Dear Friend,
Since you were very young, you’ve known a simple truth . . .
Oxygen means life.
In fact, oxygen provides your primary source of energy. All the cells in your body need an adequate amount of this precious gas to survive and function normally.
Oxygen also performs medical miracles when it comes to healing.
You probably know that scuba divers who suffer decompression sickness (“the bends”) go to special oxygen chambers for treatment.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, abbreviated as HBOT, serves two purposes for these divers who ascend too quickly from a dive. First, it helps eliminate excess harmful nitrogen bubbles from their blood and tissues.
And as an additional benefit, this pressurized oxygen encourages body cells to repair themselves more efficiently.
For hundreds of years, attempts have been made to use oxygen therapeutically. However, it was only in the 1950s that doctors realized HBOT could effectively treat the life-threatening wounds of gas gangrene.
Hyperbaric medicine finally gained full recognition when researchers found it effective to treat occupational and recreational scuba divers who developed the bends.
Yet this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the many uses of oxygen therapy.