MSM = Methyl Sulfonyl Methane

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sulfur

I’m delighted to be bringing you a report on a substance which will probably be new for you – something with the initials MSM. (Footnote #6)

Read on for some of the technical details of what this substance is. Think of it, for now, as a living mineral!

And, miracles, indeed, you should expect from this.

Karl Loren’s Personal Experience

My first experience?

I heard about it, but doubted it.

I’m pretty jaded when it comes to "new vitamins." After all, I’ve been taking massive quantities of very high doses of vitamins for more than 10 years. I really don’t count them, but I know there are more than 100 tablets and capsules per day that I pop down the ‘ole gullet.

Besides those, I drink several ounces of liquid substances that I think are helpful to me.

Many times over these past years I’ve tried something new only to find that it didn’t do a thing for me.

Several times I tried something and noticed an immediate difference, but usually that difference just didn’t last.

Only a very few times have I tried something which has had consistently lasting results for me.

One of those substances is MSM.

My own personal experience was, as I look back at it, very dramatic.  At the time I thought it was "normal."

Let me take a minute of your time to mention that I first got interested in the "vitamin business" when I went to a lecture about parasites -- and how just about everyone's body was filled with them.  I saw this gross pictures of tapeworms that were 10 feet long -- having been "expelled" from the body.  Ugh!

The lecture urged me to buy this herbal combination which would kill or loosen the grip of these parasites -- I was convinced.

It is not often that you will spend hours on your hands and knees, peering into the toilet, looking for wiggling things!  I did.  I never found a wiggling thing.  But, the herbs certainly did cause loose bowels and some stomach rumbling.

I mention this because the worst thing a vitamin can do for you is "nothing" which you can observe.  You swallow this pill -- you don't perceive anything happening.  It then devolves back onto faith or technical knowledge.  I take CoQ10 for that reason.  I personally don't feel any different when I take it, but I believe from my reading of the literature that it is a very important nutrient to take.

So, I have been a believer in "detoxification" for many years, and also a believer that any effect I can observe is better than no effect observed -- and I view the "value" of that effect as separate from whether or not there was any effect.

In other words, when I experience some effect on my body (a rash, for instance) I realize, first and foremost, that there is an effect there.  I withhold judgment as to whether that effect is good or bad.

Then, I make a separate judgment on the goodness or badness of the effect.

Since I believe so strongly on the value of detoxification, I am prone to regard any effect that COULD be a detox effect as a good effect.

You understand that this is an inclination, not science.

So, my personal experience with MSM.

First, I resisted taking it for a couple years after I heard about it.  The stuff I heard sounded too good to be true, so I just simply didn't believe it and didn't buy any or try any.

Then, I heard a story one more time and it was convenient to buy a small bottle of capsules -- and I gave it a try.  These were 500 mg capsules of MSM only -- no additives.

Now, another inclination I have, not necessarily good, is that "more is always better."  So, I started with about 4 of those capsules.  I took them around noon of that day -- about 2 years ago.

Well, I quickly noticed that I had this tremendous increase in energy.  After a few hours I found that it was hard to walk -- I felt like running.  I was running up the stairs and singing to myself.  I found it hard to believe that MSM could do this, but MSM was the only new thing I was using.

That night I couldn't get to sleep.  I was wide awake, full of energy and finally gave up sleeping and worked most of the night on my computer tasks.

I didn't think that level of energy could last, but I was willing to try.  I took fewer capsules the next day, and still had that incredible level of energy -- but I was dragging a bit at the same time.

No sleep that night.

So, by the next day I took my 2 capsules in the morning -- no more during the day.  I still felt great, and now I managed to get a full night's sleep.

Amazingly, I found that my dreams were in Technicolor and I slept very soundly, I had not had trouble getting to sleep before, but now it was a decidedly nicer sleep.

This high energy, good sleep "thing" lasted several more days -- the effect winding down -- as I took increasing doses of MSM to see if I could maintain that feeling.

After a couple weeks I was taking about 12 capsules per day (6 grams) and there was no more energy effect -- I was sleeping very soundly however.

Then, that fateful day I "twigged" on the cause of the high energy.

I was having nothing more than a "drug high."  I became convinced that this was true.

I had never, in my whole life, used any "street drugs" but I had some normal amount of medical drugs and even weight-loss "pills."  I analyzed my reactions to those MSM capsules and decided that I had a drug high -- a very rapid detoxification at a light enough level that the toxins coming out of my cells were not enough to cause sleepy or tired feelings.

Now that those toxins were removed, I was probably into a period where the detoxification, if any, would be slower and now so dramatic.

That was very much the case.

It was about 5 weeks after my first taking of MSM that I started getting a rash.

The first little "bump" was not anything to even notice -- it was just a small red bump on my chest -- with an itch like a small mosquito bite.

Then, within a few days, that one bump got larger, itched a lot, and there were many other small bumps.

I'm sorry if this is a bit gross, but you may have this happen to you and you should know.

Those bumps became very uncomfortable -- itchy!  I would, naturally, scratch them.  When I did that, there was blood.  It wasn't running blood, just a little blood where the "scab" had been.  These were not "regular scabs" either -- just little red bumps that itched.  If you scratch them, there is blood.

Well, that itchy feeling became very uncomfortable -- but by now I knew that I was in a full detoxification mode and I was willing to have the discomfort in favor of the detoxification.

But I looked for ways to ease the itch!  Skin lotion wouldn't help.  Finally, I found MSM lotion and that took the itch away immediately.  The itch, however, would only go away for an hour or two.

So, this rash on my chest went on for some months -- getting bigger and bigger bumps, spreading over more and more of my chest.

Then it started to clear up.  Hurray!  I thought.

But, then I started "feeling" bumps (itchy places) on my back.

Yes, the rash then transferred to my back.  About this time I went to Germany for a 10 day trip and I carried lots of MSM with me -- to continue the detox process.  I also carried MSM lotion with me to ease the itch.

I spent lots of time standing up against doors and corners to rub my back against the corner or the door -- to reach parts of my itchy back I couldn't reach with my hands.

Then, the rash started to clear from my back -- my chest was completely clear -- but move to my buttocks and groin!

If your first experience with a rash is in your groin, you probably won't want to tell anyone -- and you may want to hide from your spouse. I've never had venerial disease, but I suppose it looks like that rash in some advanced stage.

If you want uncomfortable itchy, try it in your groin.

Well, fortunately, that didn't last too long, but it then spread to my arms and legs.

In total this took 9 months.  You can hardly believe, by now, that anyone would go through this -- but I so strongly believe in the value of detoxification that I did go through it and I would encourage you to do the same.

All during that time I was taking MSM in both capsules and loose powder -- a total of about 10 to 15 grams per day.

After those nine months the rash was all gone -- I've been free of ANY uncomfortable effects of MSM since then.

I suppose I attained pain relief during that time, too, but it didn't rise to much of a level of observation -- so dramatic was the rash.

Now, with no rash to occupy my mind, I find that MSM gives me very quick relief from back pain.

I often forget to take the stuff -- and will sometimes go for a few days without taking any.

Then, for whatever reason, I awake in the morning with a stiff neck, or painful back.  I now rush to my MSM container and take a heaping teaspoonful == washing it down with water.

I will often find the pain gone within an hour or so.  In earlier years a back pain, or a stiff neck would seem to stay with me until I could go to bed that night.

So, MSM is a permanent part of my life -- I take 10 to 20 grams per day, don't always remember, but ALWAYS remember when I have some pain somewhere.

When I started to sell this stuff, particularly in bulk form, I expected EVERYONE to go through this detoxification process.  I have been amazed at how few people have the same experience I had.

The great majority of my customers who tell me about their experience talk about immediate pain relief from arthritis, etc.

I estimate that only about 10% report a rash, and even fewer report to me the "drug high" reaction I had for the first week.

So, you are most likely in the "majority" of people and would find a dramatic detoxification not very likely.

I am convinced that MSM continues its detoxification process at a low level as long as you take it -- making individual cell walls more permeable -- so that the cell can more easily get rid of garbage and absorb nutrients.

I encourage you to give MSM a chance to change your life.

MSM

There is a fancy name for those initials, but let me simply call it "living sulfur." It seems that rainwater contains this stuff, and that all plants and animals have it. Humans too, unless you happen to eat all your food cooked!

As you expected, storage and cooking eliminates the MSM in food.

Yes, you can guess that if you drink rain water you’ll get the MSM that’s in it. But, if the city water supply adds their chlorine, and stuff, the MSM turns useless!

MSM is a type of sulfur. You won’t be surprised probably, to learn that the most important ingredient in the oral chelation formula I’ve written so much about is the amino acid cysteine, a sulfur-type amino acid.

You won’t be surprised, either, to realize that the doctor tells you to NOT eat eggs, particularly to stay away from the yolks of the eggs.

Why?

He claims the eggs cause death from heart disease. That’s a lie!

The truth is the yolk of an egg contains a good amount of the amino acid cysteine, and that sulfur is usually badly lacking in your body.

Why?

Again, because you are probably eating cooked foods!

So, think of MSM as a type of sulfur that you can find in fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables, and in raw meat. You probably don’t get much of this MSM stuff in your diet.  (Footnote #7)

What does MSM do?

It is related to DMSO (click footnote #8 below), the "penetrant." You may or may not have heard of DMSO, the substance that almost every professional athlete uses to remove pain and soreness from muscles. DMSO, a liquid, is simply applied to the area of the body where the pain is.  (see Footnote #9, below)   It penetrates through the skin so quickly, and so thoroughly, that you can actually put some on the sole of your foot, and within a few minutes get the taste of the stuff in your mouth.  (Footnote #8)   (Footnote #9)

DMSO is used routinely and successfully in certain bone transplants.   (Footnote #10)

Really!

It doesn’t taste all that good, but it sure penetrates.

It Penetrates!

As it is penetrating, it gets into the cells and helps the cell walls become more flexible. The individual cells then can get rid of toxins, and absorb nutrients, much more easily than before.

When cells age, the cell walls get rigid and hard. The walls of the cell won’t let stuff in or out! You get garbage inside the cell, and it can’t get out. Also, the connections between the cells get rigid, so you get old!

Pain!

Toxic overload!

Muscle pain is often caused by "lactic acid" accumulating inside the muscle cells – where it doesn’t get flushed out. The MSM helps those cells get rid of the lactic acid, and get rid of pain.

You have nutrients floating along in the blood stream, but the cells can’t absorb them – the cell walls are too rigid, too hard.

Along came DMSO, made those cell walls more flexible. (Footnote #11)

Out went the toxins.

Away went the pain!

In went the food and vitamins.

The health improved.

DMSO
Around For Years

So, DMSO has been around for years, used by many thousands of people on the outside of their bodies. It would be pretty nasty to drink, so you won’t find people swallowing the stuff. But, there are useful medical treatments that involve injecting it.

Then along came Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, in Oregon, and discovered how to modify DMSO to eliminate the taste and odor, and to make it fit for swallowing. It’s slightly different, and called MSM. It is a dry white powder, usually put in capsules. (Footnote #12)

It’s been on the market for some years, but not very well known – that’s for sure. I only heard about it this year.

When you swallow this stuff, along with other vitamins, minerals and nutrients, it takes those along with it. THEY get into the cells much more easily than before – because the MSM is making those cell walls "permeable," and they can absorb the nutrients AND get rid of their own garbage.

Evidence of how DMSO (an, by inference, MSM) increase permeability is very common in the scientific literature. (Footnote #13)

Here is a quote from one such study:

Other Benefits

I’ve had some interesting results too.

First, I’ve been taking Vibrant Life vitamins for more than 10 years, and pop down about 100 tablets per day! (Footnote #15)

So, it really takes something unusual to make a difference for me.

But, I was waking up every morning with a stiff back and neck. The stiffness would go away with exercise, but nonetheless, I knew that my sleep was not very restful because my back was tense in the morning.

I didn’t know, at first, that MSM usually causes a detoxification for the first several days you use it. Anyway, I have "detoxified" so often that I couldn’t believe there were still toxins to get rid of. I had them!

The first couple days I took it, I couldn’t sleep. Too much energy! I guess it was all those old candy-bars from my mis-spent youth coming out and giving me a sugar high!

Then I realized something else about toxins in the body.

When you take toxins in, of any sort, the body tries to get rid of them. If there are too many, the body has some desperate measures it uses to handle the problem.

First, "getting rid" of toxins often involves the immune system simply attacking the toxins – and that is an expensive use of your immune system.

But, that’s not the worst of it.

When the immune system can’t handle the toxic overload, there is another mechanism which is not yet well known.

The body simply starts STORING the toxins in your fat tissues. It goes in there, where "nothing" is happening. Those tissues are not part of your normal body functioning, so the toxins just stay quietly in there – out of the way.

Unless, you happen to sweat a little, or lose weight, or do some exercise. Then, some of those fatty tissues might give up some of those toxins. (Footnote #16)

Then, you simply re-experience the same symptoms as if you had newly taken in the toxins.

This explains how a person can take LSD as a youth, and then, years later, have an "LSD Trip." The LSD that was more than his body could handle simply got stored in some fatty tissue. Then, a small amount of it "leaked out," and it was just like he took another hit of LSD.

You can have the same experience with ANY toxin, including coffee.

And, when those toxins are detoxified, you can re-experience any symptom that the toxin might have originally caused.

Here is something else many people don’t know about TOXINS.

Just about ANY toxin, whether it is deadly arsenic or mild coffee toxin, is a stimulant when you take a very small amount, and deadly when you take a larger amount.

So, drink a few cups of coffee – get more energy. Drink a lot, get sleepy. Drink a lot more and die.

It takes only a tiny amount of arsenic to kill you, but years ago there were people who actually believed that arsenic was good for the body, and took small doses, to start, and gradually built up to larger doses.

So, no matter WHAT toxin you have taken into your body, when you detoxify that toxin, the FIRST symptom might be that you feel stimulated.

Yes, you can get high because some toxins are leaking out of your fatty tissues.

Then, you get more leaks, and you don’t feel high anymore, you feel tired.

So, detoxification is a fantastic process, and generally every body on earth needs quite a bit of it.

When you do it, with MSM, or any other way, you may well experience a great increase in energy – like that first cup of coffee when you were young. Or that first swallow of beer! But, as the detoxification process continues, or if you move it along faster than you can comfortably handle, you can expect to then experience the fatigue and tiredness of too many toxins in your body.

How can you detoxify?

There are many, many ways. Fasting is a good way, but strenuous. Exercise and sauna are other ways. MSM is yet another. My experience is that different techniques seem to go after different toxins, or different parts of he body.

So, I’ve "detoxified" myself several times, with different techniques. With the MSM, the detoxification started earlier on a good friend whose diet has included more junk than mine. I had only an increase in energy for a few days, then "nothing," and then, extreme tiredness and body aches for a few days. I was taking massive amounts (over 5,000 mg per day) of the MSM, cause I was in a hurry to see what would happen.

You can be guided by these observations. Take a small amount, and detoxify slowly – perhaps not even noticing any difference. Or, be brave (or is it fool-hardy) and take large amounts. If you take a lot of MSM, then take lots of water, eat prunes, go to a sauna, do some exercise, get lots of sleep.

But, within a few days, or few weeks, awake into a new cleaner and brighter body.

My gift to you – MSM and cleaned cells that, NOW, will also be more easily kept clean and more ready to receive the nutrients you need, and they need.

Try it, and let me know.

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