Oxygen therapies (aka oxidative therapies) have been used for over 120 years. They first appeared in mainstream medical journals in 1888. Since that time, many countries around the world have integrated oxidative therapies into their mainstream medical practices as a safe, effective and widely applicable medical therapy that enhances the body’s innate healing powers.
The primary forms of oxidative therapies used extensively today are ozone and hydrogen peroxide. These therapies are at the cutting edge of progressive and integrative medicine, capable of treating and potentially curing a wide variety of acute and chronic illness.
Oxidative therapies are powerful producers of oxygen. Oxygen is essential for life and we require a continual supply in order to survive. The brain requires over 20 percent of the oxygen taken in by the body. The human body can survive for months without food and only days without water, but only for a few minutes without oxygen.
In the body, oxygen combines with sugars to produce carbon dioxide, water and energy (ATP). ATP is a vital component to our cells and metabolic function – without it, we are dead. Reduction or impairment of ATP production is at the core of symptoms such as fatigue and chronic disease such as immune dysregulation, cancer, heart disease and all of the degenerative processes we associate with aging.
Oxygen attacks foreign invaders and toxins in the body. Most infectious microorganisms are “anaerobic”, meaning they thrive in a low-oxygen or oxygen depleted environment. Cancer viruses are among those that are anaerobic, which is why oxidative therapies are used extensively in Germany, Russia, France, Cuba, Mexico and increasingly in North America, as a first line treatment for cancer (in conjunction with other conventional and integrative cancer treatments). In 1966, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Otto Warburg confirmed that the key pre-condition for the development of cancer is a near lack of oxygen on the cellular level.