Since nearly 100 years, doctors have utilized hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as an effective remedy to decompression sickness in deep-sea divers and carbon monoxide poisoning. HBOT involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber at higher than usual atmospheric pressures to fill your body’s blood with the elemental gas and restore balance to its levels.
Scientists from Tel Aviv University discovered that oxygen therapy in this pressurized chamber reverses two key biological clocks associated with adult aging – such as lengthening the telomeres at the ends of chromosomes and decreasing accumulation of senescent cells.
Boosts Energy Levels
Human bodies are complex machines that convert oxygen and food into energy that fuel cells that heal wounds, protect our immune systems, and keep us active and alert. Oxygen also assists the brain’s ability to think clearly, process information efficiently and provide mental clarity – this makes ensuring sufficient levels of oxygen remain present always essential to ensuring a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
Hypoxia (insufficient oxygen supply) has long been associated with the aging process and age-related disease, according to researchers. Low oxygen availability has been shown to contribute to tissue and organ deterioration by inducing oxidative stress, leading to degradation of DNA, speeding cell senescence rates up, disrupting nutrient sensing systems and disrupting cell communication channels.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical practice in which individuals breathe pure oxygen within a pressurized chamber. This therapy has been proven to effectively treat carbon monoxide poisoning and dive sickness; furthermore, studies have also demonstrated its anti-aging benefits.
This ground-breaking research has demonstrated that repeated sessions of HBOT can lead to substantial improvements in telomere length and reduction of senescent cells within the body – suggesting it reverses biological markers of aging at both cellular level and brain level.
These anti-aging effects are made possible through natural body healing processes and the release of oxygen-rich metabolites during hyperbaric chamber treatments, thereby stimulating increased cell growth and repair as well as multipotent stem cell proliferation. Individuals who undergo this form of treatment report improved cognitive performance as well as an increase in peak energy levels.
Reduces Inflammation
Inflammation is at the root of many conditions and diseases, including age-related decline. It damages cells, tissues and organs as well as leading to oxidative stress; HBOT has been proven to both decrease inflammation and decrease oxidative stress while increasing blood and tissue oxygen levels thus strengthening our bodies natural defense mechanisms against aging, degenerative diseases and cell damage.
Scientists are hard at work searching for ways to prevent and treat the effects of aging, with recent breakthroughs including hyperbaric oxygen therapies’ ability to actually reverse biological markers of aging that no pill, cream, or treatment has managed. One such treatment called “telomere elongation” appears to be at the core of this success story.
Telomeres are structures that protect chromosomes from degradation and fusion, but with age comes shortening of these protective telomeres that cause degradation and eventually cell death. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy may increase telomere length while eliminating any associated senescent cells associated with age.
Shai Efrati of Tel Aviv University and Sagol Center of Hyperbaric Medicine and Research found that an intensive protocol using repeated hyperbaric oxygen therapy sessions significantly extended telomere length while simultaneously decreasing senescent cells among elderly participants, as part of an extensive Israeli program dedicated to studying age as reversible phenomenon.
This study employed 60 daily HBOT sessions. By 30th session, both telomere length and number of senescent cells had decreased significantly compared to baseline measurements, showing HBOT’s unparalleled ability to extend telomeres and eliminate senescent cells as an intervention or lifestyle change.
Hyperbaric therapy not only increases telomere length and decreases accumulation of senescent cells, but it also stimulates angiogenesis (growth of new blood vessels), reduces oxidative stress, strengthens antioxidant defenses, and activates stem cells – providing individuals with benefits like faster thinking speed, increased vitality and less pain with age.
Strengthens the Immune System
Aging can be caused by many factors, including cell senescence, DNA damage, mitochondrial dysfunction and chronic inflammation. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), a treatment in which pure oxygen is inhaled in a pressurized chamber, is one way to reverse many of these adverse conditions and improve overall health and strength your immunity while slowing or even reversing aging processes. This therapy may strengthen immunity while slowing or even reversing them and improving overall wellbeing.
Contrary to other anti-aging treatments such as young plasma transfusion and stem cell grafts, HBOT is noninvasive and highly effective. Furthermore, it may provide other health benefits through various biological pathways.
Recent research demonstrated how HBOT may reverse two hallmarks of human cell aging. Researchers observed an increase in telomere length and decrease in senescent cells; for the first time ever this type of intervention reverses signs of aging in human cells; this research is part of an effort to study reversible aspects of the aging process.
Preclinical studies have demonstrated that HBOT can effectively address numerous cellular and molecular processes associated with the aging process, including cellular senescence, loss of telomeres, DNA mutations, mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress. HBOT can also reduce reactive oxygen species production (ROS), improve energy metabolism of cells, inhibit pro-inflammatory signaling pathways, increase antioxidative enzymes levels and even stimulate angiogenesis.
HBOT therapy may also assist in combatting immunosenescence, an essential step toward slowing immune aging that contributes to chronic diseases and early death. This is accomplished by stimulating nave T lymphocyte proliferation and increasing expression of anti-ageing genes within the thymus gland via upregulation of Nrf2, an activator which activates expression of numerous antioxidative and angiogenic genes.
Reduces Pain
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments have the power to slow and even reverse signs of aging in our bodies, through cellular rejuvenation – this process helps reduce pain, strengthen immunity systems and boost beauty – which makes hyperbaric oxygen therapy essential for anyone looking to live longer, healthier lives.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Shamir Medical Center recently conducted a joint study, concluding that oxygen therapy in a pressurized chamber could successfully reverse two biological markers associated with aging: shortening of telomeres that protect chromosome ends, as well as accumulation of old or malfunctioning cells known as “senescent cells.”
While scientists have made great strides towards slowing the aging process, recent results indicate it may even be possible to completely reverse cellular aging – an amazing breakthrough and major step towards finding cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has long been used to treat various illnesses and injuries, such as carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression sickness and chronic wounds that won’t heal. Furthermore, hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides great therapy for divers and astronauts navigating hostile environments in both space and the deep ocean.
HBOT can have rejuvenating effects by increasing oxygen levels up to 10 times more than usual in the bloodstream, leading to an increase in stem cell production responsible for repairing damaged tissue as well as increased regeneration processes in the body. This increases oxygen levels 10x more quickly than normal which stimulates regeneration processes while increasing overall stem cell production by stimulating stem cells production.
Regular users of HBOT experience reduced pain, improved memory, increased energy levels and stronger bones and joints as well as an overall sense of wellbeing. These results demonstrate the anti-ageing benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy are real and can be achieved without expensive medication, surgeries or injections. If you want to boost your health and longevity today contact Aviv Clinics and schedule your hyperbaric oxygen therapy session now.
