I Tried 60 Days Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (my insane results)

Rampant fraud exists in the hyperbarics industry where companies market soft-shell chambers as delivering equivalent benefits to hard-shell chambers, but there is a significant difference: pressurizing to 1.3 atmospheres does not produce the same therapeutic results as 2.0+ atmospheres

“there's rampant fraud happening in hyperbarics companies and Clinics are selling these soft shell Chambers as getting the same benefit that you can get from a hard shell which is just not the case the issue is there is a significant difference going at 1.3 atmospheres of pressure is not going to get you the same result as 2.0”

HBOT can be a powerful therapeutic intervention when combined with the right diet, lifestyle, and medical intervention, and can save lives or reduce suffering

“I think Hyperbaric can be a powerful therapy if combined with the right diet lifestyle and medical intervention I think it can save a lot of lives but at the very least and a lot of suffering”

A scientific study showed that a 60-session HBOT protocol lengthened telomeres in a population of 400 people

“that's been scientifically showed in a population of 400 people”

Modern hyperbaric chambers use non-rebreather oxygen masks rather than pure oxygen environments, with gas exchange occurring only in the lungs and the mask achieving approximately 99% efficiency in delivering 100% oxygen per breath when fitted properly

“the way that we run and operate our Chambers here at ATX is we actually use the new style of chambers that a lot of even the hospitals are retrofitting their Chambers to work this way is that we've learned that gas exchange only occurs in the lungs we use a non-rebreather oxygen mask so that's about 99 efficient at delivering 100 auction on breath if it's fitted properly”

Dr. Womack states that the speaker's telomere lengthening of 0.1 kbp is not particularly significant in absolute terms because the speaker is young and there is 'just not that much to lengthen', but emphasizes that other aging markers showed more pronounced reversals

“now this isn't that significant of a difference but she assured me that because I was young there's just not that much to lengthen the more significant anti-aging marker was the Dundon pace which slowed down from 0.86 to 0.8”

Oxygen is a powerful anti-inflammatory, and placing extra oxygen into the mitochondria reduces systemic inflammation while increasing ATP production, which is the cellular fuel and currency that every cellular process relies on

“oxygen is a powerful anti-inflammatory and so now you're reducing systemic inflammation but you're also putting extra oxygen into the mitochondria of the cell and the mitochondria is known as the PowerHouse of the cell and it creates ATP and ATP is like the fuel of life it's the currency of your body it's every single cellular process relies on ATP”

The speaker experienced long COVID in 2020 that progressed to Hashimoto's autoimmune condition within 30 days, causing severe symptoms including 10-pound weight loss, panic attacks, memory loss, and vision loss in right eye over two years

“I was very motivated in 2020 I got sick from this thing that shut down the world and at first it seemed fine it was just like a mild cold and then quickly things began to escalate 30 days later I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition called Hashimoto's and my body started to shut down I lost 10 pounds I started having panic attacks I was forgetting where I was and I was starting to lose the vision in my right eye over the course of the next two years”

Before HBOT protocol, the speaker's telomere age (46 years) was significantly older than their chronological age (29 years), indicating 17 years of additional biological aging in telomere length due to accumulated damage during the long COVID crisis

“during this crisis we're looking at your telomeres and your telomere age at that time during this crisis was you're 29 years old but your age of your telomeres which are the little things at the end of your DNA that hold you together and keep you from accelerated aging we're at 46 years old so you had the shortening of your telomeres”

A baby named Elijah experienced cardiac arrest for 43 minutes causing severe brain damage and was pronounced brain dead, but recovered through daily hyperbaric oxygen therapy sessions, with a physician funding and coordinating the treatment

“Elijah is a baby whose heart stopped for 43 minutes because he went without oxygen for so long he accrued a massive amount of brain damage and as a result was basically pronounced brain dead the doctors told sayum and Alicia that they had two options either one they could leave them on life support almost indefinitely Or number two they could just unplug him and basically let him go somehow Through the Grapevine Sam had heard about this family and what was going on he flew the family out on his own dime put them up and put the baby in the chamber and started to do sessions every day with him kept doing sessions day after day after day and little by little he started to get better and better and better”

After an HBOT session in the morning followed by gym training later in the day, the speaker achieved personal records (PR) in five lifts during one workout, suggesting HBOT enhances physical performance and recovery capacity

“I wrapped up a training session at the gym and finished putting in all my sets and Reps and weight and something that I noticed is that I pr'd five times this workout I think that has a lot to do with it I did a hyperbaric session this morning if I do a session in the morning and then I train later in the day my lifts seemingly go a lot higher”

After completing the 60-session HBOT protocol, benefits are most pronounced between sessions 50-60, making those later sessions 'big game changers' and justifying commitment to the full 60 sessions rather than shorter protocols like 40 sessions

“between 50 and 60 sessions big difference game changers so if you're considering it and thinking that this might be something good for you then I would sign up for 60 sessions as opposed to 40. the benefit has been way better for me in the late 50s”

The speaker's main resistance to committing to the 60-session HBOT protocol was the time investment, but discovered that the chamber sessions became an opportunity for undisturbed deep work: they could not take meetings or phone calls, so they worked productively for the full 1-2 hour sessions with mental clarity better than ever before

“my biggest resistance to committing to the 60 session protocol was time it is a lot of time but I started to realize as I did more and more chamber sessions that it was the perfect opportunity to do completely undisturbed deep work I couldn't do any meetings or talk on the phone so I ended up most of the time just working for the two hours that was inside the chamber and I also produced great work during that time because my mind was clearer than it's ever been when I was breathing in that pure oxygen”

The speaker spent over $100,000 on various doctors, treatments, protocols, therapies, and coaches over two years to recover from long COVID complications, and partially recovered but did not fully return to pre-illness baseline

“over the course of the next two years I spent over a hundred thousand dollars on different doctors treatments protocols therapies coaches anything and everything I could get my hands on to get my life back and slowly but surely it did start to come back I'm in pretty good shape now but I was still having some nagging symptoms and if I'm being honest I never truly returned to how I felt before”