungi:
• Staphylococcus aureus
• Bacillus subtilis *
• Aspergillus niger
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Bacillus stearothermophilus
• Trychophyton mentagrophytes
• Salmonella cholerasuis
• Bacillus pumilus
• Candida albicans
• Mycobacterium smegmatis
• Clostridium sporogenes Viruses:
• Polio Type II (non-lipid)
• Herpes simplex Type I (lipid)
• Parvo Virus
(* CD Indicator Organism)

Found at: www.clordisys.com/WhatIsCD.pdf

and from mmswiki

When MMS is swallowed it passes into the stomach. Providing the person does not take orange juice, coffee, tea, or extreme antioxidants, the MMS will pass to the lower stomach where the food is being digested with stomach motion and stomach acid (HCl). The MMS along with the food will be routed to the top of the intestine where an enzyme coming from the pancreas re-adjust the pH all the way up to 7.2 along with any food that might have been in the stomach with the MMS. The MMS will then be adsorbed into the side walls of the intestine where the pH is again adjusted to 7.4, the exact pH of the blood at that location in the body. This is the point where the MMS will begin that attack on the blood cells that are stuffed with parasites. An amazing thing happens at this point. The parasites are killed and the blood ejects the dead parasites into the intestines which are carried out through the waste system.

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Why chlorine dioxide is more effective than oxygen
Oxygen does kill pathogens when it contacts them, but oxygen has other jobs in the body as well. It oxidizes various body poisons generated during the course of the day. These poisons have an oxidization potential that allows oxygen to destroy them, but oxygen becomes neutralized in the process of destroying the poisons - of which there are many. As the poisons are often released deep in the tissues, they work their way outward and oxygen destroys them by working its way inward towards the poisons. When they meet, the poison is destroyed and the oxygen is neutralized. However, because chlorine dioxide does not destroy much of the poisons that oxygen does destroy, it can go deeper into the tissues where many of the pathogens hide from the oxygen, because the oxygen is used up by the poisons before it reaches the pathogens. But since the chlorine dioxide is not used up by these particular poisons, it can go much deeper into the tissues and thus the pathogens cannot hide from the chlorine dioxide. Chlorine dioxide has 2.5 times more capacity to kill pathogens than oxygen. What this means is that a small amount of chlorine dioxide is equal to a much larger amount of oxygen and other oxidizers. It may not be as strong, but it has a larger capacity to do what it does.

am however, unsure, that this statement is accurate and not a typo
However, because chlorine dioxide does not destroy much of the poisons that oxygen does destroy, Could someone pls confirm the meaning, thx