its all about dosage levels. its not bad to breath it, but i have found that the levels at which the water ozonators put out ozone is too intense for me. not too much, not too little, is the key.

You make a good point. I went back over McCabe's section about breathing ozone (page 232) and he basically says the same thing: that ozone will do it's job and oxidize crud that has built up in your lungs. Therefore, an ozone newby will probably gag on ozone while their body tries to cope with breathing it. But a clean person can tolerate much more.

Personal experience bears this out. I do know that when I've had a whiff of straight medical grade, no matter how clean I am, I will gag and start coughing something aweful. Regardless if it is oxidizing more or hurting my lung tissue, I'm not sure. All I know is that it doesn't feel good and I won't do it unless by accident.

----Can anyone shed and REAL light on why it's "bad to breath" as opposed to just "this one guy said not to?" or it "burns" your lungs (ozone oxidizes from what i know.. not burns...)?----


Oxidizes, burns. It's all the same thing, different temperatures. Oxidation/reduction is happening in the body to regulate body temp on a constant basis. Food is the fuel. Oxygen is the catalyst. A complex series of interactions are occurring moment by moment to keep the body from literally burning up, like a fire out of control.When we burn paper or wood there is no mechanism to control the temperature so it burns literally out of control producing high temperatures. The body regulates the same process to come up with a temperature roughly 98.6 degrees.

Where we have problems breathing ozone is that O1 (which is what we're talking about)is by definition a free radical. Any free radical can damage and harm dead, diseased, dying cells and even healthy cells. We all have several billion dead or dying in our bodies at any given time as life is a constantly renewing process. Simply put, ozone not only interacts with the toxins in the lungs, but also is attacking the weakened cells of the epithelial walls, causing the body to deal with the elimination of them much quicker than it had planned to do. I personally believe that the added intake of superior antioxidants is essential when doing any kind of oxygen therapy. The antioxidants provide the healthy cells with a means to protect themselves so strong ozone will not eliminate them as well. This is why if you do overdose yourself on strong ozone inadvertently, a large dose of Vitamin C will help eliminate the pain.
hope this helps
Paul