Hydrogen Peroxide: Natures Amazing Molecule For Keeping The Earth And All Of Us Healthy

By Author: Sandy DuBois
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Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is one of the simplest molecular forms on earth. It is also one of the most abundant. It is found in snow, rainwater, clouds, evaporative moisture and healthy cells of living creatures.

It is one of the most important and potent ingredients of life itself on our water planet. Oxygen and hydrogen, that is just one oxygen atom apart from water. H2O2 is the great detoxifier which stimulates enzyme response and keeps the world and her inhabitants healthy, clean and vibrant. Without hydrogen peroxide 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 which maintain the healthy biosphere we know as 'Earth'.

In other words, without hydrogen peroxide in the life cycle, there would be no life cycle. Stimulating immune response, providing nourishment to cells, fighting off infection and changing nutrients into energy, hydrogen peroxide 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 used to nowadays.

This may explain why so many of us are so misinformed, misled and easily confused when it comes to hydrogen peroxide. We see 3% solutions foaming away in our sink, or on a cut on our skin and we immediately conclude that anything as powerful as this must be dangerous, and should probably be avoided... The idea of a food grade H2O2 that is ten times more powerful than the 3% solution positively frightens us. But it doesn't have to.

Hydrogen peroxide in nature does not follow the modern paradigm of "more is better". Those more concentrated solutions are reserved for other purposes, like cleaning an environment polluted by standing flood water, or purifying waste water in a treatment facility. And of course, to fuel that great modern adventure, space travel.

In nature, hydrogen peroxide collects in the atmosphere in tiny amounts, and rains down on the earth in quantities just large enough to provide oxygenation without delivering such a strong dose that oxidation occurs instead. Remarkable, really, how nature can be so accurate and clever that way.

New modern uses of hydrogen peroxide are undergoing a renaissance of sorts. It is proving effective as an ally in everything from the treatment of cancer to use as a safe sterilizing agent in food processing. It has been applied 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 reduce the risk of air borne infection during surgery. Another application of hydrogen peroxide is in plasma sterilization systems. It is also used in outdoor parks and recreation areas to eliminate contamination such as via parvo virus.

In these applications, hydrogen peroxide is metered out in very specific amounts in a water vapor or other delivery system which ensures bio-decontamination without the need for 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 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 deadly influenza outbreak of modern history. It was used by Robert Stroud, aka 'the bird man of Alcatraz' to heal birds of bird flu. Farmers in the Eastern United States have applied it with success to protect poultry from 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 plants, crops, and gardens with the solution for increased vigor and improved yield. Place a small amount of the same solution into the planting hole before you transplant vegetables for similar improvements in plant growth and yield.

Best of all, no matter how you use it, or in what concentrations, simply by adding water, you can dilute it back to plain water. What could be more perfect?

For more information on how you can use hydrogen peroxide in your home to replace toxic cleaning products we suggest you get the book 101 Home Uses of Hydrogen Peroxide: The Clean Green Home Revolution.