A remedy popular in the world of alternative medicine known as “Miracle Mineral Solution”—or MMS—is anything but a miracle, recent research finds. Rather, it could be dangerous to users.

Researchers at Wroclaw Medical University in Poland examined the effects of acidified sodium chlorite, the base ingredient of Miracle Mineral Solution, on various bacteria. Though the compound could effectively destroy bacteria, it did so at doses that also killed off living cells and lab animals. The findings suggest that MMS is far from the safe cure-all that its advocates claim it to be.

“We have shown that the dosage recommended by alternative medicine proponents cannot lead to the achievement of safe and therapeutic concentrations,” the researchers wrote in their paper, published in the journal Sc

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