“This will set off a major battle,” Rainey said. “The nephrology industry and big pharma won’t like this. It’s a billion-dollar dialysis and transplant business.”
SOURCE: Bee-Picapune
A longtime Refugio dentist and his team are making waves with innovative treatments for chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and other inflammation-related illnesses using ozone therapy.
Using himself as a case study, Dr. Tim Rainey claims the approach, which involves infusing the body with medical-grade ozone (a form of pure oxygen), is showing promising results, including improved kidney function and reduced reliance on traditional medications.
Rainey, who also practices as a research scientist, has battled chronic kidney disease and malignant hypertension. In September 2022, his physician assistant informed him that his kidney function had reached Stage 3 chronic kidney disease.
Despite Rainey’s background as a medical technologist and familiarity with reading metabolic panels, the diagnosis came as a shock. He traced his kidney issues back to 2019, citing a decline in his estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) visible in earlier comprehensive metabolic panels. Like many, he dismissed the marked “low” levels as non-urgent.
By the start of 2022, his eGFR had dipped dangerously, fast approaching dialysis levels.
“My blood pressure was always 145 over 85, but one morning it spiked to 235 over 132,” Rainey recounted.
“There’s urgency,” Rainey said. “Every day we delay this, someone crosses a threshold where their condition becomes irreversible.”
The severe episode led to a diagnosis of malignant hypertension, which he described as a combination of high blood pressure and deep vein thrombosis.
Medical intervention began immediately, with high doses of clonidine prescribed to manage his blood pressure. Still, the situation led him to question conventional medical approaches.
“I didn’t think I could be the only person with nocturnal, unexplained hypertension,” Rainey said.
His curiosity drove him to theorize about how hypertension alters blood vessels, likening the phenomenon to veins transforming under pressure, much like veins used in bypass surgeries adapt to arterial function.
After a year of adhering strictly to traditional Western medicine, he turned to alternative treatments, including ozone therapy.
“I exposed myself to ozone, not because I have a death wish, but to keep my eGFR stable,” Rainey said.
By December, intravenous ozone therapy began showing promise. According to Rainey, his blood pressure started to stabilize, eventually dropping into ideal ranges, allowing him to reduce his clonidine dosage significantly. There also was a rise in eGFR, indicating improvement in kidney function, and blood pressure dropping into the low-normal range.
“I’ve gone from 0.7 milligrams of clonidine a day to just 0.3,” Rainey said.
Early case study
One of Rainey’s original case studies was performed on one of his dental assistants.
In August 2014, Dina Serrano, 44, decided to try ozone therapy at the suggestion of Rainey after years of battling rheumatoid arthritis and relying on injections and medications. She claims she found relief through ozone therapy, and credits it for transforming her life over the past decade.
By November of that same year, just three months after starting ozone therapy, Serrano experienced a dramatic change.
“I was already off of my injections, and winter was about to come up,” she said. “I was getting kind of nervous. I thought I’d either be dying in pain or feeling really good. I didn’t have any flare-ups or anything.”
Ten years later, her results remain consistent.
“I stopped taking injections in September 2014, and by January, I was off the pills, too,” she said. “I was scared at first, but it wasn’t that long before I felt better.”
Serrano continues to use ozone therapy today, though her regimen has changed over the years.
“If I don’t go in for ozone therapy, in a few weeks, I can start feeling aches,” she said. “But as soon as I go, within 30 minutes to an hour, I feel relief.”
‘Debunking the myth’
Through perseverance and self-education, Rainey has managed to maintain kidney function and control hypertension. He has reduced his reliance on blood pressure medications like conidine (Xlosartan). Despite his physician’s skepticism, he aims to taper off entirely.
“I don’t want to take it the rest of my life,” Rainey said, explaining his belief that proper treatment can reverse chronic conditions. “We’ve debunked the myth of malignant hypertension, at least for myself.”
Rainey now leads a group of eight patients who have reportedly experienced increased eGFR levels. Even a self-described “out of control diabetic” in the group has seen improvements, he said.
The results are so compelling that the doctor recently published case reports.
“There’s urgency,” Rainey said. “Every day we delay this, someone crosses a threshold where their condition becomes irreversible.”
Ozone therapy involves introducing ozone into the body through methods such as intravenous injections or topical applications like foot bagging.
“Your feet have more sweat glands than anywhere else,” Rainey said. “Circulation picks up the ozone, and it travels through the body – an oxymoron, while it appears to require large intravenous dosages to reverse chronic kidney disease, stopping the progression of rheumatoid arthritis to require far less, and transdermal absorption as in “bagging” appears sufficient, according to our early research.”
The treatment remains controversial and is not widely available in the United States. Clinics offering ozone therapy are primarily in large cities like San Antonio and Corpus Christi.
However, the doctor plans to expand access by franchising the treatment model. He envisions it as a vital resource for underserved areas, including the third world, where chronic kidney disease is a leading cause of death among men.
“This will set off a major battle,” Rainey said. “The nephrology industry and big pharma won’t like this. It’s a billion-dollar dialysis and transplant business.”
Rainey said an article on his ozone therapy is scheduled to be published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiology. He is also writing the case report on Serrano regarding stopping the progression of rheumatoid arthritis.
Through the publication of his case studies and articles, Rainey remains hopeful that ozone therapy can transform chronic illness care.
“Every life saved makes a difference,” he said. “This is about more than just treating symptoms; it’s about giving people their lives back.”
