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Benefits of HyperBaric Oxygen Therapy
Humans depend upon the consumption of oxygen all the time. Most
atmospheric air is comprised of roughly 21% oxygen. Oxygen is
necessary for the production of cellular energy in the mitochondria
of every cell in the body. The use of pure 100% oxygen in a high
pressure atmosphere has been shown to have extraordinary health
benefits. In this article, you will discover the health benefits of
hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
The hyperbaric chamber has pure oxygen coming in at pressures 1.5 –
3 times the normal atmospheric pressure. Treatment times range from
30-90 minutes. Using oxygen at higher pressures causes up to 20
times more oxygen to be absorbed by the blood and transferred to
injured organs and tissues. This speeds healing and recovery time in
addition to other benefits.
HBOT and mHBOT:
Breathing in 100% (pure) oxygen under increased pressure, called
HBOT, allows extra oxygen to be taken up by the bloodstream and
dissolved at a far greater rate. This extra oxygen can help where
healing is slowed down by infection or where blood supply is limited
by damage to the tissues.
100% oxygen is considered a drug by the FDA and one needs a
prescription to use it. Mild HyperBaric Therapy (mHBOT) has shown
significant results and uses around 95% oxygen in a 1.3-1.4
atmospheric pressure. This is a much lower cost treatment that has
little to no risk and great benefit.
Proven Health Benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
These systems range in price from $5-$25,000 or you can get
treatments that range between $50-$100 a session. HBOT that uses
100% oxygen and greater than 1.5 times the atmospheric pressure are
around $200 a session.
HBOT Has Been Shown To:
Assist healing by raising tissue oxygen levels to normal in areas
where they are reduced through illness or injury
Encourage new blood vessels to grow and carry additional blood
Increase the ability of the body’s defense mechanisms to fight
infection and kill bacteria
Help reduce any swelling that may occur around the area.
Any condition which results in inflammation in the body can benefit
from HBOT. HBOT increases the dosage of oxygen and delivers more O2
to damaged areas in the body and stimulates the healing process.
Oxygen is one of the most natural antibiotics and it controls over
8000 genes. A course of 20 sessions of hyperbaric therapy increases
our stem cells eightfold
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HBOT and Brain Disorders:
HBOT has been shown to improve oxygenation, new blood cell formation
(angiogenesis) and new nerve growth (neurogenesis) in the brain (7).
This mechanism explains why HBOT therapy has had such great results
at restoring function in individuals with traumatic brain injuries,
strokes and neurodegenerative conditions like dementia.
There have also been many positive studies about HBOT usage with
Autism (11, 12). One 2009 study looked at 62 children with half
getting slightly pressurized air (1.03 ATM) and the other half
getting mHBOT (1.3 ATM – 24% oxygen) treatments. The study showed
that the children with autism who received hyperbaric treatment for
40 hourly sessions had significant improvements in overall
functioning, receptive language, social interaction, eye contact and
sensory/cognitive awareness compared to children who received
slightly pressurized room air.
HBOT and Radiation Treatment:
HBOT is an acceptable complimentary treatment for cancer patients
undergoing radiation treatment. HBOT has been shown to reduce
inflammation in bones and adjacent tissues where radiotherapy
creates an excess amount of reactive oxygen species (14). It also
helps with the regeneration of blood vessels that are damaged by
radiation.
A 2006 study in Japan involving patients with brain tumors receiving
radiation and chemotherapy experienced much longer survival times
and reduced side effects when using HBOT as a complimentary
treatment (15). Another 2009 study showed extended survival times
and reduced side effects using HBOT with radiation treatment in
patients with glioma tumors.
Cancer Metabolism:
Famous cell biologist and cancer researcher Otto Warburg discovered
that cancer cells have an altered metabolism and are unable to
produce energy through cellular respiration. The mitochondria in
each cell produce the energy that drives the cellular functions.
Under normal circumstances, the majority of energy is derived in the
prescence of oxygen in a process called aerobic metabolism.
Cancer cells have lost this ability to produce energy through the
Krebs Cycle and instead drive all of their energy from substrate
level phosphorylation through glucose fermentation. Other
researchers such as Dr Thomas Seyfried have found that cancer cells
run off of both glucose and amino acid (glutamine) fermentation.
Both of these processes are anaerobic and don’t use oxygen.
Ketogenic Diet and HBOT:
A mouse study using the ketogenic diet alone significantly decreased
blood glucose and slowed tumor progression. This increased the mean
survival time by 56.7% in mice with systemic metastatic cancer. HBOT
therapy with the ketogenic diet increased mean survival time by 77%
and showed significant decreases in blood glucose, tumor growth rate
and improved ketone body metabolism.
The world’s top researchers (Angela M Poff, Csilla Ari, Thomas N
Seyfried and Dr Dominic P DŽAgostino) in ketogenic diet and HBOT
agree that HBOT alone has no effect on cancer growth and
progression. However, when it is combined with the ketogenic diet it
has a significant complementary effect at inhibiting tumor growth
and increasing survival time.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - It's Benefits And Uses
Many Medical Physicians Use HBOT:
“I utilize Hyperbaric Therapy in all stages of cancer; upon
detection, as well as pre and post surgery, pre, post and during
chemo and radiation. In fact if chemotherapy is used in conjunction
with mHBT, the chemotherapy dose must be reduced. The HBOT will
potentate any primary cancer treatment. HBOT is the best cancer
prevention and cancer remission therapy out there, bar none.” US
Doctor, Bergeron, Rhett, MD
By increasing the oxygen environment to the cancer cells, it makes
them less virulent and in many instances destroys them. (Yutsis,
Pavel I., MD, Oxygen to the Rescue)
“A Ketogenic Diet and HBOT produce significant anti-cancer effects
when combined in a natural model of systemic metastatic cancer. Our
evidence that these therapies should be investigated as potential
non-toxic treatments or adjuvant therapies (complementary
therapies).” Dr. Thomas Seyfried
“For the subset of patients who suffer from late effects of
radiation exposure, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is often the only
treatment than can prevent irreversible bone or tissue loss or
enable them to undergo life-improving reconstructive procedures such
as breast or facial surgeries. By offering this therapy, we are able
to provide a better quality of life to patients who have already
survived devastating illnesses.”
Susan Sprau, M.D., Medical Director of UCLA Hyperbaric Medicine
Research has shown that HBO may be helpful when used alongside
cancer treatments (20). HBO treatment may:
Reduce cancer growth.
Improve the delivery of chemotherapy drugs to a tumor.
Result in an increase in the body’s own stem cells. These are blood
cells at the earliest stage of development in the bone marrow.
Because HBO treatment can increase stem cells it may have a role in
stem cell transplantation a treatment sometimes used in
haematological (blood) cancers.
Possible Side Effects of HBOT:
During HBOT, patients may experience ear popping, mild sinus
discomfort or claustrophobia. Other rare side effects include
temporary short-sightedness (myopia) and pulmonary oxygen toxicity.
Very rarely, oxygen toxicity induces seizures.
Most patients do not experience any symptoms immediately after HBOT
and can return to work the day of treatment. Some patients, however,
may experience temporary changes in vision when completing more than
20 HBOT sessions. Contraindications for HBOT include high fever,
untreated seizure disorder and untreated air or gas in the pleural
space of the lung, which causes the lung to collapse (pneumothorax).
Pregnancy is a relative contraindication to HBOT.
Contraindications for HBOT include high fever, untreated seizure
disorder and untreated air or gas in the pleural space of the lung,
which causes the lung to collapse (pneumothorax). Pregnancy is a
relative contraindication to HBOT.
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