Hydrogen Peroxide... Works Like They Say It Does, WARNING - Be very, very careful. Options

So, I read about how small doses of hydrogen peroxide can be really good for all sorts of things, so I bought myself a bottle of 35% food grade H202, and gave it a shot.

First of all for anyone reading this who thinks they might give it a shot I want to put up here at the top that you should NOT ingest H2O2 directly, that's a terrible idea and you'll burn yourself badly.

Okay, that said, I started taking five drops of food grade H2O2 in a full glass of water every morning. I noticed a number of immediate and a number of more cumulative effects.

First of all, you get kinda high for about an hour, probably more or less depending on your individual constitution and metabolism. A good high, like you just ran a mile or something. It's from the extra oxygen that gets dumped into your system.

Second, after a few days I found that I woke up a lot more rested and refeshed than I had been for the past long while, and my dreams were far more vivid. That could be a result of just being more energetic in general, but that brings me to the third interesting result...

Thirdly, I have had a significant spike in energy, as in prana, applicable metaphysical force, etc. After about ten days I could do a few things that normally take me half an hour of focused intention with a little more than a moment of focus and will. Circulating energy in my body used to produce a mild vibration and some subtle warmth, now I can vibrate my limbs to the point where other people can actually feel a subtle vibration coming from my hands and feet without even coming to physical contact. I've been far more sensitive during my massage sessions, able to pick up on the energy in my clients with a great deal more accuracy than I could before, as well. My theory on that is that the extra oxygen, the electric principle in the air we breath, is supplying a heightened electric principle to my subtle body.

If anyone does want to try this, the benefits are supposed to be wide ranging, to the point that some have called H2O2 therapy a kind of panacea. Harmful bacteria and even, in laboratory settings, viruses cannot exist in a high oxygen environment, and so the extra oxygen cleans the system and boosts the immune system's ability to deal with the 'left overs'. If you do want to give this a try, remember two things:

Start small, three to five drops of 35% food grade H2O2, in a full glass of water, once a day. Don't go over ten drops, you'll give yourself a splitting headache. NEVER more than ten drops.

Also, take some kind of antioxidant along with it over the course of the day, a tab of Vitamin C or some green tea etc.

IN small doses, H2O2 is not harmful, but in large doses it can be fatal, so take these warnings deadly serious.

Thought I'd share.

peace

Actually you can break peroxide down, it's just not easy if you ingest it. From what I understand it's a natural byproduct of metabolism so the body has pathways to deal with it, but they take time.

When I was little, my mother's friend's baby downed a full bottle of the stuff. Kid's mom rushed Junior to the hospital, thinking Junior was poisoned. She wasn't, but she felt like hell for the next 24 hours or so. Your body breaks peroxide down into water and spare oxygen gas. You'll absorb the water, but not the O2 because it's in the digestive tract and not the lungs. It'll make you sick as hell with a horrendous case of heartburn, at least from what I understand, but to do real damage you've got to down the industrial-grade stuff, and that's highly corrosive anyway.

I still don't recommend trying this...

This post has been edited by Darkmage: May 25 2007, 06:54 PM

When I was little, my mother's friend's baby downed a full bottle of the stuff. Kid's mom rushed Junior to the hospital, thinking Junior was poisoned.

I still don't recommend trying this...

Um, again, tiny, tiny dosage, mixed into a glass of water. The water spreads the molecules out so far that they can't have any sort of explosive reaction in the stomach or digestive tract. if left to sit, the oxygen molecules would just pop off into the water and evaporate with the water at the top of the glass over time.

Even ten drops will give you a headache in my experience - maybe different for individuals. I'm talking five drops in a full 8 ounces of water.

The oxygen molecules pop of, absorb into the system, and become free radicals. The antioxidants level out the radicals to safe levels, so that the body only uses what it needs.

You can get lots of extra oxygen by hyperventilating as well, but even that if you were to do it all day, would harm you.

Some sites suggest taking a dose in the morning, and at night, some suggest three times a day. I've gotten benefits from doing it once in the morning, so that the body will have the rest of the day to handle the chemistry.

But of course, always use your own judgement.

peace