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Dear Karl,

I recently purchased a kilogram of MSM from you and have been taking 1/4 tablespoon  (1,000 mg) daily. My neighbor is also taking the same dosage. After just two doses he broke out in an itchy rash. Are there any allergic or other reactions to this stuff we should be aware of???

David

Canada

Dear David,

Yes, that itchy "rash" is not unusual.  You will get a full answer to this important question below.  That reaction is very therapeutic, but it can also be very surprising and make you worry.  Read on!

It is fascinating to me that some of the most important information about MSM is not more widely publicized, even by those who sell it.

In fact, I recently reviewed and excellent book on MSM (click here) and the medical doctor authors -- certainly the most expert in the history of MSM -- did NOT mention some of what I consider the most important factors about MSM.

The fact is that MSM is one of most useful detoxifiers I know of!

I've also written about this data for an MSM article that has been on my web site for many months, but that article isn't within this section and you may not have read it.  The article starts HERE and the information about MSM detoxification is HERE.

When you take a small dose of MSM the detoxification will take place slowly and you may not even notice it.  When you take a larger dose of MSM, the toxins have to leave the body somehow and through the skin is often the shortest and quickest route!

Let me start, writing in this space, by saying these things which I have found to be true from my personal research.  Much of this is written in other places amongst my 4,000 pages, but you can find it here conveniently.

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  Yes, a new baby, today, lives longer than a new baby born 200 years ago, but "modern" medicine has little to do with that -- instead it is "hospital sanitation" that has accounted for fewer baby deaths.  Older people do NOT live longer now than they did 200 years ago!  Modern medicine is not prolonging life except when you are connected to life-support tubes!

Modern Medical Practice emphasizes drugs and surgery to "cure" sickness when those are the least effective procedures.  I and others have written about this theme.  It is so common that I hardly need to give you further data, but for one fascinating glimpse into this, click here to read about a psychiatrist who quit (1999) from the American Psychiatric Association because he could no longer agree with their tremendous emphasis on drugs.

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  Modern Medical Science hasn't yet discovered what causes disease and illness, so they can't figure out how to handle this large part of human existence.  Alternative health care is a booming growth industry, now full of charlatans, but with the public looking for better methods than the traditional ways.  Click here to read an article I wrote on this subject.  Click here to read about some of the fraud I see related to "oral chelation."

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• For years medical authorities blamed germs, then we went through a virus stage.  We are still in that stage with the AIDS virus, but Click Here to read a complete debunking of the AIDS myth.  Germs and viruses are NOT the basic sources of disease and death.  The basic causes of poor health are covered in another article I wrote, click here to review.

• Free Radicals are the root cause of all disease and illness -- this is becoming increasingly understood and accepted, but doctors are bought and paid for by the drug companies and drugs do NOT handle or prevent free radicals.  I have compiled over 100 scientific studies about free radicals.  Click Here to take a look.

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  Free radicals originate from many places, but you could generalize about them and say that they originate from toxins we take into our body -- either through breathing the air or in our food.  For instance when you eat any heated fat you are getting lots of free radicals into your body.  When you breathe in cigarette smoke, you are breathing in free radicals.  When you eat margarine (which the government recommends over butter) you are getting free radicals -- but not when you eat butter!  Click Here for the entire story in my book about margarine and butter.  Click here to learn about the diet of ancient man compared with our current diets.

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• Toxins, like heavy metal toxins, greatly increase the number and activity of free radicals -- thus, causing disease and death.  Click here to review some of the very extensive data about toxic metals, on my web site.

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• Some toxins are flushed out of the body and cause problems only while they are in the body (alcohol).

• Many toxins get stored in cells and stay there because the cell gets "sick" from the toxins and can't get rid of them.  If you can get addicted to ice cream, or cigarettes, don't you think a cell might also!  It doesn't have a much choice as you do to what it has to eat!

• What even this great new book on MSM doesn't tell you is the mechanical effect of MSM.  It is recognized as a cousin to DMSO which is recognized as a "penetrant."    Click here to review the data about DMSO.
  

• MSM does not have all the same properties as does DMSO, but it has many.  Among those similarities are that MSM makes cell membranes more permeable.  This means that the cell wall is not so clogged up and that the cell can eject waste products through that membrane more easily, and absorb nutrients into the cell more easily.  That is a close-up of a cell membrane to the left.  Click on the picture to go to its source.

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  You now have the basis for detoxification of the cell.  Unclog the cell wall!

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• The toxins COME OUT of the cell, into your blood stream.  This next bit of data is almost an exclusive personal discovery.  When I first took MSM, the first three days, I had a "reaction" which you might well have.  I had so much new energy that I could hardly walk -- I wanted to run.  I couldn't sleep.  If I took MSM in the late afternoon, I wouldn't sleep that night, for sure.  Then, after about five days that effect was gone!  I had to figure out what it was.  Probably others have had this same effect, and I wonder how they figured it out?

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• You should know that I, for whatever reason, have never taken any street drugs, and never more than a few medical drugs.  I've not smoked except for a few times to "try it out."  My conclusion was that I had experienced a "drug high" during those first several days of using MSM, and that it was such an unusual experience for me that I didn't recognize it.  My figure on this is that I have been through many different detoxification programs but that I still have some toxins for sure in my body.  The first of those toxins to be released were, for me, like take a little bit of dope.  I was high as a kite -- it felt good!  I suppose duggies have that feeling?  But, after THOSE drugs were removed from the cells, there was no more of the easy stuff and the remainder of the toxins in my body didn't cause a high -- they caused a rash!

You detoxify whatever is ready to detoxify, and you get whatever reaction that particular toxin might cause -- depending on what route of exit it takes from the body.  You name it, you can get it!  All different forms of one action -- detoxification -- but appearing very different because we, each of us, has a different combination of toxins to get rid of, and different body situations in which the detoxification takes place.

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• And you get a drug high.

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• Toxins are drugs to the body -- they cause a stimulation in small quantities, and death in larger quantities.  This datum is not widely known, and I will be developing it further.

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• MSM detoxifies the cells.  In the early period the cells get rid of some toxins, into your blood stream.  The toxins have to go somewhere -- the body is trying to eliminate them.

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• If you take a small amount of MSM the elimination will be slow, through your urine and lungs.

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• If you take a larger amount of MSM, the elimination will be faster and often dramatic -- often through the skin.

Now, my personal experience.

I started taking MSM, had the initial several days of very much increased energy.

During that first week, when I did sleep, my dreams were so different I was amazed.  They were in color!  They were vivid.  I would remember them after I awoke!  They were actually fun!  (See below for a different "dream experience.")

When I made the "mistake" of taking MSM too late in the day, and couldn't sleep at all, I still felt rested all during the night, and not tired the next day.  It was something I would have loved to continue to have forever!

Then the rash started!

This is why I am so puzzled at the Book by Dr. Jacobs, et al, as to why they didn't cover this.  I'm sure they must have seen it!

You might want to call it a "rash," or perhaps a "pimple," but whatever it should be called it was a "red bump."  It itched like crazy.  Since it itched, I scratched.

There were little "scabs" on these bumps -- and (sorry to be so gross) I would just scratch and pick them off.  Sometimes there would be blood under them.

I would also squeeze them, but never found any pus or other "stuff."

They started on my chest.

They spread over the entire chest and stomach area, perhaps 100 bumps, itched like mad but I recognized it as a detoxification and kept on taking MSM at the rate of 5 to 10 grams per day.  The stuff on my chest stayed there for a few months.

I had, by this time, discovered an "MSM Lotion" which helped a lot.  It was soothing and I would apply it.  If I could, I would apply it every hour.  It greatly reduced the itching.  It may have speeded the detoxification, I don't know.

As the back started clearing up, the rash went down to my buttocks, then my legs and arms.

I had a few in my groin, and on my face -- but only a few.

All-in-all I suppose this went on for about nine months. 

All this time I was so sure that I was detoxifying that I had no worry about it.

Can you imagine what a person might think who had no advice on this?  Many people would not put up with what I did for nine months.

Now, I'm sure that I could have reduced the dosage and reduced these "symptoms," but I was SO sure it was good for me that I was willing to put with the itchy!

Finally, now more than a year later, I have no more itches from this source.  I have also reduced my MSM intake -- mostly because I forget to take it.  When I remember, I take a teaspoon full at a time, about 5 grams, and I do that about 3 or 4 times per day -- when I remember to do it.

I don't like the taste much, but I believe in the stuff.

I'd like to add to this page for different sorts of experiences, and have one to put here right now.  While I was talking to one customer, about my dreams, he came back with "My God!  My wife has had that same experience.  I didn't, but she did!  We wondered what was happening."

Well, that was fine, but he then gave some MSM to a friend who had a different dream experience and I want to tell you about that.

This lady took MSM -- about 2 heaping teaspoons per day, for only a few days, and then quit in terror!

She had dreams alright!  But, they were nightmares!  And, if that weren't bad enough, her dreams CONTINUED when she was awake.  My friend called me in a slight panic.

I told him about street drugs and psychiatric drugs.  I mentioned above that these are "oil-soluble" drugs -- that means that they stay in the system for ever.  But, there is more. You've heard about "LSD Flashbacks?" Or  Trips! LSD, you know, was designed by psychiatry as a treatment tool -- none of their drugs ever do any good, but they sure cause problems.

LSD, like other illegal drugs, often gives the person not only a "high" but also a "trip."  The trip can seem pleasant or terrifying -- it's all a matter of what kind of thinking is going on in that person.  If that trip is a terror, from LSD, for instance, then taking MSM is very likely to re-stimulate that LSD trip.  After all, the MSM is causing a tiny amount of LSD to "leak" out of the cell and cause an LSD trip.

Now, you can be so afraid of this that you don't want to experience it, and don't take MSM, or take it in small doses and don't have the detoxification in so dramatic a fashion.

Or, you can realize how very valuable this is to your body and go for it!

Many medical drugs would also cause these "trips."

So, my friend's friend was now more comfortable.  She had taken some psychiatric drugs and wanted to be free of their influence.  She went back onto the MSM, had more dreams.  They lessened in their impact and eventually she found that MSM helped her "sleep like a baby."

So, will you have vivid dreams?  I don't know.

These reactions are as variable as people's experience.

Would I suggest you "push on through?" 

Sure!'

But, it's you, not me, doing the pushing!

Is that enough of an answer for you -- about the rash -- about the dreams?

Let me know!

Regards,

Karl Loren

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