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What it is,
and what it is not.
Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation and Ozonation. This page describes the procedure, how candidacy is evaluated, and the regulatory position, because that last part is something you are entitled to know before you decide anything.
A closed circuit,
run under supervision.
EBOO is a procedure rather than a substance. Blood is drawn from one arm through a sterile single-use circuit, passed through a filter and a gas exchange membrane, and returned through the other arm. The circuit runs continuously for the duration of the session, so the volume processed is a function of time rather than of a single syringe.
That is the distinction from conventional ozone administration, which typically processes between fifty and two hundred millilitres in one pass. EBOO is a fundamentally different scale of procedure, and it requires a different level of supervision as a result.
Everything about how it is administered here, from single-use disposables to physician presence throughout and monitoring during the session, follows from the fact that it is an extracorporeal circuit rather than an injection.
Access
Two intravenous lines, one in each arm. Blood exits through one and returns through the other, continuously, for the duration of the session.
Filtration
The circuit passes through a filter before the gas exchange stage. Single-use and sterile, discarded after the session.
Gas Exchange
Blood passes across a membrane where gas exchange occurs, then continues through the circuit. No gas is introduced directly into the bloodstream.
Return & Duration
Blood returns through the second line. A session typically runs sixty to ninety minutes with a physician present throughout.
You should hear this
from us first.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration maintains a regulation, 21 CFR 801.415, which states that ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application in specific, adjunctive, or preventive therapy.
That regulation is current. We are not going to characterise it, argue with it, or bury it in a footnote. You are entitled to read it yourself and factor it into your own decision. Published literature examining ozone in clinical contexts also exists, and your physician can point you to it.
What follows from that: this page makes no claim that EBOO treats, cures, prevents, or improves any disease or condition, because no such claim would be supportable. What it describes is a procedure, how candidacy for it is evaluated, and what a session involves. Whether that is something you want is a conversation to have with a physician who has seen your panel.
Not everyone who asks
is a candidate.
Full Medical History
Including current medications, prior procedures, and anything affecting how your blood behaves. Several histories rule this out entirely, and identifying those is the first purpose of the assessment.
Bloodwork Reviewed First
A comprehensive panel including hematologic and metabolic markers is reviewed before any procedure is scheduled. This is the same panel that informs every program here.
Informed Consent
Written consent covering the regulatory status described above, known and unknown risks, the absence of any guaranteed outcome, and your right to decline or to discuss it with your primary care physician first.
Physician Present Throughout
Monitoring for the full session, with single-use sterile disposables throughout the circuit. This is not delegated to a technician, and the session is not run unattended.
One option among eight,
and rarely the first one.
Most Valerian patients who ask about this end up in a different program, because the panel points somewhere else. That is a normal outcome of an assessment rather than a disappointing one.
Peptides
Compounded through a 503A pharmacy against an individual prescription. A well-established regulatory pathway, and frequently where the panel points instead.
Explore peptides →IV Therapy
Intravenous micronutrient and NAD+ protocols formulated to your panel. A different route with a different evidence base.
Explore IV therapy →HRT & TRT
Where the panel identifies hormonal status as the finding, that is an approved therapeutic pathway with published guidance behind it.
Explore HRT & TRT →How a Program Is Built
The assessment comes first regardless of what brought you in. What the panel shows determines which programs apply and in what order.
See how it works →What Valerian patients ask
before they commit.
The FDA maintains 21 CFR 801.415, which states that ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application in specific, adjunctive, or preventive therapy. That regulation is current, and we would rather you read it here than find it elsewhere and wonder why we did not mention it. We make no claim that this procedure treats, cures, prevents, or improves any disease or condition. Anyone in this category who tells you otherwise is making a claim they cannot support.
Scale and method. Conventional administration typically processes a single volume of between fifty and two hundred millilitres. EBOO runs a continuous extracorporeal circuit. Blood exits one arm, passes through a filter and a gas exchange membrane, and returns through the other for the duration of the session, so the volume processed is a function of time. That difference is why it requires physician supervision throughout rather than being a brief in-office procedure.
Two intravenous lines, one in each arm, and typically sixty to ninety minutes seated in a private suite with a physician present throughout. The circuit and all disposables are single-use and sterile. Most Valerian patients read or work through it. Aftercare instructions and what to expect afterward are covered before the session rather than handed over on the way out.
That is determined at assessment and the answer is frequently no. Several medical histories rule this out entirely, and identifying those is the first purpose of the evaluation rather than an afterthought. Your comprehensive panel is reviewed before anything is scheduled. If your physician does not think this is appropriate for you, that is what you will be told, and in most cases the panel points toward a different program anyway.
No. Valere operates as a private-pay practice and this procedure is not covered by standard insurance. Cost is discussed after your panel is reviewed and after candidacy has been established, rather than quoted in advance of either. Payment plans and membership options are available.
This page describes a procedure and the process by which candidacy for it is evaluated. It makes no claim that the procedure diagnoses, treats, cures, prevents, or improves any disease or condition. The FDA maintains that ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application in specific, adjunctive, or preventive therapy. See 21 CFR 801.415. All clinical decisions, including candidacy, rest solely with the licensed physician following evaluation. This page is educational and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your primary care provider.
Start with the assessment,
not with the procedure.
Your panel determines which programs apply to you. Frequently that answer is something other than this one, and your physician will say so.
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