I bought an Air-zone ozone generator last summer and since day one I swear it solved some lung issues which could have been
parasite related.
Breathing
O3 - Ozone or for that matter H202, won't kill many critters but what it can do is supply much needed O2 to help the body work as designed. Roundworms actually throttle available O2:
From
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991005071327.htm
"Hemoglobin in bacteria is used as an enzyme to destroy NO -- the 'primordial gas' which evolved before there was oxygen and is toxic in high amounts -- while in mammals, hemoglobin carries both oxygen and NO, using the NO to ensure oxygen delivery by dilating blood vessels," Minning said. "But in the
Ascaris worm, NO is used to remove oxygen. Thus
Ascaris hemoglobin is for the first time regulating the oxygen in its environment, although in this case it is getting rid of it.
"From the standpoint of hemoglobin biology, this finding represents a new function and a novel mechanism for
Ascaris hemoglobin," she said. "In bacteria, hemoglobin's function is detoxification, while in mammals, its function is respiration. In Ascaris, at the evolutionary divide, we see the evolution of the 'functional switch' -- respiratory function (control of oxygen) and the detoxification function (removal of oxygen) are the same. And all is controlled by NO."
Minning's work in Ascaris biology was conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Goldberg, a Washington University microbiologist and HHMI investigator. The keys to hemoglobin's evolution, the researchers believe, are the chemical reactions that take place between hemoglobin, oxygen and NO, a ubiquitous chemical involved in many life processes. These findings suggest that contrary to commonly held beliefs, hemoglobin has evolved over millions of years in response to NO, and not oxygen.