Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) at my clinic

Current data has shown that Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can assist in recovering from illness, injury or surgery, slow the aging process (Israeli study see below), ease chronic disorders, increase mental acuity and boost aerobic performance and recovery.  Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a safe, effective method of vastly increasing oxygen delivery to your fluids, cells, tissues & organs. You need OXYGEN more than anything!

Our spacious Hyperbaric Chambers are safe, effective, cool and comfortable.  Each session is approximately 1 hour.  Call 408-314-0758 to see if HBOT is right for you, what to wear and what to expect.   When you arrive, you will be thoroughly evaluated and educated on certain safety features.  If approved, we ask that you take a break from your electronics, enter the cool comfort of the chamber, close your eyes, relax and breathe.  The pressure and the oxygen will do the rest.  

Sessions are $120 per hour, $180 for 90 minutes or  $1,530 for a 15-pack.  

Some insurance companies cover HBOT for certain conditions.

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However . . .

Purchasing a Hyperbaric Chamber and an Oxygen Concentrator may be the best option for you and your family:❤

One of our deluxe Hyperbaric Chambers + a High-power, High-purity, 10 Liter-Per-Minute Oxygen Concentrator will provide a wonderful service for you and your family for decades.

And they are economically priced:

$9,900 + shipping*  for 32" diameter, 1.41  ATA  (6 psi) Chamber, Compressor, Frame and Mattress

$10,800 + shipping* for 36" diameter, 1.41 ATA (6 psi) Chamber, Compressor, Frame and Mattress

$1,500 + shipping*  for High-Purity, High-Powered Oxygen Concentrator (+/- 96% purity at 10 lpm & 20 psi) - made in the USA with easily replaceable parts.

* International Shipping:  Shipping costs to destinations outside the US are via DHL International and vary accordingly.  Customers are responsible for shipping to and (in the event of customs refusal) from your destination; as well as all import tariffs. 

See Details below

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CHAMBER DESCRIPTION:

Size: 32  inch diameter x 86 inch long or 36 inch diameter x 86 inch long                                                              

Pressure:  1.3 ATA (4 psi) or 1.41. ATA (6 psi).

Materials:   Body - 44oz Medical Grade, TPU with embedded Dacron fibers.  This material was developed by NASA for use in their early space suits.      Frame - Heat coated, steel, foldable and portable using plastic "Quick Connects".  Components - Pressured gauges, inside and outside, 3 heavy duty zippers, one large and two small ultrasonically welded, long lasting portal windows.      Safety Features - Emergency pressure release button;  high-flowthrough regulator valves that continuously remove all gases and moisture  from the entire chamber to eliminate excess oxygen buildup and mitigate the need for dehumidifiers or carbon dioxide scrub.   The air that fills the chamber is triple-filtered to prevent any bacteria, fungus, virus or pollutants to enter.      Comfort Features -  Double memory-foam mattress, specially lined to wick moisture away from your body.  Easily fits two people (36 inch).  Chamber body material (see above)  is translucent, providing a soft, blue-white glow inside with plenty of light to read a book. 

CONCENTRATOR  DESCRIPTION: (also see photo above)

Brand: Big Bue O2

Output pressure:  20 psi

Oxygen Purity:  +/-96% continuous 

Flow Rate:  10 Liters per Minute

Filters:  Particulate and Bacterial

Wheels:  4 easy-roll, multi-directional wheels

Human aging process biologically reversed by HBOT

by Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph.  Wed, November 18, 2020, 7:39 AM PST

      The aging process has been biologically reversed for the first time by giving humans oxygen therapy in a pressurized chamber (HBOT).

Scientists in Israel showed they could turn back the clock in two key areas of the body believed to be responsible for the frailty and ill-health that comes with growing older.

As people age, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes – called telomeres – shorten, causing DNA to become damaged and cells to stop replicating. At the same time, "zombie" senescent cells build up in the body, preventing regeneration. Increasing telomere length and getting rid of senescent cells is the focus of many anti-aging studies, and drugs are being developed to target those areas. [Some natural products are already available, such as Niagen™.]

Now scientists at Tel Aviv University have shown that giving high purity oxygen to older people while in a hyperbaric chamber increased the length of their telomeres by 20 per cent, a feat that has never been achieved before. 

Scientists said the growth may mean that the telomeres of trial participants were now as long as they had been 25 years earlier! 

The therapy also reduced senescent cells (cells that have aged and approaching self-destruction known as apoptosis) by up to 37 per cent, making way for new healthy cells to regrow. Animal studies have shown that removing senescent cells extends remaining life by more than one-third.

"Since telomere shortening is considered the 'Holy Grail' of the biology of aging, many pharmacological and environmental interventions are being extensively explored in the hopes of enabling telomere elongation," said Professor Shai Efrati of the Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University.

"The significant improvement of telomere length shown during and after these unique protocols provides the scientific community with a new foundation of understanding that aging can indeed be targeted and reversed at the basic cellular-biological level."

Many scientists now believe aging itself is responsible for major conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. 

It is also known that obesity, smoking, lack of physical activity, vitamin deficiency and inflammation can speed up the shortening of telomeres, demonstrating that they have a major impact on longevity.

The trial included 35 healthy, independent adults aged 64 and older who did not undergo any lifestyle, diet or medication adjustments. Each patient was placed in a hyperbaric chamber for 90 minutes for five days a week over three months while breathing 100 per cent oxygen through a mask.  The pressurized chamber allows more oxygen to be dissolved into the tissues and (reverses) a state of "hypoxia", or oxygen shortage, which (increased oxygenation) is known to have regenerating effects. 

Previous trials have shown that eating a healthy diet can preserve telomere length, while high-intensity training for six months has been proven to lengthen telomeres by up to five per cent. 

The Israeli team has also previously demonstrated that the pressurized oxygen therapy can improve cognitive decline.  "Until now, interventions such as lifestyle modifications and intense exercise were shown to have some inhibition effect on the expected telomere length shortening," said Dr Amir Hadanny, chief medical research officer of The Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research.  "However, what is remarkable to note in our study is that, in just three months of (HBOT) therapy, we were able to achieve such significant telomere elongation – at rates far beyond any of the current available interventions or lifestyle modifications. "With this pioneering study, we have opened a door for further research on the prolonged cellular impact of the (HBOT) therapy to reverse the aging process. After dedicating our research to exploring its impact on the areas of brain functionality and age-related cognitive decline, we have now uncovered, for the first time in humans, biological effects at the cellular level in healthy aging adults."                                                                                        The research was published in the journal Aging.

Traumatic Brain Injury and Hyperbaric Oxygen  

by Michelle Faber with Dr. Timothy Jennings Edited by Dr. Thomas Antone, January 2021

In 2015, the Will Smith film Concussion, which depicts Dr. Bennet Omalu’s struggle to uncover the truth about brain damage to football players, brought international attention to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and its long-term complications. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), there were 2.5 million TBI-related emergency room visits in 2014 — 812,000 children were treated for TBI-related head injuries & 275,000 deaths (EDHD). As this trend continues, these numbers are even higher now - by approximately 50,000 ER visits. See CDC chart (ref #10).

While the brain sits inside the hard, bony case of the skull, it is soft, more so than an over-ripe banana. This makes it vulnerable to rapid acceleration and deceleration injuries, aka concussions, which occur when the brain impacts the skull with a force sufficient to cause bruising. At each point of injury, local swelling, bleeding, and even neuronal arrest and/or death can occur. Over the following hours and days, inflammation develops around the bruised area, just like injuries do elsewhere in the body. Since the skull is inflexible, the swelling pushes inward on the brain, reducing blood flow and extending the damage further. This happens across the brain, adjacent to the injury and causes impairments over a much larger area; moreover, neurons in this expanded area may be damaged and unable to carry out their functions. They may not die, but they will exist in an inactive or stunned state, basically not functioning for an indefinite period of time - waiting to be ‘awakened’, often in vain.

The immediate injury may cause loss of consciousness, or the injured parties may just feel stunned and briefly lose track of what is happening around them. They also may have an initial headache and some confusion, which in ‘very mild’ TBI can improve over the next several hours or days.

Long-term Consequences of TBI     

Let’s now look at how symptoms often develop after a more severe TBI: As more inflammation develops, more serious symptoms can increase, peaking over the next one to two weeks. These include headache; a confusion often described as “brain fog”; nausea; irritability, emotional lability & being easily overwhelmed; sensitivity to light and sound; impaired concentration, memory, and problem-solving; difficulty multitasking; struggles with visual stimulation and eye-tracking, such as processing information from computer or TV screens; and severe fatigue - all also indicative of a PTSD. Symptoms typically plateau then may slowly improve over several months. Unfortunately, this gradual improvement isn’t always the case. Many symptoms are ongoing. When MRI brain scans reveal no gross destruction of brain matter, this type of injury is often referred to as “mild” TBI. However, functional scans (fMRI, PET, SPECT) will demonstrate gross impairment of blood flow and metabolism in the affected areas. These impairments - including abnormal neuronal activity - may persist for years, resulting in chronic impairments to brain function with the continuation of associated symptoms - described above.

These persistent symptoms can lead to further life problems, such as loss of one’s job and resulting financial problems, relationship troubles, loss of self-esteem and/or confidence, mood dysregulation, and other, rather disturbing mental health problems. Common causes of TBI include anything that produces a blow to the head, such as: falls (most head injuries are due to falls); being struck by or against an object; and motor-vehicle accidents. Other common causes include cycling accidents, sports injuries, combat injuries (explosions) and surfing.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for TBI

Recently, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is demonstrating that it provides considerable improvement in people suffering from TBI, even several years after the injuries occurred. HBOT is the intake of oxygen (O2) at higher-than-atmospheric concentrations and pressures for the treatment of injury or disease. HBOT was first used in the 1930s to treat decompression sickness in divers (commonly known as “the bends”). Many divers then reported the resolution of chronic health issue they had. The American FDA currently approves 13 uses, including: Gas gangrene, air embolism, osteomyelitis, radiation necrosis, diabetic ulcers, and the aforementioned decompression sickness. These are by no means all there is to this therapy. Current scientific evidence suggests that HBOT can permanently and dramatically improve symptoms of chronic TBI, even if treatment is received years after the initial head injury. Understanding the physiologic effects of HBOT gives insight as to why its therapeutic benefits are so effective.

While breathing room air (21% O2 & 78% N2) at sea level (1 atmosphere or 1 ATA = 14.696 psi), about 97 percent of the total inhaled oxygen (with a negative charge) is transferred to the blood by the lungs, bound to hemoglobin (with a positive charge) while only 3 percent dissolves into the blood serum (plasma - neutral charge). By the time this oxygen diffuses through the tissues, into the cells, and reaches the mitochondria (energy producing organelles inside the cells), only trace amounts are available. HBOT’s main function is to temporarily super-saturate body tissues with an oxygen solution. HBOT delivering +/- 95% O2 at 1.3 ATA (4.4 psi) increases dissolved oxygen in the serum by seven-fold. (HBOT delivering 95% O2 at 1.41 ATA (6 psi) increases dissolved oxygen in the serum by more than a factor of 9.) Body tissues outside the circulatory system will thereby experience a commensurate total increase in oxygen concentration and distribution by infusion.

Warning: If a hyper-oxygenated state is maintained for long periods or repeated frequently with 100% oxygen, it can cause significant oxidative damage to the body tissues, undermining any health benefits. The culprit in this damage is something called ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species). Excess ROS can lead to cellular injury in the form of damaged DNA, lipids and proteins. Thus, long periods of HBOT are harmful. However, short, 60-90 minute ‘pulses’ of HBOT will trigger a variety of healing processes without overwhelming the body’s antioxidant systems.

Current known health-inducing responses from HBOT:

Stimulation of powerful anti-inflammatory processes, reduction of edema, increased blood perfusion, new blood vessel (capillary) growth, improved immune response, enhancement of the body’s antioxidant system, improved bone-marrow-stemcell activity, improved growth and repair of neuronal axons, and modulation of thousands of genes involved in cellular growth and repair.

Just as with any medicinal dosing, while the right dose can heal, too much medicine can harm. With TBI, too large of a dose of HBOT can worsen the condition. Dose is determined by pressure, time and oxygen purity. High-pressure HBOT of 2.0 ATA (29 psi) with 100% pure O2 is very effective for infections but can worsen TBI.  After several decades of research, it has been determined that TBI is best treated with lower pressures, +/- 95% O2 and session time-limits within 60-90 min each.

The recommended HBOT protocol for TBI is currently one or more blocks of 40, 1-hour sessions at pressures between at 1.3 ATA (4.4 psi) and 1.5 ATA (7.3 psi). There are numerous case reports of individuals who have suffered through post-TBI symptoms for decades, and who, prior to HBOT, had SPECT scans showing decreased perfusion in multiple brain regions. SPECT scans after HBOT showed normal perfusion and a marked improvement in function. These patients also report significant improvements in concentration, emotional stability, ability to multitask and increases in short and long-term memory.  HBOT is not FDA-approved for TBI treatment. This is due to the fact that it has not yet been possible to develop a ‘sham’ treatment for it and, thus, no double-blind, placebo-controlled trials have been done to demonstrate its effectiveness over a placebo. Because HBOT is not FDA approved for TBI, many insurance companies will not pay for it.  However, as of 2020, Blue Cross & Blue Shield have been known to pay, in some circumstances, such as Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.  Ask your doctor to verify coverage for your diagnosis.

It is our opinion that if you or someone you love has suffered a TBI - recently or in the past - and struggles with functional impairments, including PTSD, we recommend you speak with your healthcare provider about a trial of HBOT and begin treatments immediately.

🚩Lastly - You may encounter people online declaring that you don't need to have high-purity oxygen delivered to you during HBOT and that you "just need to breathe the room air that fills the chamber"!  👀    

       First, they're missing the "O" for Oxygen in HBOT.🤷🏻‍♂️   Second, there's the matter of science:  As stated, repeatedly above, sea-level air contains about 21% Oxygen and 78% Nitrogen (N2).  If you subject yourself to the increased 'partial pressure' of 78% N2 in a Hyperbaric Chamber with only 21% oxygen, you're pushing that N2 into all your cells as a solution.  This can be harmful to your gastro-intestinal lining and may cause stomach upset and headaches. Why bother spending thousands on Hyperbaric Oxygen  treatments with minimal benefit and possible harm?!  Pay no attention to those people & stay with the science. √    

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References: 1- Goderez, B., Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Psychiatric Times, Vol. 36, Iss. 5, May, 28, 2019. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/treatmenttraumatic- brain-injury-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy.   2 - Harch PG, Andrews SR, Fogarty EF, et.al. A phase I study of low-pressure hyperbaric oxygen therapy for blast-induced post-concussion syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. J Neurotrauma. 2012;29:168-185.  3 - Efrati S, Ben-Jacob E. How and why hyperbaric oxygen therapy can bring new hope for children suffering from cerebral palsy: an editorial perspective. Undersea Hyperbaric Med. 2014;41:71-74.  4 - Harch, P. Hyperbaric oxygen in chronic traumatic brain injury: oxygen, pressure, and gene therapy. Med Gas Res. 2015;5:9.   5 - Harch P, Mccullough V. The Oxygen Revolution. Hobart, NY: Hatherleigh Press; 2010.   6 - Mukherjee A, Raison M, Sahni T, et.al. Intensive rehabilitation combined with HBO2 therapy in children with cerebral palsy: a controlled longitudinal study. Undersea Hyperbaric Med. 2014;41:77-85.   7 - Harch PG, Fogarty EF. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for Alzheimer’s dementia with positron emission tomography imaging: a case report. Med Gas Res. 2018:8:181-184.  8 -Jain KK. Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine. New York, NY: Springer International Publishing AG; 2017: 345-348.  9 - Newsome/Melton: Traumatic Brain Injury Statistics, https://www.brainandspinalcord.org/braininjury- statistics/  10- CDC - TBI-related Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths (EDHDs) https:// www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/data/tbi-edhd.html

⫸  Post-Acute COVID Syndrome and Post Vaccine Syndrome 

After recovering from COVID-19, some patients experience ongoing symptoms preventing them from feeling normal, often with loss of taste or smell, headaches, dizziness and other symptoms. The CDC reports up to 35 percent of those infected endure symptoms lasting beyond three weeks or longer - up to months and years. These COVID "long-haulers" fear they may never get better. Other symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, fatigue, body aches, joint pain, difficulty sleeping, brain fog and gastrointestinal issues. These symptoms are eerily similar to Chronic Lyme Disease, a condition that affects thousands of people every year. In fact, some doctors think that many of these people may be suffering from a tick-borne disease that was kicked into 'high gear' by the COVID virus. Either way, HBOT can help because HBOT resolves inflamation, the aggravating factor of these symptoms.

Note: If you have recovered from COVID - or -  you suffer from post-vaccine complications - and now test Negative, call now for a series of sessions at my Los Gatos, California clinic. 408-314-0758. OR, invest in your health with the purchase of a Hyperbaric Oxygen System. Scroll back up for further information.

Why Advanced Chiropractic Care?

People around the world are turning away from a medical model that is often represented by a brief doctor encounter resulting in a drug prescription. They are lookimg for someone that will listen - someone who will provide meaningful care. They are turning to Chiropractic Health Care.  Chiropractic Doctors are trained as "Portal of Entry Physicians".  If a Chiropractic Doctor feels that a patient's presenting problems are beyond the care he/she can provide, that patient is referred to someone who is more qualified to resolve  their health issues.  

By offering "Advanced Chiropractic Care", I am stating that I approach each patient as a unique individual, based upon their needs; that I employ the latest, high-tech physiotherapy modalities to assist in the resolution and healing of the issues presented; and, I perform spinal adjustments with my hands, positively, gently and effectively.  You will never get the "wham-bam-outa-here" 5 minute "back cracking" generic, minimal treatment that is touted as Chiropractic Care by far too many doctors.  My mentor once said, "I could teach a chimp to do that - it's not being a doctor!"

And, at my clinic, you only pay as you go - NO PRE-PAY CONTRACTS – EVER!  My goal is to assist you - as quickly as possible - in becoming more healthy than you've ever been so that once your presenting problems have been resolved, you only need me for an occasional check-up/tune-up/health boost.

So, find a way to get to me... 

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