Healthcare

Biography

Biography: Julian Holmes

Abstract

Ozone has a long history of usage in health care, dating to the late 1800’s when the clinical uses of ozone were discussed in the 1895 Florida Medical Journal. By the early 1900’s, public spaces, such as the London Underground were ventilated with ozone-treated air. By the 1950’s, ozone was used both in general clinical usage, and extensively during the two world wars to treat infection and wounds. Virtually every country around the world now uses ozone to sterilize and treat public water supplies, and ozone is used extensively in the food industry. Ozone has an exelempary safely record; in 1980 the German Medical Society reported on 5.6 million ozone treatments carried out, with no reported deaths and insignificant side reactions (40 reported cases of side effects (0.000007%). Compare this to a 1978 FDA Report that showed 1.5 million people were hospitalised by pharmaceutical side effects, and there were 140,000 deaths from prescription drug usage. In this presentation, Dr Holmes will trace the development of treatment protocols and products that use ozone, discuss the landmark journal papers where ozone research has shown results that exceed those from antibiotics and surgery, and illustrate these papers with clinical cases that show how effective ozone treatment is in Medical, Dental and Veterinary applications, with none of the side effects seen with pharmaceuticals. With previous and recent research showing links between oral disease and age-related disorders such as Dementia and Alzheimer’s, Dr Holmes will argue that it is time for the Medical, Dental and Public Health Communities to work together and co-operate to devise a simple and effective program, that may be the key in maintaining a healthy, active and independent old-age.