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Please note that you do NOT need to be a patient to benefit from Hbot.  You can simply call and set up an appointment to experience the benefits of Hbot.  This also applies to NormaTec and SoftWave.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or Hbot, is healthy for us in many ways.  We usually consider the greatest effects to be for those who have inflammation/swelling following trauma or for those wish to use it for a recovery tool after strenuous exercise.  It is also used to aid those who get altitude sickness as enriching the blood with oxygen  helps to reduce the effects of reduced oxygen at high elevations.

A new study, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length and decreases immunosenescence in isolated blood cells : a prospective trial , published by Hacho, et. al. in 2020, has shown that Hbot goes further than common uses in that it actually has direct, anti-aging, and regenerative effects.  These effects are due to its ability to elongate telomeres.

Telomeres are nucleotides that are found at the end of chromosomes.  They serve to maintain DNA stability.  Telomeres shorten during replication (mitosis) as well as due to disease processes, lack of physical activity, obesity, cortical thinning of the brain, diabetes, stress, smoking, inflammation, vitamin deficiency, and oxidative stress (think free radicals).  Being most of us are not functioning at optimal health, it’s easy to see that our telomeres tend to shorten far faster than they should and this process leads to an earlier death.  Telomeres are measured in kilobases, and they tend to be 4-15 kilobases in length.  We lose 20-40 bases per year just due to aging.  However, the aforementioned conditions drastically decay the telomere length.  When telomeres reach a ‘critical length’, cell replication cannot occur and this leads to further cell death.  Studies have shown  that adults with shorter telomere lengths have increased mortality rates.  Simply put: the faster your telomeres shorten, the sooner your death. Continue Reading →