What is MSM?

MSM - The Miracle Nutrient

YOUR ANSWER TO OPTIMAL HEALTH

If you suffer from pain, you need MSM. MSM is known to help improve allergies, asthma, emphysema, lung dysfunction, gout, arthritis, headaches, skin conditions, digestive tract, circulation, and stomach problems.

Did you know you body continually rebuilds all its cells and it needs the proper building materials? One of the most essential building blocks is sulfur. Therefore, MSM is your answer.

Designed for optimum health, MSM helps promote better cell function and rejuvenation. A sulfur-based derivative, all-natural essential sulfur formula is helping pain sufferers move toward pain-free day-to-day living.

What is MSM, and why do we need it?

As cells are continually being replaced in out systems, one of the most essential "building blocs" of elements in the body is sulfur. Methylsulfonylmethane, or MSM, falls to earth as a natural part of the water cycle. It provides the sulfur that our bodies need to create a catalyst to absorb vitamins, amino acids, connective tissue antioxidants and collagen. MSM does not produce intestinal gas or body odor, nor does it cause allergic reactions.

What does MSM do?

MSM makes cell wall permeable, allowing water and nutrients to freely flow into cells and allowing waters and toxins to properly flow out. The building blocks of the body, amino acids are all sulfur binders and play a major role in the production of hormones and enzymes, which regulate the body’s activities.

MSM is known to relieve swelling, inflammation and pain sustaining cell flow, allowing harmful substances and excess fluids to flow out while allowing nutrients to flow in. MSM may supply the sulfur required by the body to help bind protein molecules together for essential process such as fat metabolism, immune function, energy production, development or the central nervous system, and health of the kidneys, brain, heart and retina of the eye. Sulfur also helps create the antioxidant amino acids that contribute to helping the liver excrete toxins. It also may help promote healthy ligament, tendons, heart valves, skin and all connective tissues.

With the continuation of industrialization, much organic sulfur is lost when food is washed, processed, heated or dried. Unless you eat raw food, there is likelihood that you may be deficient in MSM.

Where does it come from?

Most people have heard of DMSO, and how hundreds of thousands of people have been helped by using DMSO. A few years ago, the world's leading DMSO researcher, the eminent Dr. Stanley Jacob of the Oregon Health Sciences University, discovered and was able to isolate an extremely important and beneficial part of DMSO. It is referred to as Methyl Sulfonyl Methane, and is simply known as MSM. It was determined that it was the MSM part of DMSO that brings so many health benefits to those that suffer from various aliments and diseases. MSM provides the health-giving benefits without any nuisance side effects. It is estimated that the human body uses up at least 1/8 teaspoon of MSM each day? It needs to be replaced every day! Good health practices involve replacing essential substances that our bodies naturally use up or lose through illness or abuse. MSM is a natural form of organic sulfur found in all living organisms, and is present in low concentrations in our body fluids and tissues. It is found in a variety of fresh foods, including fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and milk. Unless your diet is composed primarily of raw foods, it is unlikely that you are receiving enough MSM for proper health management. When we process our foods with heat or drying, we lose most of the MSM that is vital to our well being. MSM helps our bodies utilize the vitamins that we take, providing the means to derive the maximum benefit from those vitamins.

MSM is part of the Amino Acid Chain. Without the proper amount of MSM in our bodies, the amino acids will continue to build the glands, but fail to produce the correct enzymes, making us prone to unnecessary illness. MSM is the flexible bond between proteins. When a cell dies, a new cell takes its place. Without the needed amount of MSM, it attaches but becomes rigid. When tissues lose their flexibility, problems develop with the lungs and other parts of the body. MSM detoxifies the body and increases blood circulation. Because there are few nerves in the bones, our pain comes from the soft tissue. Aspirin shuts off the nerves, but the muscles are still damaged. MSM takes out the inflammation, permits the muscles to heal and prevents them from becoming sore. If you play sports or workout in a gym and normally get sore muscles the next day, take 1/2 teaspoon (4 capsules) of MSM before exercising and you will notice a difference. If taken after exercise, the soreness will go away faster.

MSM is a free radical scavenger, so allergies to food and pollens will go away. MSM also prevents over-reaction to other medicines, so it does not work against any medications. MSM controls acidity in the stomach, so it can help ulcers. MSM coats the intestinal tract so parasites lose their ability to hang on. They are then flushed away. This could prevent colon problems.

MSM is no more toxic than water. It can never hurt anyone. If you overdose, the extra MSM becomes inert and just passes through your system. MSM has two side effects...your fingernails and hair will grow faster and become stronger. This is because there is more MSM in hair and nail cells than in any other part of the body. You need a little extra MSM every day to promote good health.

Sulfur is a mineral found in rather high concentrations in our body tissues. About half of the body's total sulfur is concentrated in the muscles, while the other half is found in the brain, hair, skin and bones. Sulfur comprises .025 percent of our body weight.

Sulfur has a vital relationship with protein, since sulfur is found in the amino acids methionine, cystine, and cysteine. Thus, these amino acids are known as the sulfur bearing amino acids which are considered the building blocks of protein.

The sulfur bearing amino acid methionine is absolutely essential to health! This means it must be supplied by live food, or the food supplement MSM. A lack of proper protein in our diet, therefore, means a lack of the vital organic sulfur necessary for good health. Proteins contain sulfur, while carbohydrates and fats do not.

Sulfur is necessary for collagen synthesis. Collagen is an insoluble fibrous protein found in vertebrates. It is the dominant component of connective tissue fibrils and bones. Sulfur operates as a synthesizer and activator with the B vitamins, thiamin, Vitamin C, biotin, and pantothenic acid, all of which are needed for metabolism and healthy nerves.

Sulfur plays an important part in tissue breathing, the process whereby oxygen and other substances are used to build cells and release energy.

Research indicates that perhaps sulfur's most important heath role is in carbohydrate metabolism, which is significant for hypoglycemics and diabetics. Sulfur is a significant component of insulin, the protein hormone secreted by the pancreas that is essential to the metabolism of carbohydrates. A lack of nutritional sulfur in the diet can result in low insulin production. On the other hand, a diet that contains adequate amounts of sulfur might increase the body's ability to produce insulin to the point where insulin injections can be reduced.

MSM is a key nutritional ingredient available from and assimilated by all plant and animal life since their beginnings on earth. It is essential to a healthful diet and is a nutritional essence found in almost every fresh food of any origin now consumed by animal life. Both small children and adults (including the elderly) gain more nutritional benefits when MSM levels match those found in natural unprocessed foods.

What health conditions has MSM been known to help?

Pain Relief: Relieves acute pain in humans, relieves post-athletic activity fatigues, relieves muscle and leg cramps, relieves arthritis and other sources of pain.

Muscle Cramps: MSM has the surprising ability to reduce the incidents of or eliminate entirely: muscle cramps, leg and back cramps after long periods of inactivity, or in athletes such as runners, football, basketball and soccer players who experience cramps during the participation of their sport.

Mental Normalcy: Individuals on MSM generally report increased alertness, reduced mood changes, and particularly very infrequent depression. A few patients on medication intermittently for depression observed that MSM relieved depression within hours rather than days, as had been their prior experience with anti-depression medication.

Pain Associated with Systemic Inflammatory Disorders: Individuals presenting signs and symptoms of pain and inflammation associated with various musculoskeletal system disorders reported substantial and long lasting relief while including MSM in their daily diet. Migraine sufferers have obtained substantial relief with MSM.

Emphysema: is not actually caused by smoking: The smoking burns the tissues in the lungs so that the cells are dying faster than the body is able to replace them with new cells. When cells are dying fast and you're not giving your body enough building materials, you start losing the flexibility in the lungs and they tear. If this happens too often, and you still don't provide the necessary building materials, you start to build a type of scar tissue. MSM gives your body the building materials it needs to make good flexible cells and strong lungs with the ability to expand and contract freely.

Chronic Headaches: MSM helps to make the cell walls more permeable which increases circulation. By increasing circulation there is less build up of pressure and in effect, less pain. Taking MSM regularly will help maintain good circulation and low pressure.

Pain and Inflammation: MSM works on pain. Think of a cell as a balloon full of water, but instead of rubber it's protein. When the protein is tough, the water pressure inside the cell can become much greater than the water pressure outside the cell and this causes inflammation or inflation of the cell. This is where pain comes from. Aspirin shuts the nerve off, but the cell is still damaged. MSM effects the protein so that the water freely flows through the cell wall, taking toxins out and getting more nutrition in. This is why a person with Emphysema And Asthma experience immediate relief. The cell flexibility enables more oxygen and nutrition to get inside the cell.

P.M.S.: MSM helps the glands maintain a normal level of production. The normal level of enzymes, acids, and hormones allows the body to go in and out of the cycles smoothly, eliminating the cramps, headaches, and nausea that come with the monthly cycle.

Sunburn: MSM helps to make all of the new cells flexible and permeable. This allows the skin to stretch with movement and prevent pain and blistering by flushing the toxins and other fluids regularly.

Muscle soreness and Lactic Acid: MSM disallows the crystallization and build-up of lactic acid. The MSM flushes the lactic acid out along with all the other bad toxins in your system. By taking large amounts of MSM, more toxins that cause soreness are flushed out of your system.

Hangovers and Withdrawals: When you drink alcohol it gets into your cells and is trapped, disallowing oxygen to get in so the cells die of oxygen starvation, causing you to feel ill. MSM makes the cell walls more permeable so that the alcohol can be flushed out, along with other toxins, and allows oxygen to get in.

Allergies: An allergic reaction is simply your body's reaction to something foreign in your system. These foreign proteins and free radicals invade your body and cause reactions and problems. Your body responds with a sneeze, wheeze, swollen, puffy eyes, etc. when you take MSM, your cells become more permeable enabling your body to quickly wash out any foreign particles in your system. Every 12 hours your body is designed to flush each cell of any unwanted debris. When your diet is deficient in MSM, the cell walls become hard and stiff and this hinders fluid flow through the cell walls. MSM softens the cell walls, allowing foreign proteins and free radicals to be washed out of your system. If enough MSM is taken, all of the foreign particles can be flushed from your system and your allergies will no longer occur.

Diabetes: The cells in your body have become rigid and non-permeable. The insulin carries the blood sugar to your cells, but it does not become absorbed because the cell walls are not permeable and prevent all the blood sugar to penetrate the cell walls. The pancreas works too hard and fast to compensate for the deficiency and becomes injured and stops working correctly. The blood sugar that is not being used saturates the blood steam, creating a high level of blood sugar. By taking MSM regularly, your cells become permeable and the pancreas begins to be repaired. The blood sugars are not being absorbed through the cell walls and the body becomes healthier. After a few months on MSM, the pancreas should become self regulating, balancing your sugar levels.

Body: Resistance to sun and wind burn, Benefits for eye inflammation, Oral Hygiene for mouth and gums, improved sense of taste and smell. Benefits to internal organs, Benefits to lung Tissue, Accelerated wound healing, Benefits for allergies and other sensitivities, reducing the adverse response to inhalant allergies, Controls problems associated with gastric hyperacidity, Reduces or eliminates hypersensitivity problems associated with oral medications (such as nonsteroidal antiarthritic agents), Provides relief from the symptoms of lung dysfunction, Benefits as a mood elevator, Improves the chemical profile of arthritic patients (e.g. provides pain and stiffness relief, reduced swelling and inflammation, coupled with a return of blood chemistry toward normalcy), Reduces hypertension, enhances the immune system.

Skin: Benefits to skin and internal organs, Benefits for connective tissue and dermatological disorders. Effective in preserving the pliancy of connective tissue. Counters cross linking of Collagen associated with aging. Improves adverse (diseased) skin conditions, Favors response in treating acne.

Control of Hyperacidity: Subjects that are chronic users of various antacids and histamine H2 receptor antagonists prefer MSM by reason of relief obtained coupled with freedom from serious, untoward effects.

Hypersensitivity to Drugs: Subjects demonstrating drug hypersensitivity to aspirin, several nonsteriodal antiarthritic agents (Naprosyn, Indocin, Motrin), and oral antibiotics, were drug tolerant when MSM was given within an hour before or concurrent with the sensitizing drug.

Control of Constipation: Particularly in the older population chronic constipation can be a medical problem of concern. Subjects presenting chronic constipation have gained prompt and continuing relief by supplementing the diet with 100 to 500 mg of MSM per day.

Hair and Nails: Benefits for scalp and hair, Improves nail growth, Improves hair growth, Benefits cuticles and nails.

MSM is not a medicine. It is a nutritional food supplement our bodies need everyday. MSM (Methyl Sulfonyl Methane) is a naturally occurring sulfur compound. Sulfur, the third most abundant mineral in the human body is essential for the normal functioning of the body's growth and repair mechanisms. MSM is highly volatile, so we lose most of this important mineral by heating, drying, steaming, heat pasteurizing, and processing our foods.

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Good health to you! Please report your experiences back to me.

brad