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Is depletion of antioxidants
responsible for the ozone
sauna induced rash and is
the rash a sign of the body
being burned by oxygen??
by paola d | May 2, 2014 | 7 comments

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Many people, who start doing ozone saunas start

developing a rash which can be extremely itchy.
Saul Pressman explains in the book “The Story of
Ozone”:

“Unlike other methods of ozone application,

employing ozone in a steam sauna will induce
the “healing crisis”, which feels like having the u
for a few days. People should be informed of this
e ect so they can be prepared, and welcome it as
a sign of bene cial healing. Skin rashes are
common as the toxins are pushed out through
the skin rapidly. Often the rash is very itchy, and
this can be alleviated by taking protease
enzymes, and applying Gardener’s Dream
Cream.”

The skin, being the body’s largest organ of

elimination, pushes out the oxidized toxins,
resulting in small red itchy pimples. Once all toxins
are removed from the body, the rash disappears.

The rash can become extremely uncomfortable,

sometimes being so itchy that it doesn’t allow
people to sleep or participate in normal daily
activities. The red spots can start oozing liquid.
Some people scratch themselves bloody. No cream
or ointment seems to o er any permanent relief. 2
Consequently, many people have a hard time
believing that it’s something bene cial and
necessary happening to them. Paired with the

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nowadays popularized notion of the dangers of

oxidative stress and the necessity to supplement
with antioxidants, some start theorizing whether
the rash is in fact a symptom of depleted
antioxidants level in the body or even a sign of
oxidative damage to the tissue. A page on
silvermedicine.org picks up on those fears and
seems to o er a scienti cally looking explanation:

“Individuals who react to ozone with a severe

detoxi cation rash are individuals who have
vastly depleted antioxidant levels in the body, or
individuals who have alot [sic] of toxic waste
stored in fat cells, or individuals su ering from
chronic/systemic infections (which results in the
accumulation of toxic acidic waste build up in-
body from the pathogenic organisms). In such
cases, ozone therapy is either causing extreme
oxidative stress and massive amounts of damage
due to oxidation, or the ozone is breaking down
too much toxic waste for the liver to be able to
handle processing. Individuals with low
antioxidant levels are literally burning the body
with oxygen and producing free radicals that the
body is not able to cope with.”
http://www.silvermedicine.org/ozone-sauna-
rashes.html
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Silvermedicine.org basically gives 3 di erent
reasons why individuals might experience a rash
after ozone sauna:

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1. Vastly depleted antioxidant levels or

2. Toxic waste stored in the body fat or

3. Chronic or systemic pathogenic infection It then

proposes a protocol with which one can allegedly
take the body “from a healthy cellular state, where
an individual could do 30 minutes of ozone twice
daily with no reaction, to a depleted state where the
ozone rash occured [sic] with a single ozone sauna
session… and then back again.”

This protocol involves both high dosages of

powerful antioxidants as well as various other
minerals and supplements which are designed to
raise the body’s pH level.

In this posting, I will only address the claim that

depleted antioxidant levels and a “ rey [sic]
process” of oxidative burning of the skin is
responsible for the rash and not deal with the
website’s further claims of the importance of raising
ph levels and supplementing with minerals.

Problems with the “lack of

antioxidants / burning one’s body
with oxygen causes a rash” theory:
1) The website completely fails to explain why an
oxidative burn would result in small red itchy
pimples. The ozone induced rash has a typical 2
occurrence: numerous eruptions, usually very tiny
but can vary in size to a considerable degree,
concentrated on certain areas of the skin.

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Silvermedicine.org completely fails to provide proof

that that is indeed how oxidative burns look like.
Instead it just makes an assumption.

It doesn’t o er any pictures or descriptions of how

typical oxidative burns look like nor does it consult
any other sources about it and compares them to
ozone sauna induced rashes, nor does it provide
any other clinical observations of practitioners or
other professionals in the eld familiar with
oxidative burns.

It takes an observable symptom typical for ozone

therapy, pairs it with the nowadays popular notion
of the importance of antioxidants supplementation
and presents an arbitrary explanation without
providing any scienti c or clinical proof.

2) Given that the whole body (except the head) is

subjected to ozone in the sauna, then if the rash
would really be due to the ozone burning the skin
tissue one would expect a uniform red burn of the
entire body.

What one sees instead are localized patches of red

blisters, preferably on the abdomen, chest and back
or other areas of the body which correspond to its
fat deposits.

If the rash was due to ozone burns then there is no 2

reason to believe that the ozone would attack the
skin selectively – preferring certain areas over
others.

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But that is exactly what is being observed. Certain

areas of the body are more prone to develop a rash
then others – again, no explanation is given for this
phenomenon.

3) If the ozone burned the skin, then the parts of

the body which are closest to the ozone output in
the sauna and which logically are exposed to a
higher volume and higher concentration of ozone
should display more severe ‘burns’.

Yet that is also not what is being observed.

Instead, independent of where the ozone output

hose is placed inside the sauna, the same areas of
the body tend to erupt in di erent individuals: belly,
chest and back, waist and upper arms. This mirrors
the localities of most organs and fat deposits in the
human body, which tend to hold onto toxins more
than for example muscle tissue.

4) In order to be able to convincingly claim that the

rash is due to “vastly depleted antioxidants /
oxidative burning of the skin” one would need to
have performed the proposed “experimental
research protocol”on an individual on whom the
possibility of developing a rash due to “toxic waste
stored in fat cells” or due to “chronic/systemic
infections” has been excluded.
2
That is one hell of an assumption and one hell of a
clean individual which again the website omits to
explain how that person was located and how it

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was ascertained that the person had no toxic waste

deposits in the fat nor any pathogenic infections.

Following the logic of the website, only a person

with a body sterile enough not to develop a rash
due to toxins or pathogens, could verify the
assumption that the rash is indeed due to oxidative
damage and not due to the other factors. Clearly, in
order to con rm that theory they must have
conducted the experiment on a human being who
has not been raised on Earth.

5) The article states that “we” (it remains unclear

throughout the text and website who that entity is)
succeeded, in the course of the ozone and
antioxidant supplementation experiment, in taking
a

“human body from a healthy cellular state,

where an individual could do 30 minutes of
ozone twice daily with no reaction, to a depleted
state where the ozone rash occured with a single
ozone sauna session… and then back again”.

So basically, what they allege is that they took that

extraterrestrially raised individual who was
completely void of any toxins and pathogens,
subjected him or her to twice daily ozone saunas,
during which period that individual was not
depleted in antioxidants yet (no rash), then became
2
depleted in antioxidants (onset of rash) and then
was not depleted anymore (no rash again).

What is the problem with this unlikely scenario?

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The fact that increased oxidation promotes the

body’s production of antioxidants.

This phenomenon is so well established in human

physiology that scientist who want to measure
oxidative stress in humans, often do so by
measuring the body’s production of glutathione
(one of the most potent antioxidants) and conclude
from that the level of what they call oxidative stress.

One can order such tests for example here:

https://www.promega.com/products/cell-health-
and-metabolism/oxidative-stress-assays/

By alleging that subjecting an individual to

increased oxidation (ozone therapy) would lead to a
depletion of that individual’s antioxidant levels,
silvermedicine.org turns an established
physiological fact on its head.

Subjecting a person to ozone therapy increases that

person’s production of antioxidants, not depletes
them, as explained here:

“However, moderate oxidative stress activates

another nuclear transcriptional factor, nuclear
factor-erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2). Nrf2
then induces the transcription of antioxidant
2
response elements (ARE). Transcription of ARE
results in the production of numerous
antioxidant enzymes, such as SOD, GPx,
glutathione-s-transferase(GSTr), catalase (CAT),
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heme-oxygenase-1 (HO-1), NADPH-quinone-

oxidoreductase (NQO-1), phase II enzymes of
drug metabolism and heat shock proteins (HSP)”
http://www.medicalgasresearch.com/content/1/1
/29

Hence the explanation that the rash was due to

depleted antioxidant levels which occurred during
ozone therapy is not based in scienti c fact or
clinical observation and hence is highly unlikely.

That is really where our discussion could end since

obviously the questionable website’s main
nonsensical claim has been su ciently refuted, but
just out of pure fun of putting a nal nail into the
co n:

6) The described phenomenon of someone doing

ozone saunas and initially not developing a rash,
then once the rash has occurred, subsequent ozone
dosages easily trigger more rash, until nally no
rash occurs after continued ozone treatments –
that is exactly what is being observed during
regular long term ozone therapy without anti-
oxidants.

Once the body has been cleared of toxins, the

ozone does not trigger any more rashes. This
describes the regular course of ozone therapy 2
without having undergone any antioxidant
supplementation regimen.

Towards the end the webpage states

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“On occasion, indivdiuals [sic] still may

experience the occasional small rash localized to
areas of the body that hold a trauma history
pattern. This is normal, and usually subsides
within a few days.”

So what it basically says, that on occasions when

their protocol with which they promised one

“can quickly and safely reverse low antioxidant

levels, and experience ozone sauna therapy as it
was meant to be experienced.”

apparently isn’t so bulletproof, and the rash can still

occur, despite the claimed re-establishment of
antioxidant levels. Only this time it’s not due to
oxidative burn or toxins or pathogens but due to a
“trauma history pattern”.

Right, or whatever other explanation the author

cherry picks to t his or her argument.  

Have I ever experienced the ozone

sauna rash?
Yes, I have.

Two di erent kinds:

1) Five years ago when i started a high volume daily

ozone treatment I developed a rash on the inside of 2
my thighs. It looked like red streaks and was very
itchy. It looked to me like burned skin. I’ve never
seen skin burned by ozone, but if there was such a

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thing then what I had on the inside of my thighs

seemed like what I imagined it would look like.

I contacted Saul Pressman who explained to me

that that rash was toxins leaving the body and that
it would subside with continuous ozone treatment.

Initially, I thought his explanation was complete BS.

What I had developed on my legs did not look like a

rash to me at all. It looked like burned skin. Period. I
did not believe him in the least.

Yet I had to admit that I didn’t know for sure and I

continued with the vaginal insu ations which had
brought it on and which continued to stir it up and
make it worse.

After several more months of daily ozone treatment

the rash and the itch stopped. I was able to
continue with the insu ations of up to 60 minutes
at a time without triggering any rashes.

I had not taken any antioxidants during that time.

Saul Pressman proved to be perfectly able to

explain what was happening and predict what
would happen. Once the toxins were cleared, the
rash disappeared.

2) After starting doing the ozone saunas I had also

2
developed the more typical rash of little red dots all
over my torso and back. Fortunately, it lasted only
few days and it didn’t itch too badly. Again it went

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away after continued ozone treatments. Before it

went away completely, it would continue to are up
with subsequent ozone treatments.

During that time, I did not take any anti-oxidants.

The rash came and went with continued ozone

therapy, just like one would expect it to happen
after the body cleared all necessary toxins.

A number of other testimonies dealing with the

healing rash can be found here:
http://o3center.org/ConditionsCenter/HealingReacti
ons/index.html  

Conclusion:
Silvermedicine.org o ers a novel explanation for
the typical ozone sauna induced rash: the depletion
of antioxidants or the burning of the body with
oxygen. After an analysis of the provided text, the
claim was su ciently dismissed due to lack of
scienti c and clinical evidence as well as logic.

Additional information on
antioxidants:
Supplementation with antioxidants can cancel out
the oxidative properties of ozone therapy and has
also been linked to a number of adverse health 2
e ects.

Here just a small selection:

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1) James Watson, Nobel Prize winner for the co-

discovery of the DNA helix, links antioxidants to
cancer: http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-
highlights/james-watson-hypothesis-links-cancer-
to-antioxidants/81247848/

2) Swedish scientists discover: antioxidants speed

up lung cancer: http://www.the-scientist.com/?
articles.view/articleNo/39022/title/Antioxidants-
Speed-Up-Lung-Cancer/

3) Supplementation with antioxidants during

chemotherapy and radiation is discouraged since it
can lead to tumor protection and reduced patient
survival:
http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1093/jnci/djn
148

4) “antioxidants can counter the e ects of oxygen

free radicals and as such, they may protect cells
exhibiting metaplasia, dysplasia or neoplasia,
allowing them to grow and metastasize”
http://www.philica.com/display_article.php?
article_id=153

5) Dr. Randolph M. Howes points out in his book

“Death in Small Doses?” the link between
antioxidants and increased risk of cancer, heart
disease, strokes, and increased mortality and
provides a veritable avalanche of studies and
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research papers on the topic.  

The currently raging pro-antioxidant cult can be

summarized as follows: “Breathing is bad for your
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health” or “Oxygen is death and the elimination of

oxygen (antioxidants) is life”. Any sanely thinking
person or anyone who has tried to survive longer
than 20 minutes by not breathing will realize that
the proposed “Antioxidant Dogma” must be an
outgrowth of psychopathic modern medical
industry or at least nonsense.

But that will be, hopefully, the topic of another

posting …  

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Trudy Mason on November 15, 2016 at 2:16 pm

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I have a lady with very bad rash Can she

rather continue with only vaginal
insu ation. how can I solve the rash
problem? must she stop taking anti-
oxidant supplements ?
I also have a 50 year young lady with a
tumor in her bile gut, the cancer has
spread to her liver and lungs. what is the
Best protocol for her?
Thank you so much for your help and
guidance.
I work with many cancer patients
Yours in Health, Regards, Trudy

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Polla Pratt on April 12, 2017 at 10:52 pm

Paola, you kick ass! Great article! I truly

appreciate your experience and
decerning mind.
You tore up the antioxidant rationale. I
learned a lot in this piece of work. My
ozone sauna rash is behaving just like you 2
said. Thanks again for sharing your
revolutionary work!

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paola d on April 14, 2017 at 11:44 am

Thank you, honey :-)!

Dj on July 19, 2017 at 11:21 pm

I have recently started ozone therapy for

severe eczema type rash. How long will
daily 20 minute sauna, 2x daily 1 tbls.
Ozonated O. O.,and
1 glass of O. Water, take to start it
healing?
Thank you
Dj

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paola d on July 20, 2017 at 11:49 pm

Hi Dj,
it depends what the rash is caused
by. 2
If it is something which you are
constantly exposed to, then ozone
might make only minimal and/or
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temporary impact.
If it is a chronic condition not caused
by an ongoing exposure, you should
see some type of improvement after
the rst treatments.
Hope this helps …

kal on March 8, 2018 at 3:04 am

after taking 2 strong ozone suppositories,

i’ve broken out in rash ALLL OVER
(starting from the bum out)! it was an
awful 2 weeks and i had to stop ozone for
a while to clear out my liver in hopes to
clear through there on the next pass…

the dermatologist says it’s an

in ammation trigger, but does not know
what it’s from (as he does not know
enough about ozone to say).

glad to see that this may just truly be

detox e ect… but the only symptoms i’ve
had of detox has been skin rash and
2
itchiness…. hopefully this is what it is –
detox / herx e ect!

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paola d on March 13, 2018 at 12:07 am

Hi Kal,

yes it could be a detox reaction.

But you might also look into

salicylate intolerance.

Best,

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