As a result, there are no funds left for promoting the film. Geoffrey Rogers, a Vancouver documentary film-maker, believes it is time North American medicine took a serious look at ozone therapy. Ten million Europeans have benefited from it, said Rogers, who spent the last seven years making Ozone and the Politics of Medicine. The 30-minute documentary had its first Canadian showing Tuesday at the Pacific Cinematheque. He believes ozone therapy, which is illegal and dismissed as quackery in North America, is a profoundly important medical breakthrough.
Ozone is produced from medical grade oxygen using a machine called an ozone generator.
Oxygen, mixed with a small amount of ozone, is administered by injection or enema. The theory is that oxygen produces energy fro healthy cell activity and acts against toxins in the body. In Germany, where the therapy is widely used, doctors say it successfully combats 40 disorders. Many cities water supplies are sterilized with ozone, and the gas also has the potential to sterilize donated blood. But representatives of the medical establishment, including B.C. Cancer Agency's Dr. Hulbert Silver, say it's a long way from sterilizing water or blood to giving ozone to living cancer patients.