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I'm looking forward to receiving my ozonator today. One of my very own, which I can take and demonstrate to others, and use wherever I am to lessen the toxins in my surroundings or going into me via liquids and foods.

In 2015 my focus so far has been on bringing the highlights of the results of work coming from a man in the hills of North Carolina, who I thankfully encountered in August of 2014 when doing outreach on Facebook when looking for sources of cutting edge information about "Lyme disease" and activism around that labeled group in the environmental medicine palate. 

Steve Beddingfield is his name, and he invited me to join his group, Steve's Images, and at this time there are only about 60 people who have been in the group longer than I have. Several of them are now administrators, one who joined a month after I was included is also an administrator, and all are good teachers. There was a lot to learn. A lot to process, and a lot to bring to the pages of Lumigrate.  And a lot to 'apply' in my own environment / "home".

I was underway with the complement of information at Lumigrate seeming complete, preparing to return to more of a focus on in-person education, because I had thought the information at Lumigrate was about complete for what most people would be wanting and needing if wishing to be a Lumigrate YOUser, or potentially having me guide them as a health information conceirge directly. But what Steve was teaching in his group lead me to see 'the root cause of "our disease" --- the one disease/disorder we all have in various ways and quantities' was 'the core'.  

Steve has administrators who are helping to convey the information to others in the group, and one I called PosterGal at Lumigrate (I removed all names aside from Steve's from anything I was cherry picking from the education going on in the group to provide at Lumigrate). It was her 'rant' at Christmastime, that alerted me to something big having gone on. She'd uncovered a patent trail that substantiated that the one non-natural medication used in his antidoting protocol is known by medical research and development companies and individuals to be effective on 'everything from A to Z'.  Everyone has 'this stuff in us' and hence that is ultimately the core of the onion of causation. It is the root of the matter as to why we got whatever symptoms of unwellness we have. 

Looking at the Lumigrate onion model of layers and the outside to inside layers with something in the very very center helps us to visualize and wrap head around and make the paradigm shift necessary.

©2012 Lumigrate                                               I'll provide you with a link to more about this.....

...Here's a topic that I created later in the summer which is more introductory and 'applied' to "THE Stuff" that is in the environment which we're addressing with a variety of techniques. Simplifying it to call it THE Stuff, even!

www.lumigrate.com/forum/stuff-interloping-and-overwhelming-everything-examples-and-ideas-remediation-our-immediate-env    This includes photos I've taken in the kitchen doing things myself. It's true one has to learn something thoroughly and then teaching it helps you learn it more thoroughly. Taking a picture, which is worth a thousand words, also is an additional step in the process.  

The protocol that Steve Beddingfield promotes is basically like a tripod, there are three components. We all know how a tripod is simple, strong and sturdy.  A three legged chair doesn't tip, etc.  I like it because of the simplicity with three aspects.  However, each aspect is a facet unto itself for learning.  This topic about ozone is part of what I'll provide to address that facet, as one of the three aspects has to do with ozonation of liquids (most importantly consuming and using cleaned up, safe water) and solid things that can be ozonated. Things which are hosting a lot of microbes can be ozonated.

"Load theory" is one of the concepts we've presented at Lumigrate from an environmental medicine MD who provided content in 2010-2012 or so.  Load theory as we drew it up graphically in 2012, uses weighing down of an elevator to demonstrate the concepts in a similar way to the "full barrel syndrome" model that Lumigrate started with in 2008/2009 based on seminars presented 'in house' in a holistic medical center that started up in 2008, where I had office space and the recording studio for the videos we launched with.

©2012 Lumigrate                                                                  ©2009 Lumigrate    

Even in our formative year on the Internet, I had respect for the people with chronic illness and considered them 'medical experts' in their own right.  I attempted to connect with certain ones, all women it turned out, to have them writing on a regular basis.  I looked for articulate, intelligent, wise and also not 'angry' and hostile, realizing they'd grown and benefitted from their challenges, yet wanting to solve the underlying problems in ways 'outside the box'. Steve Beddingfield would be one I'd have asked, as well as his inner circle of admins, and have done so with several. Steve prefers to spend his time doing the research. He then appreciates people bundling that up and getting it out to people who can be helped by what is related. 

I believe in the holistic, integrative medicine concept of addressing 'mind, body, and spirit' -- again something presented with three facets, similar to the protocol Steve Beddingfield developed to address 'the stuff that's causing us all to be unwell in various ways because we all have this stuff in us'.  

In my in-person work, the the first new person I was advising in 2015 surprised me and immediately ordered an A2Z via Amazon, where shipping is free. It turns out, they had an ozone machine for the air running for years in their home! And they'd even almost gotten into selling the units, via a multi level marketing company.  I was surprised when the A2Z product arrived within 24 hours, on a Saturday.  

The unit  was taken out of the box, the little instruction manual read over, and then the unit was set aside for about a week. This was a person with a complex situation so I was in-house every day facilitating things along.  This was someone who had never identified their family and own issues as being part of complex chronic illness, nor 'environmental illness'. They were only in the last year making the massive shift away from conventional American food consumption, and currently focusing on organic and home made, including baked goods.

I got to work almost daily for two months after the ozonator arrived and I got to see what a process this is for someone who is having to take in information slowly because it can be overwhelming thinking about what's getting inside of us.  Everything from what is tracked in from the outdoors on shoes, to what is in the soil when gardening to laundry (see other topics in this forum). Processes are slow with some people to integrate in something new like ozonating dry ingredients that would go into making baked goods. Everyone goes at their pace, they have other things on their plates taking up the time and energy that it takes to study, contemplate and make change.  So I elaborate on this aspect at this time in order for YOU to think about what your priorities are and act accordingly. 

Ironically, at the time the first ozonator I was an instigator in having arrive was sitting there yet unused, in Steve's group people happened to discuss their trepidation about using the ozone machine, and generally they related that it was about a week before they got the 'nerve up' to start. So the one I was helping in-home (using my Mardy PopIns/ Poppins health information conceierge service was simply being 'normal' and 'average' for someone who has impaired body/brain/spirit function due to this stuff we all have in us affecting us all in similar yet different ways.

I took note of this and realized how much guidance 1:1 people are needing.  In the two months I was asked to provide information guidance and oversight, input and opinion, that person only used the ozonator for water which was consumed in food and drink. They went on to utilize other portions of the protocol and then to help their adult child get started on it, which was nice to see the way they went about that --- starting with the ozonated water after the added oxygen dissipated out, then starting some supplements, then some recently ozonated / high oxygen water, then going on to the medicines.  Overall there was improvement in the primary aspect of the young adult's functioning, which was behavioral/ cognitive. "This makes me feel more like I think I'm supposed to feel naturally" was the comment I heard on my last visit with them. Their brain had gotten more congruent and they were 'noticing' things they hadn't noticed before, things on their skin that would substantiate and be in line with information Steve produces about what's making people have the symptoms we all have. 

This family had an ozonator for many years for the air, which was always running in the home, so they even had that familiarity with this innovative technology that I'd somehow missed all these years.  I got enough experience with the ozonator with water, felt it was helping me and I was getting comfortable with it -- it's not something to be used by people who don't have enough cognitive clarity. So this becomes a concern, naturally. Attention and focus and good functional cognitive processing are always evaluated in occupation therapy to determine safety. Ozone is no exception.   

So I ordered an A2Z by going through the company. I only did that because I have the website with education and wanted to form a relationship and check them out, so to speak. It arrived on Wednesday, and I'd ordered it on Friday, taking the full three days that Federal Express, ground, gives. So I'd definitely suggest ordering through Amazon unless you have a reason to do otherwise.  I opted for a refurbished unit.

I was impressed, the marketing person I spoke with was very helpful and has a lot of experience. The woman who answered the phone had a good grasp of what ozone is about and said she was also in charge of the blog on their website, which I wanted to find but have not been able to locate.  I did find testamonials and some had good information to relate for YOUsers learning, so I'm going to transfer some here.  

I'm looking forward to having a new person I've been asked to work with and help learn, who also ordered a unit. They preferred new. So we can start from the beginning and I'll create the information at this topic to reflect that 'learning curve', below, in comments. 

Here's something PosterGal said in Steve's group which highlights WATER, as well as there being recognition of this problem that Steve's research focuses on as far back as 1985. Hence, I thought I'd add it here.

"A smoking gun if ever there was one. From FDA. This is dated 1985. They still primarily use LAL for testing of endotoxins in bio med products. They are having much more success with TLR's (human receptors) but expensive. Most contaminants it says, from WATER and yes that likely includes vaccines.

They also mention endotoxin tolerance, 1985, long before anyone claims they really understood this phenomena. I would be sharing this with every autism Mom. The water. " www.fda.gov/…/InspectionTechnicalGuides/ucm072918.htm

I am transferring what I believe to be the most important information from the Steve's Images group to topics in Lumigrate and always giving credit where credit is due to the group and the members BUT aside from Steve, I change the names to pseudonyms. I also make editing changes to make things more readable and understandable to those who find the information at Lumigrate.

One of the women who I reached to in 2014 when trying to learn about aspects of this, and who thankfully mentored me the later part of 2014 (and ongoing when I need and ask) had this to say about ozone recently:

"(I) take no medications or supplements within 2 hours of active ozone water. Take only antioxidant supplements 6-12 hours apart from active ozone. Foods high in antioxidants will be cancelled out by ozone when ingested too close together.

Drinking ozonated liquids 30-60 minutes before and 2-3 hours after eating will prevent stomach pain or distress. Active ozone is used as medicine to kill pathogens.

A common practice by veteran ozone practitioners is to drink 1 quart of active ozone water first thing in the morning each day, and only once per day. All other drinking water is then processed distilled and ozonated but NOT active with ozone. Regarding probiotics, I'd take those at bedtime to benefit best from them.

Eating within 30-60 minutes of drinking active ozone is just fine. Medication and supplements need a 2 hour window away from ozone, with the exception of any anti-oxidant supplements such as vitamin C, vitamin E, some of the B Vitamins like B-12 and folic acid / folate (B9), alpha-lipoic acid, manganese, selenium, zinc, amino acids like L-carnosine and N-acetyl cysteine, L-taurine, melatonin, and coenzyme Q10.

Ozone is oxidizing and will cancel out the effects of anti-oxidants, therefore it is recommended to keep these 6-12 hours apart from ozone. The small ozone generators used by this group (A2Z) are absolutely beneficial and safe to use when processing clean drinking/cooking water, and purifying air such as in a vehicle or bathroom.

Drink only purified water, preferably distilled that has been processed with ozone. (The O2 dissipates out leaving pure, safe water that is H20). Drinking active ozone water" has an inhibitory and killing effect on most pathogens and will indeed cause a Herxheimer reaction. Therefore starting out at a low dose of 4-8 ounces is recommended. The amount of active ozone water may be increased to 1 quart, or to your tolerance and desired effect."

This same woman had said elsewhere that 'let's not drink rust' when reminding people that ozonation is oxidizing the minerals in the water if a person were to ozonate water that's not distilled or reverse osmosis with the minerals removed. Apparently cold, distilled water will best hold the oxygen from the ozonation process. 

POSTERGAL had said this, also:

"Ozone is completely safe yes, and this (A2Z) machine yes. Medical grade, not sure what (the person asking the question) meant by that; if you are thinking of using this to decontaminate your house like a hospital with A2Z, no, this model is not made for that (Mardy's note: but the company makes many and larger units, this is the smallest and least expensive).

For purifying water, cleaning food, a 300 sq. foot area, yes. Any effects are likely more die off in you than the ozone can then effectively neutralize, just not enough to do both. Just drink the pure water end product until you don't experience Herxing from drinking freshly ozonated water. Only then does it work for detoxification. Some people are so infected the minute that oxygen hits their gut, they vomit.

A Herx or flu-like symptoms are your clue to your load of infection..... Don't drink freshly ozonated water until the level comes down and you can handle it (and then drink it with the afore-written guidance from the other group member/admin).

Just drink pure water, which does wonders in and of itself. Our other goal with ozonated food and water is addressing chronic exposure. No one is likely to ever get well if one just keeps reinfecting themselves daily by using tap water" (or other non pure water)(and consuming foods which are high in the offending organisms -- again, my/Mardy's note).