Hydrogen
peroxide sits inside and outside cells of your cells in low levels,
ready and waiting to be generated in greater amounts as soon as a
pathogen is detected by your immune system
Nebulizing
hydrogen peroxide into your sinuses, throat and lungs is a simple,
straightforward way to augment your body’s natural expression of
hydrogen peroxide to combat infections
In addition to
having direct viricidal effects, iodine improves white blood cell
function and thyroid hormone production. This provides a metabolic boost
to white blood cells to increase hydrogen peroxide antimicrobial
properties which is one way your immune system works to kill pathogens
Vitamin C also increases hydrogen peroxide production when used at high doses, while vitamin A helps modulate your immune system
Buy a desktop
nebulizer and stock food-grade hydrogen peroxide, Lugol’s iodine and
some saline. That way, you have everything you need and can begin
treatment at home at the first signs of a respiratory infection
Dr. David Brownstein, who has a clinic
just outside of Detroit, has successfully treated over a hundred
patients with what has become my favorite intervention for COVID-19 and
other upper respiratory infections, namely nebulized hydrogen peroxide.
He has published the results of his work in a study that you can download here.
Since I first wrote about it at the beginning of April 2020, I've
received impressive testimonials of its effectiveness from friends and
acquaintances who got severely ill and used it.
Brownstein is probably best known for his promotion of iodine and its
supplementation. He was also an early adopter of vitamin D optimization
and nebulized peroxide. He explains the background that led him to his
current regimen:
"The history goes back about 28 years when I began practicing
holistic medicine. Of course, we would see people with influenza and
influenza-like illnesses every fall and winter, so I started searching
for things that would help people's immune systems …
We initially started using vitamin C and vitamin D. I started to
check vitamin D levels in 1992. What I found was the vast majority of my
patients, well over 90%, were deficient in vitamin D, and those who had
more chronic issues and were sicker in general, they usually had lower
levels of vitamin D ...
Then I came across vitamin A. I originally read the research on
how vitamin A helped third world countries when they had measles
infections and helped … [patients] recover uneventfully if they had
enough vitamin A, so I quickly added vitamin A to the regimen.
A few years later, I learned about iodine. Iodine has direct
viricidal effects. It has immune system effects. It helps the white
blood cells produce hydrogen peroxide to fight viral and bacterial
infections, as well as thyroid effects. Iodine got added to the regimen,
and so the original treatment of our patients was vitamins A, C, D and
iodine at high doses for about four days.
What we found was our patients did not develop pneumonia, did not
get hospitalized, did not die from flu and other influenza-like
illnesses at anywhere near the rates that they should have when you
looked at the published rates of problems with these illnesses."
Hydrogen Peroxide and Ozone
While attending an oxidative medicine course, Brownstein learned
about hydrogen peroxide. At that point, he and his staff started using
nebulized hydrogen peroxide and intravenous (IV) hydrogen peroxide. That
was back in the mid-1990s. So, he has been using nebulized peroxide
clinically for 25 years now, which is longer than anyone I know of.
With each revision of his original protocol, patients seemed to fare
better. Fast-forward another couple of years, at another medical course,
he learned about the benefits of ozone.
"That was the latest addition to it. What we found over 28 years
of using this therapy is that our patients did well. I never made a
claim that this cured any influenza or influenza-like illness. What it
does is it supports the immune system in multiple ways, and people get
over it just like they've gotten over it for eons of time," Brownstein says.
"If we didn't get over these viral illnesses, we wouldn't survive
as a human species, so it certainly makes sense we'd want a strong
immune system in place when we get exposed to these pathogenic
organisms.
When COVID-19 came around … we were warned that we're going to
have millions of deaths, and this is going to be the biggest medical
catastrophe in our lifetimes …
Everyone was on edge, and I had a meeting with my staff at the
end of a work week. It was the last Thursday in February. And I told the
staff that the first 28 years of our holistic practice was truly
practice for this pandemic … And I said, 'I think we've got this
covered.'
I said, 'I can't guarantee anyone anything, but we've treated
coronavirus in past years' … Coronavirus is known to be part of the
influenza-like illnesses … I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work
for this illness as it has worked for the other viral/coronavirus
illnesses that we've been treating.'"
107 Patients — One Hospitalization, Zero Deaths
Brownstein and the other physicians in his practice first started
treating COVID patients in the middle of a Detroit winter under full
social distancing and lockdown restrictions. As a result, he had to
treat patients who were ill in a drive-through manner in his clinic
parking lot. They'd stick their arm out their car window, and Brownstein
and his colleagues would do an IV of hydrogen peroxide and vitamin C
and intramuscular shots of ozone.
"I vividly remember the snow coming down on my face mask as I'm
shaking my head like a dog in order to clear my face shield, trying to
put the IV in," he says. "At the end of the treatment, we would
do ozone. We didn't want to do IV ozone outside because the elements
weren't good, so we decided to do intramuscular ozone.
People who were sick, who couldn't breathe, we'd meet them in the
parking lot. At the end of the IVs, we'd open their car door and have
them stick their rear end out the car door. We'd put ozone in each
[butt] cheek and send them on their way.
We got them hooked up on a nebulizer too, nebulizing hydrogen
peroxide and iodine. After they started the therapies, usually after the
first nebulized treatment, their airways would open up, and they could
breathe again. We ended up treating 107 patients that I wrote
about in the published, peer-reviewed [paper]. We had one
hospitalization, no ventilators, no deaths."
The case report,1
"A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative
Therapies," was published in Science, Public Health Policy, and The Law
in July 2020. For a couple of months, Brownstein would post video
interviews with his patients, in which they told their story.
He removed all of them after receiving a warning letter from the
Federal Trade Commission, saying that because there's no established
prevention, treatment or cure for COVID-19, any mention thereof falls in
violation of FTC law.
"In their first letter to me, they said, 'Because there's no
human clinical studies documenting what you say works, you need to
remove it.' So, after we published the [case review], my lawyer wife
sent the FTC a letter saying, 'Here's a published study. We'd like to
put my study on my website without comment.' And they said, 'No, it's
not a randomized. We want a randomized controlled study.'
So, we felt like we had punched the ball into the end zone, and
then they moved the goal post back 30 yards, but that's where we stand
right now with it. And we're still treating patients with it. The study
was on 107 patients. We've probably treated 10 more patients since then,
still with good success.
I wrote in the article that the reason I didn't do a randomized
study was it's unethical for me to withhold that treatment from people
when I'm as certain as I can be that the therapy was going to work.
There's no way I could sleep at night if I was randomizing people to get
the therapy, and others to not get the therapy.
COVID was a new illness. We had never seen it. Nobody had ever
seen it. There were no randomized studies. There's no reason to. Too
many people were dying. We've already had over 100,000 deaths. It's just
tragic, and it's really going to be a stain on medicine when the final
autopsy is written on this."
Boosting Your Immune Function Is Imperative
Interestingly, as explained by Brownstein, in addition to having
direct viricidal effects, iodine also stimulates and supports the immune
system. It increases the killing effect of hydrogen peroxide production
in your white blood cells by improving white blood cell and thyroid
function, which is one way our immune system works to kill pathogens. Vitamin C
directly increases hydrogen peroxide production when used at high
doses, he says, while vitamin A helps modulate your immune system.
"Perhaps instead of just relying on masks and social isolation, we should be talking about the immune system," Brownstein says.
"How do we support it? And I'd like to throw out the question: Since
when did talking about supporting the immune system become illegal?
Since when do you have to be quiet about it?
Unfortunately, in this time and age, this is where we're at right
now, and it's a sad time … I've been writing a book on a holistic
approach to viruses. And in this book … I say that this illness is an
example of what's wrong with our country.
The health of our country is in such decline, we finish last or
nearly last in every single health indicator when compared to other
Western countries, and this is why we've got hit so hard with this. And
nobody talks about our health. All they're talking about is masks,
social isolation and wait for a vaccine.
What about the next virus that comes around? What are they going
to do about that one? And my comments on this warp speed vaccine to the
world is, I hope it's safe and effective, but I don't think I'll be
first in line getting this thing, not when it's bypassing all the safety
studies …
What I'd be first in line with is trying to figure out how I'm
going to support my immune system, so when I'm confronted with these
different viruses — because after this one, there's going to be the next
one — you're not going to depend on another warp speed project. You're
going to depend on yourself to get over these things. We can do it."
How to Do Nebulized Hydrogen Peroxide — The Basics
Nebulized hydrogen peroxide is extremely safe. Brownstein has used it
for 25 years with no ill effects being found. It's also incredibly
inexpensive, and you can administer it at home, without a prescription.
In my view, it is one of the absolute best therapies for viral
infections like SARS-CoV-2 or even worse respiratory viruses that will
likely be unleashed in the future.
You need to buy a desktop nebulizer (it needs to produce a very fine
mist and desktop versions are stronger than handheld battery operated
models). The one I use is the Pari Trek S Compressor Aerosol System,
which is available on Amazon or less expensively on eBay. The large
battery option is unnecessary as you can simply plug in the device to
run it when you need it.
Please understand, though, that the Pari Trek S is designed to treat
asthmatics and as such only comes with a mouthpiece. While this would
get the peroxide in the lungs where it is needed, it does nothing to
reach the sinuses, which are also likely infected. This is why it would
be worth pick up some face masks on Amazon to use instead of the
mouthpiece as they are only about $10.
It is important to acquire this BEFORE you need it, as the sooner you
treat the infection the better your results will be, although the
testimonials are unbelievably impressive even in late stage illness. It
is not necessary to treat yourself preventively, but only if you are
sick or exposed to someone who is.
While I've been using a 0.1% dilution, Brownstein uses an even lower
concentration of just 0.04%. Neither Brownstein nor I recommend using
commercial 3% hydrogen peroxide found in most grocery stores, however,
as it has potentially toxic chemical stabilizers in it. Then take 3-5 ml
and put that into the nebulizer and inhale the entire amount. You can
do this every hour when you are sick until you start to notice
improvement and then back down to every 4-6 hours and continue until you
are over the illness.
Since you are not using full strength 3% peroxide and diluting it by
30 to 50 times, it is unlikely the stabilizers will present a problem,
but to be safe it is best to use FOOD-GRADE peroxide. Also remember not
to dilute it with plain water as the lack of electrolytes in the water
can damage your lungs if you nebulize that. You will need to use saline
or add a small amount of salt to the water to eliminate this risk.
Brownstein also dilutes the peroxide with sterile water and saline
rather than distilled water. Using saline prevents the osmotic
differential that can cause damage to lung cells. Brownstein dilutes the
35% food-grade peroxide as follows. When nebulizing, Brownstein also
adds one drop of 5% Lugol's solution to the nebulizer as well.
Dilute 35% food-grade peroxide down to 3% by mixing 1 part peroxide with 10 parts sterile water
Take 3 cubic centimeters (CCs) of that 3% dilution and add it to a
250CC bag of normal saline. This brings it down to a .04% hydrogen
peroxide concentration
Sample Case History
Brownstein relates the case of a 67-year-old male patient. The man
developed COVID-19 symptoms, and after seven or eight days could not
breathe and went to the hospital where he was diagnosed with bilateral
pneumonia. After two days of treatment, which included oxygen, he felt
only slightly better, but was released from the hospital due to a
shortage of beds.
"They sent him home on oxygen and told him, 'Only come back if
you can't breathe.' So he goes home, and he calls me on the phone,
crying, 'I'm going to die. They sent me home to die.'
I said to him, 'You're not going to die. Do you have a
nebulizer?' And he said, 'No.' And I'm like, 'We need to start
nebulizing right away … Send your wife over. We'll put a nebulizer in
the car and tell you how to do it.' So, we mixed up the solution for
him, and she brought the nebulizer home.
I called him up at the end of the day. He had done three
nebulizer treatments, and he said that after the second nebulizer
treatment his lungs started to open up. He felt about 70% better and
didn't feel like he was going to die at that point.
He was still coughing and short of breath, but not like he was.
After the third treatment, he said he was even better … So, this
nebulizer thing really does work.
The one thing I'd like your readers to know, the handheld
nebulizers don't work as well. I had a handful of patients who were
using a handheld nebulizer and trying it with the same solution.
They were calling me back saying, 'It's not working.' When they
got a desktop model, a little stronger model, it worked. So, I encourage
people not to use a handheld nebulizer. Use a desktop model. It's a
little bit stronger."
Nebulized Peroxide Typically Improves Symptoms Within Hours
This story echoes the experiences of personal acquaintances who have
tried the treatment. After two treatments, they felt significantly
better. After the third treatment, their breathing was restored and they
were well on their way to a full recovery.
You'd be hard-pressed to find another treatment that works within
hours. Brownstein agrees that this scenario is consistent with what he
has encountered among his own patients.
"Usually, everything feels better within a couple of hours of
starting nebulizing," he says. When asked about how others in the
medical community have responded to his blog posts about the treatment,
he replies:
"In the middle of the crisis as I was posting … I started hearing
from doctors all over the country, especially in New York and New
Jersey. They were hospital physicians … They didn't know what to do. The
therapies weren't working.
No. 1, they want the therapy for their family, and No. 2, they
want to help their patients. So, I was hearing from doctors. They were
interested. I heard from a couple of local doctors who sent patients to
us whom they couldn't help.
They had nothing to offer them ... and [those patients] got
better … It was really the first time I got a bunch of emails, messages
and phone calls from doctors saying, 'Hey, tell me how it works. Tell me
what you're doing.'"
Hydrogen Peroxide Facts
In my April 2020 article, "Could Hydrogen Peroxide Treat Coronavirus?"
I reviewed some of the basic science of how hydrogen peroxide works, as
well as some of the studies assessing its therapeutic potential.
The most relevant study2
was published in March 2020 in the Journal of Hospital Infection. They
studied 0.5% hydrogen peroxide, and found it killed human coronaviruses,
including the coronaviruses responsible for SARS and MERS. Here are a
few additional facts that explain how and why hydrogen peroxide works so
well for respiratory infections:
1. Hydrogen peroxide freely crosses cell
membranes and does not readily oxidize biological molecules, including
lipids and proteins.3
It does however react with iron. The presence of free, unbound iron in
high concentrations in pathogens is what allows them to be selectively
targeted by hydrogen peroxide.
High concentrations of iron result in a rapid breakdown of hydrogen
peroxide into hydroxyl radicals and water. The hydroxyl radical, a
potent oxidizing agent, kills any pathogens present. (Under normal,
healthy circumstances, hydrogen peroxide merely breaks down into oxygen
and water.) 2. Peroxide is generated by activated phagocytes (pathogen-killing immune cells) at sites of inflammation.4
Phagocytes also contain high amounts of ascorbate (vitamin C), which
directly donate electrons to peroxide to generate the pathogen-killing
hydroxyl radical inside the infected cells. Vitamin C also helps
generate increased amounts of extracellular hydrogen peroxide, which
further boosts the elimination of pathogens.5 3. Hydrogen peroxide is continually
generated inside all cells in your body, including the epithelial lining
of your lungs. (Hydrogen peroxide is present in the air exhaled by
healthy human subjects, and when inflammation is present, more peroxide
is found in the exhaled breath.6) The presence of excreted peroxide on these surface cells in the airways is part of a healthy, at-the-ready immune response.7 4. Aside from its anti-pathogen
properties, hydrogen peroxide is also recognized as an important
signaling molecule, both intracellular and extracellular, influencing
and modulating multiple metabolic processes.8
In summary, hydrogen peroxide sits inside and outside your cells in
low levels, ready and waiting to be generated in greater amounts as soon
as a pathogen is detected by the immune system by NADPH Oxidase (NOX).
Its presence in your human body (at varying amounts depending on
whether infection is present), and the lack of toxic metabolites, are
indicative of its safety and nontoxic nature.
Similarly, as noted by Brownstein, hydrogen peroxide is extremely
safe to use and nebulize at the diluted levels suggested. It's also
effective. All pathogens studied to date have been found to succumb to
hydrogen peroxide, albeit at varying concentrations and for different
amounts of exposure.
So, nebulizing hydrogen peroxide into the sinuses, throat and lungs
is a simple, straightforward way to augment your body's natural
expression of hydrogen peroxide to combat infection.
While individual sensitivities to inhaled peroxide vary, even very
low concentrations (below 3%) have been shown to reliably kill most
pathogens.9,10,11,12
Through trial and error, Brownstein found 0.04% was the lowest
concentration at which patients report significant improvement, which is
why he recommends that level of dilution.
Summary of Treatment
To summarize, here's how I would treat myself or a family member:
At the very first signs of a respiratory infection, dilute
food-grade hydrogen peroxide down to a 0.1% (my recommendation) or 0.04%
solution (Dr. Brownstein's recommendation). If you want, you can add
one drop of 5% Lugol's iodine solution, and nebulize using a desktop
nebulizer.
Start taking quercetin and zinc, as an adjunctive therapy as soon as
you know you have an infection, as the earlier you start the better.
This treatment is likely ineffective late in the course of the illness
as it works to inhibit viral replication. If the virus has already
reproduced, it is too late and the horse is out of the barn.
The key is to have everything you need readily available. Have it in
your possession before you need it. An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure, so procure the nebulizer, peroxide and iodine before you
get ill.
If you're exposed to someone who is sick, you can use the nebulized
peroxide as a prophylactic, but if you're healthy, it's not recommended
to nebulize daily. For prevention, also make sure your vitamin D level
is above 40 ng/mL.
In the later stages of disease, NAC may be really useful. The MATH+ protocol
developed by Dr. Paul Marik uses methylprednisolone, vitamin C,
thiamine (vitamin B1) and heparin. Heparin is administered because
COVID-19 is a blood disorder too. There are clotting complications, and
the heparin seems to improve that.
NAC also prevents platelet aggregation and abnormal blood clotting.
It also reduces oxidative stress and increases glutathione levels, both
of which play important roles in this disease. In my view, quercetin,
zinc, glutathione, vitamin D and nebulized peroxide is a home run.
"There are cheap and effective ways to treat [COVID-19], and we should be studying this," Brownstein says.
"We should be allowed to report on it, and we should be allowed to
study it. [If we were], we wouldn't have the travesty that's happened to
our country."
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