guys, you have to try this!

If there is one thing modern non-organic food, and diarrhoeac Crohnies are short on, it is minerals. I can well see how a good mineral supplement would work. For those whose guts are still in good enough shape to absorb said supplement. Sounds like it hit the sweet spot with Conor !

Looked up the website...kinda looks like one of those pyramid schemes lol

Is this the site/product?
http://miraclemineral.us/about.xo
...I'm not so sure about this, I'll need to read some more...
From the site:
[quote]Premium water purification.
Miracle Mineral Solution is a 28% solution of sodium chlorite in distilled water. Miracle Mineral Solution is a water purification product. It is NOT a mineral supplement nor is it sold as a mineral supplement of any kind. Though often referred to in acronym (i.e. "MMS"), an important distinction must be made between Miracle Mineral Solution and the "MMS Protocol" established elsewhere and detailed exhaustively by third party sources.

A link that tells more about how to use MMS:
http://www.miraclemineral.org/importantinfo.php#q2

I just had a sudden image of a pair of paramedics bending over a heart attack victim, with one saying to the other, "My God, fetch the soup spoon Bert"....
Well, I've got to say the only reason I even considered this initially as anything more than spam is that it was Conor posting it, and he is a known and I would consider trustworthy face.
But when I see the word "chlorine" in anything meant to be ingested by the human body - heck, any kind of biological being - I am immediately both extremely interested and appalled. Why ? Because chlorine is a biocide, and will kill just about anything it touches from what I have read of it. It just isn't used by Mother Nature, because it kills everything that tries to use it. The only reason we humans can even make such wondrously good ideas as artificial sweeteners made from chlorinated sugar (Nutrasweet is a great antkiller, apparently ) is that we can harness chlorine to sugar in a pressurised stainless steel reactor vessel where chlorine's toxic reactivity will temporarily not matter. Once upon a time life on Earth had a choice of toxic reactive chemicals to use; there is good reason why all forms of life chose oxygen rather than chlorine.
But anything that clobbers pathogens inside macrophages gets my vote, because I am convinced that Crohn's in some cases at least, and mine in particular, is caused by Mycobacterium avium Paratuberculosis lurking inside those immune system cells, attracted by (and causing) the inflammatory cascade started by faulty genes like NOD2.
In the absence of any anti-MAP antibiotic therapy in my medical area, and convinced there is little chance of one for years yet, I am actually quite keen to try this idea.
I have two big problems here though. Firstly, who says that the only things in the human body in the correct state to be clobbered by chlorine in this or its' breakdown forms are pathogens ? What evidence is there ? The manufacturers of Nutrasweet may have done their best to cleanse the internet of all references to health problems, but it is my understanding there are legal class actions in progress against them based on a long, long, long list of health problems alleged to have been caused by them. That, and my abysmally poor grasp of chemistry, is enough to give me halt. Anyone have any good answers ? That comment about

seems suspiciously vague to me. I can see a scenario where the pathogens meet their high noon then the chlorine cowboys take over Tombstone via the liver, which is a wondrous thing but has not coevolved with chlorine, in common with every other form of life on this planet.
Secondly, which probably renders this dilemna hypothetical, is this even available on my side of the Atlantic ? Many things you guys can get only with difficulty are in effect impossible to find in the UK. I don't see airlines being too keen to ship chlorine products either, I'd imagine they are up there with mercury on the list of chemicals you want to avoid spilling on a modern airliner.

OOPS ! Sorry, what I meant to have inside quote boxes, ended up the only things outside them.
(You should see me when I'm moving house. ) If a moderator knows how to sort that, please do so, I am thoroughly confused about what I did wrong.
Having looked online, I can see it is available in the UK. But because I simply don't understand what exactly ions are, and no doubt other things too - basically ignorance of all things chemical, as opposed to biochemical - I have no way of spotting flaws in all the reassurance, which may just be hand-waving malarkey for all I know. There are some specific ideas used that really concern me, eg:
1 If it is an effective cleaner and pathogen killer in hospital wards it makes sense it would work internally. Oh great, let's all take swigs of dilute carbolic acid, the original basis of all antiseptic surgery ! This, coming from a website that cannot spell "pH".
2 Cures malaria, hepatitis and AIDS in Malawi - hmm, that hotbed of education and medical research where no erroneous ideas about AIDS are known to circulate. Good job all these pathogens so conveniently stay at a different pH from us, eh. I wonder what mitochondria do inside our cells, since they are basically remnants of trapped bacteria ? Might make my screw up with text boxes pale by comparison...
3 Nausea is a side effect caused by detoxification. Well, I am familiar with the Jarisch- Herxheimer reaction ("Herxing") and I can see why the medical profession is so wary of the whole concept. In essence, it turns medical orthodoxy upside down - being ill may make you dysfunctional, but it won't make you feel sick. It is only the body responding that makes you feel sick. Ergo, feeling nauseated is a sign of something going right. Well, I am simply unsure about that, I reckon it is ambiguous. Having just read a simple primer on toxicology recently, I can see how nausea might simply be a result of the particular form a poison takes - whether it is the original substance that causes the ill effects, or the breakdown products when the body or something else reacts with it. The result being that sometimes nausea is caused by the original substance's effects, sometimes it is caused by an immunological or physiological reaction to the substance breaking it up. There is not a hard and fast rule. Some antidotes need to break poisons down, some try to preserve them intact; how lucky do we feel with chlorine dioxide ?
Is my logic at all erroneous here ? Anyone here see holes you can drive a truck through ?
An hour ago I thought I was thinking particularly clearly, but now the brain fog has descended upon me. I made the mistake of googling "myeloperoxidase deficiency", I can feel a chlorine induced headache coming on....

Any update Conor?

When you say success can you be more specific? What symptoms has it stopped?

Hey Miss 3, would you mind letting me know exactly which mineral supplement you are taking? THe brand name and where you buy it from and everything, if it's not too much. Thanks!!

Thanks Miss, I saw you're on LDN like me, and though I'm doing well, I'd like to do great. Sounds like you have a potent formula there, with the LDN and the MMS. I was on Remicade earlier this year, it had stopped working for me. But I'm okay with that. Anyways, thanks for the info, I will definitely check it out. Is there a particular book you recommend?
Also, do you find that in the summer you're healthier? It's like a pendulum for me, I wonder how much my Crohn's is connected with Vitamin D. Winter is sick, summer is health. Seasons, indeed.