Oxygen Therapy or Training
Oxygen Therapy or Training? BOTH, depending.
Oxygen Therapy is mostly intended to support people with health issues. It is used for people who are unable or unwilling to exercise during oxygen administration. Administration of the oxygen is intended to support or treat a specific medical condition. The medical issue that invites treatment normally prevents this person from exertion or exercise during oxygen administration.
A hyperbaric chamber is an example of Oxygen Therapy; a person resting in a single or multiple-person hyperbaric chamber. Hyperbaric therapy is medically acknowledged for 14 medical conditions. Hyperbaric chambers are normally used with the intent to treat a specific medical condition.
The mechanism of action is external pressure. Pressure diffuses or soaks oxygen into the person's body proportional to the pressure created by the chamber. The effect is transient because when the pressure releases, extra oxygen is utilized or diffuses out of the body.
The mechanism of action is passive - no activity by the user is required. The person cannot exercise in the hyperbaric because there isn't room inside most chambers.
There are three risk factors with hyperbaric:
- The absence of exertion can permit imbalances in respiratory gas exchange in CO2 and O2. Problems are rare - but can occur in extremely health compromised individuals.
- Too rapid increases or decreases in pressure can cause pain or injury in air-compartments in the body specifically the ears or lungs. Users should not hold their breath during depressurization, just like divers should exhale during ascent.
- Nitrogen dissolves into the blood. Medical hyperbaric users are usually advised not to travel by air for 24 hours to avoid the bends.
What really is “therapy”?
That said, breathing oxygen while resting or exercise can also be considered therapy depending on the goal or attitude of the breather. eg: walking uphill in the forest can be therapeutic. In this case the key is the extra oxygen combined with gentle to extreme movement.
Oxygen Training uses oxygen to increase the natural physiological effects of exercise.
The effects of training are a result of the combination of exertion and high Mega-FlowTM oxygen. The exertion increases the natural processes that transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissue to increase the amount of oxygen in the tissue. The results are the product of the physiological activation from the exercise and the amount of oxygen delivered to the tissue.
There is no chance of CO2 / O2 imbalance because exertion increases CO2 and activates the vascular system to move oxygen from the lungs.
In his Oxygen Multistep Therapy a body of comprehensive research surrounding oxygen training, Doctor von Ardenne discovered what he described as a “positive feedback loop” with a “reversible switching mechanism” taking place in the endothelial cells of the capillaries. From this viewpoint von Ardenne provides clinically significant protocols for the optimal reversal and thus deconstruction of the positive feedback loop that is typically associated with the decline of health.
The positive feedback loop that doctor von Ardenne describes is locked in continual progression towards the decline of the cardiovascular system and the work capacity of the body. A multitude of factors affect this cardiovascular and health decline, but it is known that middle age marks the start of a noticeable increase of this functional decline.
In positive feedback loops the rate of the process always continues to accelerate until the system produces an event. In this case, the event is ultimately death, but even that is preceded by any number of health consuming events. While this sounds grim, the most significant information from his research is that the endothelial switching mechanism is dynamic in most cases and reversible.
He proved there is a clear and defined window of time where the functional decline is occurring prior to disease, as well as certain threshold of oxygen training that when accomplished and maintained can result in complete or significant reversal of the capillary information. Through clinical observation and research, the key to this switching mechanism, affecting the narrowest cross section of the microcirculation, is the partial pressure of oxygen in the body. Pressure that is INCREASED via exercise.
This is intended to enable users to:
Optimize strength training: The high oxygen selection enables the user to exert at elevated intensities enabled by rich oxygen mixture.
Accelerate training affects: Post Sprint recovery with rich oxygen enables users to quickly recover from sprints for rapid fire training which produces more results in less time to maximize and maintain tissue oxygen levels.
Exercise is well understood and accepted to increase the amount of oxygen delivered to a tissue. Increased oxygen from exercise is well documented to optimize energetic performance of tissue.
Exercise is well understood to improve the structure and function of tissue because it Increases the oxygen concentration to the brain and other organs.
The energetic performance of tissue directly governs health as resistant to disease and to accelerate recovery and healing.
Most users experience more optimal brain function regardless of injury or disease history. Therapy wise improved function normally becomes measurable within one week for individuals sufficiently able bodied to use this exercise program.
So call it what you want but Turbo Oxygen Enhanced Exercise and Rest can BOTH accelerate training affects and therapeutic results.
