It is the volatile nature of chlorine dioxide when it contacts pathogens that make it so effective both in water systems and within the human body. As Doctor Hesselink has pointed out in Chapter 22 of Miracle Mineral Supplement of the 21st Century Part 2, the very nature of the malaria parasite prevents it from ever developing a resistance to chlorine dioxide. However, we also believe that the volatility of chlorine dioxide also helps prevents pathogens from developing a resistance to it. It’s sort of like trying to develop a resistance to hand grenades. You just can’t do it.

Normal levels of oxygen in the blood cannot destroy all of the pathogens present under disease conditions, however, when chlorine dioxide is adsorbed with the oxygen it is a different story.

5 Electrons

When a chlorine dioxide ion contacts a harmful pathogen, it instantly accepts five electrons from the pathogen, or it might be more descriptive to say that it instantly tears off five electrons. An extremely fast chemical reaction is in essence an explosion, and this is exactly what happens on a microscopic level. The damage to the pathogen is a result of losing electrons to the chlorine dioxide ion and the release of energy. The pathogen, basically, is oxidized by chlorine ions and as a part of the action the chlorine becomes a harmless chloride (table salt). Two atoms of oxygen are released as ions from the chlorine dioxide ion, but the oxygen has little effect other than to attach to hydrogen ions making water or attach to a carbon ion to make carbon dioxide.

Oxidation

It is the process of the chlorine dioxide ion oxidizing pathogens or other harmful chemicals that is beneficial to the body. Although the two oxygen ions of the chlorine dioxide ion are released, their charge level does not result in oxidation. The same process continues throughout the body where chlorine dioxide ions contact pathogens. It does not attack beneficial bacteria or healthy body parts, as their pH is not below 7. It will also oxidize diseased cells, such as infections or cancer. In the event that the chlorine dioxide does not contact a pathogen or other poison, it deteriorates into table salt and hypochlorous acid that is useable by the body.

Greatest Capacity of All Oxidizers

A scientific paper published on the Web by Lenntech Company explains the reaction strength of chlorine dioxide as opposed to many other oxidizers.   Chlorine dioxide is the weakest oxidizer of them all.   However, it has the greatest capacity of all the with the ability to accept 5 electrons.   Ozone as a comparison is the strongest oxidizer of them all and oxidizes everything in its path that is capable of being oxidized, but it can accept only 3 electrons. Chlorine dioxide being a very weak oxidizer oxidizes only, heavy metals, and diseased body cells that easily oxidized.    It does not have the oxidation strength (electron potential) strong enough to oxidize body cells, aerobic beneficial bacteria.  However, when contacting items within its oxidation potential range, it has the ability to accept more electrons that any of the other oxidizers, and thus it is extremely effective.

Lymph Nodes

The lymph nodes, for example, are one of the areas where the blood normally releases oxygen to oxidize various poisons in the node and then it carries the oxidized poisons away to the liver. The red blood cells carry the chlorine dioxide ions the same as oxygen and thus chlorine dioxide ions are also released in the lymph nodes. The chlorine dioxide ions are inert to normal cells, but they will destroy disease pathogens found there.

Myeloperoxidase

A minute amount of naturally produced chlorine dioxide is found in the human body and one of the chemicals that chlorine dioxide helps to create as it deteriorates is myeloperoxidase a chemical that the immune system needs. The immune system uses this chemical, myeloperoxidase, to generate hypochlorous acid. The body uses hypochlorous acid extensively to kill parasites, bacteria, fungi, viruses, tumor cells, natural killer cells, and to destroy some waste products under normal conditions. However, diseases and body conditions can result in a deficiency in the hypochlorous acid needed to destroy the pathogens that are present. This is due to a medical condition known as myeloperoxidase deficiency. In the case of many other diseases there are other immune system reactions that can overcome the diseases, however in the cases of malaria and other extreme diseases, there is not enough hypochlorous acid to kill the parasites or pathogens, nor are there any other immune system reactions that can destroy them. Thus, the hypochlorous acid created by chlorine dioxide as it deteriorates in the body is probably another mechanism by which malaria and other diseases are destroyed.

~ Jim Humble in The Miracle Mineral Supplement of the 21st Century Part 2