Coping with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS, CFIDS) and Fibromyalgia makes it difficult to maintain a social life and network of friends. Not only are we sick and tired, we are often left or forced by our symptoms to remain at home alone. Studies done by Carnegie Mellon University and the American Heart Association concluded that social isolation and loneliness can impair the immune system. Conversely, a social support system may actually strengthen the immune system.
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Being a loner reduces immunity and heart health
Most people are familiar with the foaming action that occurs when hydrogen peroxide it put on an open cut or sore. That foaming action is why proponents of “oxidative” or “hyperoxygenation” therapy (the common names for IV hydrogen peroxide infusions) think it works. Such practitioners believe that an infusion of hydrogen peroxide delivers an “oxidative burst” that can ease or cure the oxygen deficiency that they believe is the cause of diseases like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis (MS), many cancers, and AIDS.
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