1.
Ozone
Generators That Are Sold As Air Cleaners.
Some vendors suggest that these devices have been approved
by the federal government for use in occupied spaces.
To the contrary, NO agency of the federal government has
approved these devices for use in occupied spaces. Because
of these claims, and because ozone can cause health problems
at high concentrations, several federal government agencies
have worked in consultation with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency to produce this public information document.
2.
Special Mention By Duncan
Roads, Editor Nexus Magazine.
(PDF Document)
In March 2001, I achieved my dream of visiting the mystery
site of Egypt. The trip was made even more special by
the small group of 30 people drawn from several countries,
and by the fact that it was lead by John Anthony West.
Among this diverse international group of travellers
was Joshua Shaw and his wife Nina, who own a company
called Bionic Products, based on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
3.
Influence Of Negative
Air Ions on Drivers (PDF
Document)
Negative air ions are observed at high concentration
level in places such as near a waterfall and in a forest.
Some studies have demonstrated that negative air ions
have positive effects on human performance and mood.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate
the influence of negative air ions on a drivers mental
stress and fatigue. |
1.
Negative
Ions - Fact Or Fiction
If
I had been asked a few weeks ago what I thought of the
benefits of negative ion generators, I would have said
I was - like many people - open-minded but somewhat sceptical.
Then, at the beginning of May, I came down with the severe
influenza that was sweeping through my home city.
2.
Accentuating The Negative
To put this to the test, I asked Joshua Shaw if I could
contact some people who owned and used an Elanra ioniser
and he supplied me with about a dozen names at random,
all of whom had recently purchased a unit from him.
I telephoned these people with no warning and, of those
I was able to contact, simply asked if they had noticed
any change in their symptoms. Without exception, all
were full of praise for the machine's benefits
3.
Every Breath
You Take
Would you like your body to breathe as naturally as
if you were standing near a cascading waterfall, in
a pine forest, or at the beach? Would you like to know
that you were boosting your immune system with every
breath you take? Decades of scientific research Have
shown a way that we can boost our immunity by changing
the quality of the air we breathe to be electrically
charged the way that nature intended it to be, with
small negative air ions of oxygen.
4.
Allergies
- Spring Time Blues
It's hard to stay positive when you're struggling with
allergies, sinus and hayfever. Often it seems that nothing
can be done, especially when medicine fails us by causing
so many side effects unfortunately most medical practitioners
are as unaware as their patients that something in the
air' can cause physical and mental distress in human
beings.
5.
Is It The
Weather - Or Am I Going Crazy ?
In
the search for optimum good health, humanity has travelled
many roads, from magic spells and sacrificial offerings
to the ground-breaking discoveries that eventually led
to modern preventative health care. Everyone is now
aware of the importance of good hygiene, a varied and
nutritious diet, adequate exercise and an optimistic
attitude.
6.
An
Ounce Of Prevention... But Be Quick!
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
goes the old saying, and who wouldn't prefer to maintain
good health than begin a desperate search for remedies
once illness has taken hold? With hospital charges and
medical insurance premiums skyrocketing, more people
are relying on preventative and alternative health care
than ever before.
7.
Recuperation
After Exercise
I know it sounds impossible. But devices are now available
that have been shown in objective studies conducted
in universities, hospitals, industrial and athletic
settings around the world to do all those things and
more. These devices are negative ion generators (or
ionizers)
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1.
Air
Ions and Health
In places where mountains are situated
to the south, the south winds that blow are parching and
unhealthy; where the mountains are situated in the north,
their northern winds occasion disorders and sickness...The
winds which must pass over mountains to reach cities do
not only dry, but also disturb the air which we breathe
and the bodies of men, so as to engender diseases.
2.
Data
concerning the Intervention of air Ions in Physical
Exercise
This paper represents a synthesis of the investigations
made by the collective of the Hygiene Department, Medical
Faculty, and of the Hygiene Institute, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania, on the effects of the treatment with ionised
air upon certain biological processes, or upon the performance,
during the physical exercise in Man and Animal. Favourable
results in physical exercise were obtained under the
action of negative air ions. The treatment by ionised
air was applied daily, for 2-4 weeks, using moderate
ionic concentrations, not more than 20-30,000 small
ions of one electric sing/ml air. The duration of the
daily treatment was 15-20 mins for a seated man and
1-2- hours for animals. The results were as follows:
3.
Artificial
Ionisation of the air and its Biological significance
Controlled use of negative ion emitters
has proved to benefit individuals suffering from air-borne
allergies of the upper respiratory tract. If properly
harnessed, controlled, and utilised, ionised air may
become a valuable adjunct to other established methods
of treatment in a number of disease states.
4.
Behavioural
effects of Air Ions
Electrical charges of the atmosphere
are called "ions". A ion is an atom which
has gained or lost an electron. If the atom loses an
electron, it becomes positive, while the addition of
an electron makes it a negative ion. Generally speaking,
air ions are classified according to their size: small
(molecules), medium (tiny particles), and large (dust).
Of most immediate concern to use here are the small
ions, for it is they that are the most mobile of the
three categories and, for that reason play a central
role in atmospheric influences upon the human system.
5.
Effect
of Negative Air Ion Treatment on Blood Serotonin and
Well-being in Weather sensitive Patients
The use of negative air ionising apparatuses
has increased recently due to the enthusiastic reports
of their success in the lay press (Soyka and Edmonds,
1977). Negative air ionisation has been progressively
introduced in Europe for daily use. It has also been
found useful in telephone exchanges, airplane cockpits,
post offices, tunnels and buildings where air conditioning
may produce a positive ion stream which has to be neutralised
by ionisers with high negative output (Sulman, 1976).
6.
Ions
Free Nursery / Infant school group of "Snotty-Nosed
Kids"
Mrs McDonald has experience of ionisers
both at the school and at her home. She has used them
for the past two winters. She says: "The ioniser
in the schoolroom has really kept the children clear
of the usual, expected infections during the past winters.
In a small group of children such as ours, we expect
colds to do the rounds during the winter. But since
we got the ioniser, the absences during winter have
dropped noticeably.
7.
Seasonal
Affective Disorder (SAD)
The benefits of exposure to relatively
high concentrations of negative ions produced by high
density negative ion generators have been well documented
over decades. Literally dozens of studies published
in respected journals have concluded that negative ions
can have a profoundly beneficial effect on both the
mind and body. Listed here are some excerpts from just
a few of the scientific studies on the subject of negative
ions.
8.
The
Effect of Ionised Air on Work Capacity and Vitamin Metabolism
The task of hygiene, apart from sanitation
of the conditions of the external medium, is to work
out measures of active influence on the organism helping
to increase work capacity and speed up rehabilitation
processes after work. In this connection, we have conducted
observations over the effect of artificially ionised
air of a negative charge sign on the physical work capacity
of healthy people, students of the Institute of Physical
Culture and Training systematically engaging in sports
(A.A. Minkh, M.A. Vytchikova, G.I. Nikiforova).
9.
The
role of Ions in Body Chemistry
The harmful positive ion (kation) is
a particle that loses an electron. The healthful negative
ion (anion) gains an electron in the valency orbit;
that is it increases the ability to absorb and utilise
oxygen and reduces any excess of harmful serotonin.
These two small invisible electrified particles have
an effect on our physical and mental well-being and
we are constantly bombarded with negative and positive
ions eg. polluted air. The negative ions make us feel
good, they destroy harmful bacteria. The positive ions
make us feel bad (TV. screen produces positive ions).
10.
Negative
Ion Regeneration For Youthfulness and Longevity
Approximately half-a-century ago, a certain
woman living in a large, crowded city contracted tuberculosis.
Doctors did what they could for her without any avail.
They gave her a morbid prognosis of inevitable death
and she was consigned to a gloomy existence without
any hope or reason to live. Deciding that she would
at least die in more pleasant surroundings, she moved
from the big city to a humble log cabin in a pine forest
somewhere in the State of Maine. For an entire Winter
she stayed there, busying herself with things that kept
her mind happy and occupied.
11.
What
are Small Air Ions?
Some reports claim that air ionisation
is a vast new field of knowledge (eg Sulman 1976), it
is however a phenomenon that Abbe Betholon observed
as early as 1780. Bertholon noted differential responses
of normal individuals and patients as a result of changes
in the electrical state of the air (Krueger 1962). Over
the past two hundred years there have been a number
of upsurges of interest in the area. Unfortunately,
little effort has been made to integrate the available
information. As a result, previous research findings
provide a picture of air ionisation that is at best,
fragmented. |
