MSM (MethylSulfonylMethane) is necessary for collagen synthesis: skin, hair and nails (bones, muscles and organs). It softens the tissue, relieves stress, asthma, arthritis, inflammation, constipation, Candida, detoxifies the body and increases blood circulation, reduces muscle cramps and back pain, permits muscles to heal, increases energy, mental calmness and improves the ability to concentrate.*
ORGANIC SULFUR
MSM is a Nutritional Organic Sulfur that keeps skin, hair, and nails healthy and it has been referred to as Nature's "Beauty Mineral." Methylsulfonylmethane is a nutrient, a normal metabolite, or byproduct of dimethylsulfoxide, better known as DMSO.*
MSM scavenges free radicals, relieves allergies to foods and pollens and helps the liver produce choline, controls acidity in stomach and ulcers, coats the intestinal tract so parasites lose the ability to hang on, helps with hypersensitivity to drugs, increases the body's ability to produce insulin and is important for carbohydrate metabolism, and speeds wound healing. It is estimated that the human body uses up to about 1/8 tsp of MSM each day. It needs to be replaced on a regular basis. Good health practices involve replacing essential substances that our bodies naturally use up or lose through illness or abuse.
Sulfur is necessary for collagen synthesis. Collagen is an insoluble fibrous protein found in vertebrates (having a backbone, or spinal column) as the dominant component of connective tissue fibrils and bones. Sulfur operates as synthesizer and activator with the B Vitamins, Thiamin, Vitamin C, Biotin and Pantothenic Acid, which are needed for metabolism and healthy nerves.*
It has been suggested by one of the world's most prominent atmospheric chemists that MSM and its related compounds, DMSO (dimethylsulfoxide), and DMS (dimethylsulfide) provide the source for 85% of the sulfur found in all living organisms. The cycle of these naturally occurring sulfur compounds begins where microscopic plants and animals called plankton release sulfur compounds called dimethylsulfonium salts. These salts are transformed in the ocean water into the very volatile compound dimethylsulfoxide (DMS) which escapes from the ocean water as a gas and rises up into the upper atmosphere. Here, in the presence of ozone and high-energy ultraviolet light, the DMS is converted into its cousins DMSO and MSM.
Unlike the DMS, both DMSO and MSM are very soluble in water, and they return to the surface of the earth in the rain. Plants take up the two compounds very rapidly in their root systems, concentrating them up to one hundred fold. MSM itself and the sulfur it contains are incorporated into the plant structure. Through the processes of plant metabolism the MSM, along with the other sulfur compounds it has spawned, are ultimately mineralized and transported back into the sea, and sulfur cycle begins again.
Subjects with chronic to sever allergies to environmental materials such as house dust, pollen, wool animal hair, feathers, and other diverse allergens report substantial to complete relief of their allergy symptoms (usually 3-4 days). Allergy symptoms ranged from respiratory congestion to inflammation, itching, mucoid discharges, and general discomfort.