How Peddlers of ‘Food-Grade’ Hydrogen Peroxide Exploit the Sick
Daryl Khan was desperate when he first considered using concentrated hydrogen peroxide — more than 10 times the strength typically found in drugstores — to treat his wife Susan’s uterine cancer. Susan was diagnosed in 2010, underwent surgery and radiation, and thought she had it beat. But in October 2015, a recurring pain in her abdomen twice landed her in the emergency room. A few weeks later, doctors gave her the news no one wants to hear: The cancer was not only back, but it was spreading.
“They did the whole regimen thing that they do to everybody and it sucked, it really sucked,” said Khan, who says he has a deep mistrust of mainstream medicine. Susan was very sensitive to the medications she was given, he recalls. “She just kept getting worse and worse.”
Khan says he soon began combing the internet for alternative treatments, and eventually found several sites selling what was called “35 percent food-grade hydrogen peroxide.” Sites with names like Pure Health Discounts, Guardian of Eden, Jutrian RX, and more carried testimonials and detailed informational pages suggesting the use of the chemical to treat a dizzying array of ailments, from Lyme disease and skin problems to leukemia and even brain tumors. “There were lots and lots of testimonials for the fact that it worked on certain cancers,” Khan says.
“I was groping and struggling and searching,” he added through tears.
Khan was an easy target for internet marketers who promise health benefits from drinking just a few drops of hydrogen peroxide diluted in a glass of water. It’s a folk remedy that reaches back decades, and one that continues to flourish at the margins of alternative medicine, and in those corridors of the internet frequented by people who are desperate for a cure. Scientifically, there is no evidence supporting the practice as a remedy for anything — and ample evidence suggests that it can even be dangerous.
In 2011, for example, a 53-year-old woman ended up at Detroit Receiving Hospital after she drank 10 drops of high strength hydrogen peroxide as a “cleanse.” A year later, a 56-year-old man drank concentrated hydrogen peroxide hoping to treat his hives and ended up in the same emergency room. Both patients suffered from blockages in the bloodstream caused by hydrogen peroxide and would have died or likely been permanently disabled if not for the efforts of Dr. Brendan Byrne and a team of doctors who saved both patients with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a treatment long used for scuba divers who surface too quickly.
“The ingestion of hydrogen peroxide, even in relatively small volumes,” said Byrne, now an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, “can cause devastating complications.”
These aren’t the only cases where someone has been hospitalized or died. An analysis of cases reported to the National Poison Data System between 2001 and 2011 found nearly 300 cases of poisoning caused by the ingestion of high-concentration hydrogen peroxide, or about 30 cases per year. That number only includes cases identified by doctors and called into poison control centers. But Dr. Benjamin Hatten, a corresponding author of the study, said he suspects the actual number is higher. “I would say the real number is probably somewhere around 50 or so per year actually have problems from this,” said Hatten, who conducted the research while at Oregon Health and Science University and is now an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Hatten said he’s aware of no well-done studies that suggest the ingestion of hydrogen peroxide is beneficial, and of the nearly 300 cases he has examined, 41 suffered life threatening embolisms — or bubbles in the bloodstream — as a result of ingesting the chemical compound. Twenty died or were left catastrophically disabled.
Yet despite the risks and public warnings by federal regulators, alternative health companies continue to market the chemical, claiming elixir-like powers, capable of curing a multitude of diseases. Concentrated hydrogen peroxide can even be found in certain health food stores, often next to salads and other prepared foods. Sometimes bottles are sold with pamphlets stating that hydrogen peroxide should not be applied directly to the skin — but those same brochures also give suggested dosages for internal use.
In theory, 35 percent hydrogen peroxide can be diluted in water to bring it to roughly the 3 percent concentration that’s typically sold in drugstores as a mild antiseptic for minor scrapes and cuts, or as an oral rinse. And according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, accidental ingestion of small amounts of this low concentration is unlikely to cause more than some temporary discomfort.
The problem is that ordinary consumers — nudged by dubious marketing into believing that ingestion holds curative potential — are able to purchase the much more concentrated versions of hydrogen peroxide by the gallon, and without any clear instructions for measurement or dilution. Solutions containing more than 10 percent hydrogen peroxide are not typically associated with home use — and for those above 12 percent, the Illinois Poison Center advises consumers on its website: “Don’t buy it! Don’t try it! Don’t bring it in your house! End of discussion.” The agency considers the product so dangerous that all calls for hydrogen peroxide ingestion above 12 percent are “immediately referred to the nearest emergency room for treatment.”
(It’s not just health officials who are concerned. Concentrated hydrogen peroxide is considered a “chemical of interest” by the Department of Homeland Security, a high-priority precursor chemical that can be used to build improvised explosive devices. The would-be bomber arrested in a thwarted 2016 New York City terror plot was found to have ordered 40 pounds of the concentrated chemical. The U.S. Postal Service considers it a hazardous material and doesn’t accept shipments of hydrogen peroxide at concentrations higher than 20 percent. Officials in the U.K. have banned the sale of anything greater than 12 percent to individuals without a license.)
Daryl Khan, desperate to cure his wife’s cancer, purchased this bottle of 35 percent food grade hydrogen peroxide from Pure Health Discounts.
Visual: Courtesy of Daryl Khan
Despite the dangers, hydrogen peroxide at concentrations as high as 35 percent remains remarkably easy to buy in the United States. Consumers can walk into any number of health food stores and walk out with as much as they can carry. Online, several websites will ship it directly to your door, no questions asked.
Earlier this year, the online retail giant Amazon implemented a new policy forbidding vendors who sell their products through its website from marketing hydrogen peroxide in concentrations higher than 12 percent. Still, one seller — Pure Health Discounts — continues to tout on its Amazon profile that it sells “as much as 100 tons of 35 percent food-grade hydrogen peroxide per month.”
Khan, like many seeking salvation from cancer and other afflictions, said he didn’t know about any of the warnings. His eldest daughter helped him order his 35 percent hydrogen peroxide online from Pure Health Discounts, and he says that at the time, he considered it a reputable company. “She got a gallon, a big thing. I don’t know if we really needed it, you just use drops, you know, you increase the drops every day,” said Khan, who gave it to Susan in her water. “She would take it and get a kind of acid-reflux initially, so you get like a throw-up reaction.”
Khan said he never expected she’d feel better immediately, but hoped the regimen would help long-term. It didn’t, and Susan died less than a year after learning her cancer returned.
Looking back, Khan said he doesn’t think the elixir contributed to Susan’s death, but the couple’s eldest son, also named Daryl, isn’t so sure. Now a college journalism professor living in New York, he says he was alarmed when he found out about the hydrogen peroxide. “She didn’t like the way it tasted and she was particularly sensitive already from the chemo — nothing tasted good,” said the younger Khan, who worried the hydrogen peroxide would interfere with chemotherapy, a concern he said was shared by his mother’s doctor.
“It was in a big jug-handled transparent bottle, the kind of thing you’d imagine bouncing around in your trunk the way antifreeze or windshield washer fluid would,” said the younger Khan, who was furious to learn that the individual who sold the chemical to his family has been on the FDA’s radar for more than a decade.
“It’s hard to fathom the level of grubby exploitation you’ve reduced yourself to, to turn a buck off of people who are watching their loved ones die in slow-motion over the course of a year or whatever it may be,” he said. Of dumping out the hydrogen peroxide he found that his father kept in the refrigerator, Khan said, “I won’t say it wasn’t without some glee to do it — to dump out poison that these total snake oil salesmen are selling.”
Discovered by Louis-Jacques Thenard in 1818, hydrogen peroxide has two hydrogen atoms and two oxygen atoms — a composition similar to that of water, but with an extra atom of oxygen. Mainly produced in large-scale facilities, it’s sold in solutions of varying strengths or concentrations and labeled by percentage. The percentage refers to the amount of hydrogen peroxide in the solution — the rest is water. Stabilizers are often added to minimize decomposition and increase shelf-life.
At lower concentrations — typically between 3 and 10 percent — hydrogen peroxide has long been used to disinfect scrapes and cuts (though many health care professionals now recommend against it) and can be used as a cleaning solution. It can be used cosmetically to lighten hair and whiten teeth. Higher concentrations can be used in wastewater treatment and as an alternative to chlorine in pools. Extremely high concentrations can be used as rocket fuel.
An oxidizer, hydrogen peroxide alone is not combustible, but it can promote the combustion of other materials. Particularly when heated, it can provide fuel to fires by rapidly releasing oxygen.
Those who promote hydrogen peroxide as an alternative health remedy usually refer to it as “35 percent food-grade hydrogen peroxide,” but this labeling can be misleading. According to the FDA, there is no official definition for the term “food-grade.” While the nonprofit U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, in collaboration with the agency and other groups, publishes specifications for hydrogen peroxide used in food packaging and processing, the chemical is not intended for ingestion. But it’s the release of oxygen that those who advocate the ingestion of hydrogen peroxide mistakenly believe is beneficial. The theory — which has not been proven — is that degenerative diseases are caused by a lack of oxygen in the tissues that allows toxins and harmful bacteria and viruses to accumulate.
Proponents say introducing hydrogen peroxide into the body will increase oxygen levels and ward off ailments — essentially a low-budget form of oxygen therapy.
Dismissed by most mainstream health care professionals, the use of the chemical internally for medicinal purposes was reportedly first considered in the early 1900s, when hydrogen peroxide was said to have cured pneumonia in post-World War I India. In the 1940s, proponents say, Father Richard Willhelm, who referred to hydrogen peroxide as “God’s own immune system,” furthered interest in the chemical, when he promoted the use of hydrogen peroxide as a deterrent to skin diseases, polio, and mental illness.
Proponents also often point to the work of Dr. Otto Warburg, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who they allege found an association between cancer cells and low oxygen levels. Cancer researchers counter that Warburg found no such association and that the ingestion of hydrogen peroxide is not likely to increase oxygen on a cellular level.
Doctors who treat those who’ve ingested the chemical say the rapid release of oxygen can be deadly. “Hydrogen peroxide at any concentration, if drank, reacts with a natural enzyme in the body — catalase — and produces very high volumes of oxygen,” said Byrne. “That oxygen has to go somewhere and the volume is so high that you physically can’t just burp it out. It crosses the membrane of the GI tract into the blood vessels and those resultant bubbles block up the blood vessels, leading to heart attacks, strokes, and other complications.”
Like Hatten, Byrne said he suspects many cases of hydrogen peroxide poisoning are never identified. “The cases I wrote about are not as isolated as they would seem — the question is, do people recognize them,” said Byrne. “Those complications are a very rare set of complications that can be easily mistaken for something else, and people cannot get treatment for them because doctors think it’s something else.”
Not everyone who ingests high strength hydrogen peroxide does so intentionally. A 74-year-old man in Tennessee drank what he thought was water from a pitcher in his daughter’s refrigerator. He was hospitalized and put on an intravenous proton pump inhibitor, a medication typically used for people with severe stomach ulcers and stomach acid. Tests showed he suffered damage along his esophagus and stomach.
In another case, a four-year-old accidentally drank concentrated hydrogen peroxide that his father used as an alternative cure for digestive problems. Within minutes, the boy cried out with excruciating abdominal pain and soon lost consciousness. Several years later, he was still plagued with seizures, unable to eat or walk on his own. A two-year old girl in Italy fared even worse. While visiting a dairy farm with her parents, she became thirsty and took a drink out of a transparent container that resembled a water bottle. It contained hydrogen peroxide for milk preservation and she soon grew confused and her breathing grew labored. She later died from breathing issues due to the hydrogen peroxide ingestion, which caused “severe chemical aspiration pneumonia, pulmonary emphysema, esophagitis, and gastritis.”
Despite such stories, advocates for ingesting hydrogen peroxide abound. Ed McCabe, a lecturer and author of the book “Flood Your Body With Oxygen,” said that for intentional users, it’s all about the protocol. McCabe, who says he has used hydrogen peroxide himself and is often referred to as “Mr. Oxygen,” said that when used correctly, the chemical will only oxidize or attack unhealthy cells and pollution in the body. But he noted that the 35 percent solution must be properly diluted and blames most ill-effects on improper usage.
“It’s the lack of education about these things because they won’t teach it in medical school, that’s the problem,” McCabe said. “If anybody ever dies or whatever, I can just assure you that the human body loves oxygen in the right way in the right amount of time, and if anything other than that happens, somebody’s doing something wrong.”
But Byrne warns that even one sip of the high concentration solution can cause severe health consequences.
“If any of my friends decided to tell me they were doing this, I’d tell them that it’s my belief that the risks far outweigh the benefit,” he said.
The Health Nuts, a chain of New York City-area health food stores, carries “35 percent food-grade hydrogen peroxide” called Oxy-tech. The bottle says you can “stimulate and invigorate your body inside and out with Oxy-tech” and includes the chemical’s United Nations dangerous goods number — UN2014 — along with a warning not to swallow it. No other information is provided.
At one location, concentrated hydrogen peroxide is displayed in a refrigerated case, along with prepared salads and pickles. Sudhangshu Roy, a manager at the Upper East Side location, said customers buy “quite a lot,” but declined to speculate what they use it for. “We are only the retailer — we recommend customers consult their doctors or health professionals before using any health products,” said Roy, who said he’s worked at The Health Nuts for more than 20 years.
At another location, Oxy-tech is stored in a secured refrigerator, and employees must retrieve the product when requested by customers. Along with the hydrogen peroxide, purchasers are given a thin blue pamphlet that includes a dosing chart listing how many drops to dilute in water when using internally. “You can wash your clothes with this product, you can soak your toothbrush in a small amount to kill bacteria, you can clean surfaces, and you can also drink it,” said Ellington Campbell, who’s worked at The Health Nuts’ Upper West Side location for nearly 30 years. Campbell said customers use the product for “detoxing the system,” for “a healthy immune system,” and to “help with friendly bacteria.”
He added a warning: “If you drink it like this you will melt all your organs,” Campbell said, pointing to the brochure, “so you follow these directions, the dosage, you read that.”
The company behind Oxy-tech, ME2Eagle Enterprises, LLC, is based in Whitney, Texas. During a phone interview, Chris Wood said her mother and step-father set up the business and started selling Oxy-tech about 20 years ago. “They were always in the chemical business,” said Wood, who added in a call last week that the fate of the company is uncertain following her mother’s passing earlier this month. She said that after governmental agencies enacted stiffer regulations on the chemical industry, her family struggled financially.
It was during that time that her mother learned about hydrogen peroxide and realized there was money to be made. “Mom said it was an answer to a prayer because [financially] they were pretty much on their last leg and she started doing research on this and found out more about it,” said Wood, who couldn’t say exactly how much they sell per year, but confirmed the company distributes the chemical to retailers around the country, including The Health Nuts stores in New York.
Wood said customers use the product for many things, including washing laundry, in marinades, and for hydroponic gardening. When diluted, she added, it can be used in enemas, douches, and baths. Poultry that has ingested the product, Wood asserted, can be considered “organic.”
Wood says she believes many doctors are opposed to hydrogen peroxide because they are “sleeping with the pharmaceutical companies.”
“Well, if, let’s see, if everybody was on peroxide and being healthy and didn’t go to the doctor, well then what?” said Wood.
She described most of ME2Eagle Enterprise’s hydrogen peroxide customers as elderly, and she talked at length about those who she says have used the product for cancer, sores, West Nile virus, and parasites. For each malady, Wood — who according to state records is not licensed to practice medicine or dispense medication — described seemingly miraculous results. When asked if she knew the FDA’s position on hydrogen peroxide, Wood responded: “That I don’t know.”
She said ME2Eagle Enterprises has two employees and has never dealt with the FDA.
“It’s still a mom and pop business,” she said. “We don’t want to get too damn big because then they will start coming down on you.”
The FDA became concerned about hydrogen peroxide in the 1980s, when companies marketed high-strength versions not only to people with cancer and other ailments, but also to those with AIDS. Charged with regulating the accuracy of medical claims, the FDA found the chemical to be anything but miraculous. In 1989, after reports of several injuries and at least one death, the FDA advised the public not to use the chemical internally and warned that it can cause serious harm or death. In 2006, another warning was issued, reiterating that the product “can cause serious harm or death when ingested.”
“No one has presented any evidence that hydrogen peroxide taken internally has any medical value,” said Dr. Steven Galson, then-director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in that warning. “In fact, consuming hydrogen peroxide in the manner touted by these websites could lead to tragic results.”
Since 2006, when Galson and the FDA warned about the ingestion of the chemical, incidents of hydrogen peroxide poisoning have become increasingly well-documented in the scientific literature.
“When these things go bad, they go bad very suddenly,” said Dr. Eric Lavonas, a toxicologist with the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center who has treated patients who have ingested hydrogen peroxide.
“I don’t recommend or see the value of taking it at all,” said Lavonas, adding he’s not aware of the chemical having a proven role in the treatment of any disease.
Lavonas said most people who use high strength hydrogen peroxide dilute it down so it’s not high strength by the time they ingest it — and many proponents of the practice argue that failure to do so is the customer’s fault. But there is little standardized information attending the murky hydrogen peroxide health market, and recipes for dilution, ratcheting up intake, and other “instructional” advice is often ad hoc, contradictory, and cobbled together on marginal websites or in low-budget books. Asked during a phone call why her mother’s company sold 35 percent hydrogen peroxide, rather than the typical household concentration of 3 percent, Wood of ME2Eagle Enterprises in Texas had a ready response: “Well at 3 percent, if they were going to do it internally, it wouldn’t work,” she said.
In general, Lavonas confirmed that problems arise when people take either a little of the high concentration version without diluting it, or a larger amount of the diluted solution found at drugstores. “Where it’s dangerous is when you’re dealing with the really potent version or if you drink large amounts of the regular stuff,” he said, adding that most toxicologists and hyperbaric doctors have seen several patients who’ve ingested the chemical.
“When hydrogen peroxide hits stomach acid, it makes bubbles. Those bubbles are oxygen gas. The highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide — a tablespoon of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide — hits your stomach and suddenly releases one and a half liters of gas, which is enough to fill the stomach very quickly, then over fill it and the gas has to go somewhere. If you’re lucky, you belch it up. If you’re unlucky, it forces its way into the blood vessels,” said Lavonas.
Arteries don’t have valves, so once the bubbles are in the arteries, they rise to the brain and can lead to stroke. If this is suspected in a patient, Lavonas said emergency room doctors will order a CAT scan — if it reveals blood vessels that are full of air instead of blood, the diagnosis is confirmed.
“Some people get lucky and have minor symptoms and you just need to treat the symptoms,” Lavonas said. “I’ve also treated people who have had air get as far as the blood vessels around the intestinal tract and the liver but not get up to the brain and those people generally recover pretty well. The liver is a much more forgiving organ than the brain when it comes to things like that.
“But you know, what’s the difference?,” he continued. “Three people take exactly the same two tablespoons of peroxide, one just belches and gets nothing, one of them gets air into the liver and recovers great and one of them has a stroke or dies. You can have a stroke big enough to be fatal, you can have bubbles get into the heart and cause a heart attack and the problem is, you just don’t know going into it whether you’re going to be the guy with good luck, medium luck, or bad luck.”
For its part, the FDA has issued official warning letters telling individuals to immediately stop promoting and selling the chemical to prevent, treat, or cure ailments. One recipient, contacted by the FDA as far back as July 2006, was Mark Ovard, based at the time in Wolfe City, Texas. In the letter, FDA officials cited several violations on one of Ovard’s websites for marketing an unapproved drug and making false and misleading statements about the product. Ovard was instructed to correct the violations within 15 working days, or at least provide an explanation as to why he would be unable to do so.
According to FDA spokesperson Lyndsay Meyer, warning letters often persuade companies to voluntarily comply with federal regulations. The agency’s next steps depend on the recipient’s response.
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show Ovard disputed the charges in the warning letter. He made slight changes to his website, adding information about diluting the concentrated chemical, and a statement that content on the site was for informational purposes only and had not been evaluated by the FDA. In a follow-up letter sent three months later, the FDA said the changes were not good enough.
“Regardless of whether your website includes such disclaimers, it continues to promote your 35 percent hydrogen peroxide product to prevent, treat, or cure disease conditions,” wrote then-FDA Dallas District Director Michael Chappell in November 2006. The FDA again told Ovard to immediately correct violations or face penalties, including possible criminal prosecution.
The Texas State Board of Pharmacy and the Texas Department of State Health Services both received copies of the November 2006 letter, but neither state agency appears to have taken any action. Gay Dodson, executive director of Texas State Board of Pharmacy, said that because Ovard is not a licensed pharmacist and doesn’t own a pharmacy, any action at the state level would have been the responsibility of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
A spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services acknowledged that the department has jurisdiction for such violations, but could find no documents to indicate it took any action against Ovard or his website. But according to a 2007 internal investigation memo, FDA Investigator Connie Hannon-Rabel attempted to visit Ovard the following summer.
In the memo, Hannon-Rabel wrote that she traveled to Wolfe City, a town of 1,400 northeast of Dallas and attempted to meet with Ovard. Once there, she learned from locals that Ovard and a female companion — some of whom referred to the couple, along with another man, as “the hydrogen peroxide people” — “had been gone for approximately 4 to 5 months.”
Wolfe City residents told the investigator that Ovard and his companion had several sports cars and recalled a “fancy carriage” used for weddings. In addition to selling hydrogen peroxide, Ovard, who describes himself as an ordained minister and retired judge, also advertises non-traditional wedding services on one of his websites.
Hannon-Rabel’s memo indicates at least one Wolfe City resident was concerned about 50-gallon containers of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide that were frequently delivered to Ovard by a truck labeled with “hazardous” placards. After the futile trip to Wolfe City, the investigator eventually contacted Ovard by phone. He refused to meet with her, but in a phone call on August 16, 2007, he asked what needed to be done to get “the FDA off his back?”
According to the memo, Hannon-Rabel again explained the FDA’s concerns. Ovard promised to make the required changes within three days, which he failed to do. On August 20, 2007, Hannon-Rabel tried to call him, but to no avail. Hannon-Rabel then notified an FDA compliance officer, who suggested she should give him more time, but added that the agency “is not prepared to support any further regulatory action.”
FDA documents show that although Ovard did not make the required changes, he did respond to the agency with long, often rambling letters. One threatened legal action against the agency and another theorized that there are some who believe that “you are the evil FDA out to kill them.”
In one letter, Ovard wrote:
“The more you write — or I write — that the FDA opposes my products, the more little-knowledge customers it will draw. If you know anything of the mindset of many involved in seeking alternative health care — either in desperation, personal beliefs, or lack of funds for traditional health care — you would accept what I am attempting to explain.”
After Undark began asking questions about the practice, many websites, along with vendors on Amazon, have removed overt references to using hydrogen peroxide internally. But others — including intothegardenofeden.com — continue to market the chemical as a health supplement, promoting it as a remedy for HIV, shingles, syphilis, cholera, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and more.
Also still active are the “hydrogen peroxide people” — Mark Ovard and his companion, Rene Hovious. They now operate out of Crystal River, Florida, a quiet city about an hour and a half north of Tampa, and they are associated with a network of companies and websites that sell high strength hydrogen peroxide, including Pure Health Discounts, DFWX, Guardian of Eden, Trinity Nutralab, Jutrian RX, Pure H202 For Health, and Celeste Pure H202 For Health.
Hovious — who is sometimes identified under a variety of different last names — processes incoming orders from an office perpetually decorated for Halloween. During a February visit, a one-eyed skeleton sporting a top hat and Mardi Gras beads watched over Hovious and three other women who worked alongside her in the tidy office.
Hovious’ desk faces a second skeleton, this one resting on a massage chair, a pirate hat perched on its bony head. A giant stuffed spider hangs from a back wall. Under the spider, white bins on a large rack are neatly labeled with names of companies – G.O.E, for Guardian of Eden, Pure Health Discounts, Jutrian RX, Celeste, and others.
Hovious declined to elaborate, but said most of the 35 percent hydrogen peroxide sold comes through the many companies associated with the couple. “We sell to a lot of people — most everything out there comes from us,” she said, adding that hydrogen peroxide is getting more and more popular. A good deal of the hydrogen peroxide they sell is used as a replacement for chlorine in pools, for washing clothes, and cleaning, Hoivous said, but she also said the food-grade solution can be consumed. “It’s a good product, it depends on the people and what they are using it for — as long as you do your research, it will be beneficial,” she said, adding that anyone not familiar with the product should get some and will quickly see the benefits.
“Dosage depends on your doctor’s advice,” she said.
“We can’t give medical advice, we just sell the product,” Hovious added.
Here, the co-founder and director of a Texas eco-village, Quinn Eaker, explains the purported science underpinning hydrogen peroxide’s curative powers when ingested. It has been viewed more than 100,000 times.
About three miles down West Gulf to Lake Highway, situated between a shopping plaza and a landscaping company, a run-down warehouse serves as a storage and distribution center for Ovard and Hovious. Peggy Melchiore, owner of the landscaping company, said she doesn’t know much about what her neighbors do in the warehouse, but has heard it involves hydrogen peroxide. She said Ovard’s business moved in a few years ago after a fire destroyed his previous warehouse.
From just outside Melchiore’s office, black 55-gallon drums with the familiar number — UN 2014 — can be seen through large open doors of the warehouse. While she feels confident her business is a safe distance away, Melchiore noted the chemical could cause an explosion or fire and said big rigs frequently make deliveries to a side door of the warehouse.
On a recent afternoon, an 18-wheeler from Brenntag, a German-headquartered chemical distribution company that also operates in North America, delivered more than a dozen blue drums of hydrogen peroxide, hauling away about the same number of empties from a previous delivery. Windows on the building are covered over in dingy paper and an old ambulance and several other vehicles dot a parking area. A knock on the front door of the warehouse is quickly answered by young man named Bryan.
Just inside the door, three men and one woman worked to slide white gallon jugs labeled “35 percent food-grade hydrogen peroxide” into plastic bags, then into cardboard shipping boxes. About 20 one-gallon jugs of the chemical sat on a large portable cart in the middle of the room.
In 2012, Guardian of Eden, a company associated with Ovard and Hovious, was fined more than $13,000 by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration for failing to properly package shipments of concentrated hydrogen peroxide. Bryan disappeared through a door in the back, returning a few minutes with Mark Ovard, who quickly, but politely ushered me outside.
Ovard said high-strength hydrogen peroxide has many uses and a lot of customers buy the product for taxidermy and in place of chlorine for pools. He acknowledged having a “dispute” with the FDA years ago and said he changed the language on his website and added warning labels.
“I can tell you it’s non-toxic, there’s nothing toxic in it, but once it goes into health, we can’t say more,” said Ovard when asked about the chemical’s health uses. “We give what we think is a safe level of usage as far as consuming it,” said Ovard, warning that the product could cause harm if not properly diluted.
He declined to say how much hydrogen peroxide he sells per year, but said when it gets to be too big, the FDA gets involved.
“I sell a significant amount and I wish I sold more,” said Ovard.
When reached last week, Ovard insisted that his products are not marketed for internal use, though his sites offer bottles as small as 4 ounces, advertised alongside a list of books including “True Power of Hydrogen Peroxide: Miracle Path to Wellness” and “Hydrogen Peroxide: Medical Miracle.”
Dr. Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist and founder of Quackwatch, has been following health-related frauds and misconduct for decades. He said that to market a product online, all that’s needed is a relatively inexpensive website, a hosting service, and a way to drive customers to the site. “That’s one of the reasons I think there are so many websites that are selling products that won’t do you any good,” said Barrett.
Barrett’s point is illustrated by Google’s advertising service, Google Ads. Sign-up is free and customers are only charged when someone engages with their ads, say by watching a video or visiting a website. According to Google policy, “Herbal and dietary supplements with active pharmaceutical or dangerous ingredients” are prohibited.
Nonetheless, until recently, an ad for a website associated with Ovard — Pure Health Discounts — came up at the top of a Google search. “We are investigating this issue and any ads that violate our policies will be removed,” a Google spokesperson said when asked by Undark if such ads complied with Google’s policies. A source at Google later confirmed that 35 percent hydrogen peroxide would be added to the company’s list of prohibited pharmaceuticals and supplements.
Barrett, meanwhile, said no regulation or policy will be effective until the sale of questionable products is no longer profitable.
Prescription and over-the-counter drugs are evaluated by the FDA for safety and effectiveness prior to sale, and they can only be marketed for the specific conditions they have been proven to treat. If they judge it to be medically appropriate, doctors also have some latitude to legally prescribe drugs for so-called off-label uses. The ingestion of hydrogen peroxide, however, has not been approved by the FDA to cure, treat, prevent, or mitigate any disease, so vendors who market hydrogen peroxide for ingestion — or with claims that it can cure or prevent cancer, AIDS, or other ailments by whatever means — are in violation of FDA regulations and they risk criminal prosecution.
Even so, it’s easy to find examples of sellers flouting the law. While the FDA’s Lyndsay Meyer could not comment on specific examples of marketing materials for food-grade hydrogen peroxide found online, she reiterated that it “should not be marketed or sold for human consumption or internal administration.”
“The FDA has never approved high-strength hydrogen peroxide to be taken internally and considers hydrogen peroxide at 35 percent strength dangerous,” Meyer wrote in an email.
Nonetheless, the odds of prosecution for these sorts of violations are slim.
“If someone is confronted with an FDA warning, they can make small changes and hope to stall it off, they can do nothing and hope that the FDA won’t go any further, they can calculate the odds — and they also know that if the FDA does go further, there may not be a financial penalty at the end,” said Barrett.
A website called The Truth About Cancer displays the above image, and claims that hydrogen peroxide “stimulates natural killer (NK) cells, which attack cancer cells as they attempt to spread throughout the body.”
Stopping the sale of dangerous products often takes years. Ephedrine, once marketed for helping with weight loss, increasing athletic performance, and increasing energy, was finally banned by the FDA in 2004 after years on the market. Despite the ban, supplements made from the rest of the Ephedra plant from can still be online.
MMS is a toxic chemical marketed illegally as a drug to cure cancer, AIDS, malaria, and more. After pushing the product as a miracle cure for years, a Washington State man was convicted in 2015 of various charges related to selling the solution — which is a mixture of water and a chemical used as a pesticide and for hydraulic fracking. The following year, an ABC News investigation revealed the chemical was being marketed as part of a scheme by a fringe church. Despite the conviction and a shining national spotlight, MMS, too, can still be purchased online.
Of the 600 companies Barrett says he’s reported to the FDA for marketing violations, he doubts if even a few dozen have received letters warning them to stop.
Because the agency doesn’t pursue a lot of criminal cases, he added, companies “don’t have a lot to lose by defying the FDA.”
Over the last several months, a page on the Pure Health Discounts site filled with customer testimonials touting the benefits of using 35 percent hydrogen peroxide to treat things like Epstein–Barr virus, Lyme disease, warts, and skin cancer has been removed and then re-posted. As of this writing, the page is back online (a PDF of the page as it appeared on August 19 can be viewed here). By publishing such testimonials, Pure Health Discounts appears to be violating FDA regulations, and the agency has issued warning letters to vendors of other products for posting similar testimonials.
Meyer declined to comment on specific sites connected to Ovard and Hovious, nor would she say whether any of the currently public pages comply with FDA regulations. Still, in an email message, she said that in general, “products that claim to cure, treat, prevent, or mitigate diseases despite not having been proven safe and effective for those intended uses would make it an unapproved new drug and a violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.”
Meyer said FDA policy also prevents her from saying if her agency is currently monitoring the couple’s websites, but she said forcing individuals like Ovard and Hovious to comply with federal regulations can be frustrating. “They just stop and change their address or change their labeling and their company and then we’re back at square one, because now it’s a different company — and that’s if we can find them,” Meyer said, adding that when that happens, the process has to start all over again, even if the same individual is behind both companies.
“That’s one of the greatest challenges,” Meyer said, noting that the agency has limited resources and must target investigations carefully. Products that are regulated by the FDA make up some 20 percent of the nation’s consumer spending, Meyer noted, and yet the FDA receives an average of only $8 a year from each U.S. taxpayer. “The issue here with the small companies is that they’re a lot more nimble,” she said — adding that while smaller companies have more violations, it’s often more difficult to hold them accountable.
The vexing realities of this fringe marketplace and the challenges of regulating are not lost on Susan Khan’s son.
“What would happen if Dow was selling this? If Bayer was selling this? If doctors were getting paid by them to recommend it?” he asked. “It would be a monumental scandal.” The younger Khan remains convinced that the ingestion of hydrogen peroxide hastened his mother’s death and robbed them of precious time together. He also argues that while the desperate and uninformed can be easily duped, most people find the idea of ingesting a concentrated, caustic chemical so far-fetched that it’s easy to discount the marginal peddlers who make money off the gullible.
“The fact that they’re scummy, slimy people — it’s giving them, weirdly, this paradox, this protection because no one’s taking them seriously,” Khan said.
“They’re treating them like carnival barkers and no one cares about going after a carnival barker,” he added. “But imagine if the carnival barker was poisoning people.”
Karen Savage is an investigative journalist with a special interest in environmental justice and the effects of science on individuals, families and communities.
UPDATE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly implied that Amazon had changed its policies regarding sales of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide following questions from the writer. The retailer updated its policy earlier this year, prior to initial contact from Undark. The piece also incorrectly described a proton pump inhibitor as a machine. It is a medication.
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Clearly the writers of this haven’t used it .
It’s worse than that — it’s a deliberate hit piece.
This is mostly the same old hype against “alternative medicine” (disguised as objective straightforward facts) that has been spread among the unwitting public at regular intervals. Propaganda works best if repeated frequently, it’s a prime feature of the advertising business.
For example, many of the erroneous twisted accusations and claims against dietary supplements have been quite thoroughly refuted by the real facts — https://www.rolf-hefti.com/vitamin-benefits.html
Anti-“alternative medicine” allegations made by “experts” are primarily meant to mislead the unwitting public and are mainly put out by traditional doctors and other orthodox health care practitioners and their disciples to protect the interests of their conventional medical business that is many times bigger than the alternative medicine industry.
Here’s one glaring example of their deceptions: they want supplements better regulated but a “highly regulated” market such as the medical industry causes with their drugs and services multiple times more damage to public health than the “lightly regulated” supplement industry – the difference in harm is like night and day!!!
My dad purchased some of this for my mom who had Alzheimer’s and at Thanksgiving 2019 my mom couldn’t speak a word. My dad researched this food grade hydrogen peroxide and purchased it. He started putting drops in her cranberry juice every day. Right after Christmas of 2019 that at Thanksgiving we didn’t think my mom would make it to Christmas. However, she did and she looked at me and said Lisa if you don’t get that baby some ice cream I’m going to bust your axx. She was back to talking and improving daily. Then Covid hit and the nursing homes wouldn’t let us in to visit her we had to see her through a glass door. She lasted two weeks and passed away. You can’t tell me this doesn’t work. Even more recent I started to get what I thought was allergies Thursday morning. I put some in a small bottle of orange juice and 30 minutes later my symptoms went away. I tested positive for Covid. I take this every 12 hours and I still don’t have any symptoms. It’s hard to believe this article when I have seen first hand how this works and helps.
The level of pseudoscientific-I-wanna-play-doctor idiocy in this country is appalling, but not surprising. Americans will swallow fried giraffe turd slices if you tell them it’s an ancient African cure for whatever is ailing them.
Nothing like projecting
Um…. They didnt uh… Well…. Do the treatment… Uh correctly. And they didn’t reasearch… Sooooo ya get what ya get. Tough….
You are a tool for Big Pharma.
LIES!! **medical research library** .. all I have to say. There’s your proof. All the proof you need. This article is BS
Whoever wrote this piece is rampantly ignorant. I couldn’t imagine writing a piece so long and detailed knowing I hadnt a lick of personal experience on the matter. That’s what one would call a fool. Just rambling on and on when H2o2 has been proven more than effectively for generations bit EXCEPTIONALLY EFFECTIVE. It’s changed my life in too many ways to count. I haven’t had a single cold or pain in the later 20yrs if taking it. Stop trying to send sick people to their room when they have a perfect solution to turn too…including those affected my mold toxicity. Speak what you KNOW NOT WHAT YOU IGNORANTLY THINK
I have been using hydrogen peroxide food grade for over 30 years and it guve me more energy than any little white pill. I love it. Just don’t drink from the plain briwn bottle. That’s vstupid.
H2O2 is generated naturally in the body. In fact, vitamin-C helps stimulate it. There are many drug concentrations that will cause harm and/or death. Morphine is good under the right conditions, too much is bad.
The writer of this article should look at both sides of any argument before passing judgement. Classic liberalism.
This article is pure fear mongering.
Food grade H2O2 is available from many outlets, is cheap, and as the name suggests, is used in the food industry.
At least twice in your article it states that 1 tablespoon will likely kill you. Quite possibly, but no-one is advocating drinking a tablespoon full. The maximum dose stated on those “dangerous” sites you talk about is 27 drops, which is 1.35ml of 35% H2O2, diluted with 225ml of water, which is a concentration of 0.21% H2O2. This concentration is only used for a short time before ramping down again to a concentration of 0.021% H2O2.
H2O2 is already used in authorised medical protocols including intravenously.
Nebulizing H2O2 at 3% is a very effective and recognised way of killing viruses and bacteria in the respiratory tract and gargling and mouthwashing with 3% H2O2 diluted, 2 parts water with 1 part H2O2, is an inexpensive and very effective mouthwash, oral disifectant and teeth whitener.
Sure, some people make money out of this and some charge over the odds and make wild claims, Big Pharma does the exact same.
You are either too ignorant of your subject to be writing about it for a supposedly serious organisation or you are being extremely disingenuous. I suspect the latter and I have to wonder why you would try to put people off this cheapness effective remedy.
Thank you! I love people of intellect.
Big Pharma and FDA don’t want cures.
Nebulizing 3% H2 cured 73/73 patients of mine with zero remissions even 20 years later.
This writer and article are both radical left lunatics.
It does not matter to me if it does not work for you, every person is different. What makes a person fight against one man’s cure? Because it is another man’s poison makes it wrong for me when it is my cure? The FDA has approved many products that have been deadly to users. This article is way too long; there exists multitudes of proof for the positive benefits of proper use of hydrogen peroxide.
OKay we get it you don’t want people using 35% food grade H2O2 hydrogen peroxide , Big Pharma plays many roles with manything medical business . I have sat here and read for 30 minutes how it’s dangerous how it can mamin and kill. So with all that said about the dangers of HP. You nor any of your many doctors downing the use of HP, NOT ONE SINGLE ONE OF YOU HAS OFFERED NOT ONE DAM THING NOT ONE THING on how do we oxygenate for better health. You can’t say can you because there is NO alternative is there. Undark your keeping people in the dark, why BIG Pharma. Show me something to replace HP. and I’ll come back here and give testimony
This isn’t medicine. It’s cruel and predatory marketing. Disgusting.
i agree with you
Yes, swain this concern Terrific article
works of pharm
I have used HP for a very long time and it works – when used correctly, meaning drink on an empty stomach and use a little to start with because some people are more sensitive than others. I have cured myself of flu and colds right away using HP both food grade and off the shelf. I am 65 and have been in Hospice 2 times with cancer and I do not earn money selling or promoting HP in any way.
I’m glad your sticking to your ways because no one can offer or will offer alternatives . Why because there is Big money in people being sick.
I agree with you
Hello all,
Can anyone please tell me how much they used and how? Is it safe? And what dosages? My mother is at stage 4 gastric cancer and chemo is just killing her.
Thank you.
Go to EARTHCLINIC.com to research testimonies from around the world regarding this snd other natural remedies
Earth clinic is a great website. They also have a YouTube channel. There’s also a book you can get on Amazon- The One Minute Cure, The Secret to Healing Virtually All Diseases. It’s all about food gradeHP.Forget the author.
I’ve been using hydrigen peroxide food grade for over 30 years , and only use a few drops at a time, just like it is recommended. Peoplr who are dying are just ingesting regular peroxide. Hydrogen Peroxide Food Grade will never hurt you put just a few drops in water, orange juice , or any liquid . Never use plain Peroxide, or use teaspoons or tablespoons. That is notvrecommend. Just use an eye dropper with justva few dropsvat a time. Most bottles are clear and may not have instructions and not many doctors have any information on it, likevi said, I’ve been using it for over 30 years ,and lovevit.
What evidence are you referring too? I’m a bit confused how you could make this statement? I would like the scientific evidence on that last statement please.?….Double speak…..maybe this article could be written on the Scientific evidence that makes it Dangerous? (Otherwise this could be idomized as a very Bios influence of black propaganda…..
I experienced the Medical Dr not telling me I had 3stage kidney Disease 4yr. After FGHP CLEANSE I been cured for 4yr. MD said no cure they were eating on me to go to stage 4 for Dialysis. I Fooled Them. I will not be their MONEY MACHINE. I CAN ENJOY LIFE. I am 71
I’m sorry but I have personally done the cleanse but it took about 4 months to do and it had to be done gradually starting at just 3 drops and every 3 days increasing the number of drops until 22 then slowly decreasing, 3 times a day on an EMPTY stomach, from what I can see here dosages were wrong, just like 2 paracetamol will cure a headache, 50 will kill you. I suffered with asthma and had regular bouts of bronchitis, pleurisy and other chest infections about 3 times a year. I’ve not had one since doing this cleanse 11 years ago. Done safely and correctly it’s perfectly safe. I even now dilute my 12% 1 to 250 of distilled water to make a solution of 0.04% to put in a nebuliser, no need for asthma inhalers. This should be looked into but it costs nothing, so no profit
Although I agree over all with the author, it’s concerning they didn’t do thorough research regarding this piece. Amazon didn’t just change their policy bc of the author…as stated at the very bottom in the corrections. Let’s stick to the truth and not embellish to make ourselves look important. The truth here is interesting enough. Also …audience …pls read articles from all media and take it with a grain of salt; check corrections on what you read so we can stop sending on misinformation.
I bet you won’t see any stories on here about people being told to inject bleach. This is just another Big Pharma troll lambasting what she doesn’t understand. 4 years ago I was diagnosed with cancer and thanks to alternative medicine my recent biopsy shows no cancer. Alternative remedies do work but you have to know how to use them.
Who is an expert on alternative medicines that one can trust? Just because someone says they’re an “expert” or “expedienced” means nothing.
You seem to fail to address the efficacy of using the diluted solution and just focus on the danger of the undiluted 35% solution. I believe it was Baylor U. that did a study that touted results of diluted solutions being beneficial.
I agree with you
Hey Karen…how much is big pharma co. PAYING you for all of these lies…they are the peddlers of drugs that has killed millions of suffering people. All they care about is MONEY. What a SICK world !!!
Big Pharma is a disgusting problem. 100% agree.
100% agree with you Johnny
Very good information. Lucky me I recently found your blog by accident (stumbleupon). I have saved as a favorite for later!
This Article is using FEAR n to MANIPULATE the people BECAUSE PROFITS OF MEDICAL SOCIETY & LONGER LIFE ARE INVOLVED.
THIS WORKS ,99%. ..ONLY ADDING ADDING ADDITIONAL MOLECULE OF OXYGEN.
Yes it is using fear and manipulation! I hope all those stories are made up sounds like they just turn the bottle up and drank. I’m new to ho and even i know to start with 1 drop in 12 ounces.
Should we trust the Internet?
No
So what ofthe companies that sell these…are they in business (despite covid) and held accountable?
They can only be held accountable for helping people. The auther is a lier. Worse than the scum on the bottom of your shoe after walking through a porn theatre
I agree with you
I agree with you
I just want to add the anecdote that I’ve been following the H202 therapy for 5 days now and I feel better than I have in months. While I admit, it could be placebo, my inclination is to believe otherwise due to the fact that I had little hope that this protocol would help. The only reason I tried it is because I was at my wit’s end and felt absolutely desperate.
I understand the skepticism people feel about alternative medicine, because I really feel it too. I judged most of the people who spoke of H202 therapy because no mainstream doctors seemed to support it. Everyone I could find that supported it seemed like a soccer mom or a yogi, and while that’s fine, I generally trust scientists and medical doctors with my health.
Well, I’m making it a point to comment wherever I can about how this has helped me because it was other peoples’ anecdotes that finally pushed me to try this sketchy sounding protocol. Hope this helps someone too.
Are you still using hp? And what is your opinion of it now
Hello. If MMS is “toxic”, why are millions of people (including myself) using it worldwide, to successfully address health issues. I suggest rather that you have swallowed “toxic” and untrue news. And I suggest you actually “report”–i.e., dig a little deeper and get the true story of how Daniel Smith was falsely convicted in a case full of illegalities. Hundreds of witnesses on his behalf were barred from testifying. Most telling is that none of the charges against him were “health” or “safety” based. Because the nefarious government (read “big pharma”) prosecution could NOT produce evidence that MMS is unsafe.–Although that was the “cover” reason the FDA and Justice Department circulated misleading statements about MMS. It’s huge and deep and no room here to explain more. But go dig out the truth and you’ll be as incensed as millions of others were about the travesty of justice execute upon an innocent individual.
The disinformation and Dis-education of America since Rockefeller cartelled the medical education publishing business and taught drug oriented medicine instead of nutritional and natural health has caused the pharmaceutical industry to be responsible for many many deaths. Anyone who believes a government agency is not swayed tremendously by industry donations to it’s emplyees and regulatory agents is just plain naive and ignorant. Be more formal education one completes the less intelligent and knowledgeable one becomes.
Yes!
You write a report about the dangers of 35% hydrogen peroxide yet you never give us all the proven studies that it does work. Yes, it will cause harm if not properly followed therapy. Lets look at pharmaceutical poison and the death from side effects and just cause the FDA approves it we should all follow the herd and do what the Doctors(drug pushers) advise us to take! Here’s scientific reasearch you fool!http://foodgrade-hydrogenperoxide.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/TheTruthAboutFGHP.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3DzaaV56CbmGnYpFnAsG-bfo5zdH-NbY5QsKbViKwG77XlaR1-dPnwmVM
This guy penning this article must be a doctor.
Only doctors attack natural remedies in this way.
Medical doctors know we are done with their snake oil chemical pills and they are fighting for their lives.
They are the ones who bought into the snake oil lies OR they knew it was bunk but they needed money to pay their student loans etc.
This country has incredible trauma care but healthcare is 3rd world.
They cant even cure heartburn and diabetes because it makes them too much money.
Stopping Big Pharma and using natural remedies will put this medical mafia out of business.
Lets do it!
Our family uses a natural doctor exclusively and I wish more people could.
We must get Insurance to cover it because we should have a choice.
During the Obamacare debacle, we had to pay penalties while paying for all of our healthcare out of pocket.
Obamacare was illegal too.
Very frustrating
As somebody who’s extensively researched alternative therapies for decades, I was intrigued as to what combination might effectively treat COVID-19. It only took me a short while to determine that high dose Vitman C; Hydrogen Peroxide nebulization (with iodine); Ozone therapy; and combination of immune enhancing vitamins and herbs would do the trick.
I was quite excited to learn in March, 2020 that David Brownstein, M.D. was using almost this exact formula with great success at his clinic in Michigan. He would interview a few of the almost 100 patients he treated, and many had dramatic turnarounds within just an hour or so after treatment. (Kinda makes sense that since H2O2 creates oxygen in the body, that nebulizing it into the lungs would quickly increase oxygen in the lungs). Sounds a LOT safer than a ventilator! Which has a fataility rate of 97%+ in patients over 65.
Here’s the kicker: When the FDA found out about those online videos documenting these remarkable success stories, they contacted this doctor, threatened him, and essentially issued a cease and desist. He ended up having to take down all his videos from Youtube. — Even in the midst of unprecedented health and economic crises, the widespread avarice continues within our “conventional” (think corrupt) health care system.
You seem to fail to address the efficacy of using the diluted solution and just focus on the danger of the undiluted 35% solution. I believe it was Baylor U. that did a study that touted results of diluted solutions being beneficial.
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Reading the comments give me hope for humanity. The author of the article is clearly a fool. Well done fellow humans using some critical thinking. Again, gives me hope.
My exact thoughts , im reading the comments expecting the typical gullible sheep to praise the disinformation ohh so cleverly disquised as credible science , it sounds pretty smart and throws out a bunch of Dr’s, proff., universitys, studies , ect to add the impression its legit , and that is why it is soo dangerous …we are so blessed to live in the age of information , where we have everything at our fingertips , and sadly that includes everything bad, misleading, wrong and harmful , how do we know what to trust , who to believe ? Finding factual honest truth amongst all the garbage is like looking for a needle in the hay stack ….however maybe people are waking up , reading the opposition gave me back somehope in humanity as well, and a newfound appreciation for the comment section and reviews …now days when i am looking for services, merch, or any product, i hardly pay any attention to the company claims or commercials but go directly to the opinions of actual people who have used, purchased the item and base my descision to buy on that alone ….hell i even use them for which netflix series i wanna start watching too….power to the people , if we dont stand for something , we will fall for anything ….
The FDA is one of the most crooked organizations in the world.
All about Money. Its funny how most all medical doctors push chemo and radiation (FDA approved) pure poison but they make a crap load of money off it. I can tell you at least 15 people that died from chemo, but they scare the hell out of people telling them its your only chance. Anything taken wrong can hurt you. Heck doctors don’t believe in any vitamins or herbs because they can’t make money from vitamins, (most of them) not all of them. My fiance had her2 negative breast cancer(metastasis) but uses all natural vitamins and herbs. The natural therapies work when done properly. In some clinics in Japan and Europe they even do hydrogen peroxide therapy IV. But its done correctly and it works.
Because it works!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417441/
My goodness.This was click-bait. The poor woman was ALREADY dying of RECURRING and metastasized cancer for goodness sake! The author has a nerve to even suggest her peroxide habit was the cause? Do I agree that it is irresponsible to ingest copious amounts of 35% peroxide? Yes. Do I believe a person should have the freedom to choose that for themselves? Also; Yes. But I do NOT appreciate the pandering nor misleading title.
did u even do any research prior to writing this obviously one sided publicity piece? have you tried to find people who say this worked for them and reached out for more info?? NO!! if you value true journalism, consider a follow up article, otherwise my comments stand.
16000 people die from nsaid and aspirin complications every year and this moron writer is worried about 300 ‘overdoses’ over 10 years. People like this writer are killing people.
You could say all you want. I’m not sure why this is such a threat to the medical company but this works I’m a living example. Major Jaw infections: when I take this the infection goes away and I have ZERO pain. There’s no money in this for you. There’s a lot of money in chemo but it doesn’t work
I have taken H2 02 many times and followed the protocol in the 1 minute cure book, On a positive note I can say my energy was very high mostly, and I slept very well. I first found out about this from my brother and his friend a DR who had Prostate cancer stage 4, he had used this and cured himself when the medical industry told him to get his affairs in order.
We all know that big Pharma are in this for the money and not for the love of the people and that the engineering behind keeping the human race dumb down started many years ago and there are no limits that these people will go to, to keep hold of the power reigns, and i mean no limits.
The problem with human testimony is humans are unreliable and very poor at looking at things objectively. There are plenty of people out there swearing by their copper bracelets making their pain go away, does that mean it’s real? No, it means humans are in general very stupid and a certain amount of them will buy into just about anything.
Look at how many believe in Fairy Tale religions and act like that’s not ridiculous.
I do believe that someone can feel when they are in pain…..and also feel when the pain stops…….
Your webpage looks like a very well set up disinformation page designed to stop people from using H2O2 by using fear, cherry picked instances of stupidity and downright bullying tactics….. Who is paying your bills I wonder to do this…..??
Your reply indicates you sell Hydrogen Peroxide – who do you work for?
There was a study in 2018 that proves H020 kills lung cancer.
“In conclusion, H2O2 inhibited the growth of Calu‑6 and A549 lung cancer cells through cell death and G1‑phase arrest. H2O2‑induced cell death resulted from necrosis, as well as caspase‑dependent apoptosis.”
www .ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29956787
There was a study in 2018 that proves H020 kills lung cancer.
“In conclusion, H2O2 inhibited the growth of Calu‑6 and A549 lung cancer cells through cell death and G1‑phase arrest. H2O2‑induced cell death resulted from necrosis, as well as caspase‑dependent apoptosis.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29956787
And yes the sky is falling, wow wake up eveyone, valerie K., u don’t know a thing about this all cure, oh and the tineline has started, I know we as Human Beings r better than these posts make us out 2 b. If only all of us were the Awsome badass beings that were capable of. There’s a sinister reason why were not. If we were there, All you’d have 2 do is touch a hand 2 mine and like one’s life flashing in ur minds eye, Then u would know truth and what I’ve experienced watching other Human Beings inclding myself take 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide. Tell u
What right @ this moment. 1/28/2018 some one thats been in my life 4 over 12yrs has started the step up step down program. I Pray i started administerng it in time. I will update, u really wana know what i know? You will. Distill and make ur H20 @ home, give Woodwardtv on youtube a vid or 2 of ur time. Use ur own discernmemt.
I have been using HP35& for over a year now.I’m a 60 year old male.I have not felt healthier for a very long time. I dont know where some of you people, get your info from,saying that it’s harmful and will kill you. It has had the opposite effect on my body. I see a number of specialists,and they marvel at how good I’m doing. There is my 2 cents,for what its worth.
You seem to fail to address the efficacy of using the diluted solution and just focus on the danger of the undiluted 35% solution. I believe it was Baylor U. that did a study that touted results of diluted solutions being beneficial.
If people want to use it let them. Just make sure they use it safely and intelligently. My wife had great cancer and used only alternate products. She got one from Calif. but was thwarted when the powers that be restricted treatment to certain medically approved protocols. She was no longer able to get a product here that had been used for years in Europe. After 5 years her Dr who wouldn’t help her with alternative treatment seeing how healthily she was took out a yellow pad and asked her for a list of her alternative medicines.
How can people really be so stupid, I have read enough testimonials that HP35 FG has helped many from a long list of ailments that MD’s just masked with their treatments. For people that are about to die from any disease what do they have to lose.
I find it interesting that this Detroit hospital reported 30 to 50 cases per year from being poisoned from the use of 35% hydrogen peroxide, yet they failed to mention how many people they have legally killed from prescribing medication causing complications and complications in surgery that were not necessary Exe…. the number of deaths I’m sure exceed 250,000 per year in Hospitals like this one, my father was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer one day he was talking to a friend who had a son who was a cancer doctor Who (” treats and cures people from cancer with radiation and other treatments”) my father told him that he was diagnosed with cancer in the prostate my father’s friend immediately called his son and asked if you could recommend anything for my father and his answer was tell your friend to stay away from radiation treatments because they kill people.
I am heartened by the comments here.. Perhaps I live in a bubble but it seems to me that more and more people are waking up to the fraud and crime of the establishment. Chemo is a crime against humanity..
I truly appreciate the effort you put into this article. I believe that for the most part you have good intentions.
The first point I want to make is that you simply cannot dismiss the body of positive testimonials regarding H2O2 therapy. There is enough support to substantiate the many reports of positive/healing effects of H2O2 to at least consider there might be some value to the therapy. To add to this, there are literally hundreds of thousands of different pharmaceutical medications available on the market. Every single one of them have potentially life-threatening side-effects. Yet they are not outlawed nor are they banned from distribution. Further, the patients who take pharmaceutical medications are not labeled morons or idiots when certain pharma meds cause negative side effects, and typically the pharma companies continue selling the medications even AFTER many people have died from using their meds. As with ALL medications and related products such as H2O2, YOU HAVE TO USE IT ACCORDING TO PROPER PROTOCOLS. The people who choose to adapt a different protocol on their own, with NO ADVICE FROM AN EXPERT are almost always the ones we hear about who have suffered substantial and serious side effects from using an H2O2 regimen.
The second point I want to make is that you mentioned a gentleman who wanted to place his wife on the H2O2 therapy after she had been diagnosed with cancer FOR THE FOURTH TIME. There are volumes of testimonials from people who didn’t just survive the cancer treatment using H2O2, but who regained their health completely! I have yet to find one single cancer patient who has undergone the traditional radiation/chemical therapy and came out the better because of it. Survival rates are measured in 1, 2, and 5+ year intervals. This is important to note because the number of cancer survivors is not measured past the five-year mark. If it was measured, we would find the vast majority of ALL CANCER PATIENTS WHO HAVE UNDERGONE TRADITIONAL PHARMA TREATMENTS EVENTUALLY DIED AS A RESULT OF THE TREATMENTS, AND NOT THE CANCER!!! The whole concept of treating cancer by using radiation and toxic cancer-causing chemicals is absurd. And the white-washing of the chemo/radiation therapies to make them appear safe is at its very best both immoral and unethical.
The third point is closely related to my second point. Upwards of 2,000 people die every single day in the United States from cancer. TWO THOUSAND!! That’s roughly 1.4 people every single minute. In the time it takes to read your article, literally dozens of people have died from cancer. This is a damning testimonial to the benefits of traditional radio/chemo therapies used in treating cancer patients. And yet without citing even one substantiated death directly attributed to H2O2 cancer treatments, you wish to condemn the practice because, as I mentioned already, you have a few knuckle-heads who take it upon themselves to use H2O2 in a manner recommended by NO ONE.
Further, when it comes to viable treatment options, it only makes sense that cancer researchers, doctors, pharma companies, advertising companies, etc would be adamantly opposed to allowing such “unorthodox” treatments to be accepted as beneficial when it would eliminate over $150 BILLION in cancer research alone! This does not account for the estimated $100 billion paid out to oncologists, or the billions paid out to all the others who are in line to grab their share of the cancer windfall.
And you actually had the audacity to insinuate the FDA had issued warnings to vendors selling H2O2 who used testimonials supporting use of H2O2. This is a patently false statement with absolutely no merit. They issued warnings to several companies spanning the entire spectrum of supplements and non-traditional medicines for making claims that were not researched and/or approved by the FDA, that is to say, their claims were “unsubstantiated”.
So who exactly are the REAL peddlers making money off the gullible?
I just retired from our mainstream Healthcare “Cartel”. I could’ve worked a few more years, but I could no longer live with deceiving the public. I am too awake to just keep rolling with the program. I read five hours of every day for a few decades now just to hone my bullshit radar and to undo the programming I was subjected to by the expensive private educational institutions my parents wasted their money on. I read an average of 70 books a year. I read anything and everything, because one has to know all sides of any story to understand what is really going on in our lives. I get so emotional when I am asked just one question, because my mind goes into so many tangents and and I cannot say in a paragraph everything I want to say about any subject matter. There is so much to know and I doubt that many people read or do research as much as I do. I am very grateful for the “Robert” who has posted a few comments here. Like him, I often get impatient with the ignorance of people that presume mainstream is always the safe way to go, approved by AMA, and all the other “credentialed” organizations. Yeah, right! Working in the Healthcare Cartel, those who are awake to the truth could not make our knowledge public because we would be damned. Everyone should read the true history of the (Rockeffeller-funded) AMA that is controlling our healthcare system. Read the Flexner’s Report. Why do you think a former editor of the most prestigious journal of medicine stated that “most scientific studies are bought and paid for”? During my last few months of work, I read that the Lancet (a prestigious medical journal) finally published an article acknowledging that fluoride is toxic . I mentioned it to a cardiologist sitting next to me. I told him I had stopped using fluoride over a decade ago. People take for granted that ads on mainstream media promoting fluoride and all the other Big Pharma products are all good for them. An article like this replete with frequent mention of the “FDA” is reassuring to the ignorant lot. The FDA is not on your side! The FDA is not the federal organization that it is pretending to be. It is nothing but a private corporate entity, just like the corporation that is running our country and is maligning our duly elected president. Wake up everyone! The AMA is not there to protect you. It is just another goon of an organization contributing to the control system. The Healthcare Cartel is not out to cure you, but to make you a permanent customer. Instead of berating people like Robert here, read, read, and read. “The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate”. Start with watching the movie (for free), “Thrive”. It is on YouTube. Read or watch all the 700 plus interviews on Project Camelot, especially the three-part interview of Dr. Pete Peterson. And by the way, McCain was executed. He did not die of brain cancer.
Misuse of H2O2 can lead to bubbles and the bloodstream or your stomach to rupture. That is no lie. The MSDS lists rapid oxidation as a danger if ingested.
H2O2 has been found to cause apoptosis in cancer cells in forming some kind of molecular peroxide-iron bridge. I found this out in reading up on cancer research using artemisinin (from Artemisia annua also known as Wormwood or Qing hao) performed by a University of Washington professor whose name I have forgotten.
I am by no means a doctor or scientist. They are smart lads and lasses, but certainly have not figured out everything. Caution and more research is recommended.
I’m sorry I have to post again. I just read a comment from someone saying HP is essentially bleach. I’m laughing as I type. That guy has no idea what they are talking about. This is basic knowledge. Acidity versus alkalinity. In short, HP is the opposite of bleach. Freakin idiots like that post saying that is why people are so lost on this topic. Give an idiot a voice and watch another idiot follow, heck probably even enough power in words to make some of the smart people gravitate to your argument. I’m done. Don’t believe this article. The people who were hurt took the dose wrong. Dilute, dilute, dilute.
Ps: the nerve to pull on the heart strings of the readers by mentioning that pooor 2 year old who died from respiratory failure from drinking pure HP was just tasteless.
There is sooo much wrong with this article. Extremely biased and there seems to be and idiot of an author or someone hired by some shady government or pharmaceutical officials. Fun fact: Pharmas ties are so deep that it is now illegal to ship 35% grade HYDROGEN PEROXIDE through US Postal Services. I forget the UK’s change in law but they have jumped on the same corrupt wagon under the guise of “helping the people” because we don’t know whats good for us (like marijuana lol). The corruption is truly laughable and makes the credibility of governments and big pharma highly questionable and scam-like. Vendors of the 35% grade HP have had to dilute their products to 12% to bypass the US’s shipping law so there’s that. On another note; buy an alakaline water machine. It’s all about pH balance in terms of health. A good one will cost you a thousand bucks but it’s better than paying a doctor 30k for chemo when all they are doing is knowingly killing you and selling you a dream ( the real snake oil sails men btw ). How did simple biology become so corrupt. Blame doctors and egos. I’m smarter than you because I am a doctor blah blah blah. Another fun fact: Most doctors don’t crap about alkalinity or organic diets because it is not taught in med school. Imagine that smh. Whole worlds a “bad movie”.
I read the book and I decided to try it. Figured I’m probably going to die anyway if I don’t start getting better soon. I was trying to heal Lupus and/or my Chronic Lyme. Little did I know that I also had a basal cell carcinoma. I thought it was a parasite trying to get the heck out of Dodge since I was doing parasite flushes at the time. I was told they would get out any way they could. So I ignored the little bugger for 6 months.
When I started the H202 Protocol, my carcinoma started going away before I even knew what it was. It took a month to get a diagnosis so they could get me on the surgery schedule which of course I was highly pressured to have done, in their time. By the time my surgery date rolled around another month later, my lesion was 95% gone. I canceled my surgery. I called twice to cancel to make sure it was canceled yet on the day of surgery, they called to ask why I wasn’t there. They pretended I didn’t call so they could bill me. They insisted that THEY and only THEY could determine if indeed it was going away. Essentially told me some very scary stuff so that I would come in for an appointment at least which I’m certain they will use to do another biopsy. There is money in them thar biopsies! That isn’t going to happen. We already know what it is and it is obviously going away.
Do I trust this doctor and this group? Hell no. I’m going to go for he sheer fun of it. My insurance will pay for that. They won’t pay for anything that actually gets me better or heals me however. At the time I started the protocol. I had no idea I had skin cancer. I wasn’t expecting that my lesion was cancer and that the H202 protocol would make it go away but it did. My primary care doctor told me my lesion was an ingrown hair but was too large for him to remove in the office so sent me to dermatology to remove it. They remove nothing they don’t biopsy first. If I had known it was cancer, I would have refused the biopsy. Cutting through a cancerous lesion can spread the cancer throughout the body. When I told the nurse that, she denied that that was a concern. That was a lie. Since I started the H202 protocol shortly after the biopsy, that probably saved me from having it spread. Once I saw a photo of a basal cell carcinoma, no biopsy would have been necessary since it was a spitting image of the textbook photo. Risky and dangerous way they treat people these days. Makes one wonder if they are deliberately trying to spread people’s cancers.
I am also working with a functional doctor who is helping me try to heal my leaky gut that is keeping me sick. He thinks his work is healing my cancer and it might be but I don’t think I’m there yet – too soon. I think the cancer is being destroyed by the H202 protocol. Insurance doesn’t pay this doctor either. All out of pocket. Nothing that cures a person is covered by insurance. If insurance covers it, you can be certain that you will not get well with whatever they are selling.
I’m going to keep doing this protocol because I know it works.
I have used it by following a strict guideline in how to mix the hydrogen peroxide 35% food grade with distilled water and I have never looked back. There is a protocol to follow and it is no joke. It is applied a certain number of drops to a certain amount of distilled water. If you do not apply it that way then you are asking for trouble and I would not recommend it to anyone. It is to be applied within a certain time lapse before or after taking food. It is also to be taken in certain increments of drops per day if one decides to take it for a prolonged period. This is something that Big Pharma would readily frown at and also the highly corrosive nature of H2O2 can be abused or misused. My concern is for practical health purposes and it can be useful, I have no doubt about it.
it can damage the liver if you overdose
3% solution ONLY
Look People,
I know big pharma is all about money and not a true champion of health.
However!
hydrogen peroxide is essentially bleach… whilst the human body produces it in very small quantities as part of your immune system, it’s also stored in such a way that it doesn’t cause you any real harm even when it gets used by your body.
Things that the body produces itself for it’s benefit are not found in our natural diet and our bodies don’t need us to ingest these chemicals extracted or synthetic.
So h202 is something the body can use But it is very dangerous and you’re playing russian roulette by drinking it or injecting as some people do.. diluted bleach is still bleach.
The risks far outweigh the benefits… it’s not worth it at all and your body can make it itself in a totally safe and controlled manner.
The root of disease is toxicity and deficiency So detoxing and consuming enough of the vitamins and minerals the body needs is the most sensible thing to do.
Rather then drinking bleach you could eat raw garlic which is anti viral, fungal, bacteria etc and drink wheatgrass which cleanses the blood.
There’s no way i’m drinking bleach. it’s retarded.
My son has a rare cancer and was sent home after a surgery with no treatment. I pleaded for chemo or anything. With no avail. He was given pain medicine and nothing else. I had used H2O2 on myself and husband a few years back. I had the book given to me back when. I read the studies from the doctor who spent over 80,000$ of his own money. He had documentation of real clinical trials. aids and cancer cured. ….I asked my son to try this treatment. He did. Before he got to the max dose. We went to the cancer hospital. He was in much pain. After 4 days on palliative care. The doctors could not explain where the tumors had gone. They were there when he was released home in September. Now he had scar tissue and no active tumors or cancer. That is called Faith and nature . Chemo is poison. h202 is not.
This article is just another example of disinformation being peddled by the establishment who want to make every decision for us, tell us what we can and can’t think, take or investigate. Now why is that…??? Quite simply, I’ve used it to for a variety of things with success EVERY time. There’s no money in natural substances…. and just who are these people to invade our prerogative to imbibe what nature has put on this earth for us. It is LORE. Not their law….
I am not writing to post, but rather asking a question of the author – Years ago my sister had H2O2 treatments from a rheumatologist friend of hers for God knows what and at the time I thought this was crazy. As a biochemist, the thought of an IV infusion of hydrogen peroxide is scary to say the least. I noted you did not mention this in your article – did you run across anyone still applying this treatment via IV?
For everybody who is downplaying the article(which is pretty much everybody), Please do not listen to promoters of alternative medicine. They speak of “Big Pharma” and their quest to make money, then charge you a small fortune for a treatment which has no scientific evidence of working. Yes, many people have been cured of their illnesses while taking their cures, but almost as many people have died. Just remember that doctors are out there to help you, not to take your hard-earned money like the promoters of alternative medicine. Also, new studies show that cancer cells produce their own H2O2, presumably to help the cells grow, and can survive perfectly fine when oxygen is present. Therefore, by chugging H2O2 you might be helping your cancer as well as destroying your bloodstream. The only way H2O2 can kill cancer is by killing you first, then starving the cancer cells of all the nutrients your body makes.
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer (Gleason scale 6) in August 2018. I am 50 years old. It was discovered because I got my PSA number (which was 4.9) during routine blood tests. I am most likely going to have my prostate removed in December to battle this deadly disease (as opposed to radiation). In the meanwhile, I am following the guidelines laid out in “The One Minute Cure.” I am going to ask for another PSA test to be performed prior to the surgery to see if that 4.9 has dropped. I’ll report back here when I have more information (one way or the other).
Hey Jonathan, I just was curious if the HP had helped you or not….or if you have found out yet. I’m thinking of starting HP just for overall health, I just turned 41 this year. Thanks!
Hey I was also wondering did the Food Grade H202 qork
The author is just hyping for the toxic chemical industry and probably works for DOW Chemical. It is those chemicals that are the number one cause of cancer! The main usage of food grade hydrogen peroxide is as an alternative to chlorine, which is one of the most health destroying chemicals in the world, and other extremely deadly chemicals people use and then breath and get on their skin slowing destroying their health and causing diseases. The anger over the cancer death she speaks of was not caused by the person trying to address it with hydrogen peroxide. It was caused by the toxic chemicals the author wrote the huge hit piece is marketing for by attacking safe natural products. Hydrogen peroxide is only water and oxygen and is not toxic. Thousands of people die each year by accidentally swallowing toxic household chemicals. The author is fine with that. The number of accidents with hydrogen peroxide is virtually non existent by comparison. The author of this blog is outright marketing cancer and almost every other deadly disease by attacking a purely natural alternative to deadly household chemicals.
I looked at the websites of the companies she attacks and none promise any health cures. She’s just lying about that. Anyone who uses the deadly chemicals she wants people to use like chlorine is a fool. Only a fool puts chlorine in their swimming pool, laundry or for kitchen usage. Read the websites of all the 100% legitimate even mainstream medical studies of how chlorine is so health destroying it was literally used in chemical warfare. Hydrogen peroxide is the safe alternative.
Most the companies she attacks have been in business for decades and offer what she wants outlawed. They offer non-toxic and holistic products for those who want them as their own personal choice and for people who want natural holistic alternative to deadly household chemicals. The author also outright lies as not one of the businesses she attacks sells MMS. Also notice how she tries to make fun of them for not being mega billion dollar chemical companies that are probably paying her to attack natural, holistic and safe products. Shame on her and thank goodness for those small companies. For those of us that prefer natural products over toxic chemicals her blog is really an solid endorsement of those small businesses.
To All
Read the book: The one minute cure
Educate yourself
If you use the product properly you will get positive results.
Just more smoke and mirrors by big Pharma.
Figure it out people, everything in this country revolves around money. It was legal in the USA until big Pharma lobbyists paid our government officials to pressure doctors that were successful with this treatment. That includes the Doctor who performed the first heart transplant,
Just like marijuana was legal in the USA. Again big Pharma pulling the strings on our government that was supposed to be government by the people for the people. Again they screw us with their propaganda. Just because it’s on the news doesn’t mean it’s true check your facts people.
I did a variation of the H202 protocol, adding drops every day over 3 weeks for chronic fatigue. Cured and never came back. Only sleep 6-7 hours from that time on. You can die from drinking too much water. Educated yourself and use it properly.
As an alternative to bleach, we use hydrogen peroxide and its relative, powdered oxiclean, as laundry booster, deck cleaner, to remove slippery moss on wooden footbridges, and to kill household mold and mildew. Living in a coastal temperate rainforest, it is one of our basic cleaners. But not an internal medicine
I read the article with citations, listed below.
I could not find any study that demonstrated how ingesting hydrogen peroxide has shown any benefits in people. Most of the cited studies dealt with oxygen and its toxicity to pathogens. Some deal with hydrogen peroxide and its conversion by bacteria into toxic and lethal byproducts. There was nothing to show that ingesting hydrogen peroxide oxygenates the blood.
I’m not averse to the idea that ingesting this chemical might have therapeutic value, but citing irrelevant journal articles does not help the cause.
I can’t help wondering “Why allegedly smart people can be so silly?!”
The modern science is neither the “know-it-all”, nor the only way to learn things, just sorting the wheat from the chaff.
While people are mostly ignorant, gullible, and suggestible, yet where is there critical thinking going, I wonder?
Three simple questions:
1) What is really the issue?
2) What is the proponent’s claim?
3) What reasons they offer to support it?
Nowadays, charlatans internationally market unapproved (neither efficient, nor safe) stuff to the desperates, hoping that needy clients could make another loud “successful story” right before dying silently soon–or go for the mainstream medicine, yet ascribe any good to phony potions.
Indeed, Death kills too
To Nick,
I guess I am using my history classes from school after all. If people knew why the FDA, USDA, and EPA were created maybe they would have more trust in “The Man”. The fact that people were being poisoned willy nilly by medicines and food and industrial wastes is why the government stepped in and said things have to be shown to be safe.
This is truly astounding. The level of misinformation, lack of basic science, and the willingness to “believe” has turned our nation into gullible idiots. Physicians are currently under Gag Orders, to not discuss these quack cures with patients. They simply laugh uncomfortably when the topic comes up. Perhaps they are told that they can’t interfere with peoples’s “faith.” We are in Post Fact America, where any stupid idea is just as valid as factual information.
I listen to people swapping health tips, really unhealthy looking people, with multiple health issues. It is horrific, a Diabetic, claiming that most actual food is bad, and recommending orange juice for Diabetes. She claimed the Vitamin C would cure her Diabetes. This was after she had half of her foot amputated. Doctors will not confront this issue, since many believe it is a matter of faith. Doctors are not allowed to do any negative criticism, of food labeling, junk food, or useless supplements. WAe are Post Fact now!
Lots of research and medical citations in this document. https://www.scribd.com/doc/50616001/Food-Grade-Hydrogen-Peroxide-The-Truth
Check out the source documents and the doctors involved, and the study information… then make your own decision. This article is very biased, and very lacking in science, truth, or the beauty of truth and science…
I appreciate Margaret’s post (and others that are respectful). I question the author’s scientific credentials. I read her bio on her website. Saw nothing about science, either in terms of personal interest or a degree. Investigative journalists tend toward sensationalism. More people get injured from ingesting water than from ingesting hydrogen peroxide. Exponentially more. Probably more get injured from accidentally ingesting bleach. Even if the author has a science degree, it still doesn’t negate the poor attention to scientific detail and consideration.
As to Margaret’s post, which is what I intended to focus on, it is true that there are a lot of unnecessary supplements being touted as “miracle cures” or much more mildly, as just a “good idea, why not?”. My physician, circa 2008, had me on an insane regimen of fish oil, Vitamin B complex (timed release! must be time-released!), cinnamon (not extract! Not Ceylon cinnamon, the other kind, or it won’t work!), magnesium (first it had to be magnesium oxide, then he changed it to something else)…there was a lot more on my list. I still have a spreadsheet somewhere, which I made to keep track of that insane regimen.
I’m quite sure he didn’t profit off of the vitamin sales because his favored brands were all over the place. He was using me as a lab rat, along with his other patients. Badly, as it turns out. With that many variables, and the inability of people to follow directions, I’m not sure what he intended to learn. He claimed he used patient feedback to create customized, genome-specific, vitamin regimens. This was demonstrably false. I learned about the guy from a co-worker.
We went over our regimens and they were identical. Doctor’s “updates” were identical. The co-worker was not biologically related to me. Genome-specific dietary recommendations without a DNA test. Hmmm…not all doctors are scientists. He did, however, know the code to order the wheat gluten test for celiac alleles on chromosome 6. No other doctor knew that. I asked for the test, received it, and I confirmed what I suspected, and learned a bit more. I have a celiac allele and one deemed “unverified” (but not wild type/”normal”). I had been on a gluten-free diet for some time, but I wanted to confirm it. I’ve read enough investigative journalist hit pieces on how the gluten-free thing is a fad. They usually cite the percentage of “less than 1%” so you’re probably faking it. The most eminent researcher, that I know of, at Columbia University (not a “fad” university) cites that a minimum 3% of the U.S. population carry one of the alleles. At minimum, 3% of the population must consider the possibility that bread just isn’t for them. But that would cause rioting in the streets. Better, easier, more fun to say we’re crazy to question modern bread. Makes for a good read. Same for bashing GMOs. Even Bill Nye does that now. Fun fact: Bill Nye is not a scientist. Never was. Bad comedian. Some will counter that he holds a degree in mechanical engineering, which requires science training. Whatever. His show didn’t teach science. It showed magic tricks. Even Mr. Wizard lamented that those who watched his show would come away thinking that they’d watched a science show. “Mr. Wizard.” Think about it.
Back to my doctor story…My colleague and I traded notes, along with cinnamon burps (if you take six capsules, three times daily, that’s a real thing, and sometimes you actually burp a powdery gas cloud) and concluded that, a) this is annoying, b) we have 6 bowel movements per day, and c) we need night jobs to pay for this. Oh, d) what are we accomplishing? And, so, we moved on.
There is a really good article about the whole self-experimentation, “health-hacking” thing going on, fueled by the internet, specifically message boards. There are dozens of good articles in that. The hydrogen peroxide thing would make an excellent article. I’d write it myself but I’d need to quit my day job and research it assiduously. Peer-reviewed research will not be much use here. But it would be interesting to hear more from doctors and clinicians–and also those who adhere to a peroxide regimen and have verifiable health claims.
For other aspiring investigative journalists, here’s a good article: Our current dietary guidelines, marketed as MyChoice…try adhering to that diet…seriously, try it: go to USDA’s Supertracker and enter in your diet for one day. You will not achieve the “correct” nutrients, amount of saturated fats, calories, food group adherence, and so on. Not without Vitamin D milk and fortified cereals. Cannot be done. And even with Vitamin D milk and cereal, it is very, very difficult. If you have certain food allergies or intolerances, it is impossible). That’s also a good article I’ll never write.
So I may be overly pedantic on these topics. I rant about health on the internet. So it goes. Without hearing about celiac from people who sounded like unhinged lunatics on the internet, I would still have osteoporosis, eczema, ataxia, tremors, etc. Simple elimination diet after years of being prescribed steroid creams or told it was in my head. Hypochondriasis. One nice doctor gave me 30 count Valium. 10 mg. With a refill!
Dismiss internet “crazies” at your peril. Accept medical advice without question at your peril. Be a scientist–in the true form of the discipline. It’s hard work. So is investigative journalism. The topic of this article deserves better treatment. And call me if you want to know the tricks to get the explosive elephant toothpaste demo. It requires 35% (or 30%) H2O2, is very fun, and is only sort of science if I tell you how to make it work. I’ve gone through dozens of trials with it, and it’s still not as good as the best ones you’ll see on the internet. But replicability is part of science, too.
Some interesting points being made here – the level of conversation has really climbed since my earlier post. We’d all benefit if people posted links to support the specific claims they make in their posts, now that we’ve gotten the anonymous testimonials out of the way…
A correction: one sentence reads in part “put on an intravenous proton pump inhibitor, a machine typically used for people with severe stomach ulcers and stomach acid.” A proton pump inhibitor is a type of medication (examples include nexium and Prilosec) that inhibits secretion of acid by the stomach, not a machine.
As a physician, I wish there were some way to increase the level of trust between doctor and patient when it comes to the discussion of alternative therapies. A good physician really just wants to help people heal, and tries to work with the best available evidence possible to decide appropriate treatment. There are so many sources of bad information. It’s not just the pharmaceutical companies that are looking to make money off sick people. Remember that those who peddle so-called alternative therapies also have a vested financial interest.
This is so biased and poorly researched that it’s laughable.
I have used 35% food grade H2O2 every day for 8 years, and I’m super healthy. I don’t get colds, flu, infections, or allergies, much less cancer.
Unlike the author of this biased and inaccurate article, you have to educate yourself and do proper research to understand what you’re working with.
You have to dilute 35% H2O2 for internal use, and take mere drops in a cup of water a few times a day. That’s WAY less than even the 3% concentration in the stuff from the drugstore – even that is too concentrated to use internally. In fact, you still have to dilute 35% pretty heavily for external use as well.
Also, no one who truly supports health is out “hunting” their next “victim” on the internet, as this author suggests. How many times do you actually see ads for health supplements online, in magazines, and on TV compared to the blast of pharmaceutical commercials pushing drugs left and right? People who want health are seeking it out and of their own free will are trying their infinite options – because it’s definitely NOT being shoved down people’s throats in their living rooms and doctors offices.
The mainstream Western medical system is so broken that medical errors are actually the 3rd leading cause of death. Compare that to the 30 cases of “poisoning” (not death, but “poisoning”) a year from H2O2. Which one poses a bigger risk?
Further, the data clearly shows that for some cancers your 5 year survival rate is actually better for taking NO TREATMENT AT ALL vs. choosing one or a combination of the only 3 “legally” available options for cancer care – chemo, radiation, surgery.
People have every right and responsibility to share healthcare solutions that actually work. There are MANY options for reversing many diseases including cancer…unlike chemo and radiation and surgery, which kill WAY more people than H2O2 every year.
She would not change her tune because there are no scientific studies supporting it. Zero. None. No peer-reviewed, published studies that okay this therapy. Please wake up.
I get a sense of false and disingenuous outrage from this writer. No one buys the stuff to consume at 35%. The photo from the health food store is sensationalist garbage. Rather than write this article, tell the store owner to put it in the back if it so offends your sensibilities. Tell your city council to ban liquor stores. (I’ll fight ‘ya on that one, though.)
I’ve followed different protocols for ingesting H202 in small doses (the math is clearly spelled out on the label…not hard). Guess what? It didn’t work for me. (I had a specific and measurable objective, lest someone try and out-science me on this. Dietary/other lifestyle variables were as controlled in my trial as in any experiment, publishable or not, which is to say…yeah, call me if you’ve done experimental research. No study is 100% controlled.) Anecdotal evidence suggests H202 therapy does work for some people. The people might be wrong. I have only one horse in this game: science.
What a lot of scientists (and science writers) forget, or have never learned, is that anecdotal evidence can drive science forward. When van Helmont did that experiment with a single willow tree, he concluded that the tree’s mass did NOT come from the soil. That experiment is in fourth grade textbooks. Note he was completely wrong in his conclusion about where the tree’s mass DID come from. Now we know it’s CO2 from the air. The point is…he was onto something. So was Alexander Fleming when he did a badly controlled experiment and discovered penicillin. Bad science is science. Anecdotes helped me solve my own, unrelated, health issues. You’ll find none of this stuff in JAMA or by doing a Pub Med search.
As for “something something Big Pharma”…actually, yes. Turns out that pharmaceutical companies invest in things that make outrageous returns on their investments. They do not much care for marginal returns. Does this mean H202 cures cancer (or improves health)? I have no definitive evidence for or against it. And neither does anyone else. If research has been done, I can presuppose that it was biased and flawed. That’s not scientific, that’s just how science works these days. The “pro” camp cherry picks research. The “con” camp does the same. Mendel walking around in a robe examining peas…Lavoisier dinking around discovering oxygen…those days are gone. Science, now, is also a business.
In 1980, Time told me that eggs caused heart disease. We have–and have had, for many years…like thousands–definitive evidence that eggs are good food for most human beings. We won’t have definitive evidence about the potential health benefits of hydrogen peroxide, ever.
In conclusion, if not for the health food market, I wouldn’t be able to access this chemical for fabulous elephant toothpaste demos…the shipping would cost cost more than the chemical itself if I were to buy it online.
I think all the H202 you’ve ingested has affected your ability to write coherent, punctuated sentences, Catherine. Then again, I’ve grown accustomed to your sort of replies in every comment section online.
Interesting read. Didn’t realize this existed!
You all keep drinking your H202, I’ll stick to my gin.
The whole hydrogen peroxide “cure” thing is amazingly similar to the “MMS” (Miracle Mineral Solution) that has been “invented” and “promulgated” by super-charlatan Jim Humble (who claims to be from another galaxy!).
Basically, MMS is a solution of sodium chlorite that you dilute with fruit juice (or some other acidic substance) that makes chlorine dioxide in solution. “MMS” has been touted as a cure for almost every disease or syndrome including: cancer, malaria, AIDS/HIV, austism spectrum, etc..
MMS is really bleach. Some sites even tout MMS enemas for curing any type of autism in children. That is pure evil!
And anybody or any site that attacks “MMS” ends up getting bombarded by dubiously sourced “testimonial” e-mails citing “evidence” of “cures.” Seems to be the same for H2O2 “cure.”
The H2O2 and MMS protocols are simply internet predators earning $’s from desperate people who have no hope. At least in the Old West the townspeople could run off any snake-oil salesmen. With the modern worldwide web such evil [people] can hide out almost anywhere.
Ed
Let me introduce you to something called LD50. It’s the dosage of a medicine that causes death in 50% of of the subjects who take that dosage. ALL MEDICINES HAVE AN LD50. In other words, all medicines are bad for you in higher doses, without exception.
The claim that because a medicine is bad for you in higher doses, that somehow demonstrates that the medicine is bad for you in smaller doses, is a psuedoscientific claim used to justify all kinds of snake oils over genuine medicines. The fact that this article uses that claim means the writer hasn’t the slightest understanding of medicine. The writer is simply using pseudoscience to justify a belief system.
So, judging by the comments here, cancer has a simple cure, but doctors aren’t using it because… something something Big Pharma. Why are people still dying of cancer? Wouldn’t Big Pharma rather sell them the cure at high prices, or else try to sell them other stuff because they’re alive and can still buy things?
“We hate Big Pharma. We hate big government. We don’t trust The Man. And we shouldn’t. Our health care system sucks. It’s cruel to millions of people. It’s absolutely astonishingly cold and soul-bending to those of us who can even afford it. So we run away from it, and where do we run? We leap into the arms of Big Placebo.”
Michael Specter, The danger of science denial, TED Talks.
I was on my death bed literally, and after 4 years of the doctor’s not being able to help me, I stopped seeking medical attention and turned to H2O2.
It did everything it claims to do. BUT, you have to understand how to use it. H2O2 is very dangerous if misused, the same as a prescription is that has been prescribed by a doctor if it’s misused. This doesn’t make it a treatment that is not effective, it only makes it a treatment that is misunderstood.
This method of treating illness is shunned only by 1)Those who do not understand how to properly use H2O2, because I can guarantee that those who do know how to properly use it have nothing but good things to say about it. Or 2)By the medical industry and those profiting from it, because they would be out of business and riches if the world ever figured out that they are not here to cure anything, but to mask everything, then we would be the ones prospering in the place of them. I mean think about it, why would the medical industry want to cure anything? Who would need them after that cure?
I’ve used it and I’m still here and VERY much alive and well!!! H2o2 Therapy saved my life and helped my neighbor too. She mixed it with DMSO to help heal a wound that wouldn’t heal after 12 weeks from having squamous cell carcinoma removed!!! She began healing immediately!!! I’m a believer… as with anything, get informed, do your due diligence and get educated on the correct procedure and protocol. This sounds like big Parma propaganda, if anything. Our bodies make H202… It’s what our white blood cells use to kill foreign organisms, viruses and fungi. It’s found in rain water for cryin’ out loud!
The chemical hydrogen peroxide is very nasty and corrosive compound. If very heavily diluted it is less dangerous, not better for you, in the same way most acids are when they are also heavily diluted.
It is “food grade” in the same sense that dishwasher tablets and washing up liquid are. That is, it can safely to be used ON things which touch food, plates, utensils, processing machinery and the like but is not suitable to be ingested or consumed with or as food.
I think while perfectly well written the article should emphasize the distinction that “food grade” in this instance does NOT mean can safely be consumed. It means, can be used ON things that touch food provided it is washed off with copious amounts of water afterwards.
at a well known auto manufacturer we used a strong acid to clean machine piping. Orange juice.
We used vegetable o dil to machine parts. They advertise biodegradable build products.
The realities are different when you work there and are a trade.
I’ve seen many people die of cancers. Most of the doctor recommendations, as john bergman, or Dr. annette bosworth. Are helpful unproven scientifically because to prove the health benefits takes years and millions. So try what you will, slowly, carefully and read a lot.
I retired after 25 years at the auto plant and have many problems with skin to try and straighten out.
Doctors who are Practioners have rarely helped. Just look up Statins.
The people injured by drinking it didn’t dilute it. Such a biased ad! It’s working for me and I trust natural remedies over big pharma most days.
I wonder if the writer of this article did any research on the doctors who have experience using H2O2 successfully on their patients. If she did, she might change her tune.
I am currently taking food grade hydrogen peroxide. Since following the protocol, my overall health is in great standing.
What we do know is “chemo” will kill.
I personally knew someone who was near death because of it.
That person was then advised to eat fresh organic raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds for three months.
Her body was completely rejuvenating.
She went into her doctor’s and he was shocked, being that he had given up on her previously dying condition.
Her breast cancer had shrunk to nickel size.
He convinced her to take a series of additional “chemo” to kill what was left of the cancer. AND THE “CHEMO” KILLED HER.
I, however, have been on and off Food Grade HP for 35 years, with nothing but positive experiences.
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Well my blood tests showed i had cancer i did hydrogen peroxide therapy protocol i can show my next tests are all normal so u can say all the crap you want it works and does cure cancer so shut up and when you die from cancer i will still be alive . your web site should be in the dark.org for stupid people .
It must be working.Trying to scare people from using it.I’m still living. If used correctly. It works.
“The One Minute Cure” recommends the use of food grade (35% H2O2) as a cancer cure/preventative. It recommends increasing one drop per day until the maintenance level is reached. The protocol works.
And, chicken little said the sky is falling…
Seems we should ban everything with potential to harm us if not used with common sense.
Remove table salt too while we are at it what I read here is more problematic for people who can use their own minds to make a choice and if not able to make a good one by some reason we do not need to correct all the mistakes made by said folks Nani g natural affordable methods available for many diseases.
I’m not condoning the misrepresentation of any product.
It let’s start with Floride the we know is a poison in
Our water someone makes money on Floride “lots of money”.
It’s time we tackle this kind of charlatan rather that a product that keeps The focus off our real dangers.
If it cost a fortune the big guns would be selling it.
I’d like more opinions from readers and other researched positives before I’d stop using a product that has been doing some well known and researched healing for many generations.