Therapy Definitions

Oxygen/Ozone Therapy

Oxygen/ozone therapy is a term that describes a number of different practices in which oxygen, ozone, or hydrogen peroxide are administered via gas or water to kill disease micro-organisms, improve cellular function, and promote the healing of damaged tissues. The rationale behind bio-oxidative therapies, as they are sometimes known, is the notion that as long as the body's needs for antioxidants are met, the use of certain oxidative substances will stimulate the movement of oxygen atoms from the bloodstream to the cells. With higher levels of oxygen in the tissues, bacteria and viruses are killed along with defective tissue cells. The healthy cells survive and multiply more rapidly. The result is a stronger immune system.

Ozone itself is a form of oxygen, O3, produced when ultraviolet light or an electric spark passes through air or oxygen. It is a toxic gas that creates free radicals, the opposite of what antioxidant vitamins do. Oxidation, however, is good when it occurs in harmful foreign organisms that have invaded the body. Ozone inactivates many disease bacteria and viruses.

Oxygen and ozone therapies are thought to benefit patients in the following ways:

stimulating white blood cell production
killing viruses (ozone and hydrogen peroxide)
improving the delivery of oxygen from the blood stream to the tissues of the body
speeding up the breakdown of petrochemicals
increasing the production of interferon and tumour necrosis factor, thus helping the body to fight infections and cancers
increasing the efficiency of antioxidant enzymes
increasing the flexibility and efficiency of the membranes of red blood cells
speeding up the citric acid cycle, which in turn stimulates the body's basic metabolism
 

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