'Bionic Woman' Says MMS Worked For Her on ABC7 Los Angeles

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Earlier today, we updated you on an eyewitness news investigation that began more than a year ago on the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, which sells a medicine touted as a miracle cure for anything from HIV to cancer. And while many, including the FDA, are calling MMS poison, we spoke with one woman who says it works and you may be surprised to learn who it is.

Eyewitness news reporter, Jory Rand, is here with that exclusive interview. Jory. Mark Michele, we’re talking about a substance known as MMS. Yes, you can find it online and many people have. The problem is, many others, including the FDA, say it’s not medicine at all. It’s just bleach. But we found a woman who says it worked for her and you may know her as the Bionic Woman.

As the Bionic Woman, actress Lindsay Wagner found herself in some difficult situations and was able to pull off superhuman feats. Joined at times by the $6 million dollar man, Wagner’s character saved lives and saved the day, once even battling Bigfoot.

Now listen, I didn’t really come out here to hurt you, I didn’t come in to talk to her.

But none of that 70s TV magic prepared Wagner for an ailment she would suffer in real life, a case of chronic urticaria, severe, disabling hives. All over my body, like welts, like big welts, I’d look like a boxer and my eyes were all swollen.

Steroids and antihistamines helped, but they had side effects and weren’t a permanent solution. So after eight months of suffering, Lindsay was desperate for a cure. It would burn, it would itch like crazy. It’s something that could just make you go insane.

Through a friend, Lindsay was put in touch with a woman whose child seemed to be nearly cured of severe autism by something called Miracle Mineral Solution or MMS that was purported to work for a variety of ailments, including chronic hives.

So though it was odd, I looked it up on the internet and I saw lots of good things about it and then I saw a few scary things about it and I thought, I didn’t care. Honestly, I was desperate and I went, I’m trying this.

MMS is made with sodium chloride, an ingredient in many industrial cleaners and it’s the religious sacrament of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing. Its leaders, Jim Humble and Mark Grenin, self-proclaimed archbishops who claim MMS can cure anything from cancer to the common cold.

Are you telling people you can cure breast cancer with this? We tell people to cure a lot of things. Aren’t you just a con man? Well, I don’t think so.

Critics, including the FDA, say MMS is nothing more than industrial strength bleach.

But for Lindsay? I was dumbfounded. Within a week, I was off the prednisone. Within one week, I was, I was just shocked.

She says within weeks, the hives disappeared and never came back.

I’m not a doctor, I’m not a scientist, I’m not a chemist, but it just seemed like this had actually cured whatever I was reacting to.

People are saying this is bleach, you know, it’s basically, it can be used as a cleaner or something like that and people are putting in their bodies.

Soak in vodka. I dropped a bottle of vodka on my grandmother’s kitchen floor once and it was vinyl. It was this nice dark brown vinyl and there’s a huge tan spot in the middle of it. So, you know, that’s kind of silly. A lot of things we ingest can do a lot of bizarre things.

Now, Lindsay Wagner wanted to make it clear. She is not recommending MMS for anyone else. She simply says she followed the directions, backing off the dosing if it made her sick and it did at times and it wound up working for her. Four years later, she hasn’t had a recurrence.

As for the church, federal prosecutors are watching closely and say if MMS is marketed as a cure for disease, they may wind up facing federal prosecution.

Jory Rand, ABC 7 Eyewitness News.