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Chlorine dioxide (CD) is a strong oxidizing agent that has found many applications in wastewater treatment and food disinfection. It is popular among campers as a way to disinfect water taken from a lake or stream prior to using it as drinking water. In recent years, it has become a popular treatment choice among alternative medicine specialists for various diseases and conditions, despite the fact that the mainstream medical establishment has come down very hard against it. To say that it is controversial would be an understatement.
A gas at room temperature, chlorine dioxide is highly soluble in water. It is made by mixing 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citric acid or hydrochloric acid. With its very simple molecular structure (one chlorine atom and two oxygen atoms), CD spontaneously breaks down into hypochlorite and superoxide. These two molecules are very commonly produced by living cells, particularly by immune cells in response to an infection.
Jim Humble, originally trained as an aerospace engineer, is the person most responsible for bringing to light the many special benefits of CD. While using CD as a water-treatment solution during a gold mining expedition in South America, he made a serendipitous discovery. He observed that CD quickly restored health to victims of malaria, evidence of CD’s apparent ability to strengthen the immune cell response to infection. Intrigued by this success story, he became completely committed to sharing his discovery with the world, and to exploring CD’s benefits in treating other diseases. This became for him a lifetime obsession.
On the first page of one of his books on CD, Jim Humble “humbly” claims that CD is recommended as a treatment for a wide range of diseases. These include “cancer, diabetes, hepatitis A, B and C, Lyme disease, MRSA, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, HIV/AIDS, malaria, autism, infections of all kinds, arthritis, acid reflux, kidney or liver disease, aches and pains, allergies, urinary tract infections, digestive problems, high blood pressure, obesity, parasites, tumors and cysts, depression, sinus problems, eye disease, ear infections, dengue fever, skin problems, dental issues, problems with prostate (high PSA), erectile dysfunction, and many others.”1
Many of these diseases have been linked to glyphosate exposure, either because their rate is rising alarmingly in lockstep with the rise in glyphosate usage or because glycine dysfunction in particular proteins could cause the diseases. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, which conventional agriculture uses liberally on crops to control weeds and as a desiccant; as a result, it is a widespread contaminant in our food supply. I have written extensively on the idea that glyphosate, acting as a glycine analogue, might be getting inserted into proteins during protein synthesis by mistake in place of the coding amino acid glycine.2,3 If this is true, it would explain the stunning correlations that are found between glyphosate usage on core crops and the rise in prevalence of many of these debilitating diseases.4
CHLORINE DIOXIDE TREATS AUTISM
Kerri Rivera is the mother of an autistic child. Like many other parents of autistic children, she was desperate to find a way to improve her child’s autistic symptoms. She spent over a million dollars trying to find a treatment that would work to heal her son. She was sufficiently impressed with the improvements she witnessed following CD treatment that she decided to become actively involved in promoting the idea that it might be useful for autism.
Kerri has developed a protocol to treat autism that includes various nutritional supplements (such as chondroitin sulfate and vitamin D) and a modified ketogenic diet that eliminates gluten and casein. Although the protocol can also include a number of other components— anti-parasitic medications, humic and fulvic acid, black seed oil, digestive enzymes, binders, thyroid supplements, ionic foot baths and hyperbaric oxygen—she believes that an essential aspect is the idea of frequent tiny doses of CD throughout the day.5
Kerri uses a questionnaire called the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC) as a metric of progress.6 A high score means more severe autism, and a score under ten indicates that the child is not autistic. She has helped thousands of children. Over six hundred children have had their autism completely reversed through Kerri’s protocol (meaning they achieved a score of under ten); she maintains that chlorine dioxide is the key to this success. Kerri refers to CD as an “inexpensive, broad spectrum, gentle anti-pathogenic.” I am not aware of any other practitioners who have been able to achieve such dramatic results in treating autism. Some of Kerri’s patients have parents who refuse to use chlorine dioxide due to the controversy surrounding it; none of those children have had their autism successfully reversed. Predictably, the mainstream media have tried hard to discredit her work, and Amazon even removed her book, Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism.7
My hunch is that CD is a miracle worker in part due to its ability to break down glyphosate nonenzymatically. If small doses are taken throughout the day, the hope is that natural mechanisms in place to detoxify hypochlorite (into which CD breaks down) can keep pace with exposure levels, such that it never causes sufficient harm to lead to permanent damage.
