MSM: The Mineral Essential for Health

[Music] good morning everybody hear me okay I just want to welcome you guys today to our lecture on MSM for those of you who are new to the Riordan clinic or for those of you who are joining us online I'm dr. and Zauderer and this is dr. Ron hunting hockey and we love giving lectures together we we affectionately refer to as geeking out together it's a word we're real excited today to talk a Little bit about MSM just because this is kind of in my mind an oldie but a really good remedy and so as

you'll see as we go through the the presentation that it's good for just about everything and so so just a few housekeeping items you guys have information there about upcoming lectures upcoming events here at the Riordan clinic there's also a survey those are really helpful to us if there's any topics you want to learn more about in the future Definitely write that down and we will actually even at the end we'll be collecting those and will be raffling off a book on MSM a really great really great book the miracle of MSM and so so

if you don't mind filling those out as we go we would appreciate it so we'll go ahead and get started um I I was a fine doctor on before this that I'm gonna kind of leave it with the punchline in terms of this lecture because you know when you ask the question what is MSM Good for you know the easy answer is it's needed for healing in the body so anything that needs to heal in the body which is pretty much everything MSM is good for and so you know so we'll talk a little bit

more in detail about why that is but but that's the framework you can kind of think of as MSM is needed for healing in the body both structurally detox you know there's there's a lot of a lot biochemical pathways adores that that Sulfur is needed for in the body so I dr. Ann was asking me when did I get interested in MSM and I've been at the Rearden clinic for 31 years and for those of you that are not familiar with how we work we oftentimes see the patient who has been to just about every

other doctor and every other specialist and they haven't gotten the results that they really wanted because more often than not they have a complex medical history and so part of this tied into The fact that my my MOT my wife Ann's mother she had severe fibromyalgia even before we came to the Riordan clinic but she's always has told people that she was my number one guinea pig which I would have to say he's partially true it's not quite the right way to put it but she had multiple symptoms and along with vitamin C MSM turned

out to be the nutritional support product that did the most good for her she had very very severe osteoarthritis in her neck she Had injured it as a in middle school doing gymnastics and when I was practicing in Salina my partner had done her x-ray and I said it was the worst looking neck arthritis that he had seen in a woman as long as young as she was she was in her 30s at that point still had severe osteoarthritis and so an ordered just for her to control the pain I had her start taking a

mixture of vitamin C powder and MSM powder in a quart of water she would take to school With her and we kept gradually increasing the dose and so people can get results at five hundred milligrams three times a day but this was like 5,000 milligrams three times a day but over the course of two years the pain went away she was able to sleep much better everything improved in terms of her health and her energy so it was almost it and vitamin C alone helped her get Over most of her fibromyalgia so it was a

pretty important lesson to me that there's something very powerful about this substance so what we want to do is show you how it does that because a lot of times you hear a testimonial from someone like that you say well that was just that person but no once you start looking at the chemistry and the history of where this comes from you'll understand that it's a very fundamental way to improve your overall health and Functioning so so what is MSM so MSM is actually organic sulfur and what what's unique about this in particular is not

only is it a sulfur molecule a mineral but as you can see in this picture that Schulter group has both two oxygens and two methyl groups attached to it which of any of you have listened to any of our lectures before methylation is a very common theme that we talk about and so MSM not only acts as a sulfur donor but also also a methyl donor in the body As well as providing oxygen you know so it's kind of this you know this this holy grail of you know critical minerals and nutrients that the body

specifically needs and it's also important to understand when we say organic sulfur it's it's different than when you talk about organic vegetables and fruits that means they're grown without the use of pesticides and whatnot this means that it involves carbon carbon based chemistry is the chemistry of life and So this is very much a a molecule that is necessary for optimal carbon based chemistry within our bodies so minerals typically we get minerals from the soil you know so minerals some of the more common minerals that people know about are calcium zinc selenium you know these

minerals are not only important for plant growth but we as as our biochemistry our human biochemistry is dependent on a lot of these minerals and so so minerals truly are essential you Know for our well-being in addition that minerals also make up our electrolytes show a lot of the chemical signaling at the cellular level is determined by your mineral levels so minerals like sodium and potassium and chloride and so so minerals really are essential to health and as we'll talk about sulfur is the fourth most prevalent mineral in the body you know and many people

thinking of health and Nutrition what probably vitamins would probably come to mind first as being important but you know without minerals vitamins can't work without the the minerals the enzymes in your bodies could not function properly so think of minerals as literally the the foundation of good health yes purpose of minerals you know so we use minerals for both structure and function as I mentioned so structurally you know some of the more well-known Ones are the calcium phosphorus and boron for bone health silicon for collagen sulfur is needed for protein configuration in tissue structure and

the reason this is is all of our our our collagen has kind of a basement foundation of proteins that are held together by disulfide bonds so sulfur is quite literally the mineral that helps hold the structure in maintain the shape and the matrix of collagen so it makes it both strong so it gives it tensile Strength but it also gives it elasticity so that it doesn't kind of get brittle and and wear out as in the case of osteoarthritis but minerals are also needed for function you know as we mentioned they are enzyme cofactors you

know a lot of a lot of our biochemistry needs these minerals like zinc and magnesium to signal into it to act as cofactors you know for for those enzymes as well as muscle function you need calcium for muscle contraction magnesium For relaxation and then anything electrical in the body pretty much is rely upon minerals so nerve transmission style signaling all of those are relying healthy levels of minerals you know the original name of the Rearden clinic was the Center for the improvement of human functioning and dr. Reardon's insight was that a lot of modern medicine

dealt with making a diagnosis and using a drug to treat the symptoms of that diagnosis but thinking deeper in order for the Body to work you know in order for healing to occur you have to provide the building blocks of what makes the body work the structure and the function within the body so in order to improve human functioning you have to make sure you have adequate amounts of the basic ingredients of life and so it just turns out that sulfur is one of those very very important minerals that without which you cannot build the

the chemistry of biochemistry of good health and so What what I hope you'll see as we go through the lecture is that this has application in just about every chronic disease you can imagine there was actually a really interesting study an equine study done on horses where they looked at the mineral makeup of the collagen of these horses and what they found is that the horses that had degenerative osteoarthritis had 1/3 less sulfur in their collagen you know so so they weren't able to heal that collagen Got damaged more easily which led to inflammation and

degenerative changes and so so in terms of cofactors I know this is a little bit hard to see up on this big screen we put this up here not to I'll let you know anybody who knows us knows were big nerds and so we love the biochemistry and so this is just a little picture of you know a few of the minerals and all the different places in our biochemistry that these minerals touch and so you know dr. Reardon used To always say you know what's the most important nutrient to take what's the one you're

deficient in and so all of these you know your body your biochemistry is meant to adapt and so but you'll start to stress certain areas in certain pathways more if you're missing some of your key nutrients and as we'll talk about here in a second one of the one of the major pathways that is a affected by sulfur is our detox pathways So production is something called glutathione there these are what are known as your sulfation pathways because they are so dependent on on sulfur and so but all of these minerals work together you know

to to overall help with with you know proper biochemical this is also a picture of methylation and as time has gone on in the last ten years we're realizing how incredibly important methylation is to just about every function within the body it has a Really important role to play and in genetic expression and and it it's necessary in terms of our neuro chemistry and and our detoxification as Anna was talking about and what what's so interesting about MSM is it's two methyl groups so what's a methyl donor it's a very inexpensive easy to use methyl

donor that gives you the added been added benefit of providing sulfur to your body so it's really a dual purpose kind of molecule that asserts Its importance in all the various functions of the body so we'll talk specifically now about sulfur you know because sulfur as as we mentioned that's the core mineral in MSM and you know I don't know what comes to mind you know when we say sulfur I know for me you always think of stinky you know stinky sulfur it smells like rotten eggs you know what else might come to mind or

sulfur baths so for springs you know these Historically people you know travel all over the world to visit you know these areas where there's naturally-occurring sulfur in the water because it's great for skin it's great for healing it's anti-aging you know and what is aging its wrinkles you know what causes wrinkles a lack of healing in the body a lack of adequate collagen production in the body and so all of these can be tied back to sulfur and so as we mentioned it's the fourth most plentiful mineral In the body which is amazing it doesn't

get more press you know I I'm always surprised nobody people you know doctors are big about talking about calcium for bone health but what about sulfur you know for joint health and for for skin health and so epson salts is magnesium sulfate and so when you take an Epsom salt bath to detox or to relax your muscles yes it's the magnesium but you're also getting sulphur from it as well mm-hmm so just a few kind of fun Facts you know about about sulphur it's a pale yellow brittle bitter nonmetallic mineral like I said it smells

like rotten eggs so it doesn't MSM interestingly does not smell like rotten eggs we'll talk about that here in just a second but it's a component of gunpowder it's historically it highness concentrations around areas of volcanic eruption because it's actually a mineral that that tends to be deeper in the core of the earth so in areas where that you Know that volcanic ash or the volcanic eruptions occur that's where you tend to find you know higher concentrations of sulfur or even that like I said a naturally occurring hot springs which are a natural source of

sulfur you know from deeper in the Earth's and we're and life is thought to have begun around these volcanic vents underneath the ocean and so sulfur has played a role in the early and the origins of life so it's it's it's more important than what People realize so so where do we get sulfur from you know so sulfur um Tippy's algae convert inorganic sulfur to an organic sulfur molecule called dimethyl sulfide that gets released into the ozone where UV light actually catalyzes the reaction that forms something called DMSO did you want to talk a little

bit about you know DMSO is that we could do a whole nother lecture on DMSO the veterinarian's really use it a lot and it helps with inflammation They but it's a huge detoxifier and we're beginning to use DMSO again now as a biofilm disrupter because a lot of the chronic infections that people suffer with like in their sinuses or in the bladder or certain places is due to a disruption our over concentration of these biofilms which hides the infecting agents that the immune system can't get to it so when you use DMSO you disrupt that

biofilm and you expose the infection to The immune system and it helps you get over these chronic infections so and so MSM actually falls to earth in rain water so when it falls in rainwater five five parts per million of if of MSM and rainwater gets concentrated in plants so kind of like all of our other minerals we should be getting this in our diet you know if we're eating a vegetable based diet unfortunately with you know modern agricultural practices there's a lot of a lot of you know a lot of these Minerals have been

kind of chelated been pulled out of the soil as well as a lot of irrigation you know used and what was your statistic on the irrigation well yeah that I was talking to a farmer you know if you really want to find out about you know soil talk to your farmer and he were talking about he was telling me we were talking about MSM and and the importance of sulfur and how MSM comes down and rainwater and he said oh yeah he said there's an old saying that one Inch of rain is worth three inches

of regular irrigation so it's the MSM and there's also other things in rain like peroxide and whatnot that really makes it help the plants grow better now if you want to prove that to yourself you can make yourself up when you when you go to water your houseplants I would suggest putting in a quarter to a third of a teaspoon of MSM powder into a quart of water and maybe a little bit of hydrogen peroxide like a a teaspoon of Hydrogen peroxide shake that up and put that on your plants and get ready for exhibit

growth in your house plants it's just pretty amazing so as dr. Ahn mentioned the the MSM is it's an organic this offers an organic mineral and so in in chemistry you know organic chemistry is is different from regular chemistry and organic chemistry is this molecules that have carbon in them and so because MSM has the those those carbon molecules the methyl groups Attached to it it is defined as as an organic mineral and and so because you know it's bound the way that it's bound it's much easier for plants to absorb and they as dr.

I mentioned utilize it very well for growth so MSM as a supplement is a very safe supplement to take you know in and how you dose it you know kind of depends on the individual needs of the person and so but dr. Stanley Jacob was the one that that heated and crystallized DMSO because if You've ever encountered DMSO it is another great you know source of sulfur but it smells horrible and so so he created MSM that is it's an odorless tasteless pretty much tasteless powder that you can add to your drinks and it's because

it can disrupt the GI system it is best to drink it slower rather than doing it one big dose all at once but slow absorption throughout the day you know helps with it preventing the GI I'm not even sure if it disrupts the GI as Much as it detoxifies the body and when people feel nauseated when they take too much DMS or excuse me when they take too much MSM too fast it may be because their liver is being overwhelmed by increasing detoxification and so if you see this so you want to start with low

doses and build up gradually I mentioned my wife taking she was actually taking about 15,000 milligrams per day most people start at about 500 milligrams three times a day but if you build up Slowly there's almost no toxic dose and it really is best in the powder form because MSM actually has a pretty short half-life in the body it's only what about 10 to 12 hour half-life in the body and so I've noticed my personal experience with MSM is for allergies you know chronic sinusitis that when I worked at my gos high enough you know

when by 80 to 90% and so but what's interesting is I noticed if I miss a day Or two I'll start to get some of my symptoms back so it actually comes back fairly quickly for me you know and so it's not clear how well sulfur is stored in the body and because it has a short half-life it's best to kind of consume on a regular basis spread out throughout the day rather than one big dose all at once so food sources you know of some of the best food sources should be from plants you

know an animals that eat a lot of plants and so you know especially Some of your cruciferous vegetables you know those those are our higher sulfur containing foods you know those those tend to be a good source of MSM but even from animal proteins our sources are a great source of sulfur because a lot of the sulfur is used to build certain amino acids in the body and so animal proteins are a good source of sulfur as well the cruciferous vegetables there's a there's a phytonutrient called sulfur sulfur in vein Sulfur your vein I can't

even say it but it's it's sulfur based and it's really important in terms of its ability to help you detoxify and so in terms of regulating hormones within the body especially excessive hormones cruciferous vegetables are wonderful and it's because of their sulfur content all right so the difference between sulfur and sulfur because some some patients come to us and they say hey I've got an allergy to sulfa sulfa drugs self of Itself antibiotics is it safe for me to take sulfur and so well yeah and sofa is a is a pharmaceutical agent it's a it's

an antibiotic and it was it there was many many years of discovery to even find the form of sulfur that worked against bacteria but and it does include Sofer but it's it's not the sulfur mineral and so people who are allergic to sulfa typically do not have a cross reaction to so fer if they do have a reaction it's it's Because they're detoxifying too fast not because they're allergic to solve for almost no it's almost impossible to be allergic to sulphur in fact sulphur is the antidote to allergies so um so where do we find

sulphur in the body half the body sulphur is found actually stored in muscles skin and bones its present in keratin you know so keratin is what gives your your hair skin and nails kind of that that healthy strength as I mentioned that tensile strength it's Needed as we mentioned earlier for collagen production so collagen is not only needed for healthy joints but also also healthy skin and help me repair in the body you know aging really is just when your your breakdown in the body starts to outpace your body's ability to heal you know when

you look at young kids the reason their skin is so beautiful is not because they are you know breaking down those skin cells any Slower it's just they're repairing a lot faster you know than any adult but as we age and as our body's production of stem cells goes down our ability to heal also decreases and so as we age you know there's a higher need for some of these minerals like sulfur that aid the body in healing you know some of these tissues so MSM really could be classified as an anti-aging nutrient of course

all nutrients to a certain extent are that way one of the things that I See more and more often as people are coming in with osteoporosis or osteopenia and very seldom does any doctor mention MSM as a as an important component of bone repair they everyone thinks in terms of calcium first but what does that calcium what does it build itself around think of think of a sidewalk or a driveway you want to put rebar in to make the concrete strong so it's the collagen it's the fibrin within the bone that really makes it strong

not The calcium you can take calcium till that till the cows come in as they and and it's not going to do you near as much good as MSM will do and vitamin C in terms of building collagen as the basis of truly strong bone that is resistant to fracture people who take a lot of calcium will actually show some improvement in their DEXA scan but the actual fracture rate is not improved by just calcium alone you really need these components that help with the the Structural component of bone so as I mentioned it's the

disulfide bonds together there's a basement called glycosaminoglycan or gag you know gag molecules that are held together by these disulfide bonds and that is what gives I start to I mentioned the strength to the collagen so it's strength but also it gives it that ability to to bend and to move and to heal and so you know we also have a little bit of sulfur in our blood so you Can't actually measure a blood level you know there's there's some doctors that measure a ratio of you know what your excreting in your urine versus what

you have in your in your blood you know which is you know if you're interested in your in your sulfur content you can measure that a lot of people you know just with the world we live in minerals are some of the most common deficiencies we see at the Riordan clinic you know magnesium you know Selenium you know zinc you know all of these minerals because of the way our diet is shifting and because minerals are also harder to absorb and so if you've got any propensity toward leaky gut you know it makes it harder

to absorb some of the minerals in your diet and so which is why MSM it's kind of a beautiful remedy because as we'll talk about here in a little bit it's also great for leaky gut you know because guess what holds you know you're the Lining of your gut you know together is sulfur you know so so it helps with not only you know leaky gut but it also helps with absorption of all of your other nutrients it so almost all of the autoimmune diseases which are perhaps the number one fastest growing category of chronic

illness in America and civilization today all of that begins with leaky gut and poor digestion and so one that's an area where MSM really shines because it it helps to connect Those those endothelial cells that line your gut so they have tight junctions without the tight junctions the food will leak into the body before it's fully digested and then that that allows the immune system to form antibodies and you start getting food allergies and then that can then cross-react with the various organs within your body and you end up with thyroiditis or colitis or lupus

or some of these rheumatoid arthritis All of these are autoimmune diseases that go back to leaky gut and so MSM is a fundamental way to help with that sure you want to do probiotics and prebiotics and digestive enzymes but don't forget the MSM all right so MSM an amino acid amino acids in the body are what you get when you break down proteins and there's two different types of amino acids in the body there are what are known as essential amino acids and non-essential and the difference is is the essential Amino acids we have to

get in our diets versus non-essential amino acids can be built by the body and guess what is at the core of a lot of these amino acids yes and so so there are a number of amino acids we're going to talk about here in some of these you'll probably recognize you know these are amino acids we talked a lot about in connection with other things in the body like methylation like detox like you know building of our neurotransmitters and so But at the core of these is sulfur and you know the nice thing this is

a little bit of it's fine bar the nice thing about MSM compared to Sun supplements is it's it's it's almost impossible to overdose on you know there have been quite a few studies where they've tried to find the lethal dose of MSM you know in in my studies and they just haven't gotten there and so it's very safe to build up the you have to be cautious of is pushing Detox too fast so you can't do too much too fast but overall your body has a mechanism for screening excess sulfur and so you might have

stinky poop you know if you take too much I might smell like rotten eggs but it's very very hard very very difficult to overdose and you know that's why the dosage of it can vary so much you know among patients because somebody like my mom you know who had probably been deficient for a long time needed a higher threshold a Higher dose to rebuild you know what was needed and repair her system as somebody might not need that high of a dose and so but the good thing is is it's almost impossible to overdose on

by the way it's excellent for constipation so anyone that's dealing with constipation keep MSM in mind all right so so some of the seventh amino acids we're going to talk about the thiamine has anybody not heard of the thiamine before we go back to the methylation chart that Ann it Showed earlier that's all about methylation but one of the key cycles there's three major cycles in methylation but one of the key ones is the methionine cycle and you need methionine in order to make homocysteine you need methionine to make all of your energy molecules like

coq10 and carnitine and creatine but and you need methionine to make your neurotransmitter so a lot of people who have so-called mental illnesses or imbalances in their Neurotransmitters they would do very well to take MSM and a lot of people find that they feel calmer they feel better they sleep better they snore or less when they take MSM some of that is due to the fact that the methyl groups are are utilized to make Sammy and Sammy is a really important D antidepressant nutrient that's fairly expensive MSM is really much much less expensive and the

beauty of it is that the body can decide how fast you use it some people are Worried about taking Sammy too much too fast and causing problems with methylation MSM won't do that your stomach will tell you if you're getting it too fast so for those people who are having cognitive problems or psychiatric problems or stress problems think MSM I'm cysteine so cysteine is also another amino acid that is connected to our methylation cycle so if you're familiar with the amino acid homocysteine almost Justine gets converted down as it's Going down towards your sulfation pathways

into cysteine which gets converted into glutathione which glutathione is needed for detox you know so as dr. Alan was mentioning sometimes we give patients glutathione and even if small doses of glutathione they they react to that because they're detoxing too quickly what's nice in the beauty of MSM is it's helping your body build blue defyin so you're working more with your body's own feedback loops to figure out How much you need and how quickly you need it and so you know so you know so cysteine as if it is another sulfur you know after that

is dependent on um you know you know sulfur in our diet by the way if you if you were to have a Tylenol overdose be really careful about Tylenol a lot of people think it's just you can just take a ton of it but it's very if you can create liver toxicity very easily with it if you do become liver toxic and your livers starting to fail And you go to the emergency room what they'll give you is in sotl cysteine they'll give you cysteine as the antidote to tylenol toxicity so my advice is don't

get toxic in the first place but use MSM and that will help you maintain your cysteine levels all right another major one is called tarring taurine is another one of our amino acids that's important for detox it's also important in the brain for producing our inhibitory Neurotransmitter called GABA you know gaba is what kind of calms us down you know if you're that type of person that can't shut your brain off before bed or you can't fall asleep you know that tends to be a globe GABA state and you know tarring helps with the conversion

of glutamate into gaba and so it's important for for you know also our mental health and kind of for people who tend to be that what I call wired and tired you know where You're wired all day long but then you can't fall asleep at night a lot of times that's that's a low GABA state and so taurine is is it's an important immuno acid to help with that the production of gaba there's a real interesting little paradox here in terms of how you take your MSM if you take too much right before bed it

will stimulate your adrenals and you'll be kind of awake but if you take MSM through the day and help your body make more tarring Which helps you make more gaba gaba will shut off the gab enos of your brain at night so that you can sleep more soundly so people will notice that it definitely does help sleep but don't take it too late at night because then it could interfere with sleep all right so sulfur is also important and in terms of some of our biochemistry and we've talked about some of these and so but

we'll kind of just review a little bit but but sulfur is also important for detox Glucosamine is you know you've probably heard of glucosamine and chondroitin you know for joint repair almost cysteine you know for cardiovascular health lipoic acid for detox at blood sugar and then coenzyme a for energy and so we'll talk a little bit more about these you know so glutathione is three amino acids put together it's part of these these sulfation pathways that we have in glutathione is our body's own natural detoxifier you know so if you eat for Instance tuna that's

got mercury in it glutathione it takes what two molecules of glutathione to detoxify one molecule of methyl mercury so if everything is working as it should when we get exposed to something in the environment the body should up regulate production of glutathione to help us heal it out or to get rid of you know any of these you know environmental toxicants we get exposed to but what's happening and a lot of the chronically ill patients that We see is this pathway is so overloaded and their their their body's been shunting so much down to make

glutathione that they end up deficient in other areas and other minerals and another amino acids and in sulfur so keep in mind that glutathione which hopefully you've all heard of it it's probably the most important intracellular molecule in your body but if you try to buy it and/or try to take it as a supplement it's very expensive a Lot of it is not absorbed very well and you really need a lot of it and so MSM by contrast is very inexpensive it's just a matter of taking enough for whatever your level of need is but

it is a very effective detoxifier and in the world we live in none of us realize how toxic of a world we live in there toxins are everywhere but everything looks nice but under the surface we have chronic illnesses escalating at incredible rates because Of environmental toxicity that alone should be a reason why you should think about taking MSM on a more regular basis because of just helping your body to detoxify as well as slow the aging process as well as help your immune system help your brain neurotriptyline credibly important for our health what what

are the things whenever you start talking about toxic ins in the environment I you don't always feel the stress level go up because it really is Impossible to avoid everything that we get you know exposed to in our world and it's and it's it can be very stress inducing to think about what you're drinking what you're breathing what's in all of the food and so you know I always encourage people to as much as you can if for as much as you can control try and eliminate you know the toxins in your environment you know

filter water filter your air buy organic food stay away from preservatives you know in Stay away from processed foods and then the flip side to that is do whatever you can to support your body and what it does have to detoxify because you can't eliminate everything in your environment but what you can do is you can help your body to upregulate some of these pathways that will help you help you detoxify glucosamine so as I mentioned glucosamine is typically paired with glucosamine and chondroitin and and and this is is incredibly you know Beneficial for helping

to heal joints and collagen and so a lot of times in MSM supplements you'll actually see it combined with glucosamine you know because the to work synergistically for helping to heal and repair joints chondroitin is nothing other than chains of glucosamine so ultimately glucosamine and MSM would be the two ideal things you want to have in your arthritis supplement yeah it's providing the raw materials to repair and then the sulfur Is what combines those those together to help you like we've mentioned you know have a healthy healthy you know collagen system almost Disney so homocysteine

used to be that the cardi cardiologists would always measure your homocysteine level because it is known to be a marker for higher risk of heart attack it's also a higher marker for higher risk of Alzheimer's we use it as a marker for just methylation in general so and it's interesting you can Have too high of a homocysteine but you can also have too low and where this happens is when you're so toxic that you're drawing all of your methylation down towards glutathione to try to neutralize all the toxins and so you you actually end up

with a low homocysteine so people who have low homocysteine ZAR under methylated in kids we commonly see a doctor an sees most of the kids but we commonly see low homocysteine x' because our children all of their reserves are Being used to to detoxify their bodies of all the things in the modern world that is then pulling methylation away from their ability to make normal amounts of neurotransmitters is it any wonder that kids are having trouble with autism attention deficit disorder depression sleep disorder all of that can be due to the fact of over exposure

to toxins and under availability of detoxifying molecules for the body if any of you Have heard us speak before when we talk about supplementation with B vitamins you know we talked about taking the right form of B vitamins in the correct form the most bioavailable form of B vitamins are your methylfolate your methylcobalamin so methyl b9 methyl b12 and you know the reason these are important is they are important methyl donors the problem is is you can only build those up so high before you kind of hit that threshold of B vitamins that People need

or that they can't tolerate what's beautiful about MSM is you're not only just donating 1 you're doing adding two methyl groups as well as sulfur to the body and so it's it's an amazing methyl donor so in that way it can support methylation without over you know over-revving methylation because with the B vitamins both of you item ins and the methyl groups will push methylation and you can actually flip into what we call an over methylated State where you're turning too fast with MSM I have not seen that happen where you're just basically donating the

raw materials for the body to methylate but it'll use it in the way that it needs it keep in mind also remember this molecular shape there's a sulfur two methyl groups and two oxygens one above and one below the sulfur so it's a great source for oxygen and so oxygen is another incredibly important molecule not only Just to oxygenate ourselves but it's an oxidant and you can use oxidation to fight infection and I think we don't hear that much about MSM as being an effective tool to help your body fight infection but I really think

it is people who have chronic and affections do very well with MSM just like they do with DMSO DMSO you can give an IV but it has an unpleasant odor MSM you can take it orally it's cheaper and it will give you the same benefits in Terms of helping you fight hidden infections lipoic acid again another another important you know another important amino acid that you need sulfur for it's especially important for detox as well as lowering blood sugar you know what's interesting is you know most of our detox occurs in the liver and you

know it's not a coincidence that a lot of people eating a high processed high refined diet have not only elevated blood sugars but they also have elevated Lipid levels elevated cholesterol elevated bad cholesterol the LDL cholesterol well the liver is what makes 80 percent of our cholesterol you know and so as you start to stress the liver more and more that could be a potential symptom you know of your liver being under stress and so lipoic acid because it helps with both detox it can also help with lowering blood sugar for those who tend toward

a higher higher blood sugar Yeah and if your children are hooked on Pop most of the pop is fructose based and a lot of the sugar that's used these days is fructose base and the end the fructose is is metabolized through the liver and the fastest growing liver disease in the country now in the world is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and that's that's where the the the fructose is overloading the liver with fat and so one of the things that MSM can do is at least help you detoxify that and heal That of course the

the good thing is to stop using the the all this fructose this corn derived fructose you I know we kind of keep circling back to this but you know MSM is really also it's beneficial in terms of prevention because you can see all the number of different things that it touches and your body is going to use it in the way it needs it the most you know and so in terms of building all these nutrients you can get the body to do something on Its own that's way better than having to take you know

alpha lipoic acid to take glutathione to take all these other supplements you know these nutrients you know if you can get a high enough dose of MSM and you're in a relatively healthy state it can hopefully help with maintaining the levels that your body needs of some of these amino acids coenzyme a well it's a it's it's a really important nutrient in the mitochondria and so next to Autoimmune problems the other major problem that we're seeing in chronic illness is what I call the fatiguing illnesses whether you have fibromyalgia depression Lyme disease people are tired

and it's because their mitochondria are not working very well and you need you need the sulfur drugs you need this coenzyme a as an important part of the krebs cycle which is part of the ability of the of the mitochondria to generate ATP and energy so MSM is an energy Molecule you know just throw it all in there so we'll talk a little bit more specifically about some of the some of the benefits in the literature as far as you know MSM specifically and a lot of these as I mentioned go back to you you

know the punchline in the beginning a lot of these have to do deal with repair in the body MSM helps with repairing you know especially there are certain cell lines in the body that are rapidly turning Over so your gut cells your enterin sites those will be replaced pretty much every four to seven days you have a whole new lining to your gut your skin cells are constantly sloughing off you know and that's that's an important process of healing in the body and so giving your body all the tools it needs to rebuild those in

a healthy way is important and so a lot of these that will talk about deal with healing connected to MSM so collagen again we've Talked about this you know MSM you know doctor I mentioned that my mom drink you know and a drink that had both mmm and vitamin she in it I take that taking that up one more level and added magnesium and I call it the anti stress drink but I have put a lot of my patients on MSM vitamin C and magnesium just to kind of help get you through the day it's

great for managing adrenals managing stress you know both divided by density is also needed for collagen Production and so you know so the to work very student synergistically yeah it's actually been said that MSM without vitamin C is is not as effective so really if you if you are going to do MSM be sure you get your vitamin C or the the new tu-16 that we have which will help your body make more vitamin C you can even apply MSM topically so there's lotions and creams you can use and as dr. Ahn mentioned you know

even doing a Epsom salt bath has both magnesium and Sulfur so you know get in the bath yet one of those you know a you know that's called the rush your skin you know so you can kind of skin brush ya know so you can you know and then sit in you know I I tell people you know but you know 2 3 cups of epsom salts you know in the hot water and and that will also be absorbed you know if you're worried about all the the stuff that's they're talking about now the junk

that's in sun sun screen take MSM and you don't even Have to use sunscreen because MSM will prevent sunburn if you're taking it in adequate amounts um so detox skin detox I don't know if any of you have experience doing an Epsom salt bath you know and you just start profusely sweating at least I do even if the water is not terribly hot you know it induces you know a bit of a detox reaction and our skin is one of the largest detox organs in the body and so initiating that that that detox Through the

skin is is extremely beneficial acne you know so again and if you want to talk about you know but acne you know in terms of really any any skin condition that is is repair modulated would do well with MSM well and acne is associated with overproduction of testosterone but that's not the only problem it's under metabolism of testosterone in the liver you know when when adolescents get their acne it's because they're yes they're Making a lot of testosterone but their their liver can't keep up with it if you if you get where to give them

MSM not only would it be better for the skin and prevent the infection in the pustules that acne can cause but it also helps reduce the excess testosterone by improving liver function happy hair healthy nails you know so again hair skin and nails repair so many people women complaining their nails breaking or they they have you know split nails Or whatnot this is a perfect antidote for that very sick how many people have heard of taking biotin biotin for hair skin and nails by its and his sulfur-containing so you know straight the B vitamin but

again it goes back to you know repair in the body and kind of the key component to all these things that help with repair digestion this is something I can I can speak personally about you know I as I mentioned to I started MSM um you know for allergies And it helped decrease those symptoms and that was the primary reason I was taking it but all of a sudden you know I I was I've had a whole lot of food sensitivities I've reacted to food you know foods my whole life and all of a sudden

you know I wasn't getting bloated like I was before you know after eating certain foods it wasn't affecting me quite as much and so it can actually help heal the lining of your gut and help with digestion yep just like we Talked about earlier that's one other thing you know to in and as you can see because sulfur is kind of the core of a lot of these these difference you know nutrients or the amino acids one thing I always tell patients to is it image them helps everything you're already doing work better you know

so you could add it in addition to you know some of the nutrients you're already doing and everything is going to work better because you know MSM is it's Such a great you know kind of foundational molecule for a lot of these processes one of the distinctions I have patients think about is that we all tend to be reactive in our lives we wait for problems to occur and then we react but if you're if you're proactive you're thinking ahead and you're saying what can I do to avoid wrinkles what can I do to avoid

indigestion what can I do to avoid Alzheimer's and high homocysteine and all the things we're talking about You know you could probably take we have MSM in a 1000 milligram capsule if you are caplet if you took one twice a day frankly I think that would be a tremendous anti-aging anti program as long as you're taking some vitamin C with it as dr. I mentioned for constipation MSM is is great for constipation and this is the one thing that I do have a number of patients that they report that if they increase their dose too

quickly you know they do have An increased frequency of bowel movement which is probably not a bad thing you know you know you know it's better better out than in and so you know so stimulating you know the bowels and detox you know will increase you know increase you know the frequency of your bowel movements allergies as I mentioned allergies both not only seasonal allergies but also food allergies you know and taking MSM healing the gut because it is such an important repair Molecule it will help with reducing the effects of seasonal allergies and I

I went from I called them my histamine attacks I went from probably about you know 15 to 20 histamine attacks a day down to about two to three you know taking MSM in a very short amount of time I had gone the allergist route I had tried everything and and then lo and behold my dad was like well why don't you try increasing your dose of MSM another well how high he's like well how High you want to go you know and so so I got a good dose of about 12,000 grants and that was

when my symptoms you know started to abate like mother like daughter I got it somewhere parasites you know so MSN has demonstrated that the benefit of you know being you know right for ridding the body of parasites in addition to also healing the gut so predicting the weather this was kind of a funny funny one you know because you Know a lot of people you know they say they can feel in their joints their arthritis they can feel the barometric pressure changes because MSM is important at the cellular level it improves cellular membrane functioning and

so you know sometimes it's the swelling you know that causes you know the extra pain that people that triggers people to you know be sensitive to weather changes I think we have found something bad it you'll no longer be Able to predict the weather when you start taking MSM and then arthritis you know this is probably what MSM is most well known for is helping to relieve arthritic pain but even as a preventive molecule there's some there's some great research that suggests that athletes young athletes if you take MSM prior to working out that that

will help with recovery time you know it'll speed up your recovery your muscle recovery and so you know so as we mentioned you don't Want to wait until you know until it's it's already inflamed before you start taking it but preventative ly you can you can aid in repair you know before you even if you know you're gonna do a tough workout or you know you're going to be especially active takes an x-ray MSM and you'll heal better let's see if we can kind of wrap up for ya so muscle soreness as we just mentioned

lung dysfunction you know again all of this goes back to cell membranes you know and And and you know maintaining that proper cell cellular you know cellular functioning oral hygiene you know so it can help with gum inflammation that's a big one because gum inflammation or hidden abscesses in your mouth can actually give you a heart attack and so MSM could prevent a heart attack that way snoring you know one research suggests that you know that taking MSM on a regular basis you know 3,000 milligrams can reduce snoring sunburn as As dr. Ron mentioned and

then dosage you know so you know so as we talked about it's very safe to take you know it's very hard to overdose you can only do it too quickly you can only build your dose too quickly and so what you want to do is start with you know 500 milligrams three times a day if you don't see any lessening of your symptoms whether it be your arthritic pain your muscle soreness and slowly increase your dose until you start to see you know clinical changes In your symptoms and that dosage is different for everybody all

right and you can take it in a capsule form you can take it in a powder as we said we like the powder just because you can sip on it you know throughout the day and so you got to get more of a slow release because it has such a short half-life that is good to kind of get that release throughout the day so in conclusion you know it really truly is kind of the miracle You know nutrient it's good for just about everything it's very safe miracle of amount of salmon almost impossible to overdose

on a number of patients here at the ring Clinic have used it very successfully that's why we have our powder form it's a two-pound drug up there because the people who get on it you know get hooked because it does help and it can help with a lot of different a lot of different functions in the body can you just beat the mic if you have a Question raise your hand and dr. M will come to you and we'll we'll see we'll try to feel some questions any questions [Music] so as far as we know

I think did everyone hear that what is the maximum dose as far as we know I would say it's the dose at which you achieve symptom control but my advice is is to start low and build it up gradually and so that you don't get into this detoxification stuff the liquid form Making your your drink and sipping on it throughout the day is a really good way to do it I will mention that MSM powder I think dissolves fairly quickly the granules don't so you'll you'll have to depends on what you what what brands you

get how fast it dissolves but if you make up your solution and keep a little chart and gradually increase the concentration until you get symptom relief that will be your dose because probably everyone has a little bit Different need I I have not found a really other than we see so many people that are under methylated site like a high almost cysteine or some of the B vitamins being inadequate but to my knowledge maybe a hair analysis but I've watched the hair analysis and even that's not necessarily a good marker so conventionally it's mostly a

plasma level which is not a great picture of storage since over fifty percent of it is stored in your muscles in your unless You were doing like the study on the horses and doing an actual tissue biopsy it is hard to know exactly yeah what what how much you have alright so if I'm taking a mess at em can I give up my beef who posed to me in a minute aminos I think that would be you know again what the element that when you listen to a lecture like this you forget that healing takes

time and so even MSM it takes some time for it to work it's not like a medication where you you take it And an hour later your pain is gone so I tell people start low bill slow and then if things are working well if you remember what we talked about yes I think you could start reducing some of those those nutrients that your body can now make on its own be able to get a tan yeah it'll still the the sunlight will still stimulate melanocytes and so yes you'll still get a ten but you'll

be now you can still burn you know I mean don't be crazy About this but and I defend Zhaan how much MSM you're taking I remember the first time that I was taking a lot and went golfing and forgot to put on lotion and I was surprised at the end of the that was three or four hours out in the Sun no no burn I thought wow what this is weird and it was just MSM then I found out later it protects against burns there may be some company you know can you mix it with

toothpaste there may be some Companies that do that I don't know I haven't seen it on the market but you could probably do it on your own I don't know how it MSM is not wonderfully tasting let's just put it that way if you get it well dissolved with some vitamin C it's not too bad and people acclimate to the taste but I don't know about brushing your teeth with it probably wouldn't you wouldn't hurt anything you know I the best if it's already incorporated into a toothpaste It might just work a little bit better

you know but but I don't think you've got any thanks MSM lotions work well for arthritis though you know they're a little hard I've had trouble finding them here lately but they can help with arthritis and joint pains and so they probably would help with your teeth as well all right well thank you everyone for coming today and we hope you have a great summer and good luck with working With this wonderful substance just as a teaser it's not in there but in October we will be adding a lecture on vitamin D and the safety

of using higher doses of vitamin D a lot of new research on high-dose vitamin D yeah we will come around and collect if anybody who filled out the survey and we'll do a drawing for this book we also have this book available upstairs for purchase and you should have a coupon there at your place