Chlorine Dioxide and Its Biological Effects

Good to be here.

Well, thank you so much. So let's start from the beginning.

What is chlorine dioxide, and how does it work biologically

against pathogens, biofilms, and toxins?

Yeah. So chlorine dioxide is-- I guess I'll start right at, right at

the top. I'll probably say it twenty times in this

interview, but it is not bleach,

right? It has the word chlorine in it, so everyone else automatically

thinks that it's, it's bleach, but it's not.

That-- Bleach is called sodium hypochlorite.

And chlorine dioxide, it's an oxidizing agent.

And what does that mean? It sits in the category of other oxidizing

therapies,

right? So people have heard of ozone therapy, um,

ultraviolet blood irradiation, um, hydrogen peroxide,

chlorine dioxide. And what does it mean to oxidize?

Oxidize-- An oxidizing agent is something that can steal an electron

from

a nearby compound. And when an oxidizing

agent steals that electron, basically, you just need to think of it as it

unravels the membrane. So particularly pathogens,

when chlorine dioxide encounters a pathogen, right, which

is an invading microbe,

whether it's a virus, a fungus or bacteria, um, it'll oxidize that

pathogen and just unravel the membrane and essentially

destroy it. It is, it is the,

the widest biocide that we know, uh, in

terms of its breadth, in terms of the amount of pathogens

that it can kill.

Um, and I-I'll also just finish by saying

what's

fascinating about chlorine dioxide, and this is where we're such a,

um, amazing compound, is that it's actually a weak

oxidizing agent. And why is that important?

Is because when you put it in the body, it actually-- We

don't have any evidence. Well, there's not a lot of evidence on it, uh,

in, in use

because it's suppressed, but there's no evidence to show

that it would disrupt your

microbiome. Your microbiome has a lot of antioxidant

pro--

defenses, and so it can live amongst your, your

biome without killing it, but pathogens don't have those antioxidant

defenses.

So it's really selective and safe.

You know, talking about safe, a lot of times throughout your book,

you talk about