Ozone therapy might sound like a process that involves breathing the gas in, but it actually uses an IV process to help increase its level in your blood and, in doing so, to boost your body’s system for detoxification.

Your body has its own methods of detoxification, for example, through the liver removing chemicals from the body and passing them out through your urine. However, your body’s capacity to do this is not infinite and there are ways in which the system can be boosted.

This is also true with your immune system, which is there to fight infection, but weakens over time. However, it can also be boosted, given a head-start in immune memory by vaccines, but generally strengthened more with vitamins. Ozone can also help.

Not everything you take will achieve these goals, but ozone IV therapy can. However, its name may initially elicit some curiosity, for this is a gas, yet you do not breathe it in as part of the treatment.

Instead, the therapy works by removing a quantity of your blood and placing it in a sealed container (an ozone egg), where it is infused with the gas before being re-injected back into your bloodstream.

What Is Ozone?

It is useful to understand what ozone is:

• It is comprised of three atoms of oxygen
• It was discovered in 1875
• It can be used for disinfecting and cleaning
• However, in large quantities, it is a pollutant

Some may be familiar with the concept of the hole in the ozone layer that was a major environmental issue decades ago, before a ban on chlorofluorocarbons in aerosols enabled the layer to gradually recover.

However, while this layer of ozone in the upper atmosphere is important for protecting against the sun’s UV radiation, this is not the only place ozone exists.

Although the emission of ozone through pollution like vehicle exhaust fumes can be harmful, it can be produced synthetically and is also made by the human body and other creatures.

How Can Ozone Treatment Boost Your Health?

This can be very helpful. For example, white blood cells can use it to kill bugs, so it has an important role in the immune system. This is the benefit that Ozone IV therapy is designed to provide.

Primarily, it stimulates the production of white blood cells, which boost the immune system (many disorders of the immune system cause white blood cell production to diminish). This bolsters your body’s capacity to deal with any bugs and toxins it comes across.

In addition to boosting immunity and detoxification capacity, the positive effects of the treatment include:

• Accelerated wound healing
• Improved circulation
• Reduced inflammation
• Better cellular repair through increased stem cell production

As with so many substances, the balance between what is beneficial and what is harmful depends on amounts. In this case, each IV pass, which takes blood and places it in the ozone egg before reinjection, will have a benefit.

The optimal treatment is 20 passes, but for beginners, 10 passes is better as the body takes time to get used to the treatments. 30 passes may be used for tackling severe and chronic conditions.

By using ozone therapy, you may find it gives your immune system exactly the boost it needs.