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Supplement to

The Art of Getting Well

Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy

Sources are given in references.

Authors of contributions\quotations are alphabetically arranged;

major author, if any, is underlined.

Charles Farr, M.D., Ph.D., Gordon Josephs, D.O., M.D.(H),

William Campbell Douglass, M.D., Walter O. Grotz, Dr. Edward

Rosenow /Responsible editor/writer Anthony di Fabio.

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I must report on this promising therapy, as so many physicians

and patients have given me good tidings from its use. What is probably

not so well known by the general public, and many practicing

physicians, is that hydrogen peroxide has been used for more than a

century, the abstracts of articles and research reports published from

1966 through 1988 alone reaches 2" high when printed on 8-1/2"X11"

paper.

A number of clinics in the United States and Mexico use

hydrogen peroxide therapy, as well as other treatment modalities, on

a routine basis, usually given by intravenous injection (IV).

Before scoffing, keep in mind that one of the very first lines of

defense against any and all microorganisms recognized as invaders by

our immunological system are macrophages and leucocytes, one of

which uses hydrogen peroxide to oxidize the foreigners; and that

vitamin C is effective principally by its ability to promote hydrogen

peroxide use against foreign invaders, including parasites, viruses,

bacteria, yeast/fungus; and that all body tissues contain catalase and

that hydrogen peroxide in the presence of catalase is reduced to oxygen

and water. So, there is strong reason to believe that added hydrogen

peroxide, used properly, may be both effective against certain organ-

isms and safe.

Hydrogen peroxide is an essential metabolite, meaning that it is

necessary to life's process, according to William Campbell Douglass,

M.D. of Georgia.

As we age, our immunological system weakens, which permits

organisms of opportunity to spread, thereby breeding colonies of

organisms whose presence is anathema to good health. Killing these

organisms should permit at least temporary respite from microbial

warfare, and give your system time to heal.

According to William Campbell Douglass, M.D.

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, not only is

H

2

O

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(Hydrogen Peroxide) involved in phagocytosis (killing and

absorption of foreign germs), but also "it acts like insulin in that it aids

the transport of sugar through the body." Is is also at least as important,

or perhaps more so, than thyroid for heat generation because it creates

"intraceullar thermogenesis, a warming of your cells which is abso-

lutely essential to life's processes."

Various physicians, including some of our referral physicians,

also use hydrogen peroxide therapy for various ailments. Physicians

have independently discovered such treatments to be effective against

some types of cancer, leukemia, arthritis, coronary heart disease,

arterial circulation disorders, colitis, gum diseases, and assorted

children's diseases.

The First International Conference of Bio-oxidative Medicine

was held February 17-19, 1989 in Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX. Physicians

presented papers on the efficacy and safety of hydrogen peroxide

infusions. Since that date the non-profit International Bio-Oxidative

Medicine Foundation

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has grown rapidly, attracting many physicians

who have also presented many scholarly works based on their work

with patients.

While Chelation Therapy is an extremely useful treatment and

preventive measure for at least 80% of peripheral circulation problems,

it apparently cannot clean out hardened plaque in arteries, like the large

heart arteries and the aorta

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. (See "Chelation Therapy," http://

www.arthritistrust.org.)

According to Douglas, the Baylor University Medical Center

may "have gone a long way toward proving that H

2

O

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dripped into

the leg and carotid vessels of patients known to have severe arterio-

sclerosis will clear those arteries of disease. When these patients died,

autopsies were done to compare arteries that had been treated with

H

2

O

2

with those not treated. They reported: `The elution [separation]

of lipids from the arterial wall by dilute hydrogen peroxide has been

accomplished. . . .' In simple English that means the plaque buildup

was removed by injecting H

2

O

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into the blood vessels. . . . That was

over 20 years ago

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Dr. Douglass added that, "The investigators also reported that the

improvement is not temporary."

While H

2

O

2

has been used to good advantage for hardening of

the arteries, temporal arteritis, shingles, chronic obstructive pulmo-

nary disease, the yeast syndrome, various viral infections, including

AIDS, certain forms of cancer, dental gum diseases, colds (35% H

2

O

2

in cold humidifier), growing better food, purifying water without

chlorine complications, increasing thyroid activity, arthritis, depres-

sion, emphysema, lupus erythematosis, multiple sclerosis, . . ., a list

of claims made would exceed our space limitations, and so I direct you

to others for substantiation and research reports: The International

Bio-Oxidative Foundation

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and ECHOS

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, as per references. [I have

been unable to locate ECHOS for some years. However, a search on

the world wide web will reveal location of the International Bio-

Oxidative Foundation as well as some accurate websites. For example,

see Ed McCabe's http://www.oxytherapy.com. Also see McCabe's

book, Oxygen Healing Therapies, http://www.arthritistrust.org.]

A word of caution: while many reputable physicians and re-

searchers have made legitimate claims on the safety and efficacy of

H

2

O

2

, it is my opinion that there are a lot of scam artists using or selling

H

2

O

2

, and so one must be careful

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. I believe that you can relie on the

work of the International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation and

ECHOS.

There are also many important forgotten facts in the past medical

literature. For example, William Campbell Douglass, M.D. reports on

"Dr. Edward C. Rosenow, author of 450 published medical papers and

associate at the Mayo Clinic for over 60 years . . . proved [more than]

70 years ago (1914) that bacteria could be found consistently in the

lymph nodes that drain joints (J.A.M.A., April 11, 1914). He was

probably the first scientist to postulate that H

2

O

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would help arthritis

because of its ability to supply oxygen to oxygen-hating organisms

causing arthritis (Streptococcus viridans)."

Charles H. Farr, M.D., Ph.D., says, "Perhaps we have become

myopic about biological oxidation! The majority of investigational

studies seem to concentrate on the damaging effects of biological

oxidation and the production of free radicals. Hydrogen peroxide is

usually treated as a[n] intermediate or by-product of metabolism and

considered of minor significance in metabolic pathways except as it

relates to biochemical disruption, tissue or cellular damage.

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