Ozone Sauna therapy

Ozone Sauna Therapy is an incredibly popular natural or holistic oxygen therapy/healing modality that is gaining traction and popularity in the United States. Historically, ozone therapy has been used primarily in countries like Germany, where millions of blood autohemotherapy treatments have been given. Also, Soviet-era scientists did the validating research in Russia, and ozone therapy became part of the state-run medical system many decades ago. However, in the United States, ozone has been rejected in our pharmaceutical economy for the simple reason that it cannot be patented like a patent drug. That means it can’t be controlled or profited from in the way that things like chemotherapy and other ultra-expensive medicines can be. If ozone could be patented and pharma could control the money flow, it would exist in every hospital and clinic in America as the standard of care.

What’s more, the individual holding the patent would be wealthier than Elon Musk. That’s because ozone therapy does truly help virtually any illness. Of course, it is not a cure-all, but it is incredibly beneficial for a wide variety of health conditions.

Ozone is a molecule that contains three oxygen atoms. Most oxygen in our environment or atmosphere is in the form of O2 or two oxygen atoms in a stable form. Ozone adds a third oxygen atom, creating a relatively stable yet highly reactive oxygen molecule. As oxygen therapies go, ozone is more powerful in some ways than what’s commonly known as the oxygen therapies that flood the body with O2 oxygen, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and exercise with oxygen therapy, AKA EWOT therapy. These are all amazing ways to get more oxygen into the body. Still, ozone is different because you only need minimal amounts of O3 or ozone therapy compared to other O2 treatments, as I mentioned. However, even small amounts of ozone therapy dramatically affect the body. Therefore, I find ozone to be the ideal starting oxygen therapy for chronic illness. I will add the other ones later. Some of the benefits of ozone therapy as an oxidizing therapy (by oxidizing, I mean a therapy that pulls electrons from other molecules inducing the crucial chemical reaction of redox) are the following:

If you have done much digging into the subject of holistic Lyme disease solutions, you have probably heard of the controversy between Louis Pasteur (from which the name “pasteurization” comes) and Antoine Bechamp – two 19th Century French scientists.

The debate goes something like this…

Pasteur theorized that microscopic organisms clearly visible under the newly invented microscopes of the day were the “cause” of virtually all diseases. The proof was that every time he looked at diseased tissues under a microscope, sure enough…there were the bacteria. It was theorized that the more virulent and nasty the bug one had come in contact with, the worse their disease was.

Bechamp on the other hand taught that the cellular terrain was everything. That is – the strength of the host was the primary determining factor in disease. As this definition of terrain evolved, it came to mean that at the microscopic level, the health of individual cells, robust activity of immune cells, and a vigorous flow of nutrients into cells and waste products out of cells determined disease more than the nastiness of the bugs.

Basically, Pasteur’s camp won the debate and it shaped modern medicine. The practice of “find a bug – use a drug” was born. The notion of improving host resistance, a prospect that is quite a bit more difficult than taking a pill (and not very profitable) faded away. But the controversy still rages on, and has degraded into name-calling. Some would paint Pasteur as an evil villain who committed various evil and treacherous acts throughout his life (not the author’s view.)

“Okay”, you might ask “Why should I care?”

Good question!

You may not have much interest in medical history, but it does very much affect people’s lives to this very day, both yours and mine. When you get a cold or flu and walk out of a doctor’s office with a prescription for an expensive antibiotic (that actually has no affect on your viral infection), you are living the outcome of this debate. If you are struggling to overcome chronic Lyme disease or almost any other chronic illness the debate becomes quite a bit more personal. In fact your future health could depend on an accurate comprehension of these important principles. So which one was right? Is disease determined by the nastiness of the bug or the strength and resistance of the host?

You probably guessed that being a traditional naturopath, I favor Bechamp’s philosophy, but it’s not that cut and dry. It really can’t be 100% one way or the other. Terrain is so very important but also some bugs like Borrelia Burgdorferi can obviously be quite nasty. In order to deepen your understanding of this important health concept and controversy I want to give two illustrations. The first is an embellished version of an illustration on the importance of healthy terrain that I have heard holistic Lyme disease expert William Lee Cowden M.D. give at several A.C.I.M. medical conferences. It goes something like this:

What would happen if all the garbage collectors in New York City went on strike? …Imagine the scenario in your mind for a bit. To begin with, folks would start bringing their sacks of garbage out to the curb and the piles would grow larger day by day. Then it would begin piling up in allies, vacant lots, and finally the streets themselves. Basically everywhere.

Eventually, there would be no place to put it outside and peoples’ homes and apartments would overflow with stinking garbage and yep, you guessed it, now come the vermin! Rats, mice, roaches and flies would have a heyday. They are everywhere and people are complaining, so the city leaders have an emergency meeting to address the problem. After an all night brainstorming session they announce the solution to the press: they will hire a crack team of professional rat and mouse snipers and bug exterminators! Over the next few weeks the rat-killers scour the city shooting rats and mice, and the exterminators fumigate the whole city with pesticides. What is the outcome? ….piles of garbage with dead bugs and pesticide residue on them, and dead rats and mice everywhere. But after a short time the vermin are all back and another emergency meeting is needed. Solution: more powerful pesticides and hire additional rat and mouse snipers.

Do you see the correlation here to human health? New York City represents your body – the garbage collectors represent all the pathways by which you literally eliminate garbage from your body, such as the bowel, liver, kidneys, and lymphatic system. When these fail at doing their job properly or fast enough, bad things begin to happen, including the methodical appearance of one chronic infection after the other. Waste products and toxins like heavy metals, chemicals, metabolic waste products, and microbial biotoxins begin to back up in your city as it were. This is why holistic practitioners such as myself routinely recommend liver detoxification therapies and flushes, kidney cleanses, lymphatic drainage, and homeopathic Terrain remedies to clear the fluid between the cells of debris, and so forth. The notion is that yes, people with chronic illnesses do have chronic infections, lots of them. And yes, they are making people sick, but what really is the solution, especially when these are chronic and entrenched, such as the case for example with chronic Lyme disease? The ludicrous illustration above highlights the futility of hammering infections with one antibiotic after the other and/or natural bug killers, while neglecting unhealthy terrain, and a broken detoxification system.

Benefits of Ozone Sauna Therapy

It has a powerful antiviral effect, killing viruses directly by oxidizing their outer membrane, and also an across-the-board increase of immune cytokine function in the immune system. It lowers viral load in chronic illness in this 2^nd, cytokine-mediated way as well. Immune cytokines are like hormones for the immune system, a method that different parts of the immune system use to communicate with each other. And generally speaking, when cytokines are released, it means an increase in immune function. The message being “there is a threat; get rid of it!” This is one of the reasons why ozone is dramatically powerful for virtually any viral infection, including herpes, hepatitis, Epstein Barr, and HIV. Ozone is also antiparasitic, antibacterial, and antifungal. However, ozone itself does not kill these infections in the body in most cases. That is because ozone is rapidly converted in the body into ozonides, which are longer-lasting molecules. It is the ozonides, those oxidized molecules, that deliver the oxygenation effect around the body.

Ozone has been shown to be analgesic. It helps with pain, it helps with burns, with tissue regeneration. Ozone increases mitochondrial function by increasing controlled oxidation inside the cells. Ozone has a wide variety of other benefits.

My own experience with ozone

My experience with ozone was purchasing an ozone air purifier from a multilevel marketing company in the early 90s. This would cure me (because that is what everyone thinks when they know nothing of health.) It didn’t. It did make me wake up coughing. That’s about it. That was because ozone as a room air purifier has nothing to do with medical ozone use. The lungs cannot deliver ozone into the bloodstream from the air in therapeutic amounts; from that perspective, it was a waste of time. Possibly even dangerous.

I obtained an actual medical ozone machine in the late 90s while fighting life-threatening Lyme disease and experimented with it based on whatever opinion anyone offered. It did not always go well. But of course, we learn by trying things. I was later introduced to actual clinically well-supervised ozone therapy in 2003 as part of the Lyme Disease pilot study. Dr. William Lee Cowden implemented and ran that excellent Lyme disease pilot study. Early in the Lyme study, I observed other patients getting an ozone sauna session. After getting out of the ozone steam sauna, they would feel better, and the towels they sat on were littered with gray spots. Those gray spots are heavy metals. I know this because I’ve done private research and compared those greyish spots on the towels to control samples. The grey spots contain high levels of arsenic, nickel, cadmium, uranium, and various other heavy metals. So when people do ozone as an ozone sauna therapy, they literally sweat heavy metals out while simultaneously absorbing ozone into their bodies transdermally.

My own experience with it was so powerful that one of the first things I purchased was an ozone steam sauna cabinet while completing my studies in naturopathy. This was right after the health gains of the Lyme pilot study, and for a period of a year and a half I was in that sauna three times per week. I excreted those heavy metal spots out the entire time until gradually, these disappeared. My body cleaned out heavy metals, and my health improved dramatically. I was using additional therapies of chelators and also Laser Energetic Detoxification, but the ozone sauna was vital for heavy metal removal.

What is the best ozone solution for you?

As I implemented ozone therapy as a naturopathic doctor, I naturally implemented Ozone Sauna as the primary therapeutic method. That is because this had a powerfully beneficial effect in my life. There are other ways to deliver ozone, but while not getting into details about those, we recommend home equipment that is versatile enough to do all of them. Having done them all, both on myself and in practice, I am convinced that the ozone sauna is the most potent and dramatic means to improve your health using ozone. That is because you get the benefits of the ozone, the heat causing vasodilation to push the ozone deeper, and perhaps greatest of all, the benefits of detox far beyond any regular sauna. There are a wide variety of ozone sauna units. You can get them in professional cabinets from $7-10,000. You can get much less expensive canvas units, which work pretty effectively, or you can pay up to $80,000 for high-end ozone saunas. They all have two things in common, though. They cause you to sweat with steam and heat and force your body to absorb ozone systemically because of the ozone concentration inside the sauna.

Home units are best for getting well

Expensive ozone machines are simply not required to get therapeutic benefits. In my clinical practice, I used a high-end professional steam cabinet at my clinic for years. Despite having it available at my clinic nearby, I often chose to use a simple canvas ozone steam sauna unit at my home because it was equally effective, but in my house, therefore close and accessible. The best therapy equipment devices are the ones you actually use! As a naturopathic practitioner, I have a mission to help people get the best quality, usable, functional ozone machine, and sauna setup they can. And to use it continuously until they are healthy again. And that’s one of the things that we facilitate patients with. For that reason, we have this same unit set up at our Las Vegas clinic that I recommend for patients for home use. So that patients can come in and experience it, get a couple of sessions in to see what it is like, and then set this same unit up in their own homes for a very low cost. There’s simply no reason to go to a clinic week after week and pay for treatment when for the cost of that, you can get your own home equipment set up. We also have assisted people with the simple setup process in the USA and Europe via video conference. We ship every single item needed for an optimal ozone sauna, and walk you through the simple setup. I am not aware of any other practitioner or clinic doing that.

The Evidence for sauna therapy with small amounts of oxygen and ozone added to the unit.

I took six towels, non-organic cotton that had all been washed in the same detergent and local well water. Six different clients sat n these towels in the ozone sauna and left gray spots on the towels, as you can see in the photos above. In the areas that had concentrated gray spots, I cut out samples that were a few inches in size. I also cut out an unspotted section of towel from the corner of one of the towels that had been used in the sauna as a control sample. These were then sent to Doctor’s Data laboratory to be analyzed. The goal was to find out if the 6 gray spotted towels were higher in heavy metals than the unspotted control samples. The answer is: yes. The following bar graphs show how much. The baseline number is the control sample. The numbers in the graph represents how many times higher each gray sample was than the control sample. Keep in mind that non-organic cotton would likely have some heavy metals in it, and there were naturally some heavy metals in the well water that was used to wash these towels. The spotted samples were significantly higher in heavy metals than the control. The only exception was aluminum. The aluminum control sample was about the average of the other samples. In a conversation with Lee Cowden, M.D., he brought out that well water can be fairly high in aluminum, and also washing powders can contain it. If this testing is repeated in the future, we will obtain organic towels washed in purified water and laundry soap with assurance of purity. Nonetheless, the overall results are quite dramatic as the bar graphs will show. Download the actual lab results here: Doctor’s Data Inc Lab Results Jack Miller CTN

Ozone sauna and other key pieces of home health therapies

Ozone is antimicrobial, reduces pain, increases immune function, lowers viral titres for a wide variety of viral illnesses, regenerates burned or damaged tissues, and when combined with sauna is a powerful detoxification method. Our primary goal is to introduce you to in-clinic therapies like ozone sauna that you can later set up in the most practical and least expensive way, so that you can avoid costly repetitive clinic charges. Home equipment is the way to go and much less expensive in the long run. Most Lyme patients and other chronic illness patients need continuity of treatment. Today you can get these set up for home use better than ever and ozone sauna is easy to set up at home. But if you have never experienced it, you need to do it a clinic first, to understand how it works, and so we provide that. Repeated ozone saunas done twice a week was crucial for my long term, and full recovery. Ozone sauna is normally the first piece of therapy equipment that you need to get better health faster. There is a dizzying array of natural health equipment out there, though. Part of our mission is to not only assess your health as an individual, but to guide you through all the misinformation out there as to what home health equipment and methods is going to give you the best results. You really do need to be a wise consumer to get those therapy devices that will help you the most. Because we have patients that have come all over, they need beneficial treatments at home as well as what we can do in our clinic.

Lymphatic drainage– There are many diverse lymphatic drainage methods out there. Mostly they are unneeded. All you really need is a skin brush and the right technique to brush the body in the direction of lymphatic flow. Of course, sometimes you need more, and so we provide a natural lymphatic drainage therapy combination that works synergistically. Here is a tip for good lymphatic drainage methods; when they work well, provided you have good detoxification and organ support (see Spagyric Homeopathics next), you will almost always feel better!

Spagyric homeopathics– We use German made Pekana remedies. These can support the body’s organs, immune system, hormonal system, nervous system, and detoxification and drainage very powerfully.

Comprehensive functional medicine testing and supplements– Along with individualized nutrient dense diet recommendations, and other methods to flood the body with nutrients, this can be essential. This functional medicine oriented approach must also include comprehensive gut biome testing via stool tests, urine organic acid and all overall holistic digestive support that is needed to improve digestion and assimilation of nutrients.

Heavy metal detoxification– Finally, you need thorough testing of heavy metals, heavy metal sensitivity, soft tissue levels, hair analysis and along with the recommended Laser energetic detox, you need appropriate heavy metal oral chelation that specifically addresses your body heavy metal burden. We use a variety of methods for this. And last but not least, you need…..

Kill therapies– For Lyme disease specifically (we do work with many other health conditions) we use the most potent natural Lyme remedies in existence. These are in the category of “kill therapies”, when it is needed to use the big guns to attack an infection with natural antimicrobials. We use evidence-based products, and well researched products. We also energetically test the compatibility of all these products so that you get individualized recommendations. The specific combination that is recommended to you will include those things that specifically address the infections that your body is fighting, based on the aforementioned testing. You need products that are well researched to address the infections contributing to chronic Lyme disease. Very few Lyme patients have the exact profile of chronic infection in their body. You need things precisely for you, not someone else, and those infections need to be treated in a logical order.

Parasites are the last to be addressed typically, with the purpose of eradication so that they never come back. The Cowden custom Lyme scan, parasite scan, and bacterial fungal scans test 244 different herbal and other Kill therapies on each patient, and rates these energetically for how compatible these are for you as an individual.

Better Health Faster- You can recover from Lyme disease by combining the best of holistic treatments

Clearly, when you come for an appointment, we wouldn’t do all the tests and recommend all the possible therapies mentioned here, nor would it be advisable to do so. And unless a person is very ill, they will not likely need everything discussed here. As a naturopathic practitioner whether addressing Lyme disease or something else, I want to get to the basics of what you need now at each appointment. We give you protocol recommendations that are simple enough to follow, with the goal to improve your health over 4 to 6 weeks. We see you for an appointment every 4 to 6 weeks (sometimes 8 weeks for out of state), and at each appointment the body tells what its priorities are to heal. Its your journey to recovery to make. I am just the guide. Call us today for more details or to schedule your appointment.