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Springer Oxygen-Ozone Therapy A Critical Evaluation by V. Bocci
When I was about fifteen, my Biological Seiences teacher, Prof. N. Benacchio, lent me a book by Paul de Kruif "The Microbe Hunters" and I remained fascinated by infectious diseases. I was intrigued by the potency of virulent bacteria which are constantly trying to invade our bodies and often overcome what today we call innate and adoptive immunity. Indeed, shortly after that, I was struck by his tragic death due to peritonitis. Later, while studying medicine (although medical knowledge in the 1950s was almost primordial compared with today), I soon realised how the various biological systems were wonderfully organised but at the same time frail and how our life could end in a few minutes. Slowly it became obvious that our "wellness" was the result of a dynamic and very unstable equilibrium between health and disease. This unstable equilibrium could be broken forever if the body's response could not reverse the pathological state. I stuck a sort ofposter on the wall ofmy room with these three words and connecting arrows: HEALTH~-? DISEASE -? DEATH As I don't believe in another world after death, it became obvious to me that we should make every possible effort not only to delay death, but to try always to shift the equilibrium to the left. In this book, I will try to show that this can be achieved, as a last resort, even with ozonetherapy._x000D_ Table of contents : - _x000D_
1. A brief historical review. _x000D_
2. How I came to study ozonetherapy: an odyssey with no end in sight. _x000D_
3. Ozone in nature. _x000D_
4. Physico-chemical properties of ozone. _x000D_
5. Ozone toxicity: biological risk, toxicology and first aid. _x000D_
6. The ozone generator. _x000D_
7. How to check ozone concentrations. _x000D_
8. Solubility of ozone in water and preparation of ozonized water and oil. _x000D_
9. Preliminary basis for understanding ozone reactivity and the potential risks of ozonetherapy. _x000D_
10. How is oxidative stress assessed? _x000D_
11. Is there any justification for using ozonetherapy in human pathologies caused or worsened by free radicals? _x000D_
12. The antioxidant system and the defense system against ozone. _x000D_
13. How does ozone act? _x000D_
14. What happens in the intracellular environment after blood ozonization? _x000D_
15. Are blood lipoproteins oxidized after ozonization? _x000D_
16. How is ozone administered? _x000D_
17. Extracorporeal blood circulation versus O2-O3 (EBOO). _x000D_
18. Quasi-total body exposure to O2-O3 (BOEX). _x000D_
19. Rectal insufflation of O2-O3 (RI). _x000D_
20. The potential toxicity and mutagenicity of ozone. _x000D_
21. Side effects and contraindications of ozonetherapy. _x000D_
22. The adaptation to chronic oxidative stress (COS). _x000D_
23. How to evaluate Ozonetherapy? _x000D_
24. Ozonetherapy in various pathologies. _x000D_
25. How important is the placebo effect in ozonetherapy? _x000D_
26. Ozonetherapy in dentistry. _x000D_
27. Ozonetherapy in cosmetology. _x000D_
28. Ozonetherapy in veterinary medicine. _x000D_
29. Ozone as doping in athletes. _x000D_
30. Ozone as a rejuvenating agent! _x000D_
31. Ozone as a drinking water disinfectant. _x000D_
32. Ozone disinfection to prevent nosocomial infections. _x000D_
33. Can ozone be useful for banked blood or fresh frozen plasma? _x000D_
34. Is there any way to substitute ozonization of blood? _x000D_
35. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT) versus ozonetherapy. _x000D_
36. Acute care during or after ozonetherapy. _x000D_
37. Orthodox medicine versus complementary medicine: a conflict that may be resolved with appropriate research. _x000D_
38. Does ozonetherapy have a future in medicine? _x000D_
39. Appendix: The optimized procedure of O3-AHT. _x000D_
References. Index_x000D_