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Both ozone OZONE AND CHLORINE DIOXIDE: ing chemical due to its ability to strip metals

and chlorine POSSIBLE MECHANISMS from pipes. Although this has not been properly
Paracelsus presciently wrote in the 1500s: researched and therefore remains speculative, I
dioxide are “The body possesses the high art of wrecking believe it is possible that there were high levels
powerful but also restoring health. . . . Poison is in ev- of glyphosate in the water that ran through the
antimicrobial erything, and no thing is without poison. The lead pipes supplying water to Flint, and this
dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.” caused much more of the lead to be stripped off
agents and, This is an apt remark regarding chlorine dioxide of the pipes into the water.
perhaps more therapy and also ozone therapy. Alternative The medical establishment maintains that
importantly, medicine specialists find ozone therapy to be chlorine dioxide—a simple, inexpensive, non-
useful in treating infected wounds as well as patentable molecule—is a dangerous substance
both are a number of difficult diseases, such as circula- that should never be used in medicine. However,

able to break tory disorders, geriatric conditions, macular this is a gross exaggeration. Oxygen is highly
down degeneration, viral diseases, rheumatism and reactive as well, but that does not mean that we
advise people not to breathe.
arthritis, cancer, severe acute respiratory syn-
glyphosate drome (SARS) and AIDS. Ozone has been used
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non- in medicine for at least one hundred fifty years, CHLORINE vs CHLORINE DIOXIDE
enzymatically. but—probably because like chlorine dioxide it Chlorine is superior to chlorine dioxide
is inexpensive and not patentable—the medical in breaking down glyphosate, but chlorine is
establishment likes to play up the risks and play definitely too toxic to take medicinally. Chlo-
down the benefits. rine also reacts with organic matter to produce
Both ozone and chlorine dioxide are oxi- highly toxic chlorinated products, whereas chlo-
dizing agents, and, as such can cause oxidative rine dioxide does not. In fact, chlorine dioxide
damage. However, both are also powerful has very different chemical properties than pure
antimicrobial agents and perhaps more impor- chlorine. CD preferentially oxidizes sulfur in
tantly, both are able to break down glyphosate sulfur-containing molecules. This could be
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nonenzymatically. Both are commonly used highly beneficial in overcoming deficiencies in
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in water treatment plants as disinfectants. This is sulfite oxidase, due either to genetic defects or
very fortunate from the standpoint of glyphosate toxic chemical exposures such as glyphosate.
contamination; I suspect that we would have had Hypochlorite (one of CD’s breakdown prod-
a much bigger problem with glyphosate expo- ucts) reacts with the sulfur-containing amino
sure through the water supply if this was not the acid taurine to produce taurine chloramine.
case. Chlorine dioxide can be purchased without Taurine is generally considered to be inert, but
prescription to be used for purifying lake water taurine chloramine is capable of getting oxi-
or river water for safe drinking while camping dized to sulfate, particularly with the help of gut
in the wilderness. microbes. Thus, it is possible that CD enhances
Glyphosate was likely an important con- the bioavailability of sulfate to the body through
tributor to the catastrophic failure of the water this mechanism. I have written several papers
supply in Flint, Michigan, where dangerously arguing that sulfate deficiency is a common
high levels of lead were found in the drinking problem associated with many diseases, most
water. This occurred during a period when the notably with autism. I have proposed that tau-
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water supply was temporarily diverted to a river rine, which is stored in large quantities in the
source, and the river ran through agricultural brain, heart and liver, may be serving as a buffer
areas where glyphosate was routinely used on for supplying sulfate, mediated by hypochlorite,
GMO crops. A water treatment plant that had when sulfate levels drop too low.
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been in disrepair was hastily brought back into Both hypochlorite and superoxide (another
action before it had been properly refurbished. CD breakdown product) are common oxidizing
I suspect this meant that significant levels of agents naturally produced by immune cells in
glyphosate remained in the water. Notably, their fight against pathogens. Thus CD enables
glyphosate was first patented as a pipe clean- the immune cells to be more effective in fighting
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