Can You Drink Ozonated Water? The Straight Answer
Many people do — Eileen has made and consumed freshly ozonated, cold water since the late 1990s, and it is a routine part of how she washes and prepares food. Three things are worth understanding before you decide for yourself.
1. It does not stay ozonated
Dissolved ozone reverts to ordinary oxygen on its own — roughly within half an hour at cool temperatures, faster in warm water. That is why you cannot buy it bottled: ozonated water is made fresh and consumed promptly, or it is simply water again. The step-by-step guide covers timing, temperature, and equipment.
2. What is established — and what is not
Ozone’s established uses are in water treatment and sanitation: oxidizing contaminants, washing produce, sanitizing surfaces and equipment. Claims that drinking ozonated water treats or prevents disease sit at a much higher evidence bar, and we do not make them. The transcript below preserves Eileen’s personal story and enthusiasm in her own spoken words — read it as her experience, not as medical advice.
3. Make it with the off-gas managed
Bubbling ozone into a glass dissolves only about 15% of the gas — the rest escapes toward your breathing zone unless it is controlled. Ozone has established uses in water treatment and sanitation; airborne ozone requires exposure control because inhalation can irritate and damage respiratory tissue. That is exactly why Eileen engineered the Tri-Oxy® REFRESH degassing kit — drink the water, never the gas.
About Eileen and Ozonated Water
[Editor’s note: The transcript below preserves Eileen’s original spoken conversation verbatim. Statements about how ozone interacts with cells, microbes, or illness reflect her personal experience and enthusiasm, not documented product claims — Creatrix products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. For what laboratory testing does document, see the published Tri-Oxy test reports.]
Eileen Durfee: Most of us don't think about it. But all of our food is grown outside in the dirt. And the dirt has all these microbes, parasite larvae, and all these kinds of things. And when we consume them, then that just puts a load on our immune system. So, I made an ozone generator and a degassing system so that we're not breathing toxic ozone and damaging our lungs.
Hi, my name is Eileen Durfee. And I am a former nuclear power plant engineer, auditor, trainer. And I've been in real estate, managed nonprofit corporations. I kind of feel like I'm in a fourth life in this life. However, my whole life, I've had problems with my health. So that led me to find solutions to problems. And one of the things that we face today are food contamination issues with Listeria, E. Coli, Salmonella, all these pathogens that can literally kill us, or make us sick. And so, I found about the miracle of ozonated water back in the late 1990s. I first started making and drinking ozonated water, and then using it to clean vegetables and fruits and foods that I would consume.
So, I made an ozone generator and a degassing system so that we're not breathing toxic ozone and damaging our lungs. The reason why you can't just buy a bottle of ozonated water is, ozone is three molecules of oxygen, O1, O1 and O1. So, you have a O3 molecule. Now in nature, anything that's not in pairs is very unstable. So that O1 third molecule breaks off very quickly. And when it does, it oxidizes things. As a matter of fact, when there's contaminated groundwater, the EPA drills wells, and ozonates the water and injects it to clean up toxic chemicals and petrochemicals and heavy metals and things that make people sick. And they found that one molecule of ozone, dissolved ozone is equivalent to up to 10,000 molecules of bleach.
Now, why can't we drink bleach, but we can drink ozonated water might be something you're asking. And the reason being is, ozone is smart. See, when we have healthy cells, they have a protective enzyme coating around them. And when that coating is around, then, ozone passes them by. And it looks for the cells that are maybe grown out of control, you know, because every day our body is recycling cells, making new cells. So, this helps our body do that. And also, cells that don't have the protective enzyme coating are susceptible to infection. So, they might have a virus or a bacteria or a parasite in them. So, it's wonderful that ozone can oxidize those things, break them down and help them get out of your system. And you're thinking that's pretty amazing which yeah, it's wonderful because nothing can mutate against it.
It's not like an antibacterial soap or an antibiotic that makes superbugs because this literally blows a hole in the membrane of the pathogen. So, it can never resist its oxidation power. So that's one thing. But the next miracle is about the release of oxygen. When you take away O1, then you only are left with O2, which is pure oxygen.
Now we live indoors, we have sedentary jobs, a lot of times. We're sitting way too much. And so, we naturally have lower levels of oxygen in our body. And that's the dog chasing the tail syndrome because you know, we want all those cells have that enzyme coating, but our body is smart. It says okay, I don't have enough oxygen. So, we're going to like protect the brain, the bone marrow, some of these more important parts of the body, and then it you know, doesn't continue to make the enzyme coating on all these other cells.
