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The Penetrating and Carrying Power Of Methyl Sulfonyl Methane

MSM is Methyl Sulfonyl Methane -- a very close cousin to DMSO.  In fact, DMSO is the raw material from which MSM is manufactured and the manufacturing process, in concept is very simple.  You take DMSO and boil it, and one atom of oxygen is added to the DMSO molecule -- turning it into DMSO2.  It is also called "MSM."

DMSO has long been known as a "penetrant" and a "carrier."

By this we mean that the liquid DMSO can be applied on the sole of the foot and within a very few seconds you will be able to taste the DMSO in your mouth.  It has a very distinctive taste -- something like kerosene or garlic.

DMSO also is well known as a "carrier." By that we mean that if you mix any of many other different substances with the DMSO, and again apply this mixture (liquid) to the sole of your foot you will get a different taste in your mouth, in the same few seconds. The difference in the taste will depend on the other substance which was added to the DMSO -- and then carried very quickly through the body to the tongue to be tasted.

MSM has the same properties that DMSO has, but not quite so intensely.  Also, since MSM is a solid, not a liquid, you would not get "penetration" from just the dry MSM powder placed on the skin. Rather you would have to mix the MSM with water, or some liquid. Since water will hold only about 25% of its own weight in MSM, that means that the combination of powder and water consists of only about 25% MSM, only 25% of the strength of the liquid DMSO which might be subjected to the same test.

Nonetheless, the liquid mixture of water and MSM will, itself, penetrate through the skin, and will also carry other ingredients with it.

Since MSM has a very different taste from DMSO, the penetration of MSM is not easily recognized on the tongue.  But, it happens.

The entire concept of some substance being a "penetrant" is well known in chemistry, and particularly well known in the drug industry.  In the drug industry this concept is often referred to as the "transdermal" effect of some substance.

"Trans" means "across" and "dermal" means skin.  Thus "transdermal" means some substance that can cross over the barrier of the skin.  It would not be of much use to the drug industry unless it could not only cross over, but carry other substances with it.

See next below for two different lists of US Patents which involved the "transdermal" action of some substance, both penetrating and carrying, with explanations of why this is deemed valuable and worthy of US Patents. You will be leaving this web site if you click on one of the two links below.  That web site is http://www.emmessar.com  This is the Web Site for the creator and manufacturer of our herbal MSM.

This concept of Penetrant involves more than has yet been explained.

MSM has the characteristic that it penetrates the cell membranes, and carries other substances along with it.  Part of this process involves the membrane of the cell becoming more permeable than it had been -- thus allowing other nutrients to enter the cell more easily and allowing toxins inside the cell to move out of the cell more easily.  DMSO has been studied far longer than MSM and is a liquid therefore can be more easily used than MSM, but the results found for DMSO are generally true for MSM also.  Click here for scientific studies relating to the effect on the permeability individual cell membranes for DMSO.

Here is the simplicity of the MSM molecule:

About the model: The carbon atoms are black. In a single hydrocarbon molecule there would normally be four hydrogen atoms (white) with each carbon atom, but in this case of a dimethyl compound each hydrocarbon molecule loses one hydrogen atom in order to form a more complex molecule with a sulfur atom (yellow) that carries two oxygen atoms (red).

The model is not "anatomically" correct, by any means. Those colored spheres and the white connectors, and how they are joined, have no relation to the actual structure of an MSM molecule. So it's not really a model, is it? I'd call it a crude graphic representation of the elements that are present in one molecule of this compound.

Courtesy of Al Ramirez, Texas!

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