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Click on the book's name to purchase that book about Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) or Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation. Click on the review links to see my own reviews of some of these books.
Hydrogen Peroxide, Medical Miracle, Douglass, William Campbell, MD
Healing Photons, The Science and Art of Blood Irradiation Therapy, Kenneth J. Dillon review
Into the Light, Douglass, William Campbell, MD
Oxygen Healing Therapies, Nathaniel Altman
Oxygen and Aging, Majid Ali, MD
We have a free report that you can read about antioxidants. Antioxidants have long been the darlings of the alternative medicine community. However, Dr. Randolph M. Howes of Johns Hopkins provides documentation to show that the hype doesn't match the facts.
What's different about this report is that Dr. Howes actually provides source information of the studies he cites...something you don't often find regarding claims made by alternative health practitioners. It's all in the report.
His conclusions based on the numerous studies he cites are quite illuminating:
Randomized, double-blind, controlled trials in humans, which are the clinical “gold standard,” have repeatedly shown that the free radical theory lacks predictability and fails to be confirmed by the scientific method.
Admittedly, there were likely many confounding variables in the antioxidant studies involving the use of other drugs, use of other dietary supplements, varying diets, varying environmental factors, presence or lack of exercise, degrees of obesity, varying dosage levels, varying antioxidant combinations, synthetic or natural vitamin sources, improperly combined study groups, use of improper exclusion criteria, flawed statistical methods, overgeneralization of findings, etc. Even though one can find positive antioxidant studies, the overall lack of predictability is undeniable.
I have formulated a new pro-oxidant protective paradigm to explain disease allowance and to stimulate new thinking regarding treatment.23,24 Electronically modified oxygen derivatives (EMODs) support modulation of redox cycling and redox status, which are of utmost importance for disease prevention and maintaining cellular homeostasis.
In conclusion, extensive antioxidant studies have failed to confirm the free radical theory and antioxidant use may cause harm or accelerate one’s demise. The free radical theory has fallen.
While some will undoubtedly question or criticize his opinions or the studies he cites, there is no doubt that free radical theory needs to be questioned much more carefully than it has been up to this date.
Walt Thiessen
September 11, 2006