Autoimmunity, Cancer Risk & the Oxygen Therapy That Saved Him
In this German‑language interview, the speaker recounts a decade‑long struggle with autoimmune arthritis diagnosed in 2010 and the subsequent use of immunosuppressive drugs. While the medications initially alleviated symptoms, they eventually lost efficacy and contributed to a serious adverse effect: a melanoma on the speaker’s shoulder, highlighting the known cancer risk of long‑term immunosuppression. Faced with a stark choice—continue drugs and risk fatal cancer or stop them and risk death from the autoimmune disease—the speaker sought alternatives. In 2016, an alternative‑medicine practitioner suggested two possible paths: hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) or a regimen combining intensive sport and increased oxygen intake. The narrative captures the speaker’s frustration with conventional medicine, the fear of cancer, and the hope placed in oxygen‑focused therapies as a potential way to restore immune balance without the severe side‑effects of drugs.
