People with cancer are being sealed naked in plastic bags and “treated” with bleach

The owner of a clinic in London claims to be treating people with stage 4 cancer. The pseudoscientific “treatment” involves encasing naked patients in plastic bags and exposing them to gaseous chlorine dioxide, an oxidizing substance used as industrial bleach.

A London clinic is treating stage 4 cancer patients with a method no scientific basiswhich consists of closing them naked, from the neck down, inside a plastic bag and exposing them to chlorine dioxide in gaseous form, an oxidizing substance used as industrial bleach.

Alastair Jesselthe owner of , located in the south of the British capital, is a former broker, tile entrepreneur and artisanal ice cream maker, without any medical training or scientific.

Jessel spoke this month about the procedure in a t popular among chlorine dioxide advocates, which is touted as a alleged cure for diseases as different as cancer, HIV, covid-19 or autism.

He himself admits, in the podcast, that the so-called “” is “probably the most dangerous protocol all”.

In an interview at The It’s All Good Show (which however was), Jessel explains that he became specialist in alternative therapies when seeing “probably between 150 and 200 hours of videos on how to heal people holistically.”

According to , the method originates from protocols proposed by the German Andreas Kalckerwhich in recent decades has promoted the use of chlorine dioxide-based solutions (which as “possibly the greatest medical discovery of the last 100 years”), including Protocol G.

Unlike the more common protocol, which involves daily ingestion of diluted drops, this procedure directly exposes the body to gas of chlorine dioxide.

Kalcker does not present Protocol G as a treatment against cancer in your . Questioned by Wired, rejected the description of the method as dangerous and said that, “applied correctly”, avoiding inhalation of vapors, it would be a “well tolerated”.

The German did not comment on the effectiveness for all types of cancer, but says that, in the case of skin cancer, the protocol would have “direct relevance”.

A Cancer Research UK employee disputes these claims. “At the moment there is no scientific proof that exposure to chlorine dioxide gas is a safe or effective treatment for people with cancer”, highlights Caroline Geraghtyspecialist nurse at the organization.

The official warns that resorting to unproven treatments instead of medically approved therapies can affect the effectiveness of care and cause dangerous side effects.

Jessel did not respond to a detailed list of questions. He limited himself to referring to the G Protocol in Kalcker’s book “Forbidden Health”: “It’s all I do.”

For decades, pseudoscience promoters have sold chlorine dioxide solutions under names like Miracle Mineral Solutionas supposed cures for a wide range of diseases. There is no credible evidence to support these allegations.

Even so, interest in the substance grew again last year, after the US Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.to be mentioned in a confirmation hearing in the Senate, in January 2025.

Entretanto, a Food and Drug Administration removed an alert from its website about the substance, in an operation that he said was part of the routine for archiving old pages, but which would have encouraged the community that promotes the product.

Jessel registered Battersea Park Clinic in December 2021. Initially, the clinic offered “scalar wave” treatmentsbased on a pseudoscientific idea with no proof of effectiveness.

Later, he added “red light therapy” and a hyperbaric chamber, which was used by the tennis player Novak Djokovic on a visit to the clinic last summer. Djokovic did not respond to a request for comment da Wired.

The former broker says he believes that there are nine causes of cancerincluding stress and a bad marriageand described the clinic as the UK’s holistic referral site for people with cancer.

Natalie Passantdaughter of a man treated by Jessel with “scalar waves” before die from prostate cancer advanced in February 2025, says that the father spent around 5,000 dollars at the clinic.

“They are manipulative and keep very vulnerable people away from medical advice,” says Passant. Jessel denies ever encouraging Passant’s father to forgoing essential medical treatments

Fiona O’Learyan Irish activist who has been denouncing the risks of chlorine dioxide for years and alerted authorities about the case, accused the clinic of experimenting on vulnerable patients. “Vulnerable cancer patients are being used in experiments, gassed with bleach, naked”, these.

The so-called Cancer Act, a 1939 British law that aims to protect cancer patients, prohibits advertising directed to the public that offers treatments for cancer, prescribes medication or offers advice on treating the disease.

According to Wired, the clinic had already been the subject of an investigation of Trading Standards, British local commercial oversight and consumer protection authorities, following complaints about the promotion of chlorine dioxide.

The magazine says it consulted an email from a person responsible for the authority, according to which they found vials of the substance displayed in the clinic; on a later visit, an employee reportedly told an undercover officer that the clinic no longer offered it as treatment.

References to the effectiveness of chlorine dioxide have been removed on the clinic’s website, although they can still be viewed in archived versions, and the clinic’s Facebook page continues to promote content about the substance.

Meanwhile, despite the absence of scientific evidence and warnings from experts, Jessel continues to promote pseudoscientific therapies with people with advanced cancer.