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Why Ozone?

Ozone has excellent therapeutic properties and uses. For instance we can use its antioxidant stimulating capabilities, its anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal properties. Ozone is also an immune system modulator, and has powerful analgesic properties. From a naturopathic perspective, ozone supports body detoxification, and helps with cleansing the lymph system.

Studies now show that many of the ailments that human beings suffer from, tend to take root in a low oxygen environment. For instance, fungus, yeasts and many bacteria are anaerobic and can only live in a low oxygen environment. If these life forms are exposed to a high oxygen environment, they simply die and can be disposed of by the body.

Essentially ozone is a "supercharged" oxygen atom. It is made up of three oxygen atoms rather than two. The highest natural levels of ozone are found at the seashore and in forest/mountain locations, places where you automatically feel refreshed. The invigorating air after a thunderstorm is a result of ozone; so is the smell of naturally dried laundry on a clothesline.

Ozone hydrotherapy is a simple and highly effective way of administering ozone. It combines ozone with the healing powers of hydrotherapy (water), by attaching an ozone generator to a mat that is placed at the bottom of a bath, producing a type of Jacuzzi effect. But in instead of just normal air bubbles, you get ozone that can easily be absorbed by your skin and of course inhaled.

Ozone hydrotherapy is an excellent adjunct when treating any kind of skin condition (eczema, psoriasis, yeast infection, etc.) and respiratory illness, it improves circulation and is particularly helpful in overcoming the harmful developments in diabetes. It also helps reduce inflammation and pain. It boost the immune system, and helps the body neutralize and get rid of harmful wastes and toxins, as well as so much more!

More research

Frank Shallenberger M.D. who is a long time ozone researcher and is best known in the United States for treating AIDS patients with a holistic protocol including ozone writes the following about the effect of therapeutically applied ozone on the body.

According to Shallenberger, bio-oxidative therapies affect the human body in the following ways:

• They stimulate the production of white blood cells, which are necessary to fight infection.

• Ozone and hydrogen peroxide are anti-virucidal.

• They increase oxygen and hemoglobin disassociation, thus increasing the delivery of oxygen from the blood to the cells.

• Ozone and hydrogen peroxide are anti-neoplastic, which means that they inhibit the growth of new tissues like tumors.

• They oxidize and degrade petrochemicals.

• They increase red blood cell membrane distensibility, thus enhancing their flexibility and effectiveness.

• Bio-oxidative therapies increase the production of interferon and Tumor Necrosis Factor, which the body uses to fight infections and cancers.

• They increase the efficiency of the anti-oxidant enzyme system, which scavenges excess free radicals in the body.

• They accelerate the Citric Acid Cycle, which is the main cycle for the liberation of energy from sugars. This then stimulates basic metabolism. It also breaks down proteins, carbohydrates and fats to be used as energy.