HBOT and Conventional Cancer Treatment

If you or someone you know were diagnosed with cancer, and now you're scheduled to go through radiation therapy, one of the most common therapies for cancer. Watch this video because it might change how you approach radiation. Radiation can be quite effective at killing tumor cells and it's widely used for many types of tumors, but it comes with side effects. Side effects of radiation are called radiation injury, essentially it's a burn to surrounding tissues and symptoms usually appear several months after the radiation treatment is finished and could be quite debilitating. They range from pain and inflammation and they can go to complete loss of function of the organ. Your oncologist will have you sign the waiver that you're aware of the side effects and that's usually it. Yet there exists a therapy that's been approved by NHS or FDA or other governmental bodies in different countries to treat radiation injury. The therapy is called hypodaric oxygen therapy or age bot. Hypodaric oxygen therapy can also be used to enhance the outcome of radiation therapy and we'll talk about that in the video as well. In this video I'll explain how hypodaric therapy can work together with radiation therapy. What are the main effects? What are the benefits? And most importantly I'll share with you protocols so make sure to watch till the end. I'm Dr. Masha hypodaric expert and naturopathic doctor. Delayed radiation injury usually appears several months after the actual radiation part of the treatment was finished. By that time the person has put it behind them hopefully they received favorable results and now they're in remission and all of a sudden they start to experience symptoms. Burns, fibrosis, pain, inflammation, loss of function which commonly happens in the area of the rectum, bladder, jaw, it's a burn to the tissue. Symptoms can be quite debilitating and the person starts to worry first of all they think what if my cancer came back but usually those are the side effects of the radiation and it's time to go back to the oncologist. Reports your symptoms they should diagnose you with delayed radiation injury and you should receive hypodaric oxygen treatment. Hypodaric oxygen therapy uses pressure and oxygen to drive oxygen to the cells and tissues. It's approved for use for burns and radiation injury is generally a wound that is not healing created by a bird. It's also approved to use in the wound's situation. Therefore it makes sense that the radiation injury is an approved indication for hypodaric therapy. After 30 to 40 sessions usually done at 288 to 2.580 of pressure. Normally these should be 90 minute sessions with air breaks. A person will experience a decrease in symptoms so less pain, less inflammation, less fibrosis and hopefully the resolution of the loss of function. So the function of the organ affected should return. I can't even begin to tell you how many people suffer in silence because they don't know that hypodaric therapy exists, that it's a science back approved indication for delayed radiation injury. If you or someone you know suffer from those symptoms, wait no further go back to your oncologist, talk to them and they should send you for hypodaric therapy. Let's talk about other benefits of hypodaric oxygen therapy for somebody who's going through radiation treatments. Every oncologist will tell you that the effectiveness of radiation heavily depends on how well the body is oxygenated, meaning how much oxygen and how well is it being delivered to cells and tissues. Unfortunately in cancer diagnosis, this area is often compromised. Either because there's decreased circulation or because the person is anemic which happens very commonly in cancer diagnosis because of many reasons or because the tumor is large because we know that tumors are hypoxic in nature, meaning that they already lack oxygen. One of the easiest ways to increase oxygenation of the body is hypodaric oxygen therapy because its main effect is hyperoxygenation. Inside the hypodaric chamber under pressure, when we breathe either air or oxygen through the mask that is delivered from the oxygen concentrator, this oxygen that we get in under pressure is being dissolved in plasma. Therefore, it can easily be transported to cells and tissues and overall oxygenation will increase. And when oxygenation is improved, radiation is more effective. In integrative oncology centers, there is a way of combining hypodaric oxygen therapy with radiation and there's a specific protocol that I'll share with you. Unfortunately, unless you go to a center like that, it's not reproducible. If you have a hyperbaric clinic in one part of the city and a radiation facility in another part of the city, when hyperbaric treatment is done within 15 to 30 minutes of the actual radiation treatment, we know from the scientific studies that the effectiveness of radiation therapy will be increased. Unless hyperbaric chamber and radiation are located in the same building, as I said, this is not reproducible. However, it doesn't mean that we cannot get other benefits from hyperbaric therapy that will help a person get through radiation. Unless this goes to those. Another area where hyperbaric therapy can be really helpful for somebody who's going through radiation, but also chemo, provided that their chemo drugs are not country indicated for hyperbaric therapy is fatigue. Fatigue, feeling tired, exhausted is one of the side effects of radiation. Hyperbaric therapy sends oxygen to mitochondria where energy is produced. Naturally, somebody who's undergoing hyperbaric sessions will have and will feel an increase in energy, so it will help to counteract one of the most common side effects during radiation treatment. Enrollment to my hyperbaric certification course is almost closed. If you've been thinking to add a hyperbaric therapy to your clinic, maybe you plan to open a wellness center or maybe you already have a hyperbaric chamber, but it's not working at the right capacity, this is the course for you. In four days, we'll cover the fundamentals of hyperbaric therapy. We'll look into safety of hyperbaric therapy in a lot of detail and we'll study hyperbaric protocols, different scenarios, and how to apply hyperbaric therapy in real life. This course is designed for health practitioners, clinic owners, and home hyperbaric users who want to ensure that they use hyperbaric therapy in a safe and effective manner. If you'd like to take the course, follow the link in the description below. There's also broader perspectives to consider. One of the series of cancer says that cancer starts at the level of mitochondria where we make energy. We know that hyperbaric oxygen therapy through hyperaccidination and degrees of inflammation changes the health of mitochondria. It changes the terrain in which cancer will either thrive or will have a great difficulty to continue on. Of course, such change in the terrain requires several therapies to be used together, and when you look at the integrative oncology, it's never just hyperbaric therapy. Many times, it's hyperbaric combined with many other therapies plus conventional treatment that hopefully will make that switch and the cell will no longer need to take the pathway of becoming a cancerous cell. Therefore, again, in order to achieve those effects, multiple hyperbaric sessions should be taken on and could be started way before the person starts conventional treatment, no need to wait for radiation injury to occur. Now, let's discuss hyperbaric protocols in the context of radiation therapy. We talked about approved indication of delayed radiation injury. This is usually at 30 to 40 sessions protocol done at 288 to 2.5 ATA. Usually, air breaks are used and these are 19 minute sessions. These protocols can be adjusted by a hyperbaric physician depending on the type of injury where the tissue is and also the response that they're getting from the person being treated. When it comes to off-label indications, using hyperbaric therapy as a supportive therapy during radiation, of course, the pressures that could be used are much, much wider, especially for home hyperbaric cues or for people who go to clinics that only have chambers that go to mild pressures. In my opinion, those milder pressures, treatments and I'm referring to pressures starting from 1.3 to 1.5 to 1.780A in some cases. These pressures can be absolutely beneficial to help with collagen synthesis. So the radiation injury might be somewhat prevented. The stronger is the tissue. To help a person have more energy to create ingeogenesis. Different pressures could be used. Key is the number of sessions in consistency. The key is to understand that these changes do not happen overnight. They do not happen after one session or five sessions or even 10 sessions. I have multiple videos on this channel that explain the necessity or the effectiveness of hyperbaric therapy that is based on the number of sessions. 20 sessions in my opinion is the minimum number of sessions. Do you see any of these benefits or to start seeing any of these benefits? It's also the frequency. I recommend at least four sessions a week, but of course this has to be adjusted. Based on the vitality of the person, based on the logistics, maybe they can only get to the clinic three times a week. So this three times a week schedule becomes acceptable because this is the only thing that a person can do. But always keep in mind it's the number of sessions that is very important. It's the frequency of the sessions. And it's the response that the person is getting from hyperbaric therapy. Which pressure is giving you more benefit? Where do you feel more energetic? Where do you sleep better? And things like that also matter in the choice of the hyperbaric pressure. I hope this information helps. Please leave your questions in the comments section. And also please let me know if you'd like me to post more content of hyperbaric therapy and how it relates to cancer and more chronic disease diagnosis. And I'll try to make more videos on that to provide this information to those who need it. [BLANK_AUDIO]