I mean Cell Food[sub]TM[/sub], the “oxygen therapy” that costs at least $11.95 per small bottle in the US. Supposed to liberate oxygen from the body’s water (some of it) and help people live better lives with more oxygen floating around inside them.
I smell a faint odour of BS, here. Anyone out there know about this stuff? Has there been any reputable studies that haven’t been subsidised by the Cell Food crowd?
In short – is this for real?
I found this description. All looks like mumbo jumbo to me.
As for “Scientists recognize that most diseases and infections are caused by oxygen starvation at the cellular level.”, I really was not aware of this…:rolleyes:
I agree that this is utterly stupid.
Would having more oxygen floating around inside you be of any help? In most cases, no. Oxygen is only really useful when it’s carried by your red blood cells. In regular folks, the percentage of red blood cells carrying oxygen is close to 100%. This can be determined by a simple pulse oximeter test.
Tissues become deprived of oxygen in a few different ways. If you don’t have enough red blood cells, you need to get more of them; more O2 won’t help. If your lungs are too sick to receive O2 from the air you breathe, you need to get your lungs fixed. If your circulation is poor (say, from diabetes) more oxygen won’t help because your bad blood vessels can’t get it to the tissues anyway. If you have carbon monoxide poisoning, your red cells are carrying the useless CO instead of O2; having more O2 won’t help because it has nowhere to go.
O2 is obviously pretty important, but you need just the right amount of it: having hyperoxygenated blood isn’t healthy. Also, your body needs plain old water; it’s the thing that allows your cells to survive.
In short, if this product does work (which I highly doubt) it’s dangerous. Unless you’re extremely ill (in which case you should see a doctor) your body is perfectly capable of regulating your cellular functions. Screwing around with that is not a good idea, so save your money.
It sounds like someone is overly impressed with the differences between H[sup]2[/sup]SO[sub]4[/sub] and H[sub]2[/sub]SO[sub]4[/sub]. Both will still do a nice job of eating holes in your blue jeans.
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When ever you see any food product advertised as “packed with energy” or claiming to “energize your body”, it is a code for one thing: sugar. This goes for mainstream products as well, like diet shakes and granola bars. Sugar is the only kind of energy your body recognizes, and there is no way to infuse any product with any other form of energy. Do they really think their product is somehow charged with electrical, nuclear, mechanical or light energy? Or maybe they want us to think that there is a mysterious “body energy” that just makes us feel “good”, and it can be mixed into our food. It is a conspiracy by the manufacturer’s of high-fructose corn syrup, by far and away the most common food additive in modern processed foods.
Okay, the deal is supposed to be that it has oxygen dissolved in it? And that your cells can use this oxygen to pump themselves up? Well, then, that part of it at least is true.
http://www.holistic-alt.com/whatisCF.html
Point 1: It probably does have dissolved oxygen in it. Even plain tap water has dissolved oxygen in it. This is why I can fill up my aquariums with tap water and my fishies can breathe, because there’s oxygen dissolved in the water. Duh. :rolleyes:
Point 2: Another way of saying cells “oxgenate” themselves might be to say that they “oxidize” things. This also would be true. Oxidation just means when your cells “burn” nutrients (food) with enzymes and oxygen to produce energy. It’s known as “biological oxidation”. Read up on biological oxidation in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=120230&tocid=79657
So, what we’re looking at here is nothing magic, or secret, or “special”. What we’re looking at here is what’s otherwise known as “food” and “water”. 
Eden’s Secret is selling this “food” at the rate of a 30 day supply for $21.95. That’s less than a dollar a day, pretty cheap for “food”, but pretty expensive for “water”.
http://www.edenssecret.com/html/cellfood.html
Oh, and this–
–from the Eden’s Secret Website is total BS.
http://www.thewaterpage.com/waterbasics.htm
These bonds are so strong that the only way you can break them is by using a process called “electrolysis”. This is how they make air out of water for the space shuttle.
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/sci_water-42.html
It’s possible to split water molecules chemically, too–it’s called “photosynthesis”.
If your cells really could split water molecules, where would all that hydrogen go? And please don’t say, “Heh–Fart City”, because that’s methane, not hydrogen.
So, unless CellFood has found a way to make your cells photosynthesize, I’d save my money.
Space Station, not Shuttle.
Otherwise, we sure are wasting a lot of money on research into bacteria, viruses, and other wee beasties.
You know, in the dark gloom of world ignorance – I can always count on you guys to shine a light. Thanks. I’ll pass the info on.
Hydrogen bonds are the attraction between water molecules, not the ionic bond. The Hydrogen is the negative end(I think) and Oxygen is the positive. The two ends attract like magents. These are broken by adding energy to the water (boiling).
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DDG meant how they make hydrogen and oxygen.
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