Oxygen is the essence of life. Just as much as water is important for life, oxygen is even more important. To put it in perspective, you can live for a few weeks without food, a few days without water but only a few minutes without oxygen, a maximum of five minutes to be precise. So oxygen is extremely important for life and pure oxygen is even more important. Why do we feel so nice during a beach holiday or when we are in a place filled with trees? In fact, yoga and pranayama focus on breathing which is to make the body utilize oxygen to it's best capacity.
Lets face it, we do not have the purest of air around us. Nature has given us an oxygen percentage of 21%. Unfortunately, if you take the percentage of oxygen in air today, it will not be 21 %. What is more important is that the percentage of carbon dioxide is higher due to all the pollution. And when this balance of oxygen to carbon dioxide is altered, the purity of the air is compromised and as a result, the absorption of oxygen in your body is also compromised.
Once the optimum absorption of oxygen is compromised and your body is not getting its due, the wonderful healing and preventing properties of your body are the first to get affected. So what would normally take a few minutes to heal will take a day and what normally takes a day will take a few days and so on. This also applies to the preventing capacities of your body, so your body will not focus on giving you great skin and hair, but use the oxygen for the more important functions.
That is where hyperbaric oxygen, which is delivering pure oxygen under a high pressure which, has extremely good number of benefits. But just sitting in a oxygen parlor is not going to make you healthy. So that is why a number of oxygen paroles shut down after a few months of operations. Oxygen, like other aspects of wellness, is a part of a holistic therapy which focusses on lifestyle issues and together with other lifestyle changes makes a big impact on your wellness goals.
So where does hyperbaric oxygen find its uses? Injured Athletes are very high users of hyperbaric oxygen. Injury healing is a wonderful use of high pressure oxygen. For children, autism has found to improve over a period of time with regular high pressure oxygen. Anti aging is another popular use of high pressure oxygen and there are times when people have suddenly had clear skin and start to look a few years younger after oxygen therapy.
Smokers detox is yet another wonderful use of high pressure oxygen. With a 30% higher pressure, the tissue penetration of oxygen is higher and with the higher pressure, the flushing out of toxins from the lung is better, which is extremely important for a smokers detox. A normal detox also finds place for the use of high pressure oxygen. You can take a book and read or listen to your favorite music or get your acupuncture while inside the oxygen machine, if the particular machine is soft body. In a hard body oxygen chamber, nothing can be taken inside due to fire risk.
Some of our patients very easily ask to be put under high pressure oxygen without being examined. Like every medical procedure, oxygen should be used with caution and should be used only after getting the oxygen therapist's approval.
Going under pure oxygen for about ten days consecutively once a while is a wonderful feeling. But the best benefits for oxygen come when it is combined with a structured detox program or as part of other wellness programs. These are times when your body needs to be prepared to make the best use of oxygen.
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