Oxygen and Ozone therapy

Oxygen – Ozone therapy in the “Systemic Intravenous” form, defined until few years ago Mayor Autohemotherapy (MAHT), it is not just a simplified blood re-oxygenation but it could be represented as a session of training for the body consisting in reacting and strengthening itself against a mild oxidative stress delivered from the ozone. This is why it is technically called “preconditioning from bio-oxidative stress”. Ozone (O3) is produced in nature, for example during thunderstorms by  ionization of atmospheric oxygen (O2) by lightning or by action on it by UVA rays. This molecule, combined in a gaseous mixture with the oxygen we breathe, has proved to be extremely important also in anti-aging medicine to elicit a spectrum of benefits such as: reduction of free radicals related to aging process, improvement of the oxygen release to the tissues and growth factors from the platelets, enhancement of the immune response, reduction of the chronic inflammation. These are associated with the clinical evidence related to the improvement of the cardiovascular and cognitive function, resistance to infections, detoxification and reduction of psycho-physical stress.

The treatment consists in a closed circuit sampling a specific venous blood in a glass ampoules or sterile disposable bags, which, once mixed with oxygen and ozone, is re-infused into the patient’s vein in about 20 minutes . During this procedure, the blood in contact with the gaseous mixture produces oxygen-derived molecules called ROS (reactive oxygen species) and LOP (lipid oxidation products) which are the final mediators of its biological effect on the body’s cells and tissues.
The benefits begin to be felt in a concrete way between the fourth and sixth session in a recommended program of about twelve treatments in six weeks (two sessions per week) with periodic maintenance calls ideally to be practiced every three to four weeks. Already after the first session, the patient begins to have a feeling of well-being which has been interpreted by researchers as the result of an action of ozone therapy on the neuroendocrine system especially on beta-endorphins and on the cortisol cycle, hormones closely related to the management of psycho-physical stress.
There are few contraindications to this therapy including favism,  hyperthyroidism and the state of pregnancy which are excluded during the preliminary interview with the patient.
Systemic Ozone Therapy is certainly one of the therapeutic approaches belonging to Regenerative Medicine which, for example, in  combination with the treatments of Aesthetic Medicine and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, could improve in patients the repairing capacity of tissues, their oxygenation, lymphatic drainage and therefore, definitely, the quality of the final result of the treatments themselves.