What does hydrogen peroxide therapy involve?
Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen molecules. It is a common household solution that is used as a disinfectant, in toothpaste and mouthwash and as a bleaching agent. It is also used in a variety of industrial processes from chemical manufacturing to rocket fuel. In health food stores, 30% solutions of hydrogen peroxide have been advertised as a cancer remedy. Treatments with hydrogen peroxide are also called hyperoxygenation, oxymedicine, oxidative therapy, bio-oxidative therapy and oxydology. Hydrogen peroxide is administered orally, rectally, by injection, or by soaking affected parts of the body in the solution. How is hydrogen peroxide thought to treat cancer? Based on the work of two time Nobel Prize in Medicine recipient Otto Warburg, M.D., proponents believe that cancer cells grow best in an environment of little oxygen, or anaerobic conditions. It is claimed that the administration of hydrogen peroxide, an oxygen-rich solution, restores the proper o
