{"id":304,"date":"2014-11-03T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ozone-services.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2017-05-02T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T22:07:45","slug":"ozone-enhance-physical-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/ozone-enhance-physical-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Does ozone enhance physical performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ozone has many uses throughout the world.\u00a0 I have researched and am familiar with most of these uses.\u00a0 Over my 10+ years of experience with ozone I have come to recognize that oxidation through the power of ozone may be more useful than I will ever realize.\u00a0 However I was surprised by the following article.<\/p>\n<p>It appears as if ozone has been used to enhance the physical performance of athletes.\u00a0 While ozone does have medical application this is beyond virus and bacteria elimination in the body.\u00a0 This would lead one to believe that there is a method by which ozone could increase the active oxygen in the blood stream?\u00a0 Read on:<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title sub-heading\">Belgian pro cyclists implicated in blood doping investigation<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"entry-meta\">\n<li class=\"author entry-author icon-user\"><a class=\"url fn\" title=\"Posts by Gregor Brown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/author\/gregor-brown\" rel=\"author\">Gregor Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"entry-lead-paragraph\"><strong>Belgian investigation centres on activities of Dr Chris Mertens and 19 athletes, majority of whom are cyclists<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-media hide-secondary-pages\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/inspire-ipcmedia-com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/inspirewp\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/02\/Vigorelli-velodrome-Milan-Italy-antidoping-room.jpg\" alt=\"Vigorelli velodrome Milan, Italy antidoping room\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Belgian blood doping investigation centred on 19 athletes and Doctor Chris Mertens may go to trial this winter.<\/p>\n<p>According to newspaper <em>Het Nieuwsblad<\/em>, a Leuven public prosecutor is pushing for the trial after a two and a half year investigation based on Mertens and his practices. The Belgian daily did not have the 19 names, but reported that the majority are famous and semi-famous road and cyclo-cross cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>Mertens allegedly doped athletes\u2019 blood with ozone by drawing blood, enriched it with ozone and transfusing it back into their bodies. The doctor reportedly also encouraged athletes to dope.<\/p>\n<p>The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) bans blood transfusions and considers it doping. In 2006, the Operaci\u00f3n Puerto doping scandal rocked cycling when Spanish police raided <a title=\"FUENTES: 51 RIDERS TO BE QUESTIONED\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/fuentes-51-riders-to-be-questioned-73415\">Dr Eufemiano Fuentes\u2019 offices<\/a> and found stored blood bags waiting to be transfused back into athletes. The scandal brought bans for cyclists like <a title=\"Ivan Basso: Rider profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/ivan-basso-rider-profile-71250\">Ivan Basso<\/a>, <a title=\"Alejandro Valverde: Rider Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/alejandro-valverde-rider-profile-92003\">Alejandro Valverde<\/a> and Jan Ullrich.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto and other doping investigations over the past fews years have shaken traditional cycling nations France, Italy, Germany and Spain, but Belgium mostly avoided any major scandals. With this case, the Leuven office believes that it has enough illegal acts associated with Mertens to push for a trial.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 sidebar sidebar-inline sidebar-double\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThree criminal acts were committed,\u201d Sarah Callewaert, representative for the prosecutor\u2019s office in Leuven, told Belgium\u2019s Sporza television. \u201cFirst, there is ozone therapy, transfusions and encouraging athletes in violating doping rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Callewaert added the office will decide on November 14 if the case goes to court and that if so, which judge will preside over it.<\/p>\n<p>Mertens\u2019 name already has been connected with cycling. In January 2013, prosecutors stopped cyclo-cross rider Tom Meeusen (Fidea) from racing in the Rome World Cup and questioned him about his connection to Mertens for three hours.<\/p>\n<p>Jurgen Van den Broeck (Lotto-Belisol), fourth behind <a title=\"Sir Bradley Wiggins: Rider Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/sir-bradley-wiggins-rider-profile-72520\">Bradley Wiggins<\/a> in the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/tour-de-france\">Tour de France<\/a>, said in January 2013 that he visited Mertens but it was just to treat a sinus problem. The cyclist said that he went to Mertens instead of his family doctor because he needed someone with knowledge of which drugs are on WADA\u2019s prohibited list.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if Van den Broeck and Meeusen are among the 19 athletes\u2019 names in the hands of Leuven\u2019s prosecutor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"accordion\" class=\"list-large \">\n<article class=\"post-141021 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cycling-weekly category-latest-news tag-astana tag-doping tag-vincenzo-nibali loop loop-list-large row featured-image\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 entry-media\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/vincenzo-nibali-rage-astana-doping-revelations-141021\" rel=\"bookmark\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-square wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/inspire-ipcmedia-com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/inspirewp\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/tdf14-st5-Nibali-start.jpg\" alt=\"tdf14-st5-Nibali-start\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/tour-de-france\">Tour de France<\/a> champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/tag\/vincenzo-nibali\">Vincenzo Nibali<\/a> reacted to\u00a0the recent doping cases in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/tag\/astana\">Astana <\/a>team by saying they are \u201cugly\u201d but \u201cisolated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the last two months, three Kazakh cyclists, brothers <a title=\"Maxim Iglinskiy provisionally suspended for EPO test failure\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/maxim-iglinskiy-provisionally-suspended-epo-test-failure-138549\">Maxim and Valentin Iglinskiy<\/a>, and <a title=\"Astana\u2019s WorldTour licence in jeopardy after another failed drug test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/astanas-worldtour-licence-jeopardy-another-failed-drug-test-2-140184\">Ilya Davidenok tested positive for banned drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first reaction when learning of this is rage,\u201d the Italian said at <a title=\"Tour de France 2015 route revealed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/racing\/tour-de-france\/tour-route-2015-140386\">2015 Tour presentation <\/a>yesterday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/sport\/article\/2014\/10\/22\/cyclisme-apres-les-cas-de-dopage-chez-astana-nibali-a-la-rage_4510806_3242.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France\u2019s Le Monde<\/a> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou say; \u2018But damn, how is it possible that something like this is still happening today?\u2019 You really have to be stupid\u201d said Nibali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an isolated case. We\u2019re speaking of two brothers, it happens in families, outside of the team. It\u2019s ugly because the entire team must pay the consequences, even if it has nothing to do with this story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davidenok failed an anti-doping test for steroids, but raced for Astana\u2019s continental, third division team. The Iglinskiys both failed tests for EPO while racing for the Kazakhstany WorldTour team.<\/p>\n<p>Maxim Iglinskiy played a key role to help Nibali win the<a title=\"Vincenzo Nibali wins 2014 Tour de France; Marcel Kittel takes final stage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/racing\/tour-de-france\/vincenzo-nibali-wins-2014-tour-de-france-131357\"> Tour this July<\/a> and previously won the <a title=\"Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/photos\/liege-bastogne-liege-2012-85656\">2012 Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a> classic by catching and passing Nibali, who was then with team Liquigas, in the final 1.3 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Cycling\u2019s governing body, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/tag\/uci\">UCI<\/a> last week called the doping scandal \u201can extremely serious situation\u201d that reflects poorly on the team and its management. It asked the licence commission to review Astana\u2019s WorldTour status. The team will have to explain itself in the coming month based on the commission\u2019s ethical criterion.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 sidebar sidebar-inline sidebar-double\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The commission withheld <a title=\"The CAS put Katusha back in cycling\u2019s WorldTour\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/the-cas-put-katusha-back-in-cyclings-worldtour-33920\">Katusha\u2019s licences for similar problems in 2012, though the Court of Arbitration for Sport <\/a>(CAS) later ruled it could not do so and allowed the team to race in the top tier for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Tour de France organiser ASO took things in to their own hands in <a title=\"TOUR RE-CONFIRMS NO ASTANA FOR 2008 RACE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/tour-re-confirms-no-astana-for-2008-race-95575\">2008 by barring Astana <\/a>from participating in its race because of doping problems in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will probably be sanctions, but I think it is the concerned riders that should pay, not us, because they are the ones who did it, not us,\u201d Nibali continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would need to be a big ban. Apparently two-year suspensions are no longer sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nibali explained that followers should not consider his Tour de France victory ride suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI answered every [doping] question, I never avoided the subject. I have always been transparent and available on these questions, even when I was at team Liquigas,\u201d Nibali added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings have changed thanks to the anti-doping agencies, it\u2019s a good thing that they do more and more controls.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozone has many uses throughout the world.\u00a0 I have researched and am familiar with most of these uses.\u00a0 Over my 10+ years of experience with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[88,31,89],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ozone-services-2","tag-ozone-doping","tag-ozone-medical","tag-ozone-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}