Mental and Physical Performance Optimization with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy creates a higher level of oxygen in our bloodstream than is otherwise possible. This is due to hyperbaric pressure, driving more oxygen into our circulation. If you’re looking to improve your performance, or just improve how you feel and function throughout the day, hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be able to help.
Optimizing mental and physical performance requires energy, especially for cells in our brain which require constant energy production. To make energy, we need oxygen. High levels of oxygen allow us to create abundant levels of energy that can be used to rebuild, heal, and optimize cellular function. As in life, excess or abundance creates opportunity, and it’s the same in our body. Our brain uses 20% of the oxygen we breathe, which explains how vital it is to brain function. If we can optimize our brain, we can optimize our intelligence, motivation, mood, memory, attention, focus, and coordination needed to navigate through a busy, stressful world.
Common symptoms
There is a wide range of Mental and Physical Performance symptoms, but common symptoms include:
- Fatiguing Quickly
- Memory Reduction
- Mood Changes
- Stress and Anxiety
- Poor Work Performance
- Poor Sleep
- Depressed
- Slow recovery
- Low Motivation
How can hyperbaric oxygen therapy help with Mental and Physical Performance?
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy creates a higher level of oxygen in our bloodstream than is otherwise possible. This is due to hyperbaric pressure, driving more oxygen into our circulation. If you’re looking to improve your performance, or just improve how you feel and function throughout the day, hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be able to help.
Other benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a quickly evolving science and the full benefits are continually being discovered. HBOT increases the amount of oxygen in our bloodstream and increases circulation to deliver abundant amounts of oxygen to the brain, supersaturating our tissue with energy needed for healing, growth, and repair. This creates a healthier environment for our brain to work and control our autonomic nervous system. Because of this, the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be found in all parts of the body and in a wide range of ways. Some benefits can include:
- Faster healing from trauma
- Reduced inflammation
- Increased stem cell release
- Improved brain health
- Detoxification
- Improved autonomic nervous system function
- …and many more
Learn more about the many benefits of HBOT and how it works.
Supporting Research
- Growth of new blood vessels, known as angiogenesis, supplying our brain with long-term, vital nutrients for healing and growth.
- Decreases neuro- inflammation that often hampers neurological processes of healing and function.
- Decreased swelling that occurs after concussion or more severe traumatic brain injuries. This is important for reducing long-term changes that swelling can create as it restricts blood flow.
- Stimulating the release of stem cells and growth factors that promote healing.
- The removal of waste and toxin buildup (i.e. detoxification) by enhancing blood, lymphatic and cerebrospinal flow.
- Improves circulation.
- The strengthening and balancing of autonomic nervous system function, which is involved in our stress and relaxation systems in the body, and whose primary role is to keep a constant, appropriate amount of blood flow to our brain at all times.
- Promoting neuroplasticity, allowing our brain to heal and grow by increasing the density of our brain connection. This improves signaling and processing speed for healthy function within our brain and body.
- Improving cerebrospinal flow which is important for removing toxins and waste from the brain and providing essential nutrients.
- Lengthening of telomeres.
- Reducing senescent cell populations which are associated with aging decline, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and cancer.
Sources
- Chen LF, Tian YF, Lin CH, Huang LY, Niu KC, Lin MT. Repetitive hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides better effects on brain inflammation and oxidative damage in rats with focal cerebral ischemia. J Formos Med Assoc. 2014 Sep;113(9):620-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2014.03.012. Epub 2014 Apr 29. PMID: 24787662.
- Hu S, Li F, Luo H, Xia Y, Zhang J, Hu R, Cui G, Meng H, Feng H. Amelioration of rCBF and PbtO2 following TBI at high altitude by hyperbaric oxygen pre-conditioning. Neurol Res. 2010 Mar;32(2):173-8. doi: 10.1179/174313209X414524. PMID: 20158955.
- Godman CA, Joshi R, Giardina C, Perdrizet G, Hightower LE. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment induces antioxidant gene expression. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Jun;1197:178-83. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05393.x. PMID: 20536847.
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