The Finishing Touch - Massage by Design will be adding an Oxygen Steam Chamber to further benefit our clients with detoxification and potential weight loss. Below is an introduction to the oxygen steam chamber as well as the benefits of activated oxygen therapy. Please check back with us often to learn when this service will be available.
What is Oxygen Therapy?
Simply stated, oxygen is the single most vital key to good health. In the human body, oxygen regulates all body activities from brain functionality to waste elimination, to the ability the think, act, and feel.
We can live without water for several weeks and go without food for months...but we can only survive for a few minutes without oxygen. The more oxygen we have in our system, the more energy we produce. Perhaps more than any other single factor, good health and overall well being are dependent upon the maximum production, maintenance, and flow of energy...which is produced by oxygen!
It is no secret that poor dieting, low energy, unrelieved stress, and sedentary lifestyles are all conditions common to our society today in America. These same factors all contribute to low oxygen levels in our cells. This lack of oxygen affects our health and increases our vulnerability to diseases by allowing toxins to accumulate. Basically, it creates a breeding ground for harmful viruses and microbes within our bodies.
It is vital that we increase our intake of oxygen. Oxygen therapy will dramatically increase oxygen levels to the body and help to remove toxins that have accumulated over time.
Oxygen therapy is a holistic, whole body treatment for detoxification and stimulation of the immune system.
Ozone or Activated Oxygen therapy, is probably the most powerful of the oxygen therapies. It is more widely known than the other two main oxygen methods, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and hydrogen peroxide therapy.
What is Activated Oxygen?
Ozone or Activated Oxygen is made up of ordinary oxygen just like what we breathe. The only difference is that ozone is made up of three oxygen atoms, while the air we breathe, molecular oxygen, is made up of only two atoms.
In the upper atmosphere, rays from the sun break a normal oxygen molecule into two separate oxygen atoms. Another oxygen molecule than picks up one of these atoms to form an ozone molecule. Over a period of 20-30 minutes, ozone returns to a state of regular oxygen by giving up one atom of single oxygen.
Activated Oxygen (also known as O3) is a supercharged form of oxygen, much more powerful than O2. The extra molecule acts as a scavenger, picking up toxins in the body and eliminates (or oxidizes) them.
Why use Activated Oxygen Therapy?
Oxygen deprivation can be caused by poor breathing habits, refined foods, smoking, lack of exercise, and general environmental pollution. This lack of adequate oxygen in the cells is the major root cause of depressed immunity, fatigue, flu, colds, and low energy.
Activated oxygen will help to correct this imbalance and restore oxygen to vital body cells. Activated oxygen therapy is a "naturopathic" treatment for the whole-body and is designed to detoxify the body, stimulate the immune system, and clear the body of harmful bacteria and viruses.
Other benefits:
Stimulates white blood cell production
Increases the flexibility and efficiency within the membranes of red blood cells
Stimulates the production of protective cell enzymes
Stimulates the immune system and speeds up the healing process
Improves brain function and memory
Kills viruses; oxidizes bacteria, yeast, fungi, parasites, protozoa, cancer cells
Improves the delivery of oxygen from the blood stream to the tissues of the body
Speeds up the breakdown of petrochemicals
Cleans arteries and veins to improve circulation
Purifies the blood and the lymph
Increases the production of interferon and tumor necrosis factor, thus helping the body to fight infections and cancer.
Normalizes hormone and enzyme production
Purges the body of accumulated toxins such as pesticides, PCB's, drug residues, acidic wastes and much more
Reduces inflammation
Reduces pain, calms nerves
Prevents shock
Prevents stroke damage
Reduces cardiac arrhythmia
...and much more
How does the Activated Oxygen Spa (Steam Cabinet) work?
Your body will be placed in an "ozone resistant" oxygen spa/steam cabinet with only your head exposed. The warm steam that surrounds your body causes your pores to open fully while activated oxygen is introduced through the skin. Activated oxygen will then penetrate the blood, lymph, and fat systems.
In simple terms, as you allow activated oxygen to penetrate into your body's tissues, toxins are eliminated through the sweating process. As these toxins are oxidized and eliminated from the body, the fat cells containing them is no longer needed and leaves the body as well.
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