Hyperbaric therapy increases atmospheric pressure to force oxygen into your bloodstream, potentially up to 1,200% more. The speaker claims it can improve stroke recovery even years after the event, reverse post-concussion symptoms, and may help Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients.
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So hyperbaric therapy, it's the increase in atmospheric pressure combined with increased inspired oxygen. We carry oxygen typically on red blood cells and then oxygen gets to our tissues and then it helps you make ATP or your cellular energy currency. Now we have a certain amount of oxygen carrying capacity relegated to how many red blood cells we have in circulation. If you add pressure, that pressure changes your physiology and allows oxygen to drive into the plasma or the liquid of your bloodstream, getting up to 1,200% more oxygen in. What's that going to do if you have tissue that's at risk of dying? If you can get more oxyge that tissue faster, it may not die. Decreasing inflammation, reversing low oxygen states. Stem cell release, it's an anti infective. There's a study that was done three months to three years post stroke, people getting significantly better even three years after a stroke, which is just unheard of. With people that have post concussive syndrome, which this is people three months or longer after a concussive episode, we see people with reversal of symptoms a year later. There is some evidence that hyperbaric therapy can be effective in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's associated dementia patients as well as.
