Free Radicals and Their Relationship to Complex Oxidative Compounds
G.A. Freibott
International Association for Oxygen Therapies
Priest River, ID, USA
Reprinted with kind permission.
“Singlet O2 is an especially reactive form of oxygen capable of
rapidly oxidising many molecules, including membrane lipids. Its
formation in O2-generating systems has often been proposed but
clear cut evidence for a damaging role of singlet O2 in such
systems has NOT been obtained.” (1) (Emphasis added)
“As to atmospheric oxygen, which is obviously essential to all
aerobic organisms, including ourselves, its role is to pick up the
electrons released by the oxidative reactions:
1/2 O2 + 2e- +2 H+-> H2O
The end result is the same as in ordinary combustion.”(2)
Today one hears of the popular theory of the “detrimental free
radical.” Definition of the word theory, “A plan or scheme existing
in the mind only; a speculative or conjectural view of something.” (3)
Focus on oxygen based free radicals. Contrary views of “free radical”
therapists, scientists, and clinicians presented.
From 1898 to the present hundreds of clinical cases prove the efficacy
of oxydative therapies.
The commonly accepted electron theory, has been used to explain
everything from the Periodic Tables to advanced biology. In the
fields of mathematics and physics this can be an asset, but in natural
sciences and chemistry this often creates seeming “double standards”.
Continuing the work of the Insitut fur Sauerstoff-Heilvahfahren of
Berlin, our laboratories have experimented with and supervised the
manufacture of various complex oxidative compounds. These compounds
range from FCG (Functional Carbonyl Group) catalysts and glyoxylate
cycle enhancers to more simple, yet still highly oxygen contributing
substances. All of these have been shown to enhance homeostasis.
The evidence that a toxin increases lipid peroxidation in vivo does
not prove the sequence of events…
TOXIN – LIPID PEROXIDATION – DAMAGE
but is equally explained by the sequence
TOXIN – CELL DAMAGE OR DEATH – LIPID PEROXIDATION. (4)
Every compound excreted by the body is in one form or another bound to
oxygen for elimination.
The major elements excreted are Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen and
Sulphur. Thousands of pieces of historical literature have dwelt on
the subject of Hydrogen Peroxide and the significance of same. Yet
little has been written or discussed about the other unfamiliar
oxidation state compounds of the peroxides, superoxides and ozonides.
Interest in the alkali and alkaline earth metal derivatives is now
widespread and diverse, and numerous practical applications have
evolved, ranging from their uses as air revitalization materials in
space cabins to their use in compounding semiconductor
materials.(5)
Give voluminous contrary scientific information, this speaker will
attempt to engage participants in alternative theoretical speculations.
The constant concentration of O2 in the atmosphere is maintained by
the photosynthesis-respiration cycle…Oxygen occurring in nature
is a mixture of three stable isotopes: O16, O17 and O18. This
discovery revealed a discrepancy between the accepted chemical
scale of atomic weights which was based on the average weight of
atmospheric oxygen (16 amu) and the physical scale based on the
atomic weight of O16 (16 amu).(6)
References:
1. B. Halliwell, Oxygen Radicals: A Commonsense Look At Their Nature
and Medical Importance, Medical Biology, 62: 72, 1984
2. Christian de Duve, A Guided Tour of the Living Cell, Scientific
American Library Press, 1984
3. Funk and Wagnalls, Standard Desk Dictionary, pg. 701, 1986
4. B. Halliwell, Oxygen Radicals: A Commonsense Look At Their Nature
and Medical Importance, Medical Biology, 62: 72, 1984
5. Il’ya Ivanovich Vol’nov, Peroxides Superoxides, and Ozonides of
Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metals, Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
Moscow, pg. v., 1966
6. Michael Ardon, Oxygen (Elementary Forms and Hydrogen Peroxide),
W.A. Benjamin, pg. 3, 1965
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