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This a copy from a page at Frontier Pharmaceuticals, founded in 1978. I thought he explained chlorine dioxide well, and I love his products, they make using it very easy.
I really like the toothpaste it does everything it says it does: frontierpharm.com/products/dioxibrite-toothpaste
The shampoo makes your hair soft and it gets rid of dandruff.
The body gel gets rid of age spots.

I spoke with the founder, Howard Alliger on the phone, he is an admirer of Jim Humble, so I wrote and told Jim.

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The Science of Chlorine Dioxide

When hearing the words "chlorine dioxide" you probably think of chlorine, a harsh chemical used in the backyard pool. Both are oxidizing agents but have little else in common. Chlorine dioxide is a friendly compound used to disinfect meat, seafood, fruit and surfaces, whiten teeth, eliminate odors, and treat wounds and infections. Numerous studies have shown that chlorine dioxide, at appropriate concentrations, has no adverse health effects, either by skin contact or ingestion. It does not irritate or leave toxic residues, as does chlorine bleach, nor inhibit wound healing, as do many strong disinfectants. On the contrary, chlorine dioxide offers many benefits.

Interestingly, chlorine dioxide is a gas, and not easily incorporated into a usable product. Frontier Pharmaceutical developed a method of generating the gas and then utilizing its properties on an as-needed basis. This system is called DioxiCare®. By combining two component parts of the System, at the time of use, chlorine dioxide is released into a solution or a gel at a controlled concentration. The generation of chlorine dioxide is immediate, and the resulting product is highly suited for topical applications. The DioxiCare System separates Frontier's products from other chlorine dioxide preparations.

Newly developed by Frontier is a single stable solution and gel containing a chlorine dioxide complex. With this system it is no longer necessary to mix two parts to generate chlorine dioxide. This technology is utilized in several of Frontier's products.

Features of the DioxiCare® System
1.The DioxiCare System is a fast-acting, complete spectrum disinfectant. It kills BACTERIA, VIRUSES, FUNGUS, YEAST and SPORES, and the speed of kill is typically within one minute, in vitro (in the laboratory).

Chlorine dioxide deactivates microorganisms by breaking the bacterial cell wall, or, in the case of viruses, by loosening the viral envelope. This action occurs immediately upon exposure.

Because animal cells do not have cell "walls", as do microorganisms, human tissue is not affected by the same action. For this reason, chlorine dioxide is safe for use in drinking water as well as for application to the skin.

Of importance as well, the use of chlorine dioxide does not result in the creation of resistant strains of microorganisms, such as occur with other disinfectants like Triclosan.

2.The DioxiCare® System is an excellent odor remover. Chlorine dioxide eliminates or neutralizes odor by a process known as oxidation. It is not a masking agent. The same oxidizing properties result in a bleaching or whitening action.
3.The DioxiCare System is non-toxic and non-irritating, making the compound suitable for use on the body. Chlorine dioxide does not break down into irritating and carcinogenic by-products, as does chlorine bleach. The safety of chlorine dioxide is confirmed by extensive testing, including many studies performed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Studies show that DioxiCare is an outstanding promoter of wound healing, and has successfully treated many skin diseases. In addition to antimicrobial properties, the DioxiCare System likely oxidizes and neutralizes free radicals and cytokines - the irritating compounds released by the body in response to injury or disease.

To Frontier's knowledge, there are no other disinfectants available that quickly kill all forms of micro organisms, do not inhibit wound healing, and are safe for use on the body.

Frontier Pharmaceutical has performed many efficacy and toxicity studies on its various products and formulations. EPA and FDA approval have not yet been obtained for any disinfection or medical claims made by Frontier.

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Now I've been looking around for proof that germs cause disease and cancer....The story of Barry Marshall finding the cure for ulcers by using simple antibiotics, but the medical establishment continued to remove them surgically for 13 years after his discovery, has always fed my fear of doctors....here is a story of the germ theory and he uses Barry's history as example.

Philip E. Ross 11/15/1999
Do germs cause cancer?

In 1983 Barry Marshall, an internist from Perth, Australia, discovered that a spiral bacterium called Helicobacter pylori causes most stomach ulcers. It turns out that it also causes most cases of stomach cancer. His discovery was a monumental step forward in medicine, taking patients from the realm of palliative treatments that left them ill into the territory of cures. Now doctors test ulcer patients for the bacterium and treat those who have it with powerful doses of antibiotics such as Omeprazole, Clarithromycin and Amoxicillin.

The nagging question is why it took so long for doctors to accept Marshall’s discovery. For years the medical establishment laughed off Marshall’s theory, even after he demonstrated it by drinking H. pylori and giving himself ulcers and even after other labs replicated his experimental results. Although that had happened by 1986, “they didn’t start treating for H. pylori for another nine years,” Marshall says, still amazed by it all. “Hundreds, even thousands of people must have died from ulcers who wouldn’t have.”

Could the medical establishment be making the same mistake about other chronic diseases–such killers as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s? It is taken as a given among both doctors and scientific researchers that the causes of these ailments are genetic, environmental or both. That’s where almost all of the research money is going. We’re spending at least $2 billion a year looking for genes that cause cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and obesity. A large part of the $150 billion a year this country spends fighting pollution is aimed at removing trace toxins that are suspected of contributing to cancer. There is no question that genes and environment contribute to chronic diseases. But what if bugs start the process for some or many of these diseases? Are we perhaps looking in the wrong places for cures and preventive measures?

The question is not as far-fetched as it seems. Consider the matter of cervical cancer, which every year is diagnosed in perhaps 179,000 American women and kills 4,200. The evidence that there is something infectious about this disease goes back a long way–to 1832. It was then that Rigoni Stern noted that celibate women almost never came down with this cancer. The observation came long before Louis Pasteur even elucidated the germ theory of disease, and it went nowhere for 151 years.

Then in 1983 Harald zur Hausen of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg proved that human papillomavirus could cause cervical cancer. It has since become clear that the virus is to blame for virtually all cases of this cancer. It is still true that genes and environment play a role in this killer. But there is no question that preventing the viral infection would all but eliminate the cancer.

The medical establishment didn’t welcome zur Hausen’s theory. “To convince scientists, as well as pharmaceutical companies, took a long time,” he says with a sigh. What a tragedy. Imagine if the germ theory of cervical cancer had caught on in Pasteur’s day and scientists had spent the next century striving to find a vaccine against the virus. We might have won this part of the war on cancer by now.

Could heart disease be related to a slow-moving infectious agent? No question that heredity and diet play a role in the clogging of arteries. But maybe a bug starts the inflammatory process that swells the lining of an artery. Some circumstantial evidence points to Chlamydia pneumoniae, a common denizen of the lower respiratory tract. Pfizer, Hoechst Marion Roussel, and Abbott Laboratories are each testing proprietary antibiotics against the bacterium in the hope that the drugs will reduce heart attack rates.

Other diseases, at earlier stages of investigation, are on the list of suspects for infectious causation. Among them: breast and ovarian cancers, multiple sclerosis, juvenile diabetes, reactive arthritis, Alzheimer’s, even obesity, and the list grows by the year.

“There have been many, and there will be more, for when you look, you find,” says Anthony Fauci, the famed virologist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Fifteen years ago, he notes, most doctors doubted that viruses played any role in cancer; now the consensus is that they cause around 20% of cases. “And it will turn out to be a lot more than that,” Fauci says.

“People talk about our bodies’ exposure to pesticides and chemicals–they’re nothing compared to microbes,” says Julie Parsonnet, an infectious diseases specialist at Stanford University Medical School. “Your gut is loaded with bacteria; your genitourinary tract, your skin, your mouth, your eyes. Our bodies contain at least ten times more microbial cells than human ones–we are walking petri dishes, more microbe than man–and our relationship to microbes may be responsible for a huge amount of disease.”

Firm evidence connecting bugs to chronic diseases once thought to be wholly environmental or genetic is still pretty scarce. But there is some fascinating evidence–or speculation, perhaps we should say–from the budding field of Darwinian medicine. The reasoning is as follows. A chronic ailment like schizophrenia or cancer cannot be genetic in origin, because it confers a disadvantage in the competition to reproduce. If schizophrenics are even a bit less likely to have children than sane people, then the schizophrenia gene should die out over time. Indeed, it takes just a slight evolutionary unfitness–a 1% drag on reproduction–for a moderately rare gene to become extremely rare over the course of a few thousand years of human evolution. So if you see a disease that has afflicted mankind for a long time and confers any evolutionary disadvantage, you should suspect a bug.

Paul Ewald, a professor of biology at Amherst College, is the pioneer of this view of microbial disease. He focused on this when a bad case of diarrhea had him wondering what the damned germ could possibly be deriving from his misery. Answer: the chance to spread itself into the water supply.

Purify the water, as has been done in many countries for generations, and you break the chain of infection. Ewald wondered what would happen then–could the guilty microbe evolve into a more benign form, in an attempt to linger longer in the host?

Theory said that it should, and practice has confirmed that it does. “The second most successful vaccine of all time is the one against diphtheria, because they made the vaccine from the bacteria’s toxin,” Ewald says. “Not on purpose–they just noticed that the toxin makes a great antigen [target for the immune system to attack]. The organisms in the wake of that vaccine are as mild as can be–people are getting the diphtheria organism all the time without knowing it.”

A chronic infection, which goes on for an entire lifetime, might travel by sexual contact or from mother to child at birth or during nursing. Because new hosts don’t crop up very often in these scenarios, such a bug couldn’t be all that virulent–it has to keep its host alive (and perhaps feeling good and looking marriageable)to maximize its own chances of getting into another host.

“Evolutionary theory leads me to conclude that sexually transmitted pathogens cause a lot more problems than we are yet aware of,” Ewald says. “They must survive a long time in the host, hidden from the immune system; the only ones that survive will have figured out that trick.”

Ewald credits the sharpening of his thesis to his unorthodox collaborator, Gregory M. Cochran, a Ph.D. in physics who researches optics for the military and works on evolutionary biology as an avocation. Ewald and Cochran argue that researchers should give germs at least equal standing with other unproved theories when they tackle ailments like psychosis and diabetes. Cochran sums up the new germ theory this way: “Big, old diseases have to be infectious.”

Schizophrenia is very common– 1% of the population has it–widespread, ancient and costly from a Darwinian point of view. Heredity clearly plays some role in susceptibility to the affliction. But can that be the whole explanation? Defenders of the pure-gene view have to come up with some way around the matter of reproductive fitness. They argue that the underlying factors for the disease may have provided our Stone Age ancestors with some unspecified advantage in surviving to adulthood. But Cochran says there is no particular reason to believe this story.

“Besides, it’s so bad for your fitness [that] it should have disappeared very, very recently, let alone a long time ago–things move fast when you have a fitness differential that big,” says Cochran.

If schizophrenia imposes a cost and offers no offsetting gain, why hasn’t the genetic propensity to get it dropped to the low, low level you’d expect to find from random mutations? Could it be that it’s caused by a bug? Remember that it’s hard for humans to outevolve microbes, given that microbes go through more generations in a day than we do in a century.

“Maybe an infection cuts back on certain connections among neurons in the brain of the newborn, and later, in late adolescence, when many connections are pruned back, you find that you’re a quart low,” Cochran says. “The same is true of postpolio syndrome–you recover from paralysis, and then, in your late 60s, you’re short of motor neurons.”

Does this mean that our inherited genes and the environment we now enjoy don’t matter? Not at all–it only means that they are not necessarily more important than microbes. Everyone with cervical cancer has the human papillomavirus, but not everyone with the virus develops the cancer.

What’s the payoff if this new way of looking at chronic illness proves correct? First off, it would explain a number of medical puzzles. We know that poorer, less-educated people suffer from more infections; this might be why they have more heart disease and cancer, even after you take into account smoking and other risk factors.

Second, it could suggest new places to look for the causes of old diseases. For example, there ought to be a great many more sexually transmitted microbes than we know about, and many that are dismissed as benign may turn out to be pernicious. We could even reexamine our study of the human genome to find whether subtle genetic variations affect our resistance to particular infections.

The new germ theory of disease suggests new priorities in drug research. The challenge of AIDS has shown us how far science can go in devising antivirals, if the will is there. Maybe we will want to develop more antivirals against what have until now seemed to be innocuous acute infections but may well turn out to be the precursors of long-term disease.

“From when I was in medical school until now, we’ve made very little advance in understanding high blood pressure,” says Barry Marshall. “Millions of people are taking medication every day of their lives to control this problem, yet it’s quite possible that somebody could make a breakthrough tomorrow, just as I did with H. pylori, and explain it.”

And now read the list of diseases and conditions and cancers which are caused from germs... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_diseases_associated_with_infectious_pathogens

And thus, MMS can cure.

Great information! Thank you

Scott

All schizophrenia is 100% BIOCHEMICAL caused,NONE of it is mental.- Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt

Of course......... most of know of someone who was taking pain killers or another medicine and then started seeing bugs crawling up their legs, they stopped the meds and the critters disappeared.

Has anyone heard of schizophrenia in a child?