You can go weeks without food. Days without water. But only minutes without oxygen.
Oxygen is the basis of life, & ozone is oxygen in its most powerful form. Once you understand what it is, you'll wonder why you've been taught to fear it.
So what is ozone, exactly?
The oxygen in the air is O2, two oxygen atoms holding onto each other, nice & stable. When energy hits it, whether lightning, sunlight, or a medical ozone generator, some of those molecules pick up a third atom & become O3. Ozone.
That third atom makes ozone unstable. That instability is the whole point. When ozone meets your body, it doesn't just sit there. It reacts, forming compounds called ozonides that get the attention of your cells. In plain terms, ozone wakes up your mitochondria, the tiny engines in your cells, & helps your body use oxygen better. Breathing gets oxygen into your blood. Ozone is about what your cells actually do with it.
Nature makes ozone every day. It is what gives the air that fresh, clean smell after a thunderstorm. It is also how most of the drinking water in the world is purified. This is not some lab invention. It is oxygen, supercharged.
Then why does the FDA hate it?
Fair question. The FDA's official position, in its own regulation, is that ozone is "a toxic gas with no known useful medical application." No ozone device is approved for medical use in the United States, & clinics here have to be careful about what they say & offer.
Here's the other side of the story. Ozone has been used by doctors in Europe for over a hundred years. German army surgeons used it on infected wounds in the First World War. Today there is an international scientific committee, ISCO3, that published the Madrid Declaration, a worldwide standard for how ozone is used, & more than 2,500 papers on medical ozone have appeared in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Frank Shallenberger, who wrote the book The Ozone Miracle & has trained doctors in ozone therapy for over 25 years, calls it, used properly, the single safest therapy in the history of medicine.
So why the wall here? Follow the money, or rather, the lack of it. Ozone is made from oxygen. You can't patent it. The FDA approval process costs a fortune, & no drug company is going to spend it on something they can't own. No sponsor, no trials, no approval. "No approval" gets read as "doesn't work." Meanwhile the rest of the world kept using it.
One safety rule matters more than all of this, & every real practitioner agrees on it: you never breathe ozone directly. It is too strong for lungs. Done right, it never goes near them.
What do people use it for?
In The Ozone Miracle, Dr. Shallenberger walks through condition after condition where doctors around the world use ozone. The short, plain version of what people seek it out for:
• Immune support: ozone stimulates the signaling molecules called cytokines that your immune system runs on
• Infections: ozone is directly toxic to bacteria, viruses, & fungi, & no microbe has ever developed resistance to it
• Wounds & skin: ozonated olive oil & ozone bagging have been used on stubborn wounds, rashes, & fungal infections for a century
• Detox support: the ozone sauna combines steam, sweating, & ozone, & it is the most popular way my clients meet ozone
• Energy: because it all comes back to those mitochondria & how well you use oxygen
• Dental & sinus issues, gut support, joint aches: the book covers these too, with specific methods for each
The gentlest starting point of all is an ozone sauna session. You sit comfortably with your head out in the fresh air, steam opens everything up, & the ozone does its work through your skin while you relax. Did you know your skin is the largest organ in your body? Imagine the absorption.
Want to learn more?
At New England Energy Therapy here in Ferrisburgh, I offer ozone sauna sessions, & phone consultations where we talk through ozone, lifestyle, & detoxing. Education first, so you understand what you are doing & why.
Because oxygen really is the basis of life.
Lexi
Educational purposes only. This post is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, & ozone therapy is not FDA approved for the treatment of any disease.
