{"id":491,"date":"2017-01-06T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/?p=491"},"modified":"2017-01-06T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:23:45","slug":"january-story-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/2017\/01\/06\/january-story-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"January Story of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We normally do a &#8220;supplement&#8221; of the month. I&#8217;m calling this month&#8217;s post a &#8220;story,&#8221; because the stuff I talk about here isn&#8217;t proven to be safe for use as a supplement. I&#8217;ve taken it internally myself, but I certainly don&#8217;t suggest you do that &#8211; please consult a doctor. So, for the record, I&#8217;m officially NOT recommending you take this stuff internally!<\/p>\n<p>The story begins with MMS. Many of you are familiar with MMS. There&#8217;s a chapter on MMS in my <a href=\"http:\/\/lymebook.com\/freedom-from-lyme-disease-bryan-rosner\">latest book<\/a>. I think MMS is a very legit, important, interesting product. I won&#8217;t go into it here. But you should learn about it if you can. Again, MMS really isn&#8217;t supposed to be consumed internally according to the FDA and other health officials, so I won&#8217;t recommend that you consume it. I have, without problem. But I&#8217;m not a doctor. You need to consult a doctor, not me, on this. OK, so the legal disclaimer is out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>When I got my foot infection which I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/2016\/10\/10\/my-tetanus-update-with-some-useful-tools-for-you\/\">told you all about<\/a>, I was desperate for relief and hundreds of supplements and ointments didn&#8217;t make a dent in it. So tough. But, my podiatrist started using this gel on my wound which had hypochlorous acid in it. It actually helped quickly. I was blown away. Hypochlorous Acid (which I&#8217;ll call HA from now on) is another industrial biocide, similar to MMS, which they use to clean and disinfect pools, sewers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Little did I know that Jim Humble and the other leaders of the MMS movement had also invented something they call MMS 2. Little did I know that MMS 2 was also HA! So, ironically, my podiatrist had been using (topically) an MMS 2 formula on my foot. Of course, she doesn&#8217;t call it MMS 2, that&#8217;s a special name coined by Jim Humble and his movement.<\/p>\n<p>I figured if the MMS 2 (HA) was helping topically, why not take it internally? Jim Humble and his followers have written about it being used internally, and I spoke with some other people who had used it internally too. So, I began taking it internally. I won&#8217;t provide the instructions here, I&#8217;ll tell you why in a minute.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In any case, my conclusion is that I do not believe taking MMS 2 internally is safe. It gave me what I believe to be a bad eusophagus burn. I do not condone its use internally.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was dissapointed that I could not use MMS 2 internally, as it seemed to be helping the foot. But upon further research, I discovered some other interesting information. MMS 2 is actually NOT HA, it is a precursor chemical to HA that is converted to HA when it touches water.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the product my podiatrist was using on my foot is much, much gentler. It is actual HA (not the precursor), but it is only a .02% concentration. So it is similar to MMS 2 but different because it is a much smaller concentration and it is the HA itself, not the precursor.<\/p>\n<p>I also talked to a scientist who said consuming this .02 solution is much gentler than consuming MMS 2.<\/p>\n<p>So, I started consuming the .02% HA solution. Not only did it help me tremendously, but I also noticed zero side effects. So, maybe I should coin the phrase &#8220;MMS 3&#8221; for this version of it? I won&#8217;t coin that, but it might be accurate because it is similar to MMS 1 and MMS 2, but different as well.<\/p>\n<p>HA is a well studied chemical, and medicine has also used it\u00a0extensively,\u00a0so it&#8217;s a bit more accepted than MMS 1 and MMS 2, which are both fully rejected by mainstream medicine as very dangerous (and I personally would agree that MMS 2 is dangerous, though I haven&#8217;t had any problem with MMS 1). For example, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woundsresearch.com\/article\/flow-through-instillation-hypochlorous-acid-treatment-necrotizing-fasciitis\">scientific study <\/a>which was published in the Wound Care Journal, which is absolutely fascinating. They don&#8217;t necessarily advocate using it internally, but when used on wounds, it helped the wounds heal. What&#8217;s fascinating about it though, is that it not only kills bugs, it also neutralizes their toxins, and allowed people who would normally lose limbs to necrotizing fasciatis, keep their limbs.<\/p>\n<p>This is of course relevant to Lyme sufferers because we deal with not only bugs, but also toxins. Similarly, in my tetanus battle, it is the tetanus\u00a0<em>toxin<\/em> that does the damage, so it&#8217;s the same situation. HA is very unique among biocides because of this dual ability. Furthermore, HA, similarly to MMS, also destroys biofilms and other organic debris.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s the moral of the story? For me, it goes something like this: I&#8217;ve used MMS 1 without problems, MMS 2 gave me lots of problems, but using HA in the diluted, .02% concentration, gave me no side effects and a lot of benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Now, again, I don&#8217;t recommend that YOU do this. I was forced to experiment on myself because the tetanus situation really took me out. I think anyone else wanting to try this should ONLY do so under the care of a doctor. It&#8217;s not approved for use in humans, and I&#8217;m not a doctor. It&#8217;s important that I provide this legal disclaimer, because you need to know that this stuff isn&#8217;t medically &#8220;approved&#8221; for use, and I&#8217;m not medically qualified to tell you to use it.<\/p>\n<p>The brand of HA I have been using without any perceptible side effects is called Briotech &#8211; you can get it on Amazon or on Briotech&#8217;s website. I have no financial connection or other incentive to recommend this product. The inventor claims that it is a much more pure product, without additives or preservatives, hence I chose this one for my internal use. But be advised: even the company itself does not condone using it internally, and the bottle says only &#8220;Topical Skin Spray.&#8221; There is NO safe and proven dosing schedule or established protocol for using it internally, and there may in fact be negative side effects which I haven&#8217;t experienced yet but which I may experience as long-term side effects. So again, don&#8217;t try this at home without consulting a doctor!<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it &#8211; another tidbit I&#8217;ve learned from this crazy tetanus situation. I have more to come &#8211; more things to share with you, more new products and lessons which I&#8217;ve learned from tetanus but which also have some applicability to Lyme disease research. Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: The chemicals and products discussed in this article are NOT FDA APPROVED for internal use, and in fact may be dangerous or fatal. While I have personally experimented with them on my own body, I\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HAVE<\/span> experienced some side effects, and I\u00a0<\/strong><strong>DO NOT recommend that you use these chemicals in your own body. Instead, I&#8217;m just sharing my own story. Please consult a doctor before you make any medical decisions &#8211; I am not a doctor.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We normally do a &#8220;supplement&#8221; of the month. I&#8217;m calling this month&#8217;s post a &#8220;story,&#8221; because the stuff I talk about here isn&#8217;t proven to be safe for use as a supplement. I&#8217;ve taken it internally myself, but I certainly don&#8217;t suggest you do that &#8211; please consult a doctor. 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