Cleansing the Body From the Inside-Out

"Websites selling Miracle Mineral Solution describe the product as a liquid that is 28 percent sodium chlorite in distilled water. Product directions instruct people to mix the sodium chlorite solution with a citric acid, such as lemon or lime juice, or another acid before drinking. In many instances, the sodium chlorite is sold with a citric acid “activator.” When the acid is added, the mixture becomes chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent."

?Both sodium chlorite and chlorine dioxide are the active ingredients in disinfectants and have additional industrial uses. They are not meant to be swallowed by people."

U.S. Food & Drug Administration

 

"In Health Canada's most recent warning about the sale of a sodium chlorite-related product called Aerobic Oxygen, the agency said ingesting sodium chlorite can cause poisoning, kidney failure and harm to red blood cells."

"This in turn reduces the ability of the blood to carry oxygen, among other effects," the agency said in an advisory. "Ingesting sodium chlorite can also cause abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea."

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 

"It is designed to kill bacteria, pathogens, germs."

"It will do that to human tissue."

Richard Parsons, toxicologist, King's College London

 

"We have proactive measures in place to prevent this product from being sold, and we continuously monitor our store."

Amazon

 

Not closely enough, it would seem: "Miracle Mineral Solution", touted by its makers and purveyors to cure all ails from asthma to arthritis as a cure-all potion referred to commonly as MMS, but which is in actual fact, industrial grade bleach can readily be found online for sale at sites like Amazon, Etsy eBay and Poshmark where it is openly boasted to be a failsafe cure-all.

 

The product was popularized infamously in 2020 when former president Donald Trump recommended disinfectant as a potential COVID treatment. Science took no time debunking this startling disinformation, but global attention pivoted to it and sellers seized the opportunity to bring a fringe product into big business. They had no trouble finding an audience. After all, the president of the United States of America praised the product, used it himself.

What could go wrong?

The solution is comprised of one part sodium chlorite, a chemical disinfectant, and one part acid; a combination that dates from the 1990s. In 2018 it came to the attention of government agencies in Canada, he United Kingdom  and the United States which then took steps to warn their publics against its use, stressing the harmful effects and consequences of ingesting an industrial cleaner.

The product inspired the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, operated by a family which made use of social media to market the bleach solution, available through their church, where it was treated as a type of religious sacrament. The family's monthly sales soared when the product more than tripled orders following the Trump endorsement.

The bleaching agent was produced out of the family home, the solution was sold through their website. Sales went sky-high past $1 million, according to a federal indictment of the Grenom family against whom criminal charges were laid. They are scheduled to go to trial later this year, but incarceration hasn't stopped the Grenons from continuing to advertise the benefits of MMS through Telegram.