Guest guest Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:41:02 -0500 WC Douglass Old wine, new bottlers Daily Dose August 8, 2003 ************************************************************** The " new " hydrogen peroxide discovery: you heard it here first I don't want to blow my own horn - you know I would never do that - but there is an interesting bru-ha-ha going on in the biochemical/immunological world that you should know about. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in LaJolla, CA, have come up with something that they think is momentous news. The body, they report, can make ozone and that ozone can help antibodies kill bacteria. I don't see what all the excitement is about: I reported on this phenomenon in my book Hydrogen Peroxide, Medical Miracle 13 years ago. Ozone is the byproduct formed when the body's natural killer cells produce hydrogen peroxide. This process goes on every single day in every single one of us. It only makes sense for a little ozone to be lying around. I hope I'm not boring you with this biochemistry but I wanted you to know we're on top of things. Here's what I wrote in 1990: " Peroxide is the ammunition of your killer cells. Your body's elite corps of bacterial assassins, called polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN's), engulf bacteria then kill them with a 'respiratory burst.' The cell combines oxygen and water, making H2O2. That's the respiratory burst. The H2O2 then zaps the bacteria. Those PMN's are really smart. First they identify the invader. (How do they do that, with no eyes and no brain?) Then they move to the attack. (No legs, either.) On contact, they gobble the bacteria and zap it with H2O2. Amazing! " Now all of a sudden the Scripps researchers think they've made a great, " brand new " discovery. I wonder how long it will take all the big-name universities to " discover " some of the other things they've spent years refusing to see: like the fact that photoluminescence is the answer to many of today's deadliest diseases, or that raw, unpasteurized milk is one of the most nutritious substances around, or even (gasp) that moderate amounts of tobacco smoke might actually be good for you. It's all just a matter of time... ************************************************************** A new salt shake-up shows just how right I was... For years and ages, I've been spouting off about how salt restriction isn't the cure-all for hypertension that conventional medicine makes it out to be. In fact, for the majority of people, eliminating or drastically reducing dietary sodium can actually have the opposite effect - raising blood pressure levels. Plus, sodium is an essentially nutrient, without which you would cease to exist - at least in an animated sense. So eliminating it from ANY dietary plan isn't a smart move. This is not to say that salt has no effect on blood pressure. It can, in fact, elevate the blood pressure dramatically - but only among those people who are salt-sensitive, a number I'd previously pegged at about one third of those suffering from high blood pressure... But the mainstream's definition of " high " blood pressure keeps changing - and the newly adopted (and absurdly low) standards are likely to apply to more than half the adults in the US! The latest AMA-endorsed U.S. government sanctioned guidelines (as issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) for blood pressure state that anything over 115/75 carries with it an elevated risk of heart disease. Yet as late as just 5 years ago (1998), that same organization considered 140/90 to be optimum! What gives? Are they making commissions on the sale of hypertension drugs or something? But, I digress - we were talking about salt... It turns out that a recent European study tracking nearly 300 subjects over two years shows an even less statistically significant correlation between salt intake and blood pressure levels than even I'd thought - only between 5 and 16 percent of the population were shown to be salt-sensitive. That's right: I was wrong when I overestimated the number of salt-sensitive people. My apologies. But hey, at least I'm not writing prescriptions for hypertension drugs to people with 115/75 BP... Waiting for the truth to get through, William Campbell Douglass II, MD ************************************************************** Copyright ©1997-2003 by www.realhealthnews.com, L.L.C. 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