Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen as a therapeutic aid. Oxygen therapy benefits the body by increasing the supply of oxygen to the body on a cellular level and thereby increasing the availability of oxygen to the body tissues.
When it comes to hydrogen peroxide therapy there seems to be only two points of view.
Supporters consider it one of the greatest healing miracles of all time.
Those opposed feel its ingestion is exceptionally dangerous, and only the foolhardy could think of engaging in such behavior.
Before either condemning or endorsing hydrogen peroxide, let´s take a real close look at what we´re dealing with. If any substance is interesting, it´s hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide should really be called hydrogen dioxide. Its chemical formula is H2O2. It contains one more atom of oxygen that does water (H20)
By now everyone´s aware of the ozone layer that surrounds the earth. Ozone consists of three atoms of oxygen (03). This protective layer of ozone is created when ultraviolet light from the sun splits an atmospheric oxygen molecule (02) into two single, unstable oxygen atoms. These single molecules combine with others to form ozone (03).
Ozone isn´t very stable. In fact, it will quickly give up that extra atom of oxygen to falling rainwater to form hydrogen peroxide (H202). (Bear with me: all this chemistry mumbo jumbo I´m going through actually will help you understand the importance of hydrogen peroxide.) It is this hydrogen peroxide in rainwater that makes it so much more effective than tap water when given to plants.
With the increased levels of atmospheric pollution, however, greater amounts of H202 react with air-borne toxins and never reach the ground. To compensate for this, many farmers have been increasing crop yields by spraying them with diluted hydrogen peroxide. You can achieve the same beneficial effect with your house plants by adding 1 ounce of 3% hydrogen peroxide to every quart of water you give your plants. (It can also be made into an excellent safe insecticide. )
Hydrogen peroxide is odorless and colorless, but not tasteless. When stored under the proper conditions, it is a very stable compound. When kept in the absence of light and contaminants, it breaks down very slowly at the rate of about 10% a year. (This can be slowed even further by storing the liquid in the freezer.) It boils at 152 degrees C and freezes at minus 2 degrees C.
When exposed to other compounds hydrogen peroxide breaks down readily. The extra oxygen atom is released leaving H20 (water).
In nature oxygen (02) consists of two atoms–a very stable combination. A single atom of oxygen, however, is very reactive and is referred to as a free radical. Over the past several years, we´ve continually read that these free radicals are responsible for all types of ailments and even premature aging. What many writers seem to forget, however, is that our bodies create and use free radicals to destroy harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi. In fact, the cells responsible for fighting infection and foreign invaders in the body (your white blood cells) make hydrogen peroxide and use it to oxidize any offending culprits.
The intense bubbling you see when hydrogen peroxide comes in contact with a bacteria-laden cut or wound is the oxygen being released and bacteria being destroyed. The ability of our cells to produce hydrogen peroxide is essential for life.
H202 is not some undesirable by-product or toxin, but instead a basic requirement for good health. Newer research indicates we need hydrogen peroxide for a multitude of other chemical reactions.
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Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen as a therapeutic aid. Oxygen therapy benefits the body by increasing the supply of oxygen to the body on a cellular level and thereby increasing the availability of oxygen to the body tissues.
The women who wrote this email and signed below are Federal Budget Analysts in Washington, DC.
I thought you might like to see what they have uncovered.
Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of “Life Extension,” a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United State contain active ingredients made in other countries.
In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America.
The chart below speaks for itself.
Celebrex 100 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60 Percent markup: 21,712%
Claritin 10 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71 Percent markup: 30,306%
Keflex 250 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39 Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88 Percent markup: 8,372%
Lipitor 20 mg Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37 Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80 Percent markup: 4,696%
Norvasec 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14 Percent markup: 134,493%
Paxil 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27 Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60 Percent markup: 2,898%
Prevacid 30 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77 Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01 Percent markup: 34,136%
Prilosec 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97 Cost of general active ingredients $0.52 Percent markup: 69,417%
Prozac 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11 Percent markup: 224,973%
Tenormin 50 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13 Percent markup: 80,362%
Vasotec 10 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $10237 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20 Percent markup: 51,185%
Xanax 1 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024 Percent markup: 569,958%
Zestril 20 mg Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89 Cost of general active ingredients $3.20 Percent markup: 2,809%
Zithromax 600 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19 Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78 Percent markup: 7,892%
Zocor 40 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27 Cost of general active ingredients: $8.63 Percent markup: 4,059%
Zoloft 50 mg Consumer price: $206.87 Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75 Percent markup: 11,821%
Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought everyone I knew should know about this. Please read the following and pass it on. It pays to shop around. This helps to solve the mystery as to why they can afford to put a Walgreen’s on every corner.
On Monday night, Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News in Detroit, did a story on generic drug price gouging by pharmacies. He found in his investigation, that some of these generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000% or more. Yes, that’s not a typo … three thousand percent! So often, we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs, and usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies with the pharmacies themselves For example, if you had to buy a prescription drug, and bought the name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills. The pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic equiva-lent, they would only cost $80, making you think you are “saving” $20. What the pharmacist is not telling you is that those 100 generic pills may have only cost him $10!
At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether or not there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice, and he said that Costco, Sam’s Club and other discount volume stores consistently charged little over their cost for the generic drugs I went to the discount store’s website, where you can look up any drug, and get its online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the online prices. I was appalled. Just to give you one example from my own experience, I had to use the drug, Comparing, which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients. I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I could have got 150 at another discount store for $28.08. I would like to mention, that although these are a “membership” type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy prescriptions there, as it is a federally regulated substance. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in.
I am asking each of you to please help me by copying this letter, and passing it into your own email, and send it to everyone you know with an email address.
Sharon L. Davis, Budget Analyst, US Department of Commerce Room 6839 Office Ph: 202-482-4458; Office Fax: 202-482-5480 Email Address: sdavis@docgov
Mary Palmer, Budget Analyst, Bureau of Economic Analysis Office of Budget &Finance; Voice: (202) 606-9295.
Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen as a therapeutic aid. Oxygen therapy benefits the body by increasing the supply of oxygen to the body on a cellular level and thereby increasing the availability of oxygen to the body tissues.
There are NO safe levels of lead. A new analysis conducted by the FDA finds lead levels in many lipsticks are even higher than those reported in 2007 (by the consumer advocacy group Campaign for Safe Cosmetics).
But- guess what? – the FDA says it’s quite safe. Too bad they don’t read any science. Everywhere in the world scientists and MDs are agreed that there are no safe lead levels, the safety limit is ZERO!
But apparently we can wipe it around our mouths and swallow it – that doesn’t count. So says the FDA!
Listen, we all have WAY too much lead as it is. Even a little bit more is too much!
There is no known reason for putting lead into our lipstick. It’s a health hazard.
“Lipstick is a product intended for topical use, and is only ingested incidentally and in very small quantities,” said FDA an spokeswoman.
Bullchyt! What happens to lipstick during the course of your day? You lick some off – You swallow it – it gets into your bloodstream – So we put more on at noon. And again at 3 in the afternoon. And if we have evening plans, we slap it on again…and again!
And you wake up one day, and miraculously, you have cancer!
Take your lipstick and watch it go down. Why? Because it is not just going away…it is going into your body!
The real story is that lead is very bad indeed for babies and kids; babies are 100 times more susceptible to neurological damage from lead than adults.
So you might say (but couldn’t because you would go to jail) that lipstick is the best man-made anti-pregnancy pharmaceutical ever invented! And even tho the real truth is that most lipstick junkies can and do get pregnant…they never think about the consequences to their fetus. Plus there is the little issue of build up in your own body.
This is all known, documented, and it can not possibly be refuted. So why does your FDA not recognize and warn you of that? Or forget that! Why do they even allow it to happen? The FDA is a governmental agency formed specifically to protect the health of the public!
Back to the lead…Listen to what the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has to say about the lead in your lipstick…, “the average level of lead found in the lipsticks — 1.7 parts per million — is more than 10 times higher than the standard imposed on candy.”
L’Oreal, Cover Girl, Christian Dior and Maybelline were among the brands found to have high lead levels. For example, L’Oreal Colour Riche True Red had a lead content of 0.65 parts per million, L’Oreal Colour Riche Classic Wine had 0.58 parts per million and Cover Girl’s IncrediFull Lipcolor Maximum Red had 0.56 parts per million.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics called on the FDA to “immediately set standards to require manufacturers to minimize lead in lipstick to the lowest achievable levels.”
And guess what they learned from that ‘call’.
The FDA has the authority to regulate color additives AND NO OTHER INGREDIENT in cosmetics! The pharmaceutical companies are free to poison us with any ingredient they choose which compliments their bottom line.
So if the FDA can’t stop it, what do we do?
We can simply not buy their cancer-causing (carcinogenic) garbage. Don’t buy it! Search TODAY and find something better or email me for some safe, healthy (and GREEN) alternatives.
Don’t wait and don’t put it off because you will forget about it…until the next time you reapply. Email me now! At oxygentherapy@live.com.
Ask me for beautiful alternatives to cancer-causing lipsticks.
Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen as a therapeutic aid. Oxygen therapy benefits the body by increasing the supply of oxygen to the body on a cellular level and thereby increasing the availability of oxygen to the body tissues.
In less than a month, a plague will be released upon the American people (indeed, the world) in the form of the new Swine Flu vaccine. I don’t believe that to be an alarmist statement – I believe that to be the truth because I can see no other way that Swine Flu can reach pandemic proportions within the time they have specified that it will happen.
We have not been told that there might be a Swine Flu Pandemic – We have consistently been told that there will be one.
And because we know that to date only about 30,000 people worldwide have been sickened and a small percentage of them have died (Approx. 1800)…that means that something else must happen (other than the regular flu season’s arrival) to drop-kick us right into the middle of a massive pandemic with millions dead and dying!
Phase Six Pandemic Alert was declared on June 11, 2009 by the W.H.O. and to date it has not occurred. Phase Six Pandemic Alert means millions of people are already dead and millions more are sick and expected to die. (Source: World Health Organization)
1.8 million Americans could be hospitalized with about half dying under a worst-case scenario, reports the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Whereas earlier this year, the U.S. government has stated that they expect only some 1.5 million Americans to become infected with the Swine Flu virus this winter. It also projected that 90,000 of them will die. (Source: A White House panel of advisors to the President)
Why is there such a huge discrepancy in those two predictions? Are these the same advisors?
Why?
Well if the U.S. government decides to improve its odds later this month and changes its prediction to a kewl million expected to die, we can be sure that prediction is also on an escalating path and will continue to go higher and higher as more and more people die later this year and on…into January and February of next year.
We are being either deliberately misinformed or accidentally disinformed. Which do you think it is?
And according to research reported in the August 25 issue of the British Medical Journal… more than 50% of doctors and nurses in public hospitals would refuse the H1N1 vaccine because they’re concerned about its side effects, and have doubts about its efficacy.
Take care of yourself and your family now while there is still time.
Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen as a therapeutic aid. Oxygen therapy benefits the body by increasing the supply of oxygen to the body on a cellular level and thereby increasing the availability of oxygen to the body tissues.
This is a very long article – but I am presenting it in its entirety here because of its obvious benefit to anyone with a diabetic wound who may be in danger of losing a leg or limb.
Amputation is not your only option. There are alternative therapies that can save your leg and help you to become whole again.
Of particular interest here is chelation therapy. Chelation is the use of H202 in an Intravenous Drip (IV). This type of H202 Therapy can only be administered by a physician and can be moderately expensive. But H202 Therapy for your whole body can be self-administered at home for pennies a day. This therapy can actually prevent and heal diabetic wounds alone…but the benefits of this entire remedy can not be overlooked.
If you have diabetes, you should consider The Oxygen Therapy Program, which uses H202, as a preventative and curative for your condition and take your life back from diabetes.
JEROME
Jerome, a 53-year-old high school teacher, was in the hospital awaiting amputation of his left leg. He’d been receiving IV antibiotics to treat a diabetic ulcer, a wide, oozing open wound on his ankle, but this didn’t halt the steady advance of gangrene, and he was told they had no choice but to take his leg.
About five hours before he was scheduled for surgery, Jerome talked to the teacher who was substituting for him to tell him he’d probably be out for the rest of the year. The substitute had heard about the Whitaker Wellness Institute and the work we do here, so he suggested that Jerome check us out. Jerome immediately phoned his wife, who called the clinic and asked if there was anything we could do to save his leg. I said we would certainly try. Figuring he had nothing to lose, Jerome left the hospital-against strongly worded medical advice-and came to my clinic that same day.
“I Wouldn’t Be Walking Today”
We immediately started Jerome on two therapies. First, he began a course of EDTA chelation, an IV treatment that improves circulation. Second, we dressed his ulcer with sugar. That’s right, white table sugar. We simply poured sugar into the wound, wrapped it up, and changed the dressing regularly. Within days he noticed a difference.
“Because EDTA is so effective at removing unwanted minerals and metals from the blood, it has been the standard ‘FDA-approved’ treatment for lead, mercury, aluminum and cadmium poisoning for more than 50 years.”
“I could see the sores were starting to get better and the swelling had gone down. At first the leg was almost all black. Then it started to get pinkish. It was just amazing how it continued to feel so much better.” Within three weeks, Jerome’s ulcer was healed, and he was able to resume teaching and coaching the girl’s softball team.
“I didn’t know anything about alternative medicine when I went to see you. I guess I was skeptical because I had no idea what to expect. I just felt that it was my last hope. I wouldn’t be walking today if it weren’t for you. I’ve often thought about sending a card to the doctor who wanted to amputate, with a picture of my leg, and say, ‘I still have it.’”
5,000 Years of Success
Chelation (H202 Therapy) is an amazing treatment, however, in this article I want to focus on sugar because it is an incredibly powerful therapy that was instrumental in saving Jerome’s leg. I’ve been using sugar to dress open wounds for 20-plus years, but this therapy has been around for much longer-at least 5,000 years.
Honey (which works just like sugar) is mentioned in the world’s earliest known medical document, discovered in Luxor, Egypt, in 1862. Known as the Edwin Smith Papyrus, it was written around 1600 BC and is believed to be based on materials from as early as 3000 BC. This ancient manuscript is essentially a textbook on traumatic surgery, and it describes anatomy, examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of a variety of injuries in great detail. In particular, it tells how honey, along with animal fat, herbs, roots, bark, spices, and cat dung, can be used to treat open wounds and burns.
Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physician who lived in Rome in the first century AD, also extolled the therapeutic powers of honey. In his five-volume De Materia Medica, which was the primary pharmacopeia in Europe and the Middle East for 16 centuries, he described honey as “good for all rotten and hollow ulcers.” In fact, honey-and later, sugar-continued to be widely used to treat wounds well into the twentieth century. Then antibiotics came along.
Better Than Antibiotics
Today, antibiotic ointments are the treatment of choice for ulcers, cuts, scrapes, and burns. Yet honey and sugar are far superior to any antibiotic ointment ever used.
Antibiotics aren’t as effective as they once were, because bacteria rapidly becomes resistant to them. While an antibiotic kills most of the bacteria, the stronger ones-those with some genetic variation that allows them to withstand the effects of the drug-survive and reproduce. Over time, that strain of bacteria becomes completely resistant to the effects of the antibiotic. Another antibiotic comes on the market that kills most of these “superbugs,” and the process starts over again.
Today, antibiotic resistance has reached a critical mass: Many infections do not respond to any antibiotics at all. This is what happened to Jerome and the 82,000 other Americans who lose a leg or foot to non-healing diabetic ulcers annually. It’s also what affects the two million patients who acquire an infection while they’re in the hospital and the 90,000 who die from these infections every year.
Wounds are particularly prone to infection because the gauze used to dress them absorbs fluid from the wound and becomes a breeding ground for bacteria and fungus. Drug companies are working around the clock to come up with antibiotics that stay one step ahead of microbes. Yet, the solution is as near as your sugar bowl. The reason? Bacteria cannot become resistant to the killing effects of sugar or honey.
Sweet, Powerful Medicine
When sugar or honey is packed on top of and inside of an open wound, it dissolves in the fluid exuding from the wound, creating a hyperosmotic, or highly concentrated, medium. Bacteria cannot live in a hyperosmotic environment any more than a goldfish could survive in the Great Salt Lake. Scientists have tested the viability of many types of bacteria, including Klebsiella, Shigella, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pyogenes, and none of them have been able to survive in a honey or sugar solution.
In addition to curbing infection, this therapy facilitates healing in other ways. It draws fluid out of the wound, which reduces edema (swelling). It provides a covering or filling and therefore prevents scabbing. It encourages the removal of dead tissue to make way for new growth. It promotes granulation, the formation of connective tissue and blood vessels on the surfaces of a wound. Finally, it supports the growth of new skin covering the wound. The net result is rapid healing with minimal scarring.
This Doctor Has Treated 7,000 Wounds
The country’s, if not the world’s, leading expert on the use of sugar as a wound dressing is Richard A. Knutson, MD, now retired but for many years an orthopedic surgeon at the Delta Medical Center in Greenville, Mississippi. Dr. Knutson first learned about the healing power of sugar from an elderly nurse who worked in the hospital where he was making rounds to check on his patients. When he expressed concern about a patient’s bedsore that was so deep it was down to the bone, she told him, “In the old days, we used to put sugar on them wounds.”
Although he was dubious, he gave it a try. To his surprise, it worked like a charm. Within a couple of days the wound was free of pus, and with continued use of sugar dressings, healing was complete. Dr. Knutson, a meticulous record keeper, went on to treat and document nearly 7,000 wounds of all sizes and degrees of severity: ulcers, abrasions, lacerations, amputations, abscesses, gunshot wounds, frostbite, punctures, post-operative incisions, cat scratches, burns, and bites (dog, human, snake, spider, and, believe it or not, one lion bite).
He told me about a patient who had accidentally shot himself in the foot at close range with a shotgun. I saw pictures of this, and it was incredible: a perfectly round, inch-and-a-half diameter hole right through his foot. After the bleeding was stopped and the wound cleaned, Dr. Knutson packed it with sugar and wrapped it up. Seven weeks later it had healed completely, and today the patient is fully functional.
Burns: No Skin Grafts, No Scarring
Sugar dressings are also great for burns. Most burn centers insist on using silver sulfadiazine, an antibiotic ointment, to treat burns, but it doesn’t work nearly as well as sugar or honey.
In a study published in the Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters, 900 patients who presented with second-degree burns were treated with either honey or an antibiotic ointment. All burns were then covered with gauze and bandaged, and the dressing was changed every other day. The 450 patients treated with honey fared much better than those receiving the usual treatment. They healed faster, in an average of nine days compared to 13.5 days in the antibiotic group. They had fewer infections, 5.5 percent versus 12 percent. And minor scarring occurred in only 6.2 percent of the honey-treated patients, while a whopping 20 percent of those receiving conventional treatment ended up with scars.
Dr. Knutson’s experience mirrors the results of this study. He has treated 1,622 burns with sugar dressings, and virtually all of them were infection-free and required no antibiotics or skin grafts. He told me about one patient with extensive burns who received antibiotic treatment on some areas of his body and sugar on others. The sugar-treated burns healed faster and scarred less.
If It’s So Good, Why Isn’t It Used?
Trying to figure out why inexpensive, effective therapies like sugar and honey dressings (and H202 Therapy) aren’t being used is an exercise in futility. That’s because there is no rational explanation. Some physicians claim it would cause elevations in blood sugar, which is nonsense because sugar or honey used on an open wound does not enter the bloodstream. Others think it’s unscientific or just plain weird.
I suspect it’s because, like so many other overlooked therapies, it doesn’t fit into the model of conventional medicine. It isn’t a drug. It costs pennies. It can be administered by the patient as easily as by a nurse or doctor, so it doesn’t require many return office visits. Whatever the reason, do not expect your doctor to offer this therapy or even be open to it. But next time you get a cut, scrape, or burn, give it a try, and let me know how it works.
Protocol for Treating Wounds With Sugar
Sugar or honey dressing may be used to treat any kind of open wound or burn. (We use sugar at the clinic because it’s less messy.) It will not work on abscesses or pustules that are covered with skin. Do not use on a bleeding wound as sugar promotes bleeding.
1) Unravel a 4″ x 4″ piece of gauze into a long strip and coat it with Vaseline. Place it around the outside edges of the wound, like a donut. 2) Cover the wound with 1/4-inch of sugar. (The Vaseline “donut” will keep it in place.) 3) Place a 4″ x 4″ sponge on top of the wound. Bandage it firmly but not too snugly with a cling dressing. 4) Change the dressing every one or two days. Remove, irrigate with water, saline, or hydrogen peroxide, pat dry, and repeat steps 1-3.
Reference
Subrahmanyam M. Honey dressing for burns-an appraisal. Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters. 1996;IX:33-35.
Reprinted from Dr. Julian Whitaker’s Health & Healing with permission from Healthy Directions, LLC. For information on subscribing to this newsletter, visit www.drwhitaker.com or call (800) 539-8219.
About the Author
Julian Whitaker, MD, is the author of Health & Healing, a monthly newsletter that has reached millions of readers since 1991. He has also written 13 books and hosts The Dr. Whitaker Show, a popular radio program. In 1979, Dr. Whitaker founded the Whitaker Wellness Institute. Today, it is the largest alternative medicine clinic in the United States. To learn more, visit www.whitakerwellness.com or call (800) 488-1500.
This article is not designed to diagnose or treat any existing illness.
