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Hydrogen Peroxide: Natures Amazing Molecule for Keeping Mother Earth and All of Us Healthy

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is one of the simplest molecular forms on earth. It is also one of the most abundant. We find it in snow, rainfall, clouds, evaporative moisture and healthy living cells of living creatures.
It is among the most significant and powerful ingredients of life itself on our water-based planet. Oxygen and hydrogen, that is just one oxygen atom away from water. Hydrogen Peroxide is the great detoxifier which stimulates enzyme response and keeps our world and her inhabitants healthy, clean and vibrant. Without H2O2 our oceans would be putrid, our soils and lands would be infertile and our forests bereft of the essential fungi, mosses, invertebrates, and microorganisms in the soil that maintain the healthy biosphere we know as ‘Earth’.
In other words, without hydrogen peroxide in the life cycle, there could be no life cycle. Stimulating immune response, providing nourishment to cells, battling infection and changing nutrients into energy, H2O2 has so many functions in the life cycles of living creatures that the medical literature contains thousands of scientific papers and studies on its functions.
Of course, the concentrations of hydrogen peroxide in our environment and in living systems is tiny in comparison to the man made strengths and grades we are accustomed to nowadays.
This might explain why so many of us are so unaware, misled and easily confused when it comes to hydrogen peroxide. We see 3% solutions busily foaming away in our sink, or on a cut on our skin and we immediately infer that anything as powerful as this must be dangerous, and should most likely be avoided… The thought of a food grade H2O2 that is 10 times more powerful than the 3% solution positively frightens us. But it doesn’t have to.
Hydrogen peroxide in the natural environment does not follow the modern dictum of “more is better”. Those more concentrated solutions are exclusively intended for other purposes, like cleaning an environment polluted by flood water, or cleaning waste water in a treatment facility. And of course, to provide the fuel for that great modern adventure, space travel.
In nature, hydrogen peroxide collects in the atmosphere in tiny amounts, and rains down on the earth in amounts just large enough to provide oxygen without delivering such a strong dose that oxidation occurs instead. Remarkable, really, how nature can be so accurate and ingenious that way.
New modern uses of hydrogen peroxide are undergoing a renaissance of sorts. It is proving efficacious as an ally in everything from the treatment of cancer to use as a safe sterilizer in food processing. It has been used and approved in the treatment of diseases of fish in aquaculture facilities, and as a remedy to banana blight and coconut palm scab.
Hydrogen peroxide atomizers are now used in surgery to decrease the risk of air borne infection during surgery. Another application of hydrogen peroxide is in plasma sterilization systems. It is also used in parks and recreation areas to eliminate contamination such as via parvo virus.
In theseuses, hydrogen peroxide is metered out in very specific amounts in a water vapor or other delivery system which guarantees bio-decontamination without requiring poisonous chemicals or high heat (either of which can be an issue when the goal is maintaining healthy environments).
H2O2 has come a long way from a long and fascinating history that has remained unknown to most of us. It has been documented in such prestigious journals as the English medical journal the Lancet as early as 1922 as a cure in the most lethal influenza outbreak of modern history. It was used by Robert Stroud, aka ‘the bird man of Alcatraz’ to heal bird flu in birds. Farmers in the Eastern United States have applied it with success to protect poultry against bird flu during the outbreak of the 1980’s.
It also is useful in the garden. Mix a 3% food grade solution with 8 parts filtered water and spray crops, houseplants and gardens with the solution for increased vigor and improved yield. Put a small amount of the same solution into the planting hole before transplanting vegetables for similar improvements in plant growth and yield.
But best of all, no matter how you use it, or in what concentrations, just by adding water, you can dilute it back to plain water. What could be more perfect?

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