Ozone Therapy in Los Gatos
Oxidative medicine with an honest label: what ozone does, who it helps, and the four ways we deliver it.
Fatigue, slow recovery and stubborn inflammation often trace back to the same bottleneck: how well your cells use oxygen. That machinery gets less efficient with age. Ozone therapy is how I work on that layer, and it sits at the frontier of my toolkit, labeled that way on purpose.
- Sessions
- 2 – 3Typically spaced within a week
- Delivery routes
- 4IV, injection, two local
- IV session
- 30 – 40 minLocal routes take minutes
- Insurance
- Not coveredCost discussed upfront
What is ozone therapy?
Ozone is oxygen with a third atom: O₃ instead of the O₂ you breathe. The extra atom makes the molecule reactive, and the reactivity is the medicine. In controlled clinical doses, ozone disrupts bacteria and viruses, increases oxygen delivery to tissue, and stimulates immune activity.
As the body ages it processes oxygen less efficiently, which shows up as fatigue, slower recovery, and wear in muscles and joints. Ozone works underneath those symptoms, on cellular oxygen use itself.
Where the evidence stands
Frontier
Every tool on this site carries a grade, and ozone sits at Frontier: a real mechanism, and a research base that is still maturing. Frontier means promising, not proven, and I would rather run promising inside a monitored protocol than pretend it is settled.
My interest in ozone is also narrower than most of what you will read about it. I care about what it does to oxidative damage and oxygenation, measured in your labs and tracked over your treatment, not about miracle claims.
The four ways we deliver it
Route follows the goal: systemic problems get systemic delivery, local problems get local delivery.
| Route | What happens | Time | Where it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| IV ozone | We draw 100 to 120 ml of your blood, mix it with medical-grade ozone, and return it through a drip | About 30 to 40 minutes | Whole-system work: energy, recovery, immune resilience |
| Injection | A small volume of ozone gas placed at the site: a joint, muscle group or trigger point | Quick; mild pressure or a brief pinch | One specific structure |
| Rectal insufflation | A small lubricated catheter delivers a controlled dose of ozone gas | About 5 to 10 minutes, discreet | Gut health, chronic infection, detox support |
| Vaginal insufflation | A small flexible catheter delivers a precise dose of ozone gas | About 10 to 15 minutes | Vaginal flora, local inflammation, tissue healing |
Which route, and whether ozone belongs in your plan at all, comes out of your exam.
What I use it for
Ozone earns its place when the case fits. Most often that is: fatigue that keeps returning and slow recovery from training or illness; frequent or chronic infections; inflammatory and musculoskeletal pain, including rheumatic conditions, osteoarthritis, back pain and TMJ disorders; chronic wounds that will not close; gut and pelvic conditions through the local routes; and detox support after toxin or heavy-metal exposure.
When the pain is one joint, tendon or ligament, prolozone is usually the sharper tool, and the two combine well.
If a use you have read about is not on this list, ask me at the consult. I will tell you honestly where the evidence sits.
What treatment is like
No special prep. Eat normally, take your regular medications, and arrive hydrated. IV sessions run about 30 to 40 minutes in the clinic under doctor supervision; read, nap or scroll, and leave as soon as the drip is done. The local routes take minutes, not an afternoon.
Most people begin to feel a difference after 2 to 3 sessions, typically spaced within a week. If your plan calls for it, ozone runs alongside other IV therapy in the same sitting.
Why do this with me
Most ozone on the market is a menu line. Here it is a prescription: we decide together whether it belongs in your plan, the dose and route follow your case, and it runs at my Los Gatos clinic, doctor-owned since 2004, in a nine-chair IV suite with a five-person IV and lab team handling every draw and drip.
And because ozone is frontier medicine, it gets the hardest look of anything I use. It enters your plan with a baseline, gets tracked against it, and comes back out when its work is done.
"Amazing results 2 weeks after the appointment and following her prescription. Highly recommend her and the ozone therapy. Wow!"
FAQ
What does ozone therapy help with?
The realistic core: fatigue and recovery, immune resilience, musculoskeletal pain and inflammation, chronic wounds, detox support, and gut or pelvic conditions through the local routes. The consult decides whether your case is one of them.
Does ozone therapy reduce inflammation?
That is one of its better-documented effects. It acts on pro-inflammatory signaling, cytokines and prostaglandins, and it has been used in rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, back pain and TMJ disorders.
How many sessions will I need?
Most people begin to feel the benefits after 2 to 3 sessions, typically spaced within a week.
Is it covered by insurance?
Not usually, and Medicaid and Medi-Cal do not cover it at all. Cost gets discussed at the consult, before you commit to anything.
Also in the toolkit: Prolozone · Peptides · The hCG protocol · Exosomes
The missing variable may be oxygen.
If you have been treating the same fatigue, the same infections or the same inflammation for years, book a consultation and the labs will tell us whether ozone belongs in your plan.