13/11/2023
Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (mHBOT) is a non-invasive, painless therapy, which involves sitting in a chamber and breathing oxygen in a pressurised environment.
MHBOT is used around the world for medical, wellness and sports related concerns, to help support the body and mind.
Oxygen is vital to every cell in your body. It is required to produce energy, to help fight against infection, and is fundamental to growth, regeneration, and healing. Your body’s natural healing can’t take place without adequate oxygen levels in the body’s tissue.
How mHBOT works
Physicists figured out years ago that a gas under pressure is more likely to dissolve into liquid.
Henry’s Law of Respiration states: “The amount of oxygen dissolved in the body has long been known to be directly proportional to the pressure surrounding the body and the pressure of the air breathed.”
When under pressure, oxygen doesn’t only hook up to red blood cells (the “traditional” way oxygen is delivered to tissues), it also dissolves into the plasma.
When that plasma circulates near dormant or injured tissue, the oxygen in the plasma can, and does, dissolve further into the damaged area than the oxygen that’s attached to the red blood cell in that “traditional” delivery system.
Breathing oxygen under pressures greater than sea level increases the amount of oxygen absorbed by the body.
Pressure
As we all go about our daily lives, the air we’re breathing is made up of nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%) and inert gases (1%). This ‘normal air’ has a weight, which is pulled towards the earth’s centre of gravity, creating pressure. The air pressure we experience is called atmospheric pressure and expressed as a measurement is 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi) at sea level.
How pressure is used
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy uses modern technology to increase the atmospheric pressure around us in a controlled and safe environment.
This increase in pressure is scientifically proven to increase the body’s absorption of greater amounts of oxygen into the bloodstream.
The extra oxygen reacts with glucose in the body to produce ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the principal molecule for storing and transferring energy in cells.
This stored energy can then be used to help improve overall health and vitality.