LEARNING CENTER
MSM
(Methylsufonylmethane)
What is MSM?
MSM is not a medicine, drug
or a food additive. It is a nutritional food supplement found
in all foods-milk, fruits, meats and vegetables. MSM is a
natural form of organic sulfur found in all living organisms.
MSM is the 3rd largest component found in the human
body. Your body consists of water, salt and MSM.
Why do we need MSM?
The body uses MSM to create
new, good, healthy cells. Vitamins and amino acids work with
MSM during this process. Without proper levels of MSM, our
bodies are unable to build good, healthy cells, and this leads
to illness. Our bodies are producing new cells 24 hours per
day. If your body doesn’t receive proper nutrition and
building materials, it will produce bad, dysfunctional cells,
deficient in the basic ingredients that constitute a healthy
cell. If we want a healthy, flexible cell, capable of maintaining
good health, we need to supplement our diets with MSM, to
enable the body to heal itself. Your body knows what it needs
better than any doctor. It will use MSM wherever it is needed
most in your system. Give your body the MSM it needs so it
can provide more nutrition and heal itself.
If MSM is found in all foods,
why do we need to supplement with MSM?
Because of its volatile nature,
MSM is quickly lost from food when it is processed, cooked
and/or stored. The second you pick fruit or vegetables from
the tree or vine, it begins rapidly losing MSM. Even in meats,
MSM is not as abundant as it used to be. Today, animals are
being fed with dried, stored grasses, hay and grains, deficient
in MSM. When your body uses the MSM molecule to produce a
new cell, it is consumed in the process, and the MSM is lost
forever. We need to continuously replenish the body’s
needed supply of MSM to produce new, good, healthy cells.
A conventional diet does not supply the minimum requirement
of MSM. It is absent in synthetic food additives, dietary
mineral compositions, food substitutes and most fillers used
to dilute or modify foods. With today’s modern diet of
cooked and otherwise processed and diluted foods, most - if
not all – diets of civilized man are deficient in this
critically important ingredient.
How safe is MSM?
MSM is as safe as drinking
pure water. Because of its inert nature, MSM is non-allergenic,
non-pyretic, and has no interfering or undesirable pharmacological
effects. It can even be used as a safe blood diluent. You
cannot overdose with MSM. The body will use what it needs,
and after 12 hours, will flush any excess amounts out of the
body. MSM will flush what the body does not retain semi-permanently
every 12 hours, and because it is a free radical and foreign
protein scavenger, MSM cleans the blood stream, so allergies
to food and pollens go away in about 3 or 4 days. To maintain
good, healthy cells, take MSM in the morning and the evening.
MSM: An Essential Dietary
Sulfur!
MSM was first isolated by Robert
Herschler and Dr. Stanley Jacob of the University of Oregon
Medical School. MSM, or methylsufonylmethane, is a natural
sulfur compound, found in all living things. In his research,
Dr. Jacob determined that the sulfur in MSM, called a sufonyl,
because of its bond between sulfur and oxygen, is as safe
and as important as vitamin C in our diet, unlike the bad
sulfurs: sulfa, sulfate, sulfite and sulfide.
Why do we need Sulfur in
our Diets?
MSM comes from the ocean and
is a prime source of bio-available sulfur, which is lost from
our food by processing, drying, cooking and preserving. MSM
is an important food (not a drug or medicine) and plays many
roles in the body, including the stimulation of the growth
of healthy skin, hair and nails. It is needed by the body
for healthy, connective tissues and joint function, proper
enzyme activity and hormone balance, along with the proper
function of the immune system.
Because bio-available nutritional
sulfur plays such a major role in these healthy body functions
and others, it was found that supplementation with MSM improves
many health problems such as: allergies, asthma, emphysema,
lung dysfunction, arthritis, head aches, skin problems, stomach
problems, digestive tract problems, circulation, cell osmosis
and absorption.
How does MSM function?
MSM makes cell walls permeable,
allowing water and nutrients to freely flow into cells and
allowing wastes and toxins to properly flow out. Amino acids,
which are all sulfur-bonders, are the building blocks of the
body. Each one plays a major role in the production of hormones
and enzymes, which regulate the body’s activities. MSM and vitamin C are used together in the
body to build healthy new cells. MSM provides the flexible
bond between amino acids in proteins. Without MSM, the new
cell is not permeable, and osmosis is hampered. These cells
lose their flexibility as seen by scar tissue, wrinkles, varicose
veins, hardened arteries or damaged lung tissues (emphysema).
What Dosage of MSM should
I take?
Good health practices involve
replacing essential substances that our bodies naturally use
up or lose through illness or abuse. If you are physically
active and get sore muscles after such activity, try 1/2 teaspoon
and you will notice a difference. Keep in mind that the body
is much more abused by toxins and free-radicals in the metropolitan
cities than in rural areas and may require more MSM to maintain
optimum health. The level of dis-ease your body is experiencing
will also affect the amount of MSM needed to carry out daily
function and proper repair of cells. Some people will take
between 1-3 teaspoons depending on the level of energy and
wellness they wish to obtain. You cannot overdose on MSM,
so feel free to experiment.
What are the symptoms of
MSM deficiency?
- Scar Tissue
- Wrinkles
- Damaged Skin
- Lung Dysfunction
- Diabetes
- Sore Joints and Muscles
- Ulcers
- Migraine Headaches
- Allergic Reactions
- Candida albacans Infections
- Chronic Fatigue
- High Cholesterol
- Diverticulosis
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Scar Tissue
Burn victims often experience
skin that is flat, purple and leathery. After only taking
MSM for a few days, one may notice an increase in stamina
and energy. Over time, an astonishing effect on the scarred
skin is seen. The skin begins to turn pink and fill in. Bill
Rich, a burn victim, experienced just such effects after being
introduced to MSM by a veterinarian friend. Bill is a walking
testimonial to the benefits of MSM.
Wrinkles
When there is a deficiency
in MSM in the body, old skin cells are replaced with new cells
that are stiff and contribute to wrinkling. MSM supplementation
helps the body replace bad cells with good, healthy, elastic
cells. Over time, wrinkles, brown and black spots, and skin
tumors go away as new cells replace the bad.
Damaged Skin
It is the MSM in Aloe Vera
leaves that soothes and repairs skin that has been cut, scraped,
burned or damaged. The body then repairs the skin with the
proper raw materials.
Lung Dysfunction
Smoking does not cause emphysema.
Horses and dogs get emphysema, and they don’t smoke!
Yes, smoking may contribute to the loss of alveoli and breathing
capacity of the lung, but it is the deficiency in MSM that
causes this condition. Remember that the body can repair itself
if given the proper building blocks to perform the necessary
repairs. Supplementation with MSM can reverse emphysema by
supplying the proper nutrients needed to replace smoke-damaged
cells with good, healthy cells.
Diabetes
Diabetics that have been ‘on
the needle’ for years can benefit from MSM supplementation.
Several testimonials have been given of those now self-regulating
since they have discovered MSM.
Sore Joints and Muscles
Testimonials of many athletes
attest to the ability of MSM to increase athletic stamina
and eliminate sore muscles! MSM increases the ability of the
body to eliminate wastes and toxins from the cells.
Ulcers
Tagamet covers up the symptoms,
doing nothing to relieve the problem. MSM corrects the problem.
Migraine Headaches
Women don’t have the headaches,
hot flashes, cramps and nausea associated with the monthly
premenstrual cycle when using MSM. Even migraine headaches
melt away.
Allergic Reactions
MSM is anti-venom that
can quickly bind foreign proteins resulting from snakebites,
black widow bites, flea bites, bee stings and mosquito bites.
MSM is also an anti-oxidant that detoxifies the body.
Candida albacans (Yeast)
Infections; Chronic Fatigue
Candida is yeast that normally
lives in the colon. If body pH is in check, Candida cannot
live outside the colon. Women sometimes get Candida yeast
infections. When the doctor prescribes an antibiotic, taking
the antibiotic causes an imbalance in the body’s pH and
greatly reduces Lactobacillus acidophilus. This promotes
spreading of Candida, resulting in an infection. Upon return
to the doctor, more antibiotics are prescribed resulting in
an ongoing cycle of infection. The infection spreads to the
mouth evidenced by the white coating typically seen on the
tongue – this is called thrush. It can even get into
the brain. When this happens, the term for this infection
is changed to epilepsy. In the blood, Candida will rob the
nutrition and energy from the body, causing a so-called ‘incurable
disease’, commonly called chronic fatigue. When the body
burns energy it produces toxins. If toxins are not properly
removed, the result is the ‘incurable disease’.
MSM can facilitate in the body’s ability to combat this
infection.
High Cholesterol
When taking adequate supplementation
of MSM, the body will function like it is supposed to, thus
eliminating the concern for cholesterol content. Your body
will regulate it naturally. When supplemented by MSM, one
can eat those foods he/she enjoys while cholesterol count
remains normal.
Diverticulosis
Diverticulosis is the condition
where the large intestine gets sluggish, clogged and quits
pulsing properly. The feces stop moving properly, and nutrition
is not passed through the intestine walls. MSM smoothes the
coating of the intestine with a Teflon-like coating, allowing
feces to pass easily through the intestine. Diverticulosis
is an MSM and vitamin C deficiency.
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