Hello everyone,
Before saying anything else, I want everyone to know that I am absolutely sold on mms1 and grateful for everything Jim Humble has done for us. I say this because what I'm going to say below kinda goes against the grain a bit, but I want everyone to know upfront, I'm not trying to bash anything about the MMS movement - I'm just trying to understand mms better to hopefully make it better for myself, my family, and for all of us. So, everything that I say below is to that end and nothing else. And the reason why I'm putting it here under the "MMS Discussion and Information" topic is just for that reason - I want to have an open discussion about this very important topic.
I have been looking at this subject for awhile now, and so it seems, has pretty much everyone else who has taken both mms1 and CDS. Those who have taken both have mostly had the similar experience that mms1 often causes nausea, while CDS doesn't. Even when the amount of clo2 in the dosages are supposed to be basically the same. (Please chime in if this is not the case for you, the reader - and you HAVE gotten sick on CDS, because that's important information that we all need to know.)
So, this brings up a very important question that should be addressed - what is causing the nausea when mms1 is ingested and why doesn't CDS cause the same nausea to occur?
Before CDS came along, we didn't really have anything to compare mms1 to. But now that we have CDS we do, and one of the big things that we see is that CDS, for the most part, does not cause nausea, or what we assumed was simply a herxheimer reaction. Now why would that be true if, in a given dose, they both contain the same amount of clo2? They should both be killing the pathogens at about the same rate and therefore the die-off and thereby dumping of toxins into the body, which is what the herx reaction has been attributed to, should be basically the same. Being the same, the nausea should be about the same with both - but it's not. MMS1 has a much higher track record of causing nausea and this is why many people prefer to use CDS instead of mms1.
Another important thing to consider is that, if you look up what the symptoms of a herx reaction are, you'll find that a couple of the main symptoms are flu-like achy joints and muscles, which corresponds well with what a herxheimer reaction is; an inflammation in the body which is caused by the release of toxins from pathogen die-off which occurs too fast for the body to be able eliminate in a timely manner. So achy joints and muscles are a reasonable response to this dumping into our system of toxins that can't be eliminated fast enough.
Now I can't speak for anyone else, but my wife and I, when we got sick to our stomachs after taking mms1, we didn't feel achy joints and muscles. We just felt like throwing up. Especially when we were taking it the old way, where we tried to gradually increase to taking 15 drops at one time. For me, I couldn't make it past 7 drops before I puked my guts out. That was as high as I could ever go and actually being so sick caused me to stop taking the mms1 altogether because it really felt as though I was poisoning myself and that was my body's way of getting rid of the poison. But I never felt the achy joints or muscles. Just very sick to my stomach and the same was true for my wife.
Lately though, with a new way of making and taking mms1 which I call, "7 Day Fridge MMS" and which is on this forum at:
genesis2forum.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=31&id=20140&Itemid=66
I have taken up to 8 drops per hour over about a 12 hour period of time, and with absolutely now stomach upset at all.
My theory for why I can take so much mms with this 7 Day Fridge MMS, is that I believe the way it is made activates ALL of the mms, leaving no "raw" or unactivated mms behind to be ingested. I believe that it is actually this "raw" or unactivated mms that is causing most of the nausea out there and that it's not really just a herx reaction that people are having.
One of the main reasons why I believe the above, is because of peoples experiences with CDS. CDS doesn't have any "raw", unactivated mms in it either, and I believe, because of that factor alone, it doesn't cause nausea. Also, those of us who have made CDS ourselves, know how long it actually takes before the mms stops producing clo2 in the activation process. For me, even after mixing a 1 to 1 ratio of mms and 50% citric for an hour at a temperature of about 160 degrees, when I picked up the bottle and swirled the mix around in the bottle that was my reaction chamber, it still produced more clo2 bubbles, which proved that it still, even after that long a time and at such a high temperature, had "raw", unactivated mms in it. To be honest, I finally just gave up trying to get it to finish activating because the clo2 just kept on bubbling over every time I shook the bottle a little.
Because of the above reasoning, I think that when it comes to mms1, we need to find better ways to activate all of the mms and not leave any unactivated behind. I really believe the 20 second activation time isn't nearly long enough and by only activating it for that amount of time, we are inadvertently giving ourselves "raw", unactivated mms which is causing the nausea.
However, having said all that, it may actually be beneficial to ingest the "raw", unactivated mms for some reason. Maybe it helps in some way with the fighting of disease. Maybe getting a little bit of it along with the amount that is activated is a good thing. I think what we would need to do to find out though, is try both and compare. For me, so far, the 7 Day Fridge MMS seems to work great and because I can take more of it per dose (8 drops per hour so far is my max without any stomach upset), I would think it would be better at ending a disease than if I were only able to take say 3 to 4 drops per hour of mms activated for 20 seconds.
Well I've said a lot here, so please, let us know what you think of this topic and tell us about your experiences with the different ways of taking mms/CDS and any nausea that you may have had (or not had). I happen to think it's a very important topic, because I know that a lot of people will stop taking mms1 if they get sick on their first couple of tries. And if they stop, they won't get well. And that's sad, especially when it probably could have helped them if they could have stuck with it. Maybe it could have even saved their lives.
Okay, that's all for now - it's 2:50 in the morning here in Jakarta Indonesia now and I'd better be getting to bed. Goodnight everyone.
With love always,
Scott