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Ozone is oxygen on steroids. Oxygen is O2; ozone is O3.
Over a period of about 20 minutes, ozone breaks down into two atoms of regular oxygen by giving up one atom of singlet oxygen (O).
When ozone enters the bloodstream, O3 separates into O2 and O, the O2 increases oxygen at the cellular level and in the blood supply and the singlet O seeks out other errant O’s or attaches to H2O and becomes peroxide. Those single O’s we call free radicals. When they match up with other O’s, they become O2’s and helpful, too. When they attach to H2O, they become H2O2’s and create more goodness and less free radicals.
We arm ourselves with antioxidants, to remove the errant O’s which then become part of further reactions. So introducing new O’s is pro-oxidative. In one shot, ozone nourishes healthy cells and transforms anti-oxidants.
The red blood cells need a certain oxygen level to be functional and not all stuck together. This is the prime help the O2 delivers and transports it throughout the whole body.
Oxygen in the process destroys fungi, yeasts, viruses, bacteria, parasites and all other harmful microbials that it comes into contact with, including the toxic by-products of metabolism through this oxidation.
Unhappy under-oxygenated cells have lower levels of enzyme activity, are less stable and just don’t carry out their jobs very well. The critters that O2 removes and destroys, thrive on an oxygen-limited environment.
Oxygen is nature’s most important nutrient and an element that has been used for medicinal purposes for a century. One thing that research chemists, some medical doctors, most naturopaths and nutritionists agree upon is that oxygen plays the most important role in sustaining health. It is a simple truth that is often overlooked or forgotten - when oxygen levels in the blood drop, illness potential rises. And, conversely, if you can raise the oxygen content of your blood, you feel, more energized and healing can take place. Just because the air we breathe in contains oxygen, does not mean that we can carry that most important ingredient of life to our cells. In fact, our bodies do not get enough oxygen from the air we breathe and oxygen restriction is a real concern in our polluted, stress-ridden world.
Ozone therapy is very safe - safe than any other.
In Germany, where ozone therapy has been used for over a hundred years, a study involving 1,044 ozone therapists and 384,775 patients, noted side-effects were at .000005 per application - much of which was caused by error in operation (such as staying in the ozonation sauna too long) or nausea.
Disagreement, accusations and counter-accusations abound and this is insane - it can do NO harm. Often Ozone therapy is confused with using O3 to clear lung issues and to clean environments that have had fire damage or are loaded with environmental toxins. In these case, the O3 is breathed in - definitely not therapy! O3 is very useful for cleansing environments and should be done by professionals.
A local facial expert, for example, decided that because ozone was somewhat contraindicated to be breathed in, and therefore ozone therapy in general was a bad thing. This then was published in a magazine that would print anything (for a buck)!
In the early 90’s eager environmentalists marketed ozonators for the home and the office. The concept was good - serious germ killing - but the inhabitants were also breathing in the ozone. Most people would just have got irritation after a long enough time (receptionist office at the naturopath’s office was very small and the concentration high) - but not the way to do it.
The most gentle way to detoxify and re-oxygenate is by having an ozone steam sauna. The sauna allows you to sit in a steam cabinet that envelops your body with heat and leaves your head at room temperature. The ozone generator silently converts and pumps in medical grade oxygen. It is considered unstable but that’s okay as the supply is constant.
Your capillaries come close to the surface as they try to keep your body cool. The capillaries also dilate and the pores open - part of the cooling mechanism. Now the sweat can pour out and contains more toxins than urine. The skin is sometimes called the 3rd kidney. In the meantime the open pores and then the capillaries close to the surface pick up ozone, oxygen and O’s.
I’ve seen diabetic sores on legs and toes disappear after two sessions! More than just dealing with the festering sore, the unhappy capillaries that hamper the blood supply moving properly in the leg and the blood supply itself and surrounding compromised tissue are all enhanced. The surprise was that in two instances it only took two sessions! A diabetic friend with compromised legs was able to walk for two blocks at a time with pain and difficulty. After each ozonation session he could walk for half an hour at a time for three days, before the effect of the ozonation would wear-off. None of us have the same reactions and result, of course.
A session lasts 1/2 hour and is followed by a cooling shower so you do not re-absorb your toxins. These sessions are so-ooooo pleasant and relaxing.
We use white towels - that way you can see the toxins you leave behind on the towels. More debris is left in the puddle in the bottom of the steam sauna. When I looked under the microscope it was composed mainly of water and lymphatic sludge.
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Some vaccination information we all need to know or pass on about Gardasil that will be introduced at schools this fall:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/08/Hundreds-of-Thousands-of-Reactions-to-Gardasil-Is-Your-Child-Next.aspx
