AH - H - H Why Use Ozone? Ozone is an extremely potent oxidant, a form of energized oxygen produced by ultraviolet radiation or electric discharge. Ozone is highly reactive having "unanimity" as to its destructive action on microorganisms, acting blindly since no limits to its disinfective properties have been found. It is antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and kills protozoa. Ozone breaks down hydrocarbons to carbon dioxide and water, even rendering the notorious DDT harmless. The many uses of treating drinking water and swimming pools were developed in Europe decades ago and are spreading commercially throughout the world. Medical Ozone has been in use for decades and is safe when used in microdoses both topically and internally. It has universal application on all infectious agents, skin disorders, allergy, chronic fatigue, debility, etc. Ozone is easy to administer transdermally and by insufflation, taking only minutes. Ozone is economical - generated from ordinary bottled oxygen available anywhere. Sanitizing and Deodorizing Ozone can be generated cheaply from ambient air and used to purify drinking water, disinfecting utensils, and deodorizing and sanitizing office air (most valuable during flu season). -- Notable Quotes -- "Disease is due to a deficiency in the oxidation process of the body, leading to an accumulation of toxins. These toxins ordinarily are burned in normal metabolic functioning." Dr. Albert Wahl "The true cause of allergy is lowered oxidation process within the body." Hendricks Research Foundation. "By increasing the oxygen content within our bodies, we will displace more carbon dioxide, become much healthier and not provide an anaerobic (lack of oxygen) atmosphere for the fermentation process to produce cancer cells." Excalibur Ent. "Ozone can perform what oxygen cannot!" Dr. Payr, Professor ofMedicine Abstract: The therapeutic and practical utility of OZONE gas is a greatly overlooked and ignored modality. The vaporized gas is anitfungal, antibacterial and antiviral, being nature's greatest oxidant and antibiotic. The case of clinical application by rectal or vaginal insufflation, vaporized plastic boot, or ozone bath provides greater therapeutics than hyperbaric oxygen at a fraction of the cost. In these respects, no alternative medical clinic should be without an ozone unit. In short, no doctor should be without a unit for the safety and hygiene of him or her self, staff, and patients. IMPORTANT POINTS IN THE ROLE OF OXYGEN 1. Most of the body's energy is generated through oxygen. 2. Two hundred years ago, ambient air was estimated to be 38% oxygen and 1% carbon dioxide. Today it is less than 20% oxygen and 25% carbon dioxide. In urban traffic, oxygen content can drop as low as 6%. 3. "Cancer has only one prime cause. The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of normal oxygen respiration of the body's cells by an anaerobic cell respiration." Dr. Otto Warburg, Nobel Laureate 1931. 4. "Disease is due to a deficiency in the oxidation process of the body, leading to an accumulation of toxins. These toxins ordinarily are burned in normal metabolic functioning." Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1953, Dr. Albert Wahl. 5. "The true cause of allergy is lowered oxidation process within the body." Hendricks Research Foundation. WHAT IS OZONE? 1. Ozone - 03 - is triatomic Oxygen. Ozone is an extremely potent oxidant. It is produced by electric discharge in air (as in lightning), or by ultraviolet radiation, as in the "ozone layer" of the atmosphere. Fresh air contains a small amount of ozone. Ozone is energized oxygen and can occur in chains as high as 010 when exposed to ultraviolet light. 2. Since ozone is highly unstable and cannot be bottled, an ozone generator must produce ozone on site. Ozone is produced when air or bottled oxygen is passed through a high energy field. 3. Sanitizing and deodorizing ozone can be generated cheaply from ambient air and used to purify water and air, disinfecting utensils, drinking water, rooms, fixtures, furniture, carpets, walls, etc. 4. Ozone is a highly reactive molecule, capable of oxidizing hydrocarbons and organic matter, including rendering the notorious DDT to carbon dioxide and water. Therapeutically, it detoxifies. Domestically, it cleans the air of infectious and noxious agents, and purifies drinking water. HOW IS OZONE PRODUCED ? 1. Nature creates ozone by solar radiation ionizing oxygen at high altitudes. The earth is protected from ultraviolet radiation by this layer of ozone. Destruction of this ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) and Nitrous oxide allows more of this ultraviolet radiation to reach earth and adversely affect plant and animal life, and contribute to increased skin cancer and cataracts in humans. 2. Ozone is also produced by electric discharge. Nature purifies the air by lightning. High voltage discharge through air produces ozone found around copying machines, electric trains, and other appliances. 3. Ozone is also formed when hydrocarbons and nitrous oxides react with each other in the presence of sunlight. The bad press you may have read "ozone is toxic" is only because it is associated with these reactions. The ozone index is only an assay to estimate how much toxic nitrous oxide and hydrocarbons are present. Contributing to this method of ozone production are automobiles, factories, refineries, and chemical plants. OZONE IS SAFE AND NON-TOXIC Ozone produced in air with electric discharge also generates nitrogen dioxide which is actually the most toxic component associated with ozone gas. Ozone is used medically in low dosages of micrograms per milliliter. In high concentrations, ozone is toxic to the lungs epithelium and is therefore not administered medically through air or nebulizers. Small amounts of ozone in air is a fact of nature and can be used as a sterilizing or sanitizing modality. The Maximum Worksite Concentration laid down in Germany is 0.2 mg/m3 over a respiratory period of 8 hours. This is equivalent to .15 ppm while the odour threshold is .010 - .015 which is the odour threshold for most people. The irritation level of .06 ppm has shown no evidence of health damage by continuous exposure to lower concentrations. The following Pam values apply: .12 EPA limit for air quality .10 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists limit for exposure 8 hours/day with no side effects. .055 Underwriters Laboratory (tic) ozone limit for electrostatic precipitators. .03-.06 Amount frequently measured in city smog. .010-.015 Odor threshold for most people. .005 - .01 Value measured in fresh country air. References: "Toxicity of Ozone", Mittler, King, Burkhardt: AMA Arch Ind. 1957 "Ozone: An overview of its toxicity in man and animals', D. Menzel, Toxicology & Environmental health, 1984 WHY USE OZONE ? The many uses of treating municipal water and swimming pools, which have been developed in Europe, are expanding into other continents of the world. Ozone treatment of industrial waste waters is being practiced commercially. Ozone treatment of lakes, ponds, and fisheries now has wide scale benefits, both economically and environmentally. And medical and esthetic therapeutic application of ozone are being practiced more and more routinely in many countries. In short, ozone is a wave of the future. Ozone will oxidize odorous compounds at a level of one-eighth of the limit established by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. Most odoriferous substances are unsaturated molecules that will readily combine with oxygen. Ozone breaks down hydrocarbons ultimately into carbon dioxide and water. An ozone air purifier does not mask odors with synthetic perfumes or halogenated substances. It oxidizes them as does nature. Unanimity has been gradually established since 1886 (De Meritens) as to ozone's destructive action on microorganisms. Ozone may be said to act blindly, as a broad spectrum antibiotic, since no limits to disinfection have been found in the number of general and species eliminated. In contrast to the toxic amines of fungi, ozone does not have an inhibitor effect on intracellular enzymes. Nowadays, pesticides contribute to water pollution like detergents, hydrocarbons, or any other chemical. Reverse osmosis and distillation does not remove 100% of these compounds. Their persistence contributes to degraded water. Organophosphorus and organochlorinated compounds are reducible by ozone in aqueous solutions. Medical ozone, produced from ordinary oxygen gas, is used in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and in the treatment of cancer and AIDS. It has become routine practice for hundreds of physicians worldwide seeking more effective means of treatment without chemical toxicity and side-effects. Studies have shown that ozone properly administered, inactivates viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and in some cases, carcinomas. A report in Discover Magazine states that every six room house collects 40 pounds of dust per year, which plays host to 15 species of mites in beds, pillows, furniture, and dust balls. 42,000 of these mites can survive in one ounce of mattress dust. Doctors, nurses, and receptionists are exposed to untold millions of airborne viruses and bacteria through droplet sneezing, human dander, excrete, etc. Studies have shown that ozone purified air reduces the incidence of colds, sore throats, and allergy attacks, especially during the flu season. By frequent ozonation of office air, once or twice daily, greatly reduces a chance of infection. In this light, an ozone generator becomes an office companion, just as essential as a distilled water cooler. HOW DOES OZONE THERAPY WORK ? In view of the fact that no safe and effective anti viral treatment by chemicals is known, excepting some plant extracts with variable specificity, ozone and its peroxides acquire special importance as they are atoxic in effect and free of undesirable side-effects. Due to ozone's inactivation process, it plays an active part in the viral infection cycle and increase in phagocytosis. In addition to this, a protective effect on healthy cells and an increased elimination of virally damaged cells is observed. According to researchers, the direct intravascular injection of pure oxygen/ozone mixtures results in the following responses: 1. An activation of enzymes involved in peroxide or oxygen radical scavenging - glutathione, catalase, super oxide dismutase. 2. An acceleration of glycolysis in erythrocytes. 3. Citric acid cycle activation. 4. An increase in blood P02 , fluidity, and pliability. 5. Bactericidal, virucidal, and fungicidal properties. Laboratory studies have shown that when ozone is introduced into the blood in microgram doses, it is immediately converted into hydroperoxides which are free radical scavengers (glutathione, catalase, super oxide dismutase, etc.). They have shown remarkable antibacterial and antifungal effects. Through reaction of ozone with the phospholipid chains in the cell membrane, lipoperoxides are introduced into the cell and influence its metabolism. The first intracellular reaction is the glutathione system brought on by the oxidative stress and sets off the peroxide detoxifying function. As a result, there is an increase in the enzymes participating in oxygen metabolism, notably glucose - 6 -phosphate. It is believed that these hydroperoxides actually seek out and destroy diseased cells and accounts for ozone's anti-tumor properties. Infected cells have lower levels of enzyme activity and are less stable. The hydroperoxides readily react with the cell membrane lipids. In vivo studies have shown (Erhlich) hydroalkylperoxide has a 90% growth inhibitory effect on mouse ascites carcinoma. In particular, polyunsaturated fatty acids whose peroxides are ascribed a selective cytotoxic effect and have growth inhibiting effects in human lung, breast, and prostate cancer cells. References: "Ozone in Medicine", Vol. 3 Proceedings, 9th World Ozone Conference, 1989 "Oxygen Therapies: A New Way of Approaching Disease" McCabe 1988