Dr. Anthony Kiedis and injectable ozone

I saw a rerun of Conan O'Brien the other night with Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers as a guest. After I realized that something he said was bloggable and researched it a bit, I discovered that not only was it a rerun, it was a ridiculously old rerun. Oh well. I hadn't seen it.

As it turns out, he's written a book (surprise! Everybody writes a book) in which he chronicles his years of slow motion running in grayscale, drug abuse, and being very very shiny; and his new health regime, which includes ozone injections. Yes, ozone.

As an aside - when I'm drinking out of a plastic bottle of Diet Pepsi (in my quest to collect as many iTunes codes as possible) I squeeze it and put the lid back on, because it keeps it from going flat. Anyway, the carbonation eventually fills out the squeezed part with a loud *pop*, which just happened and I jumped about eight inches out of my chair. Okay.

Back to Anthony and his ozone. So he injects ozone, and do you know why? Because it gets all the "bacteria, viruses and fungus out of your blood." Now, if he had bacteria, viruses, and fungi in his blood, he probably would not be sitting upright in a chair conversing with Conan. Conan observed that this ozone injection practice isn't legal in the United States, and asked Anthony why that is. Helpfully, I offered, "Yes, yes it is illegal - because it's STUPID." But Anthony didn't hear me, and instead wove a complicated yarn about how the eeeeeevil capitalist pharmaceutical industry couldn't possibly want to cure people, because then they won't make any money. So they only publicize 90% of a curing regimen, to keep people alive long enough to pay lots and lots of money, and then they die. Mwahahahaha. Crazy conspiracy theories make me so tired. Or, maybe I have a blood fungus infestation and should go to Canada for an ozone injection.