Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) / chlorine dioxide protocol

The alien god who sold a cure for nearly everything

Jim Humble said, on the record, that he was a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda galaxy. A former Scientologist, Humble self-published The Miracle Mineral Solution of the 21st Century in 2006 and later co-founded the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing with Mark Grenon to distribute it as a religious sacrament. An image caption on a CBC News report in 2018 attributed to Humble the claim that up to 95 per cent of all diseases caused by pathogens can be cured with MMS (CBC News, 6 Apr. 2018) — a single mechanism claimed to answer cancer, HIV/AIDS, autism, hepatitis, malaria, and, in time, COVID-19.

No clinic, no referral, no gatekeeping

Unlike many quack cures built around a private clinic or a personal audience with the practitioner, MMS was sold nationwide, mail order and online. Genesis II Church framed the transaction as a religious “sacrament” obtained through a donation to the church rather than a commercial sale, but the donation amounts were fixed dollar figures, and the Department of Justice’s account of the criminal trial states plainly that they “were effectively just sales prices” (DOJ press release, 6 Oct. 2023). The same press release states the operators “sold tens of thousands of bottles of MMS nationwide, including to consumers throughout South Florida.” Whatever the church framing, the product moved through an open commercial channel, not a controlled or exclusive one.

One reaction, said to explain every disease

The claimed mechanism was that sodium chlorite, mixed with an acid activator such as citric acid or lemon juice, becomes chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleaching and water-disinfection agent, and swallowing it in diluted drops was said to kill the “pathogens” behind whatever disease the buyer had. The FDA states it is “not aware of any research showing that these products are safe or effective for treating any illness” (FDA Consumer Update, content current as of 12 Aug. 2019), and has separately warned since 2010 that ingesting it causes severe vomiting, diarrhea, and life-threatening low blood pressure from dehydration. A 2025 in vitro laboratory study published in Scientific Reports tested acidified sodium chlorite against bacterial biofilms and found that, at the lowest concentration tested, it “did not exhibit stronger antimicrobial activity” than a standard antiseptic, and separately found it cytotoxic to mouse fibroblast cells (the L929 line) in a laboratory culture (Dudek-Wicher et al., Sci Rep, 25 May 2025) — a narrow finding about the chemical’s laboratory properties, not a trial of any disease-cure claim in a patient. No controlled clinical trial of MMS against cancer, HIV/AIDS, autism, hepatitis, malaria, or COVID-19 exists in the record for this case.

A church built to dodge the law, by its founder’s own account

Mark Grenon, Genesis II Church’s co-founder, has repeatedly acknowledged that Genesis “has nothing to do with religion” and that he founded it to “legalize the use of MMS” and avoid “going [ ] to jail,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ press release, 6 Oct. 2023). The same press release states the Grenons “received more than $1 million from selling MMS,” while trial evidence showed a shed on Jonathan Grenon’s property in Bradenton, Florida holding nearly 10,000 pounds of raw sodium chlorite powder. Humble’s own cut of the proceeds was smaller and less secure than the operation’s revenue might suggest: he told ABC News in 2016 that he was living in a small apartment and struggling financially because other church leaders in the United States had failed to send him his agreed share of training-seminar income (ABC News, 28 Oct. 2016). This entry does not claim Humble personally received the $1 million the DOJ attributes to the Grenons; the sourced facts are that the church he co-founded generated over $1 million in MMS sales, and that he himself said he depended on, and was shortchanged, a separate seminar-revenue arrangement with its other leaders.

Prosecuted, imprisoned, and still promoted

Disconfirmation arrived from regulators, from a court, and once, briefly, from Humble himself. The FDA had warned about MMS since 2010; in April 2020, as Genesis II Church pivoted to marketing MMS as a COVID-19 cure, the agency’s warning letter quoted the operation’s own website claims back to it, including an assertion that “14 people who were confirmed cases of COVID-19 (in Europe), took MMS and have recovered their health” and cited Mark Grenon telling followers on a livestream, “The Coronavirus is curable, you believe that? You better … it’s wicked good stuff Joe,” with Joseph Grenon replying, “MMS will kill it” (FDA warning letter, 8 Apr. 2020). The Department of Justice separately obtained civil court orders halting distribution, which the Grenons violated, at one point threatening the presiding judge that if the government tried to enforce the orders they would “pick up guns” and instigate “a Waco.” A federal jury convicted all four defendants in 2023; on 6 October 2023 a judge sentenced Jonathan and Jordan Grenon to 151 months in prison and Mark and Joseph Grenon to 60 months, the statutory maximum for their count (DOJ press release, 6 Oct. 2023). Humble himself, confronted on camera in 2016 about telling parents to give MMS to autistic children and to women with breast cancer, wrote afterward to his followers, “Today, I say MMS cures nothing!” — before going on to describe it as one of several “important health tools” (ABC News, 28 Oct. 2016). His own website reports he died in 2023. None of that ended the trade. Kerri Rivera, a Chicago-area promoter who moved her chlorine-dioxide “protocol” to Mexico, told NBC 5 Investigates in 2015, “Autism is treatable”; she added, “It’s avoidable. And I believe it’s curable”; the Illinois Attorney General’s office, after investigating, stated in the resulting settlement that she “lacks competent and reliable scientific evidence to support her claims that chlorine dioxide can treat autism” and secured her agreement not to sell or promote it in Illinois (NBC Chicago, 24 Jun. 2015). Ten years later, The Independent reported that Rivera, with more than 17,000 Instagram followers, continued encouraging parents to give autistic children chlorine dioxide, and that parents reported their children had become seriously ill after following her advice (The Independent, 2 Jun. 2025). The website bearing Jim Humble’s name was still publishing new posts about MMS in July 2026, maintained by others under the byline “Team Jim Humble”.