Kerri Rivera: A Former Real Estate Agent Sells Industrial Bleach as an Autism "Cure" — and in 2025–2026, Political Figures Are Giving Her Cover
For over a decade, Kerri Rivera has told parents that giving their autistic children chlorine dioxide — an industrial bleaching agent the FDA has warned since 2010 is unsafe to ingest for any reason — will cure them of autism. Parents in her own support groups have reported vomiting, seizures, rashes, and chemical-smelling urine in their children. The protocol was never a fringe curiosity that faded: it relaunched with a paid online course in 2026, and it is now being name-checked approvingly in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-adjacent political circles.
Who is Kerri Rivera?
Rivera is a Chicago-born former real estate agent, now based in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, who holds no medical or scientific credentials. She describes herself as a homeopath. After her own son was diagnosed with autism, she became involved with Jim Humble — a former Scientologist who invented "Miracle Mineral Solution" (MMS) and founded a Panama-registered "church," Genesis II, built around selling it as a cure-all for everything from cancer to HIV/AIDS to malaria. Rivera adapted Humble's product specifically as a children's autism treatment, publishing a 2006 book, Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism, that has since been pulled from Amazon and other major retailers.
She claims her "CD Autism Protocol" has fully reversed autism in more than 600 children. No controlled clinical evidence supports that figure, and autism is not a condition caused by parasites, pathogens, or toxins that a bleaching agent could remove.
What chlorine dioxide actually is
⚠️ The FDA has warned against this since 2010
Products sold as Miracle Mineral Solution, Master Mineral Solution, MMS, CD Protocol, or Water Purification Solution are, per the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a sodium chlorite solution that becomes chlorine dioxide — a powerful industrial bleaching agent — when combined with an acid activator before use. The FDA has repeatedly stated that ingesting these products is equivalent to drinking bleach, and has documented resulting cases of severe vomiting, severe diarrhea, life-threatening low blood pressure from dehydration, and acute liver failure. The agency renewed its warning in 2019 specifically citing autism-treatment marketing, stating plainly that these products are not approved for any use and that parents should not give them to children for any reason.
Rivera's protocol does not stop at oral doses: she has also promoted chlorine dioxide enemas, sometimes multiple times a day, and tied dosing schedules to the lunar calendar based on a belief that intestinal parasites are more vulnerable to being "killed" during certain moon phases — a claim with no basis in parasitology or medicine.
Documented harm to children
What parents in her own groups have reported
Reporting on messages from Rivera's private support communities has documented children experiencing vomiting, skin rashes, seizures, and chemical-smelling urine after being given chlorine dioxide by their parents. According to multiple accounts, Rivera has responded to these reports by characterizing the symptoms as evidence the treatment is "working" and that the child's body is "detoxifying" — rather than signs of chemical injury requiring medical attention.
This is not a new or isolated pattern for chlorine dioxide products generally: U.S. poison control centers logged more than 16,000 chlorine-dioxide-related cases over a five-year period tracked by the FDA, with 50 classified as life-threatening and 8 resulting in death — figures covering all reported chlorine dioxide exposures, not Rivera's autism protocol specifically, but illustrative of how dangerous the underlying chemical is regardless of the claimed purpose.
A decade-long timeline
- 2006 Rivera publishes Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism, introducing chlorine dioxide as a children's autism treatment.
- 2010 FDA issues its first public warning against Miracle Mineral Solution, comparing it to industrial bleach.
- 2015–2016 NBC5 Chicago and ABC7 Los Angeles both run investigations profiling Rivera directly, interviewing pediatricians who state plainly that parasites do not cause autism and that the product is a poison.
- 2019 FDA renews its warning, this time explicitly addressing autism-treatment marketing and again stating parents should not give these products to children "for any reason." Amazon removes Rivera's book.
- 2025 Reporting documents Rivera continuing to promote chlorine dioxide to over 17,000 Instagram followers, alongside fresh accounts of children experiencing vomiting, seizures, and rashes.
- 2026 Rivera launches a new paid "Reversing Autism" online course and a dedicated consultation platform built specifically to route around social media and payment-processor bans. The same period sees chlorine dioxide referenced approvingly in U.S. political circles tied to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including a book endorsement from a sitting U.S. senator.
The new political legitimization problem
Why this belongs on QuackeryWatch
This case follows the same structure as chelation therapy for autism, homeoprophylaxis as a vaccine substitute, and the Weston A. Price Foundation's raw-milk homemade infant formula, already documented in our Dubious Rx and Pediatric Quackery sections: a desperate parent population, a practitioner with no relevant credentials, a theory of disease with no scientific support, a product regulators have explicitly and repeatedly warned against, and reported harm dismissed by the promoter as proof the "treatment" is working. The main difference is scale and reach — Rivera's protocol has an active online following in the tens of thousands, a fresh 2026 product launch, and is now gaining political cover it never had before.