WHAT IS MSM AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN OUR LIFE
WHAT IS MSM AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN OUR LIFE
First, one must understand that sulfur is one of the most abundant mineral on earth and one of the most important mineral that is needed in the bonding of ALL LIVING CELLS. We will address the subject of “SULFUR IN OUR LIFE” in the next few sections.
MSM is an organosulfur molecule with the formula [(CH3)2 SO2]. This means that MSM contains organic sulfur which is different from the inorganic yellow sulfur rock because the MSM molecule contains carbon atoms, as explained in SULFUR IN OUR LIFE in the next few sections.
I find it particularly important here to mention that MSM is a pure molecule and does not have a shelf life. Just like table salt that is also a pure molecule (nacl) does not have a shelf life.
Unlike most vitamins, supplements, and medications that have a shelf life which can affect their benefit over time.
MSM is first found in the atmosphere and in all soil, it is:
A NATURAL SULFUR MOLECULE THAT IS NATURE’S AGENT GIVING
SULFUR AND LIFE TO ALL LIVING ORGANISMS ON EARTH.
NOTE: This is my own definition that I have not seen anywhere, but I believe it represents the best illustration of what is MSM. All OCEAN living organisms get their sulfur from plankton.
One must understand that because MSM is still very unknown in the world, I have not seen any formulated definition that would illustrate the importance of MSM for ALL LIFE ON EARTH.
Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, MD, one of the only two scientists who studied the effects of MSM in all animal life and by ricochet in all living organism on earth mentions in his book "The Miracle Of MSM", no one knows if his MSM's observations translate into a lack of sulfur in our body or a lack of MSM that is a constituent of our body and that provides 33% of sulfur in weight when taken as a sulfur nutritional supplement.
I want to emphasize here why I mention sulfur nutritional supplement. It is because MSM taken as food supplement gives the body not only the MSM that our body needs but also much of the nutient sulfur needed by other components of our body including the extremely important sulfur amino acids.
My Note: I believe it is a lack of MSM because MSM is the only agent providing the important organic sulfur mineral to our body that is found in the atmosphere and in all living organisms on earth INCLUDING OUR BODY and the organic sulfur molecule is not found by itself in our body.
MSM is an abbreviation, and stands for MethylSulfonylMethane, and according to atmospheric chemists, it originates with plankton in the ocean. All seafood we eat gets their sulfur by eating plankton.
The sun evaporates a volatile substance called dimethyl sulfide from the ocean into the ozone layer of the atmosphere. This dimethyl sulfide is then transformed by the sun’s ultra-violet rays and oxidation into MSM where it is carried by the clouds. MSM comes down to earth’s soil with the rain where it is absorbed by the plant's roots.
THIS WEBSITE'S OCEAN BACKGROUND IS A REMINDER OF MSM'S ORIGIN.
The animals eat the plants and our food, which includes all seafood, animal meat, and plants provide the MSM, and the sulfur found in the human body. Of human food, cow milk has the largest MSM concentration per Dr. Jacob's team limited research. I discovered that dark chocolate may have considerably more MSM by comparing Dr. Jacob’s reported MSM’s benefits with seventeen well known health benefits of dark chocolate.
What is the most crucial point to understand is that MSM, which is one of the most important constituent of our body is not produced by our body. Our body must get its MSM from our food and we already saw earlier that our food is deficient in many nutrients and especially MSM due to the farming industrialization and the cooking of our food. This is why we need to take the MSM nutritional sulfur supplement.
MSM is also known under the names dimethyl sulfone, methyl sulfone and sulfonylbismethane. Its most technically accurate name is dimethyl sulfone, which is used in many published peer reviewed biological and medical studies. If one wants to search for all the MSM scientific published studies, one must search by these three names, by methylsulfonylmethane and its abbreviation MSM. This means five different searches.
MSM was first isolated in the late 1930's, as a sulfur constituent of the adrenal glands and the blood of cattle. The adrenal glands produce hormones that help regulate your metabolism, immune system, blood pressure and other essential functions.
In the 1960's, MSM was found in the urine of humans.
Then in the late 1980s, MSM was found in the human plasma, the liquid part of the blood which contains a "significant concentration" of about 4 mg of MSM in an average-size adult. See My note below.
Now, don't you believe like me that these two last discoveries are two of the most significant discoveries demonstrating MSM’s importance in our body? Both blood and urine are most important to monitor the health of humans and animals.
My Note: One must understand that the concentration of MSM reported here was certainly much lower than it should be as it certainly came from people already suffering from a lack of sulfur and MSM in their body as one will see further on this website.
I take 20,000 to 25,000 mg per day (20-25 grams). I would guess that my blood MSM concentration is certainly much higher.
MSM as a nutritional supplement does not interact with any medicine and has no serious side effects because it is already part of our body’s constituents. This has been observed and reported by Dr. Jacob in his books, and by many scientists in published studies over the last thirty years.
MSM [(CH3)2 (SO)2] is a metabolite of DMSO [(CH3)2 SO], which shows that MSM by oxidation of DMSO ends up containing twice the amount of Sulfur. DMSO is an approved sulfur pharmaceutical agent that is used to treat many diseases in over 125 countries around the world but not in the USA. DMSO is a liquid that stinks sulfur but MSM, its metabolite, is an odorless white crystal. When dissolved in any liquid MSM becomes colorless.
Dr. Jacob was most interested in researching whether MSM had some of the health benefits of DMSO. His research team found that MSM has the most important health benefits of DMSO
Because MSM is found in small quantities in nature, it must be synthetically manufactured just like all medications, supplements, and vitamins.
Two processes are used to manufacture MSM; one process distillation produces 99.9% pure MSM crystals, and the second less expensive process requiring less energy crystallization produces an MSM powder that may contain health highly dangerous heavy metals.
It is important to understand that both forms of MSM, crystals and powder, are not equal due to their different manufacturing processes and this is the reason MSM powder is cheaper than MSM crystals.
MSM is sold in bulk in the form of crystals or powder, and in capsules of either one. Because MSM has the property to penetrate the skin, it is also used in topical applications with maximum 15% MSM gels or lotions because if the concentration is higher the MSM crystallizes and will not penetrate the skin. The topical application provides more MSM to the area where one applies it in cases of arthritis, muscle pain or cuts and bruises. Dr. Jacob recommends not applying on fresh wounds, wait till there is a scab.
It has been observed that when you take MSM as sulfur nutritional supplement, the portion of MSM you take that is not processed by the body goes out in your body's waste.
Dr. Jacob and his team have not reported ever studying the rate of absorption of MSM before what the body does not process is lost in the body's waste.
In my nearly thirty-years’ experience of taking the MSM supplement, I discovered that I get maximum benefits from my MSM if I take my daily MSM intake all day long as part of my daily fluid intake. So, I mix my daily MSM crystals intake in the morning in a sixty-four-ounce container of water with a small amount of low-calorie dry mix drink to add a little taste. One can mix it in one’s preferred daily fluid. This is even more important when you need to take a higher dose of MSM as I do, so you do not take MSM to just lose part of your MSM intake in your body’s waste.
MSM increases your energy, so Dr. Jacob recommends not taking it near bedtime because it may interfere with your sleep. If it does not affect your sleep, just do not worry about it.
The lethal dose of MSM is similar to the lethal dose of water and larger than the lethal dose of table salt, so do not be scared to increase the amount of MSM you take, Dr. Jacob recommends just increasing your intake slowly week by week until you reach a level you are comfortable with.
Why have we not heard of MSM?
Because it has been identified and synthetically produced in the nineteen sixties, and studied only from the nineteen seventies on by Dr. Jacob and his research team. Here is a summary of the brief history of our knowledge of the presence of MSM in our body, its production as a nutritional supplement, and its known benefits for animals and humans:
In 1940, J. J. Pfiffner and H. B. North of Parke, Davis, and Co., Research Laboratories, published the result of their research that they identified dimethyl sulfone (MSM), a new sulfur constituent in the adrenal glands and the blood of cattle.
In the 1960s, MSM's presence in the human body was first reported, when a laboratory analysis of the urine of men, women, and children found that 4 to 11 milligrams of MSM was excreted over a twenty-four-hour period.
In a 1967 study, Merk, Sharp & Dohme, Research Laboratories, found that MSM lasted four times longer in the body than DMSO before being completely excreted in the urine of humans (480 hours and more compared to 120 hours). DMSO was already used in many countries around the world for the treatment of many diseases at the time of this observation.
MSM was first synthetically produced as a metabolite of DMSO in the 1970’s for use in clinical research by Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., F.A.C.S. and Robert Herschler, a chemist.
In the late 1970s, Robert Herschler, joined Dr. Stanley Jacob, MD, and other members of the faculty at the University of Oregon Medical School to study the therapeutic properties of MSM in the treatment of patients to compare with DMSO’s therapeutic properties.
In 1982, Dr. Stanley Jacob, MD, F.A.C.S. and chemist Robert Herschler, presented their first paper to the New York Academy of Sciences describing their observation of the actions, benefits, and nontoxicity of MSM.
In 1986, Regina Richmond of the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, in Seattle reported in the journal "Life Sciences" that MSM was taken up by two of the body's important sulfur amino acids, methionine and cysteine.
Also in 1986, three studies conducted with laboratory mice at the Oregon Health Sciences University and Ohio State University showed that MSM absorbed by laboratory mice significantly delayed the onset of cancer created under experimental condition.
In the late 1980s, Dr. W. Martin of Pharmakin Gmbh, a major German pharmaceutical company, found that human plasma, the liquid part of the blood contains a "significant concentration" of about 4 milligrams of MSM in an average-size adult.
In 1999, Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., F.A.C.S., Dr. Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., and Martin Zucker, a writer on natural healing, nutrition, fitness, and alternative medicine joined together to author the book ”The Miracle of MSM” with foreword by Dr. William Regelson, M.D. The book is a report on their observations of the benefits of MSM most especially the first twenty years of Dr. Jacobs use of MSM in his research clinic on over 20,000 patients.
After 1999, the year the book “The Miracle of MSM” was published, over six-hundred peer reviewed biological and medical studies on MSM’s benefits for many health conditions were published in the public U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Many of these studies on health conditions that are not even mentioned in Dr. Jacob’s 1999 book on his clinical research report but are related to the MSM benefits observed and reported by Dr. Jacob and his research team on other health conditions triggered by similar causes.
It is easy to understand why most people have never heard of MSM. We are talking of thirty-some years of research and clinical experience on MSM by a very few members of the medical field, mostly all done by Dr. Stanley Jacob, M.D., F.A.C.S., and his research team.
The most significant reason we have not heard of MSM is that doctors are not taught about the importance of MSM for our body as presented above because medical academicians have never heard of MSM and are trained to use drugs and not to look at what is the cause of illnesses and realise the importance of the sulfur deficiency that affects our body, and look for alternative natural sources to heal the body. By providing the body with important nutrient deficiencies, the body would not be affected by many diseases. There is not enough emphasis on the importance of a balanced diet for the good functioning of our body.
As you will see on this website, many doctors over the years have mentioned that mainstream medicine does not understand the importance of supplements to provide the human body with the minerals it needs.
I bet you that 99.99% of doctors do not even know of the existence and the importance of MSM in our body that you just learned above.
The only way to make sure most people learn about MSM is by educating them on our body’s MSM needs, its benefits for our good health, and reduce the pain suffered by so many who have not heard of MSM. This is why I wrote this website after experiencing MSM’s benefits in my nearly thirty-years of MSM use. Impressed by these benefits, I took on myself to research as much of what information exists on MSM and sulfur in the human body.
AS FOOD FOR TOUGHT,
BECAUSE OF MSM'S IMPORTANCE IN ALL LIFE,
MY FINAL NOTE ON MSM IS THAT ALL THESE VERY BRIGHT EXTREMELY WEALTHY PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENTS SPENDING ALL THESE ZILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO REACH THE MOON AND MARCH SHOULD PUT THEIR MONEY INTO SOLVING EARTH’S DESASTROUS HEALTH CONDITION AS ANY LIFE ON THESE CELESTIAL BODIES WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT OCEAN AND THE POSSIBILITY TO HAVE MSM TO PROVIDE EVERY LIVING ORGANISM THEIR NEEDED SULFUR. EVEN IF THERE IS WATER IN THE GROUND OF THESE CELESTIAL BODIES, THERE WILL NOT BE ANY LIFE POSSIBLE, BECAUSE IF IT WAS POSSIBLE, THERE WOULD BE LIFE ALREADY AND THERE IS NONE
HOW CAN ONE GROW PLANTS TO FEED ANIMALS WITHOUT MSM? THIS MEANS THAT FISH, PLANTS AND ANIMALS THAT HUMANS EAT CANNOT BE PRODUCED WITHOUT OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY MSM AND SULFUR ALL THESE LIVING CREATURES WOULD NEED TO SURVIVE.
AND WHERE WILL THEY GET THE OTHER 101 MINERALS NEEDED BY OUR BODY TO FUNCTION PROPERLY?
ARE THEY NOT IGNORANT OR WHAT?
To support my CONVICTION, here is an "AI Summary" of the scientific consensus that life on Earth originated in the ocean.
JUST LIKE MSM ORIGINATES IN THE OCEAN.
The most CONVINCING EVIDENCE OF MY CONVICTION to retain from the above AI Summary is we already know that SULFUR is found in every living organism and IN ENORMOUS QUANTITIES IN AND AROUND THESE Hydrothermal Vents,
AS ONE CAN SMELL THE SULFUR.
It also shows one supporting reason MSM increases energy due to MSM's 34% sulfur.
THERE JUST CAN'T BE LIFE ON ANY CELESTIAL BODY WITHOUT OCEAN
AND HUMAN LIFE WILL NEVER BE POSSIBLE.
AM I RIGHT? WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?
I SURE WOULD LIKE SOMEONE WHO KNOWS BETTER TO SHOW ME.
Please go to "MSM'S KNOWN HEALTH BENEFITS"