I thought I would give more background on how and why I wrote a warning about MMS. It all happened when a very close friend of mine nearly died after taking it. I was traveling at that time and felt helpless as I was told of her symptoms. She was basically lying near death in a comatose state and the local doctor was clueless as to what was happening. Her belly was the size of a 7-8 months pregnant woman – and no, she was not pregnant. I’m told in fact that it was the first thing that the doctor asked: is she pregnant? He ordered some liver function tests and told the family to call him back if she didn’t improve. Her liver function tests were normal even though she still had a distended belly characteristic of a cirrhotic person. The glands in her face were inflamed (parotid, salivary glands) and she had some symptoms of pancreatitis.
Since mainstream medicine was not being very helpful and she was clearly dying, her family acted quickly with vitamin C and some alpha lipoic acid (ALA). After having megadoses of vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid, she recovered enough to be able to get out of bed. The ascorbic acid saved her life.
