Gwyneth Paltrow Admits to Getting Ozone in Her Rectum

Nothing says wellness more than air pollution enemas!

I was scrolling through TikTok last night, as one does, when I came across a video of Will Cole interviewing Gwyneth Paltrow for what I can only imagine is the worst podcast ever for your health.

Damn my algorithm.

Cole is a functional medicine practitioner who recommends all sorts of ridiculous therapies, such as coffee enemas and who has also previously spoken on behalf of the anti-vaccine group, Generation Rescue. Should you have any interest, you can read more about him here. If you have no interest in learning more, I totally understand. I wish I could unsee a lot in Paltrow’s orbit.

What caught my attention was Paltrow telling us that she had an IV running while she was doing the podcast. Apparently, she loves her some intravenous therapy of untested, yet expensive vitamin concoctions. I was too disinterested to look up the specifics because I know they are all scams. 

It did leave me wondering about the nutritional value of all the recipes on GOOP and in her cookbooks as well as the benefits of the supplements that she sells, because obviously they are shit if they leave her needing expensive IV concoctions. Just kidding, I don’t wonder at all. I know each recipe/therapy/tidbit of wellness/coffee enema/supplement is pushed out with no thought to its value outside of what can be monetized or its place in the Paltrow Wellness Universe. When you are completely uninvested in facts and have misplaced confidence in your supreme knowledge, you can say whatever the fuck you want and expect your adoring public to accept this new gospel.

What ever happened to the miracle of charcoal? Never heard of her.

Didn’t you know that Gwyneth Paltrow has always been at war with Eastasia? 

Wellness needs a constantly shifting Best New Therapy™ so they can continually sell you the Best New Therapy™.

But I scrolled, because dammit TikTok. And in the next video, Paltrow admitted that she has tried rectal ozone. People living in areas with high air pollution suffer real consequences from breathing in ozone, and yet here is Paltrow casually mentioning that she had it blown up her ass for health.

Ozone is not medicine, it’s harm. And it’s also a common naturopathic and functional medicine grift. The FDA has stated that “ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application in specific, adjunctive, or preventive therapy. In order for ozone to be effective as a germicide, it must be present in a concentration far greater than that which can be safely tolerated by man and animals.” 

I mean if that doesn’t scream DON’T PUT IT IN MY RECTUM, I don’t know what does?

Recently, the FDA cited a wellness center in Dallas for claiming ozone as a therapy for COVID-19. 

Sigh.

What is Ozone?

It’s a gas composed of three molecules of oxygen. 

It’s also a gas that belongs high in the atmosphere, where it protects us from ultraviolet radiation. However, too much ozone in the air that we breathe is dangerous and has no known health benefits. 

Here is a great visual from the Department of Ecology at the University of Washington

Proponents of ozone claim (minus any actual quality studies, of course) that there is good ozone, and that it can kill bacteria, and reduce levels of viruses in the blood (hence the scammy COVID therapies popping up), work as an antioxidant, treat autoimmune conditions and, for a hot minute, vaginal ozone was a trend. A harmful trend, but a trend.

What benefit could ozone have for the rectum?

It’s about as useful as a coffee enema, meaning none.

However, I’d take the bet that there is a big overlap in the rectal coffee and rectal ozone worlds of wellness. Meaning, I’m sure rectal ozone is recommended for bowel conditions, removing toxins, treating COVID, and overall detoxing (which is not a medical word, but is so beloved by the grifters). It’s also probably irritating and, like with coffee enemas, that is mistaken as some kind of benefit. 

The California Air Resources Board says we should think of ozone like we would bleach. For most people that should be enough to run from rectal ozone. We know ozone damages the mucosa of the respiratory tract (the skin cells in the air passages and lungs), causing irritation and inflammation. In high enough doses it makes the lungs more vulnerable to toxins and infections and it can cause difficulty breathing and worsen asthma. 

So, it’s likely ozone can damage the rectal mucosa and I wouldn’t be surprised if rectal ozone damaged the microbiome in the bowel. Also, there is the risk of inadvertently breathing it in during any therapy when there is inadequate ventilation. 

Much of what Paltrow does is expensive, performative wellness. We know that the more you pay for a therapy, the greater the likelihood of a placebo effect. And I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the appeals is the danger and the shock value of a rectal therapy. Ozone may be dangerous for others, you know, the proletariat, but not for people like Paltrow who has secret knowledge and the daring to try it rectally. Or something.

Ozone is air pollution. I’ll give a tip of the hat for the marketing skill in somehow rebranding it as wellness and medical therapy, but a wag of the finger as it holds no health benefit whatsoever and the potential for harm is significant. And for any ozone acolytes hate reading this, go ahead and submit your protocol for enemas of toxic gas with no known medical benefits to an institutional review board. I’ll wait.

Usually Paltrow trots her orifices out when she has something to sell or someone to promote, so it seems likely she was bringing up this blast from the past to help Cole get numbers on his podcast. We should expect no better for the woman who claimed she could make the vagina a “cultural firestorm” and “monetize those eyeballs.” 

Keep ozone out of your rectum and in the upper atmosphere where it belongs.