What Happens When Ozone Enters Your Body? Ozone Therapy Explained with Blake Miller

What Is Ozone?

Blake Miller: All ozone is, is oxygen that’s been exposed to a voltage. It’s been exposed to electricity because lightning can make ozone. The sun is what makes our ozone layer. But you’ve got to have the energy touching the oxygen. And that’s what creates the temporary ozone molecule. But we change it to ozone because that’s what’s addressing the viruses and the yeast and the parasites and the mold and all the drugs and chemicals in the system. It purifies water. It purifies air. We’re mostly water. It does the same thing to us.

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Dr. Michael Haley: This is The Dr. Haley Show podcast, and I’m Dr. Michael Haley, your show host. Most of us know ozone as something in the atmosphere or as an air pollutant. We’re warned not to breathe it. So how did that same three-atom form of oxygen become something practitioners use in blood treatments, injections, dentistry, saunas, oils, and other wellness applications?

Ozone therapy is surrounded by both remarkable claims and serious controversy. Supporters believe carefully controlled medical ozone may stimulate adaptive responses in the body, while the FDA describes ozone as a toxic gas with no established medical application. So what is ozone therapy actually doing? What evidence supports it? What remains unproven, and what could make it dangerous?

By the end of today’s conversation, you should understand the major forms of ozone therapy, why people seek it out, the difference between professional and home applications, and the questions you should ask before deciding whether any form of ozone therapy is appropriate for you.

My guest is Blake Miller, founder of Ozone Purity and the Ozone for Life movement. Blake has worked with ozone technology and holistic wellness for nearly three decades. His work has included ozone system development, education for practitioners and consumers, and instruction in the various applications of ozone.

Blake, welcome to the show. You know, that sounded probably like a—I don’t know—maybe even stacked up against you. I know you can handle it because you got some knowledge when it comes to ozone. First of all, how are you doing today? And where in the world are you?

Blake Miller: I am doing fabulous. I am coming from the sunny town of Miami, Florida right now.

Dr. Michael Haley: Okay, well, you should have just come to the office then. I don’t know why we’re doing this over the phone. Are you in South Florida?

Blake Miller: I’m in Fort Lauderdale.

Dr. Michael Haley: Oh, I could’ve zipped over. Yeah. We have the actual studio, that sit-down studio, right on the other side of this big wall that’s next to me. But that would have—oh, and then you would have seen, after that introduction, that we actually have a lot of ozone machines in here.

So, you know, it’s funny because I personally don’t know much about ozone. I’m a physician and people talk about it all the time. And I’ve never really looked much into it other than I’m familiar with the things that we use to make our air smell nice.

You know, I have—I actually have two little ones in the bathroom. I have two bigger ones sitting on the floor right here. They’re not being used now. Every now and then I plug them in just to kind of clean the place. I might put it in my car if, you know, my car gets wet and damp inside or something. I might actually lock it in and turn it on high. And then at home we have one in our HVAC, so it kind of goes gently throughout the whole house.

So that’s about the extent of my ozone knowledge. You know, this O₃ molecule that I’m cautious how much I put in the air. And I feel that it keeps the place clean. But at the same time, I know that too much is probably a bad thing. And I know that there’s a lot more than the ozone that we’re putting in the air just to maybe sanitize the place a little bit.

I don’t even know where to begin. How’d you get into this?

Ambient-Air and Medical Ozone Generators

Blake Miller: That’s okay. I can break it down for you. So ozone is our purifier. Ozone cleans and purifies all air, all water. And the machines that we use to clean the air are generally just pulling in what we call ambient air.

This oxygen from the air, which is around 21%, it takes that oxygen and electrifies that, changes it into a little bit of ozone. Now we go to the human body. We go to something more medical grade. So we would feed a pure oxygen source into the machine because we pull air. You know, air obviously is not pure oxygen.

Air is only about 20% oxygen and there’s nitrogen and other gases involved. But with a medical ozone generator, we’re going to feed pure O₂ from a cylinder—99% oxygen. So it’s a lot more pure when it comes out when you use a pure oxygen source.

Now, we don’t want to inhale it. That’s where it’s gotten confusing. They think if we inhale it’s going to cause damage or is toxic. It’s not that it’s toxic; it’s just that it’s so oxidative. It’s just too much for the lungs to take in.

IV Ozone, Ozone Saunas and Rectal Insufflation

But ozone has been done now for over 100 years, all across Europe and all across South America, mainly Germany and Russia. But they’ll infuse the gas into the body in various ways. They can do it intravenously.

There’s actually four types of IV ozone. The most popular is called autohemotherapy, where they’ll pull out about a pint of blood, then they’ll shoot ozone into the bag of blood, swirl that around, and then drip that ozonated blood back into you.

They can ozonate saline solution, which we actually provide, where we have glassware that’ll hold saline. We bubble ozone into saline for about 15 minutes, and we drip the ozonated saline back into the patient.

They actually can even do a gas injection right into the vein. It’s a little more controversial, but if you understand the properties of ozone—see, ozone is a soluble molecule, so it’s actually absorbed into fluid. Oxygen is an insoluble molecule, so it does not absorb into fluid very well.

So they learned in the 1950s they literally just inject the gas into the vein at a slow flow rate. And it just absorbs right to the hemoglobin, so there’s no bubble created at all. I’ve actually given myself over 700 direct IVs over the years, and I’ve been giving myself ozone now since 1997, so going on about almost 30 years now.

But the IV methods are not my favorite. I don’t really recommend them just because they don’t treat the whole body. We want to address the blood and the lymphatic system, and the best way to do that is with an ozone sauna. Because when you sweat with the gas, when you purge ozone through the skin transdermally, it exposes the blood and the lymphatic system to ozone.

And of course you’re sweating simultaneously. So you see the heavy metals, you see the alcohol, the drugs, the chemicals literally leak out of your pores in the session.

So that’s one of my saunas right there. You sit in there; your head’s out of the top. And we just pipe in steam and ozone into there. And it’s absorbed through the skin. Very gentle, very safe, and very effective for pretty much anything. So that’s pretty much one of my favorite ways to do it.

And then ozone rectally is probably my next favorite. Just doing ozone for about four minutes rectally will put a massive amount of ozone in the bloodstream without using an intravenous method.

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How Rectal Ozone Is Administered

Dr. Michael Haley: Yeah, and I don’t understand that. You’re going to have to literally tell me graphically how it works. How do you get ozone into the rectum?

Blake Miller: You just take a little catheter on the end of the ozone hose.

Dr. Michael Haley: Okay.

Blake Miller: And you just insert the catheter about four inches, and it blows the gas rectally and that’ll absorb through the entire system. It also makes the digestive system perfect. But it will address parasites. It addresses bad bacteria, mold, yeast—all the microorganisms that we’re getting invaded with, ozone will oxidize them.

What Happens to the O₃ Molecule?

Dr. Michael Haley: All right. Now, do we know what’s happening molecularly? And what I mean, everybody knows that oxygen could be O₂ that we’re used to breathing in. And it’s, you know, almost similar to—well, H₂O is water. H₂O₂ we know is peroxide, hydrogen peroxide. Ozone being O₃, is it interacting immediately, or is it staying in this form, or does it break down into something else as it is interacting in our body?

Blake Miller: Well, it’ll only stay in this form for about a half an hour, and then it just breaks down to regular oxygen. So it’s 100% nontoxic. All ozone is, is oxygen that’s been exposed to a voltage. It’s been exposed to electricity because lightning can make ozone. The sun is what makes our ozone layer.

But you’ve got to have the energy touching the oxygen. And that’s what creates the temporary ozone molecule. But we change it to ozone because that’s what’s addressing the viruses and the yeast and the parasites and the mold and all the drugs and chemicals in the system. It purifies water. It purifies air. We’re mostly water. It does the same thing to us.

Dosage, Safety and Ear Applications

Dr. Michael Haley: Okay, at some point it has to be dangerous, some amounts. Anything is lethal. And, you know, you can overdose on water, right? How quickly would we potentially approach that level with ozone treatment?

Blake Miller: Well, you know, it all comes in the training. You know, like, for example, in the sauna, we’re really not in there for more than a half an hour. Rectally, we don’t really do more than, say, 500 cc’s rectally.

Dr. Michael Haley: Okay.

Blake Miller: You also can run the gas into the ear. So if you’ve got sinus infections, got allergies, even brain tumors, it’s very effective. Running ozone into the ear does cross the blood-brain barrier. It will break up calcification, and it also encourages neurogenesis, the growth of new brain cells. That’s just how we see it.

So it’s not just a detoxifier, but ozone’s also a regenerator as well. It regenerates everything very quickly.

Questions About Evidence and Effectiveness

Dr. Michael Haley: Okay. You know, and as I’m hearing this, because really I’m going in blind with no knowledge of how this works, the things I’m hearing do sound safe, controlled, and low dose—relatively low dose. What’s the evidence for the effectiveness of the treatment? How do you measure that?

Blake Miller: Well, it probably depends what the people are looking after. You know, most people are battling brain fog and fatigue. And we have to understand, we’re oxygen-breathing animals. We have to have a high level of oxygen to run properly.

When we run low levels of oxygen, that’s where all the anaerobic viruses and fungus and yeast and cancer—all this stuff starts to grow in the system because it doesn’t like high levels of oxygen. We do. We love high levels of oxygen.

Matter of fact, in the biblical era, they know that the oxygen content was around 50%, and now it’s dropped down to around 20% just from all the deforestation. But so we’re meant to run on a high level, and the 20% in our atmosphere is enough to sustain life, but it’s not enough to saturate us to where we should be at a higher level.

And we’re also—we are electrical beings. And when the oxygen leaves the body, the voltage leaves with it. And that’s why we’re craving caffeine. That’s why we’re going to all the stimulants, the nicotine. Because without the oxygen, we have no ATP production.

So with these systems, we’re flooding you with a massive amount of ozone, of oxygen, where we not only detoxify you, but it’s going to help restore the cellular voltage to the red blood cells.

And that’s the key to health. You know, the more voltage we lose, the closer we are to disease and cancer. The higher the voltage we are, the closer we are to being like a child—you know, super, super longevity.

But it’s all about electrical voltage and the fact that we’ve also lost a lot of minerals. You know, we’re not getting enough minerals in our food, so we’re getting demineralized as well. So all this combined is why, no wonder why, we’ve got a massive amount of fatigue and brain fog in our society.

Dr. Michael Haley: Yeah. You know, I can easily agree with a lot of the things you’re saying. For instance, you know, when it comes to oxygen in the atmosphere, my understanding is, you know, the more we pave the Earth, less oxygen we’re getting returned to us because, quite frankly, we’re taking away trees.

And when it comes to minerals in the food, you know, certainly the more we pollute the planet and the less colorful and tasty our fruits and vegetables are, something’s changing in them to where they have less nutrients, less mineral content. So I can understand a lot of the arguments for this here. But I would still say: How was ozone introduced to the body 100 years ago?

The History of Ozone Therapy

Blake Miller: Well, I will say that the ozone steam sauna was done in 1896. It was Dr. Kellogg who was the first doctor to use the ozone steam sauna. The direct IV ozone, I know they’ve been doing that since the 1950s in Germany.

Germany is the leader in terms of using ozone medically. There’s more research in Germany and Russia than anywhere else. They have over 3,000 ozone clinics just in Russia, and they’ve been using it medically since the 1960s. So going on, you know, 70, 80 years for the Russians.

But it’s done globally. So it’s kind of tough to argue when the whole world is using it. It’s all over South America. It’s all over Cuba. It’s been all over Asia for some time.

Dr. Michael Haley: Okay. But—and that did surprise me. Maybe if I went back a thousand years, then obviously we didn’t have equipment for this. Would the argument be the reason humans weren’t having ozone necessarily happening automatically in the atmosphere more than it is because we didn’t have such a need for it, because it was a different planet then?

Why do we need ozone now? Is it because the planet has changed?

Blake Miller: Well, not the planet has changed. It’s just we’ve gotten very toxic, especially if we live in America. Our food’s gotten weird. We have the most toxic food in the world. We have more banned ingredients than any other country out there.

And not to mention the parasites and mold and yeast and fungus. We can go on and on about all this stuff we’ve been absorbing. Ozone will remove all of that. And in a physical sense, it’s our savior because there’s nothing out there that will remove the viruses and junk like ozone can do, as well as get the oxygen level back up to where it should be.

If we only detoxify, we still live with the low level of oxygen. We’re still very prone to collecting these anaerobic viruses, fungus and yeast and cancer cells in us. They can’t live at a high level of oxygen, so when we run low, we’re more prone to collecting those again. So the prevention is keeping a high level of oxygen, and none of those things can manifest in the first place.

EBOO and Home Ozone Applications

Dr. Michael Haley: Yeah. I find it interesting—fascinating. How often do people get treatments?

Blake Miller: It depends, you know, on what method they’re doing. The IV ozone, they can do those two or three times a week. One of the more popular ways right now is called EBOO. That’s what all the celebrities are doing.

You’ll see a big IV coming out of one arm, and you see another one on this arm. Basically, it takes out all the blood, ozonates the blood, micron-filters the blood, then puts it back in the other arm. And this keeps you circulating on this dialysis-style machine.

That’s one of the most advanced methods out there. It’s called EBOO, very popular, but it’s invasive and it’s painful, and it’s not something you want to do all the time.

I like the home applications: the sauna, running it in the ears, or we bubble the gas into water and then drink the water, or running ozone rectally or vaginally. These methods can be done almost daily. And that’s where you really see the power of ozone, when you do them on a more daily basis. And they’re a lot less invasive than the clinical applications.

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Ozonated Water

Blake, we have a lot of network congestion, so I’m missing a little bit about what you’re saying. But I did see you hold up your glass of whatever is in there. And by the way, when I put this in front of the camera—and I’m curious—that looks like you’re in therapy. It’s not. But were you saying that you ozone your water and then drink it?

Blake Miller: Yes. So you can bubble gas into the water and then bubble it in here for about 15 minutes. Then you can consume the water.

And to give you an idea of how potent the water is, when you saturate this with ozone, this will kill all the E. coli and salmonella on a steak or chicken breast in just three minutes. Just soaking the steak or chicken in the water for three minutes kills all the E. coli, all the bad bacteria. This, of course, in our case, we drink it. We can drop the water in the eye.

Dr. Michael Haley: The obvious question: How does it know the difference between the good and the bad bacteria?

Blake Miller: Well, the good bacteria is actually aerobic bacteria. So the ozone will actually encourage the good bacterial growth, which is aerobic bacteria. The bad bacteria is anaerobic, which means it can’t live in a high level of oxygen.

So, in other words, the ozone will kill off the bad bacteria, but it actually helps the good bacteria flourish. It’s very good for intestinal health. Extremely well for intestinal health.

Dr. Michael Haley: Yeah, that sounds interesting. And when it comes to the bacteria, I’ve always kind of seen it like this: Your good bacteria are kind of closer to the front end, and as we get further from the front end, you’re going to run into more of the bad bacteria.

As they work their way up towards the front end, that’s when people start having problems. I wonder if people that are having those types of—like, you know, SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth—is that still, are we still talking about the good bacteria that are just overgrowing in the small intestine? Or do people get results by drinking ozonated water?

Blake Miller: The ozone water will help the intestines. If you wanted more of a direct application, I would do ozone rectally with a catheter because that’ll flood—not so much the small, but it will definitely hit the large intestine. But the bloodstream will pick it up from the intestines and pretty much take it everywhere.

Entry-Level Ozone Applications

Dr. Michael Haley: So what do you think someone’s entry level—saying, “Hey, I want to experience ozone in some form just because”? What do you think is the easiest way? My guessing is, from what I’ve seen, my guessing is drinking it.

Blake Miller: Drinking it, or running it through the ears. It takes five minutes, and this will address any kind of allergy or sinus infection in the head. But it does cross the blood-brain barrier. And it just takes five minutes on this ear, five minutes on that ear. That’s a great way to get a little taste of it.

If they want something more systemic, I would do the sauna—the ozone sauna—if they can find one around town. They’re not very popular. They’re here or there. But those are my favorites.

The IV stuff? Not so much. It does help, but it’s just a little bit too invasive for my style. You know, I like things we can do more on a daily basis.

Professional and Home Ozone Equipment

Dr. Michael Haley: Yeah. So now you’re in the equipment manufacturing business?

Blake Miller: Yeah.

Dr. Michael Haley: Okay. I’m wondering, is that for practitioners or for home use?

Blake Miller: Both.

Dr. Michael Haley: Okay. Tell me more.

Blake Miller: Yeah. So we’ve got—well, first of all, our machines are all American-made. They’re all lifetime warranty. And I’m sure you’ve heard of the very famous inventor Nikola Tesla, right? He made the first cold-plasma ozone generator back in the early 1900s.

And as you know, Tesla’s machines last forever. So we have embraced his technology. So we use the same cold-plasma energy that Tesla used. So that’s why we all have lifetime warranty in our machines.

But all of our generators, they can do all applications of ozone, whether it be a sauna, whether it be ears or water, rectal or vaginal. So we have a home kit. People want to have one for the home and their family. It comes with a nice—we get rid of the hard shell and we provide them with a soft-shell sauna.

But that whole system sells for $4,000. It comes with the generator, the cylinder and the sauna. And it comes with a wonderful accessory kit. So it comes with the little device to make the water. Comes with a pack of catheters to do ozone rectally or vaginally.

Comes with a nice glass funnel. So when you’re in the sauna, you actually will have the ozone hose in the sauna, and you’re holding—this is one of my cups. So imagine a hose is sticking in here. So you would hold this cup to your body. And this is where the ozone will penetrate and go through your system.

So as we’re sitting in the sauna, we would hold this to our torso, and it would enter through the skin. So it comes with a nice glass funnel, and this is all the accessories to get started.

Now, we do have one for the clinics as well. So if they want to do intravenous ozone, we’ve got some equipment that can make that happen.

Measuring Ozone’s Effects

Dr. Michael Haley: Is there anything for measuring the penetration to know that it’s in your blood?

Blake Miller: Outside of using an SpO₂ meter, not really. Other than the feeling you get, you’ll definitely feel the energy when you do ozone. I mean, it’s magnetic. I mean, you get a lot of ATP production. A lot of mental clarity is probably one of the first things we notice because the brain fog is crazy.

But yeah, when you remove a lot of that toxicity from the blood and oxygenate it, the mental clarity just comes right back to you. But it really just depends on what you’re using with it.

Someone can do heavy metals if they’re concerned with heavy metals. They can do a heavy-metal test before and after, because in the sauna, the heavy metals literally just leak out of your pores when you’re sitting in there. So you can see the black on the towel when you get out to see what came out of you.

Dr. Michael Haley: You know, I published a podcast today, and it was with a doctor that’s called the Energy Doctor. And his understanding is that, you know, heavy metals is one of the toxicities that has given people the brain fog and the—well, the chronic fatigue.

So interesting. That could be part of recovering from a chronic fatigue. If that’s the case, I want to know more about it.

You know, I’d love to continue. I’d love to talk more. I am struggling because of the network congestion. The podcast is going to come out great. People are going to say, “Mike, you know, what was the problem? Everything sounded great.”

Well, yeah, it’s recording to your computer and then uploading to the cloud. The end product is going to be amazing. If you knew what I heard right now—little bits and pieces—I’m struggling to keep it together, but I know we got some great content.

Blake Miller: If you want to do a redo, I’m happy to come down to your place in person. We can do it.

Dr. Michael Haley: We might. We might have to do it.

Blake Miller: And if you were to come by my place and try some ozone, you’re more than welcome.

Dr. Michael Haley: Might have to do that.

Live-Blood Analysis

Blake Miller: Yeah, I’m in Hallandale, right on the water here in the Golden Isles. So over here on the east side. So, yeah, I’ve got it all here. I’ve even got a dark-field microscope, Mike.

Okay, this is my dark-field scope. I didn’t tell you this. So this is the thing I do in my practice, is we study live blood for people. So that’s how I learned how to reestablish the center voltage, because I have my own dark-field scope. So we’re always looking at blood at the cellular level.

And we’ve learned how to 100% correct—if you see this picture here, top picture is blood that’s lost the cellular voltage: brain fog, fatigue, headaches, et cetera. The bottom is after we correct it, where all the cells are separated, full of cellular voltage, full of oxygen, full of energy, and bam! That’s what ozone will do to your blood.

Dr. Michael Haley: You know, I’m sure those pictures are going to look really good on the final product. Right now I’m getting a frame about every two or three seconds.

Blake Miller: Okay.

Where to Learn More About Blake Miller

Dr. Michael Haley: Yeah, well, tell me: How are people going to find out more? What website or YouTube, or what should they—where should they go right now to find out more?

Blake Miller: OzonePurity.com is my website with all the equipment and the products. If they want more in-depth background knowledge, go to my Instagram or TikTok. The Ozone Guru is my name on TikTok and Instagram. And we’ve got Ozone Purity in the YouTube channel.

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