Ozone Therapy FAQ's

Ozone Therapy FAQ's

What is Ozone?
Ozone is an activated, trivalent (three atoms) form of oxygen. Oxygen is O2 whereas ozone is O3. Over a period of 20-30 minutes, ozone breaks down into two atoms of regular oxygen by giving up one atom of singlet oxygen leaving a single, reactive oxygen atom. Medical ozone is made when medical grade oxygen is electrically activated (using an ozone generator) to form ozone. Ozone is germicidal, bactericidal, and fungicidal. Oxygen has these properties too, but less strongly. Ozone was discovered by Fridereich Schonbein and was described in a letter written in 1826 ("The Use of Ozone in Medicine" 3rd English Edition, page 22). It has been used in medical and naturopathic medicine since the 1870's.

Electrical discharge turns Oxygen (O2) molecules to O3 molecules of 3 atoms, less stable than ordinary Oxygen.

ozone-molecule
The chemical formula is O plus O2 = O3.
It is found in air, but only in very small amounts.
Its unique odor refreshes us where there is an abundance of O3 (e.g. during storms, in the forest, or by the sea).
Is Ozone Therapy safe?
There are thousands of references documented in the medical literature on the safe use of medical ozone therapy or oxygen therapy from doctors and professionals around the world.

Here are just a few:

  • There are over 3,000 references in the German literature showing it safe, successful use in over 50 years of application to humans during millions of dosages.
  • German Medical Society has published that 384,775 patients were treated with a minimum of 5,579,238 applications and the side effect rate observed was only .000005 per application! This is the lowest side effect rate in existence.
  • Report also stated – “The majority of adverse health effects were caused by ignorance about ozone therapy (operator error)”.The University of Innsbruck's Forensic Institute published Dr. Zacob dissertation quoting this in The Empirical Medical Acts of Germany.

International Ozone Association information and the Machine Manufacturer Reference report over 7,000 MEDICAL DOCTORS in Europe using medical ozone safely and effectively, some for more than 40 years.
What are the beneficial effects of Ozone Therapy?
It kills many kinds of bacteria, viruses, yeasts, fungi and parasites.

It helps the liver with detoxification, thus purifying blood and lymph.

Enforces the decomposition of fats thus helping lower levels of cholesterol and “bad fats” in the body.

Considerably improves the metabolic processes of the cells, the motor of energy production in the body, which in turn speeds up the metabolic processes of the inner organs and the endocrine glands aiding in weight loss.

Stimulates the immune system speeding healing and recovery from illness and reduces inflammation and post injury pains.

Reduces the clotting of the red blood cells and thus improves the transport of oxygen and blood flow which reduces circulation problems.

Increases the amount of oxygen available to the tissues and thus leads to better adsorption.

Breaks down the level of uric acid in the body, which is the cause of gout and damages the blood vessels.
What should I know as a patient?
Before undergoing any form of ozone therapy, you should inform your doctor about any medication or special dietary measures you are taking or have been taking recently. You should only discontinue a regimen of this kind if your doctor advises you to do so. He or she should also know about allergies, inherited diseases or other complaints, and how they have been treated.

In many countries, especially outside Europe, ozone therapy is not always covered by health insurance policies or employers' medical benefit schemes.. You should also try to find out where ozone units exist in your country, what trained specialists are available, and how much treatment costs. Most ozone applications are in series of up to 10 sessions, and a second or even third series may be necessary in some indications. Nevertheless, you should always remember that a little prevention can save a much more expensive full-scale treatment later on.

Ozone therapy is low risk and usually applied as a complementary, additive or restorative method, ie in accompaniment of standard medical treatments.

Ebola and Ozone Therapy

Dr. Mercola and Dr. Rowen on Ebola and Ozone Therapy
Ebola is heavily featured in the news these days, bringing lots of fear and concerns. Can anything be done to successfully treat or prevent this horrific and highly lethal disease?

Dr. Robert Rowen who is a leading expert on oxidative therapy, offers an intriguing answer in this interview. By invitation of the President of Sierra Leone, he’s going there to teach health care workers how to treat Ebola using ozone.

"I do ozone, ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy, and high-dose vitamin C," he explains. "All of these collectively belong to a family of therapies called oxidative therapies.

In my opinion – and I've been doing them longer than any other living person in North America; since 1986 – especially ozone and ultraviolet (therapies) are among the most powerful therapies for healing across the board of anything I’ve ever seen in my career... It does so by stimulating your own body to heal."
Ozone Effectively Inactivates Viruses
Ozone is quite versatile, as you can administer it in many different ways. It’s extraordinary in terms of its anti-infective and antiviral action, and it has virtually no toxicity, making it a prime candidate for both prevention and treatment.

Dr. Rowen’s YouTube channel1 contains a number of videos demonstrating and discussing what these therapies can do. With bacteria, ozone works by puncturing the membrane of the bacteria, causing it to spill its contents and die. It also inactivates viruses, and does so 10 times faster than chlorine.

"I've told my patients and readers, please know where your closest oxidative physician is, because your life might depend on it, and if you have the wherewithal, to get an (ozone) machine to purify water.

It can be easily adapted in the privacy of your home, so that you can administer it rectally for whatever condition you have," Dr. Rowen says.
Ozone - The Most Powerful Natural Oxidant in the World
Chlorine is being used overseas right now for Ebola to disinfect clothes and isolation suites, etc. But ozone actually disinfects 10 times faster than chlorine. It’s the most powerful natural oxidant in the world.

Ozone also has the advantage of stimulating the immune system, and modulating it—either up or down depending on what your system requires.

"Right now, we’re faced with probably one of the most horrific epidemics human kind has ever known. That's a virus called Ebola that is transmitted by personal contact (through) bodily fluids and, actually, it may be also be airborne," Dr. Rowen says.

"What I don't know – and I'm trying to investigate – is how easily it is transmitted from person to person. I'm not sure that it's easy to get, because if it was, everybody should be dead by now in many of the villages, and not everybody is dead.

On the other hand, we know that there are aid workers who have gotten the disease and died even though they were wearing full suits...

Anybody who works with Ebola are putting their lives on the line because there are no conventional therapies for this; none, except getting supportive care..."
How Ozone Works to Combat Infectious Disease
As noted by Dr. Rowen, Ebola hijacks your immune system and suppresses it. Once your immune system realizes the virus is there, it launches a cytokine storm, and it is this cytokine storm that leads to massive tissue destruction and capillary leakage.

This is what causes the hemorrhaging associated with Ebola. Ozone modulates the cytokine storm.

It’s anti-infective. It improves circulation and blood flow, oxygen delivery, and likely upregulates mitochondrial respiration, thereby generating more energy in your cells. Oxygen is one of the most important things your body needs for tissue healing when you’re riddled with infection.

There’s an experimental, still unapproved treatment for Ebola called ZMapp. It offers passive immunity to the virus. This is not a vaccine but three monoclonal antibodies that have been humanized by genetic engineering and grown in tobacco plants. It’s very costly and time consuming to produce and it’s not yet commercially available.

ZMapp works with your body's immune system, slowing down the viral load to give your body enough time to respond and not get killed by the cytokine storm. It’s not really a drug in the conventional sense, as it acts simply by slowing down the virus from reaching the cells.

This is similar to ozone's action, but ozone could potentially be more effective, as it works both indirectly and directly. It’s directly toxic to the virus while being harmless to your body’s own cells, and also indirectly enhances your immune system function. Regarding potential safety concerns of ozone, Dr. Rowen says:

"Ozone is only hard on the lungs, but it can be given in other ways. It can be given intravenously. It can be given in the bladder, in the vagina, in the rectum, via injection – anywhere. It’s just (that) it can be tough on the lungs. You don’t want to be breathing it...

Also, the way ozone can be done is dirt cheap. And in a place like Africa, where there are thousands of people with this and there’s just no money, can you imagine what it will mean to the planet if we can treat this disease with a therapy that will cost probably less than 10 dollars per patient?"
Historical Use of Oxidation Therapy Has Proven Its Benefits
While in Sierra Leone, Dr. Rowen will use ozone on himself and his team every single day to prevent contracting the disease, and will continue the treatment for some time afterward.

"I have less fear about Ebola with (ozone therapy)," Dr. Rowen says. "I mean this and I'm speaking honestly. Yes, Ebola is a fearsome disease. But I know the power of ozone and oxidative therapies. I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t have absolute confidence that we’re going to dramatically cut the death rate."

Oxidation therapy was actually discovered during the great influenza outbreak of 1918 - a time when people were dying like flies across the world. A physician in India named Dr. Oliver was treating viral influenza - which has no treatment even today - and when he administered intravenous hydrogen peroxide, which costs a couple cents to do for materials, he cut the death rate by 50 percent.

"His comment at the end of his article published in The Lancet, a major medical journal, was, 'This is more remarkable because we only treated the worst cases.'" Dr. Rowen says.

According to Dr. Rowen, ozone therapy is also very beneficial for heart disease, immune diseases, injuries, and chronic degenerative diseases such as osteoarthritis. As an example, Dr. Rowen has found that ozone is about 85 percent effective in knees and only slightly less effective in hips, when given as an injection.

"I'm actually injecting oxygen. One percent of it is ozone O3, 99 percent of it is oxygen O2. They’re getting a blast of oxygen and they're getting ozone. There are two effects," Dr. Rowen explains. “(1) They're getting oxygen, the most important thing those cells need to heal and (2) they're getting ozone. Ozone instantly modulates the inflammation. It knocks out the excessive nitric oxide that’s in the joint. It increases other chemical mediators that reduce inflammation."

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