Organic Sulfur: The Missing Link to Regenerating Cellular Health, Boosting Immunity and Reducing Pain and inflammation

By: John C. Hammell

John C. Hammell is a chapter leader for Weston A. Price Foundation in Point Roberts, WA. He was instrumental in the passage of DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act) in 1994 and has been a health freedom advocate since 1999. John was the first person in the world to call attention to the threat of CODEX. He can be reached at jham@iahf.com .

All of us are undergoing an unprecedented level of toxic assault from radiation, GMO foods, toxic chemicals the FDA fraudulently allows to be put into food, personal care products and medication, and now more recently, chemtrails that poison our air, water and soil with toxic metals. How can we be free to experience optimal health in the face of this onslaught? As the first person in the world to call attention to the UN Codex international threat to health freedom, I’ve been on a personal quest to improve my health ever since orthomolecular medicine helped me finally escape the hell of the psychiatric system 35 years ago.¹

Although orthomolecular medicine, a suppressed nutritional treatment mode, addressed the nutritional deficiency that caused my biochemical imbalance, there were still several key missing pieces of my personal health jigsaw puzzle that I only now have fully discovered. The first was the discovery of the need to focus on the health of my gut. The second discovery was the essential role organic sulfur played in maintaining the health of my gut. And lastly, that there is really only one disease: cellular malfunction² due to lack of oxygen on the cellular level.

OXYGEN AND CELLULAR HEALTH

The health of the cell is very important, especially our gastrointestinal (GI) cells called enterocytes. In a healthy person, the small intestine usually is neutral in pH, the stomach is very acidic (pH 2.5) and the large intestine is usually around pH 6.5.

When we’re under stress, we get a huge acid dump into our gut, causing our small intestines to go from neutral to acidic. When cells exist in a low pH or acidic environment, their ability to transport oxygen into the cells and remove toxins out becomes impaired. The lack of oxygen creates cellular malfunction, and the result is disease such as cancer.

Back in 1931, Dr. Otto Warburg, M.D., won the Nobel Prize for discovering the nature of cancer and "the mode of action of the respiratory enzyme”. Warburg said: “Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.”³ In other words, cancer cells proliferate in an anaerobic environment where the mitochondria inside the cells produce energy without oxygen and one of the byproducts is a build-up of lactic acid. Research for the last 50 years has shown that tumor cells use lactic acid for food and makes tumor cells resistant to radiation and chemotherapy.⁴

OXYGEN AND ORGANIC SULFUR

One of the best ways to oxygenate your cells, alkalize your blood and remove toxins that can lead to cellular malfunction is to take organic sulfur. Sulfur lets oxygen in by increasing the permeability of cell membranes, and takes out the trash! Sulfur, in the form of sulphates, plays an essential role in cellular detoxification and the normal metabolism of brain neurotransmitters⁵ . Sulfur is one of the few anti-oxidant compounds that can easily cross the blood-brain barrier and repair oxidative damage to neurons and tissues⁶ . Sulfur is also essential for making certain vitamins like thiamine (vitamin B1) and biotin, and for producing insulin in the pancreas⁷ .

Organic Sulfur forms 146 different chemical combinations. Sulfur will combine with all metals except gold and platinum to form inorganic sulfides⁸ . Inorganic sulfides convert these hazardous toxic metals into non-hazardous, stable forms which are safely ushered out of the body. For example, when sulfur binds with mercury, it produces mercuric sulfate, a compound that our cells expel, the liver detoxifies and then we expel from out gut⁹ . By bonding with all the toxic heavy metals, organic sulfur can safely chelate and remove these toxic metals from our bodies, greatly enhancing one’s detoxification protocol!

Sulfur is the ANTIDOTE to the toxic chemtrails being sprayed on us, as well as to the increased levels of radiation stemming from the Fukoshima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan back in February 2011 which has been proven to have caused a huge rise in infant mortality in the USA and all over the world. According to the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services, 14,000 US deaths have been attributed to fallout from Fukoshima¹⁰ . There has been a huge increase in infant mortality, especially here in the Pacific NW where I live due to radiation from the Fukoshima tragedy.

SULFUR DEFICIENCY AND DISEASE

Every cell in our body contains sulfur compounds. Sulfur is found abundantly in soils rich with volcanic basalt and used to be available in eggs, onions, garlic, raspberries, turnips, and cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, broccoli, kale, etc. Unfortunately, our food today is grown in soil that is deficient in trace minerals and sulfur that our bodies need to build our immunity and repair our bodies. Since the 1950s, commercial farmers have used petroleum-based fertilizers that deplete the sulfur found in our soils. The USDA was aware of the sulfur deficiency in the soils in the south eastern US, but little was done to address or reverse the deficiency.

Today, sulfur deficiency has been linked to major diseases like obesity, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and chronic fatigue¹¹. One need only look at the Center for Disease Control’s (CDCs) own Diabetes Translation Division¹² trend maps (Figures 1 - 3) that show that obesity and diabetes comprise 26% and 9% respectively of the population in the South Eastern US from 1994 – 2008. For 2010, the trends show some states having obesity rates at 30% of their population.

Figure 1. Diabetes trends from 1994 – 2008 as percentage of population

Figure 2. Obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2)

Figure 3. Obesity Trends among US adults, BMI ≥ 30 or 30 lbs. overweight for 5’4” person

Source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, CDC

Another reason for sulfur deficiency is due to the gut dysbiosis either from ingestion of prescription medication like birth control pills, antibiotics, antacids, and so on and the proliferation of sulphate-reducing microbes that make sulfur unavailable to the body, and metabolize sulfur into sulfites which are toxic to the body. In autistic children, severe deficiency of sulphate is found 95% of the time due to an overgrowth of these sulphate-reducing microbes¹³ .

More recently, there is a growing threat of toxicity from chemtrails. Filmmaker Michael Murphy recently completed a very solid documentary about chemtrails called “What in the World Are they Spraying?”. As you can see from this video¹⁴ shot by a pilot of a spray plane flying just underneath him. The aircraft shown is a KC 10 Tanker, a type of plane used to refuel other aircraft, used to spray us all with very toxic levels of heavy metals including aluminum oxide, barium, strontium, zinc, iron, even arsenic, as well as mycoplasma.

The spraying is going on all over the US and the world. With the onslaught of chemical fertilizers that deplete our soils of sulfur, plus chemtrails that add toxic metals like aluminum, barium, strontium into our air, water and soil, and GMO foods, our bodies are under constant assault. Given the unique detoxification properties of sulfur, it makes sense to begin adding organic sulfur to your daily regime of health protocols. But not all sulfurs are the same.

WHAT IS SULFUR?

Organic sulfur is also known as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Back in the 1970s, a University of Oregon researcher by the name of Stanley W. Jacob, M.D. achieved miraculous results with organic sulfur compounds in pain reduction and wound healing. However, DMSO had such a bitter taste and a strong odor that he experimented with an odorless DMSO metabolite called dimethyl sulfone, today more commonly known as methylsulfonlymethane or MSM. Dr. Jacob soon discovered that sulfur in the form of MSM was retained longer in the cells than DMSO. MSM’s healing benefits were in reducing pain and inflammation especially muscle spasms, as an anti-parasitic especially against Giardia, in normalizing auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and scleroderma, and in alleviating constipation. Dr. Jacob chronicled the results in his book,

ORGANIC SULFUR vs. MSM