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- From: kjurena@lonestar.utsa.edu (Keith R. Jurena)
- Subject: Re: H2O2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.015408.12842@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <6RXNXB3w165w@gilligan.tsoft.net> <1993Jan20.205252.14134@rtfm.mlb.fl.us>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:54:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.205252.14134@rtfm.mlb.fl.us> luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey) writes:
- >bbs.byron@gilligan.tsoft.net (Byron Reynolds) writes:
- >
- >>I saw 35% H202 today in a health food store. Don't ask me why, I have
- >>no idea. It was sold in 2L bottles.
- >
- >They think that drinking a glass of H2) with a few drops of H2O2
- >gives the bloodstream an O2 boost. (^^^-O is meant)
- What a bunch of psycobabble. The reason H2O2 bubbles when applied to wounds
- and blood is the body has an enzyme to reduce it. H2O2 is an intermediate
- product in cell metabolism. If it were allowed to collect, the toxic effects
- would be lethal. Drink a glass of 3% and you will puke from the foam created
-