Powerful where it touches, and honest about the rest
Washing produce, treating drinking water and preparing enema water are real jobs, and ozone is very good at them. Moving stored metals is a different job with a different toolkit.
A Tri-Oxy ozonator earns its place on the counter by doing one thing extremely well: it puts dissolved ozone into water, on demand, so the water can go to work on whatever it touches. A colander of grapes. A glass of drinking water. The water for an enema bucket. Those are contact jobs, and contact is what ozone is for — which is why the Tri-Oxy ozone generators and water treatment systems make it at the point of use rather than storing it.
The question that arrives most often is a different one: whether that glass reaches inside and pulls stored metals out of tissue. It does not, and saying so plainly is more useful than a bigger promise.
Ordinary oxygen travels as O2. Ozone is O3 — the same element carrying a third atom that is only loosely attached, and that instability is the whole mechanism. When ozonated water meets an organic surface, the spare atom is handed off in an oxidation reaction, and what remains is plain oxygen dissolved in plain water.
Two consequences follow. Ozone works where it makes contact: it is a surface and solution tool. And it does not persist — the third atom leaves whether or not it found something to react with. That pairing is why municipal plants and food handlers have used ozone for over a century, and why its reach stops at the skin of things. Our walkthrough on how to make ozonated water covers the mechanics machine by machine.
No — and the reason is worth spelling out, because the same explanation points straight at what genuinely does the work.
Lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminium and excess copper do not sit loose in the digestive tract waiting to be oxidised on the way past. The hair mineral analysis literature describes them as bound into tissue, tightly and for a long time. Lead behaves like calcium and fixes into bone. Cadmium carries a biological half-life of seventeen to thirty years. Aluminium tracks bone and can take several successive tests to show up at all. Mercury is described bluntly: sequestered mercury remains in storage for years. Copper is stored in the liver and brain, with the normal exit route being the bile.
Now set a glass of ozonated water beside that. It travels the digestive tract, gives up its extra atom to whatever it contacts, and is ordinary oxygenated water within minutes. It never enters the compartment where those metals are held.
What the same literature describes as moving them is slower and far less glamorous. Available biochemical energy has to rise first, so the body can afford the work. In that same literature, chelating substances such as vitamin C and sulphur-bearing amino acids are described as binding a metal once it is loose, and antagonist minerals as displacing it from the tissue they occupy. That is a description of a nutritional model, and what any of it means for one person belongs with their qualified healthcare provider. And the eliminative organs — liver and bile, kidneys, bowel, skin — are supported so that whatever is mobilised actually leaves.
That fourth part is a nutrition and lifestyle conversation, guided by a qualified healthcare provider and reviewed against a retest. It is a project measured in months and retests rather than in rinses, and no water treatment device has a role in it. It is a project measured in months and retests rather than in rinses.
Here is the useful side of the same mechanism. Because ozone acts on contact and leaves nothing behind, it suits any task where a surface or a volume of water is treated immediately before use.
| Job | What ozone is doing | Practical note |
|---|---|---|
| Produce and food surfaces | Oxidising surface residues and organisms on contact, then reverting to oxygen | Submerge and agitate so every surface is wetted; drain and use, or dry before storing |
| Drinking water | Treating the water itself, leaving nothing in the glass but water and oxygen | Make a glass at a time — there is nothing worth keeping back |
| Enema preparation water | Sanitising the water and the equipment it will pass through, before use | Slots into an existing coffee enema routine without changing anything else |
| Jars, lids, cloths, cutting boards | Surface cleaning by contact, with no chemical residue to rinse off | The reason the accessory jars, lids and diffusers exist |
The Ozone Water Sterilizer — Food & Enema Prep Kit is this built for a kitchen rather than a facility, hand-selected for those tasks because they share one requirement: ozone made fresh, at the sink, in the quantity you are about to use. For larger volumes, the Tri-Oxy COMPLETE commercial system covers the same ground at scale.
Since the third oxygen atom does not stay attached, ozonated water is a make-and-use item rather than a stock item. Bottle it for the week and what you have at the end of the week is water. Every workflow in the manuals is built around that: run the machine into the vessel you are about to use, then use it. The Ozone Water Sterilizer manual gives the run times.
People sometimes read this as a shortcoming. It is closer to the opposite — a treatment that disappears on its own carries no residue question and no rinse step. The short working life and the clean finish are one property, described twice.
Ozone is intended for the water and the surfaces it treats, not for the room. Work in a ventilated space, follow the manual run times, and read the ozone generator safety guide first. Where off-gas is a consideration, an ozone destructor handles it.
If the ozonator is the wrong tool here, what is the right one? The starting point is measurement, and the measurement used in this field is hair tissue mineral analysis. A hair sample is assayed for nutritional and toxic elements, and the result is read as a pattern — mineral ratios, the oxidation picture, and which toxic elements are showing at all. It is a screening tool for nutritional and toxic element status: it is not a diagnostic test, it is not predictive, and one test is a snapshot rather than a verdict.
That last point explains the shape of the undertaking. The literature is consistent that metals surface across successive tests rather than all at once — elements bound deep in tissue are described as invisible early and appearing on a second or third test as available energy improves. That last point explains the shape of the undertaking. Elements bound deep in tissue are described as surfacing across successive tests rather than on the first one, so this is measured in retests over months rather than settled by a single panel. How any particular number should be read on a given chart is the testing side's subject, and the hair analysis kit page is where that is covered.
A hair analysis kit is where that starts, and the collection is a few minutes at home with a pair of scissors. What follows is a nutrition and lifestyle programme guided by the results and reviewed against a retest. Measuring and moving are two jobs, and neither is a water treatment job. That is not a gap in the ozonator; it is a different department, and the ozonator is excellent at its own.
Practitioner Eileen Durfee, NBS (Nutritional Balancing Science), NASM-CPT — wellness educator, nuclear power quality engineer of twenty years, home builder, inventor with 10 U.S. and 6 international patents, and author of Invent It and Be Your Own Boss.
Twenty years as a quality engineer in nuclear power leaves you with one habit above all others: state what a system does, state what it does not do, and never let the two blur. That is how I approach the equipment I design. I built the ozone line around what ozone genuinely is — a contact oxidiser with a short working life — which is why every machine makes it at the point of use.
The metals question comes from the other half of my work. I began hair analysis in 2010 under ARNP Julie Walker, and worked directly with Analytical Research Labs, testing family and friends while I learned to read the charts. I listened to every cassette Dr. Paul Eck recorded and read every ARL newsletter. I signed up with Dr. Larry Wilson in August 2011 and have practised independently since autumn 2017. My clients' samples go to Trace Elements, Inc.
Everything I have worked with on the mineral side describes stored metals the same way: slow, layered, energy-dependent, visible only across a sequence of retests. None of it points at a water treatment device, and I would rather say so and keep your trust for what ozone does well. Our Facebook group is free to join.
No. Ozone acts by contact and reverts to ordinary oxygen quickly, so it never reaches the tissue where stored metals are held. No. Ozone acts by contact and reverts to ordinary oxygen quickly, so it never reaches the tissue where stored metals are held. Mineral and toxic-element status is screened separately, with hair tissue mineral analysis, which shows trends and patterns and is not a diagnostic test. What a result means for you is a nutrition and lifestyle conversation with your qualified healthcare provider.
The third oxygen atom does not stay attached, so a stored bottle becomes plain water. Make it into the vessel you are about to use and use it straight away — that is the pattern in every one of the manuals.
The machines are designed for it, and freshly ozonated drinking water has a long history of use. Follow the run times in the manual. If you are pregnant, managing a health condition, or taking medication, check with your healthcare provider before adding anything new.
The Ozone Water Sterilizer — Food & Enema Prep Kit is the kitchen-scale option, covering produce, drinking water and enema preparation in one unit. Tri-Oxy COMPLETE suits larger volumes and commercial settings.
Because reducing what comes in is its own contribution. The produce you wash, the water you drink and the water used for enema preparation all pass through the ozonator. Treating the inputs and moving what is stored are two jobs, and both belong in the routine.
Published 2026 • Updated August 28, 2026
By Eileen Durfee, NBS practitioner, NASM-CPT, inventor of the Tri-Oxy ozone equipment line, and a nuclear power quality engineer of twenty years.
This article is for educational purposes only. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Nuco Enterprise Solutions LLC.
