OK , could be mistaken...but why the ground level atmospheric ozone warnings? Ken
At 07:12 AM 12/6/01 -0500, you wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >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: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
