Detoxification & Hyperbaric Therapy
Not a day goes by in which humans aren't breathing, touching or ingesting toxins.Luckily, the body is amazingly effective at metabolizing and excreting most of the daily,low-level exposures it takes in.
There are multiple detox pathways within every system of the body to help flush out unwanted toxins such as the kidneys,gastrointestinal tract, skin, lymphatic system,liver and the lungs. Every system of the human body either directly performs a detoxification function or supports the process of detoxification.
Detox
Today's environments and lifestyles are inundated with such high levels of toxins, both physical and stress-related, that the detoxification organs sometimes can't "keep up" in the metabolizing process from these constant exposures. The toxins continue to build up at a rate too fast for the organs to metabolize and push towards excretion pathways. The toxins are simply "tagged" as waste and pushed into fat, muscle and other tissues for storage. As exposures continue to flood the system, symptoms of toxicity occur,which include: fatigue, painful joints and muscles,constipation, headaches/migraines, brain fog,decrease in cognition, skin and gut problems,hormone imbalances, mood wings and decreased immunity.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can help boost the body's detoxification process. When the body is under pressure, it's receiving more bio-available oxygen. All of that incoming oxygen and pressure helps push toxins out of tissues and towards detox pathways. Most will be passed through the kidneys and output as urine, but some will find their way out through the skin as sweat and through the GI tract as stool. Hyperbaric therapy is proving to be an excellent modality for emotional toxicity disorders like depression,anxiety disorders and PTSD. Research is showing that by bringing more oxygen to the brain,areas that have gone dormant are essentially being repaired.Neurotransmitters, synapses and hormones can be re-balanced, which can alleviate many of the symptoms of these disorders.
