The discovery was made in the struggle to assist his good friend, a missionary in Africa, with a treatment for malaria. When the malaria parasites began to become adapted to the currently utilized medicines, it was found that the MagNascent Iodine filled a need in the mission station against this debilitating disease.

The original purpose was only to supply a product that could be used to by the missionary to treat malaria, but as he shared his iodine, both on the mission field and with friends at home in the US, word spread of its encouraging results in a variety of applications. This led to the need to produce more and more product and to accept payment for the iodine. Research and development of this iodine product is ongoing, having started with various universities and currently expanding to projects which investigate our use and how to explain scientifically the properties of this product.

Because we are in the unique position of discovering this consumable form of nascent iodine, we have applied for patents of this discovery. We believe that we have discovered the only process for making a consumable form of nascent iodine. Several other patents exist for non-consumable nascent iodine and it is recognized for its use in fighting infections in those areas.