Doctor issues warning in response to Gwyneth Paltrow's rectal ozone therapy trend

The founder and CEO of the wellness brand Goop has dabbled in a whole bunch of alternative therapies like vaginal steaming but even she admits that ozone therapy is ‘pretty weird’.

During an interview on the podcast The Art of Being Well hosted by Will Cole, Paltrow said she had ozone therapy ‘rectally’.

“I have used ozone therapy, rectally. Can I say that?” the 50-year-old said. “It’s pretty weird. It’s pretty weird, yeah. But it’s been very helpful.”

She didn’t exactly say what the supposed benefits are or how the exactly the ozone was administered but we can take a wild guess.

So, what is ozone therapy? It refers to a wellness process of administering ozone gas into the body to treat a disease or wound.

Ozone is a colourless gas made up of three atoms of oxygen. The three main forms of treatment include directly to the tissue for a wound, intravenously or intramuscularly.

Because we’re used to talking about the hole in the ozone rather than ozone in the hole, Paltrow’s confession went viral online, with many people curious about whether blowing ozone up where the sun don’t shine could help them.

The therapy aims to boost oxygen efficiency, balance the immune system, improve blood circulation and mediate oxidative stress.

You should also avoid putting things like ozone up your butt because of the ‘real potential risks’ associated with it. For instance, ozone can be wreak havoc in your lungs and could lead to pulmonary edema – the accumulation of fluid in the lungs – if you breath it in, Lee warns.

He explains: “When a celebrity who is neither a medical professional nor a scientist makes a claim about a treatment without offering sufficient scientific evidence, be skeptical. be very skeptical. Be especially skeptical when that celebrity doesn’t even say specifically how the therapy benefited him or her.”