In 1985, my alma mater OSU in Columbus, OH - their medical school did months of clinical trials on sodium chlorite b/c the food & beverage industry wanted to use it to purify juices and other products, and wanted to insure its safety. It came out with flying colors! Keep 2 drops of activated MMS along with 6 oz of purified water in your system each hour and by the next morning, flu and colds are gone is my experience. Every time my family comes down with something, they use this and they're better that night or the next day. Catch it early is the trick! If you wait, it may take 2 days to get the germ out of your system. We've been using it for 4 years now, and I don't think we were "damaged" in any way. The medical big wigs don't want this cheap substance to be advertised, so it's getting around the world by word of mouth only. There's no money (profit) to be made on this as there is with anti-biotics, pain pills and other drugs, so they're fearing MMS will be a household word in the future. It also works on all the childhood diseases. Vaccines alone is a $4 billion a yr business. At first it started out as a malaria cure in Africa, but as people kept taking it, they found it cleared up so many other health conditions they had. Check out when cities quit putting chlorine in the water supply and used something else to purify it. You'll find that it was 1-2 yrs after MMS started gaining steam just from word-of-mouth. You can't talk-down something when you're putting a similar form of that substance in the water supply. With no more chlorine in the water, they can talk crap about MMS all day. This is so cheap compared to drugs (yes petro-based chemicals) that don't work. I bought 5 bottles of it and actually buried it beside a relative's gravesite b/c there will come a time when the FDA will bust down doors (as they did at Jim Humble's home) and confiscate this "poison" (for YOUR safety, of course) but the real reason will be because it's eating up Big Pharma's profits. -- We NEVER want to be without this miracle substance!!