----- Original Message ----- From: Ode Coyote <coy...@alltel.net> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 6:16 AM Subject: Re: CS>***Re: Infrared saunas
> I would be cautious with ozone [O3] It is highly corrosive, will eat the > tires right off your car, has high atmospheric level warnings in weather > reports for people with respiratory problems and probably acts as a very > potent free radical in the body...the sort of thing that people take > antioxidents for. > Ken Ken, It is absolutely not true that O3 acts as a free radical in the body. The only true statement is that O3 will corrode certain materials with time. As I said in a previous post, there is lots of misinformation about ozone--primarily based on experiments done almost 70 years ago with ozone COMPOUNDS. These compounds are what is at the ground level, and which the weather people make such a fuss about. Most writers--even those who praise ozone therapy--make the mistake of confusing the effects of PURE ozone with the effects of CONTAMINATED ozone, or ozone COMPOUNDS (one of which contains nitrogen). *Pure ozone is not toxic.* At high levels it will irritate the respiratory tract, in which case one should simply stop breathing it. But this is a lot different from your implication of a more generalized, inherent ozone toxicity. Parenthetically, many ozone generators do not emit pure ozone, which is why some people have a problem with them. A friend loaned me an "ozone" air purification unit and even at a low setting I could not tolerate it because it was so foul. This is not pure ozone. Ozone mixed with other gases is not ozone. There is a wonderful article by Clark E. Thorp, called "The Toxicity of Ozone: A Report and Bibliography" that originally appeared in Industrial Medicine and Surgery, 19:2, 45-57, February, 1950. He does an extensive review of the literature and goes into great detail about how and why the misconceptions about ozone took place. In fact, one researcher realized that a report he'd made about ozone was really about NITROGEN compounds; and then went back and redid the entire study. Ozone is unstable. When in the body, it breaks down into OXYGEN. This makes it so useful for fighting infections. I go into this in much greater detail in my upcoming *Handbook of Rife Frequency Healing.* There is a 10-page section in my book on oxygen therapies, for which I consulted some experts in the field. Regards, Nina Silver, Ph.D. Author, *The Handbook of Rife Frequency Healing* Order the book on my website http://www.heart-of-healing.com -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
