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Hey, everyone.

Today I speak with Dr. Ackbark on the topic of ozone therapy.

I have a little bit of a bias going into this conversation because I've often heard ozone

recommended more in kind of

the theoretical wing of integrative medicine. I do not have any personal experience with it, nor have

I looked into what the evidence shows. So I want to have some on the podcast who is using this

clinically to speak to the therapy. And I'm very appreciative of the conversation and I learned a few things.

I also have some pushback and some concerns. Akbar is using this as part of a multi-modal

interventional framework. So he's using this in conjunction with other therapeutics, which makes

it harder to see how much benefit is vectored by this one therapeutic.

He also had some thoughts on there being a large body of research.

And when I did go over to the American Academy of ozone therapy, whom he recommended,

and I looked into their findings, there wasn't anything in the field of GI,

at least regarding IBS, IBD,

CBO, or when searching the term gastro. And there was only one study in thyroid, and this

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