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How Does It Work
How Does It Work
– Chlorine dioxide is selective, and will react in those places where pathogens
generate a more acidic pH than that of our organism and preferably with
those microorganisms that live in anaerobic conditions (meaning they live in
the absence of oxygen).
– In fact, oxidation is used in a similar and natural way by our defence cells,
such as neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) in the process of phagocytosis
(i.e. they eat the microorganism and digest it, oxidising it). Here is a diagram
of what this process is like.
– Here you can see how it happens in fast motion, a neutrophil phagocytosing,
i.e. eating some bacteria. I will leave a slower version in the annexes to see it
in detail. Impressive, isn't it?