Recently, there has been a last-ditch effort by the drug companies to slur ozone and oxygen as harmful to humans, by promulgating a huge propaganda effort about so-called anti-oxidants. A flood of lies have been poured out to make people believe that oxygen is harmful to the system, that it causes cell damage and ageing due to being a free radical. Let us examine these claims.

The human body is composed of nearly 60% oxygen, about the same as the composition of the earth's crust. The human body is about 70% water, also about the same as the surface of the earth. We can survive for about a week without water, and for about a month without food,
but we can only live for a few minutes if we are deprived of oxygen. It is our body's most
critical need. Oxygen is involved in all the major processes in the body, from respiration to
digestion to assimilation to elimination to reproduction. If we have insufficient oxygen in our
system, these critical functions will operate poorly, and our health will suffer.

If there is insufficient oxygen for the cell to burn sugar for energy, the carbon in the sugar will be changed into carbon monoxide, instead of carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide is very difficult for the body to eliminate and so it builds up in the body, irritating the organs, and lowering body temperature. The body fights diseases by raising the temperature briefly, which we call fever, in order to "burn out" the bug.

Poorly oxygenated cells are good news to an oxygen-hating anaerobic bacteria or virus.
With less oxygen available than they need, cells are unable to make their defensive enzyme
shields strong enough, and viruses can invade and force the cell to replicate viruses. The
defensive enzyme shields produced by healthy cells are composed of four major enzymes:
super oxide dismutase, reductase, glutathione peroxidase and catalase.

As long as the cell maintains this enzyme shield, viruses cannot penetrate them and ozone cannot harm them. Disease microbes have no enzyme shields. When medical ozone and oxygen are introduced into the area, they attack microbes without a coating and diseased cells with deficient cell wall enzymes. It oxidizes them, allowing them to be cleared from the body and replaced with new healthy cells.

Free radicals, on the other hand, are atoms with unpaired electrons, a natural occurrence in biochemical reactions. There could be no life without free radicals. The properties of free radicals vary widely: some are toxic to all living cells, others only to the most vulnerable cells. Singlet oxygen, 01, is a highly reactive free radical that acts as a scavenger of other free radicals. The oxygen combines with them to render them harmless, thereby protecting cells from damage.

The so-called anti-oxidant enzymes are gaining in popularity as nutritional supplements. They
are not antioxidant at all, but rather are either free radical scavengers, or enzyme enhancers.
They have been shown to help protect marginally healthy cells from general free radical
damage. Super oxide dismutase in particular has helped reduce a variety of disorders: normally it is among the body's most plentiful enzymes. However, prolonged use of supplements could tend to atrophy the internal biochemical processes that would normally be making these enzymes. In any case, it does not address the cause of the problem: oxygen starvation at the cellular level, which makes the cells too weak to make the enzymes that protect them from disease.

The wide application of ozone and oxygen in medicine is based on the simple principle that diseased cells cannot exist in the presence of oxygen, and that cells cannot become diseased if they are supplied with sufficient oxygen.

In the end, if there were any truth at all to ozone or oxygen therapy being harmful to humans,
the evidence would have become clear forty years ago. There is no such evidence, proving the absolute safety of medical ozone and oxygen.

Later generations will look back in amazement (and shame) at the unbelievable opposition mounted against such a safe medical treatment which has the ability to save millions of lives.