55. HBOT: A Gamechanging Technology For Optimal Health, Longevity, And Peak Performance

There’s literally thousands, if not millions, of up-and-coming technology for health optimization, longevity, and peak performance that it’s becoming more and more difficult to sift through and find the “right” one for you.

 

But this one’s SOLID. Backed by science. Studied and practiced by medical experts. Gamechanging technology.

 

Unpacking with us the latest on hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is Dr. Scott Sherr, a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician Certified in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and Health Optimization Medicine (HOMe).

 

He graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA as an undergraduate and Magna Cum Laude with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction from the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore.

 

Dr. Scott is the founder of Integrative HBOT and is one of the few providers in the world who

uses an integrative approach to HBOT. This approach includes cutting-edge and dynamic HBOT

protocols, comprehensive laboratory testing (using the HOMe framework), targeted supplementation, personal practices, synergistic technologies (new and ancient). He also has a

large network of allied practitioners that he refers his clients to when needed.

 

Dr. Scott runs his Integrative HBOT consulting, educating, and advocacy practice through his

website, integrativehbot.com.

 

His formal titles include Founder of Integrative HBOT, Cofounder of Hbot Plus, COO of Health

Optimization Medicine (a nonprofit education company) USA, COO of Smarter Not Harder,

Medical Advisor to the One Hit Away Foundation, and Hospitalist at Midtown Inpatient Medicine.

Dr. Scott has consulted with clinics around the world including Upgraded Labs (LA), Remedy

Place (LA), LMS Wellness (London), Port Neuro Chiro (New Hampshire), and many others.

 

This episode of the Thrive State podcast is not one you would want to miss! Catch Dr. Sherr take us through the science of HBOT and the many health benefits it brings! And explore more of his work at integrativeHBOT.com

 

3:30 Health Optimization Medicine: a nonprofit educating doctors on root cause health. We're more interested in focusing on health and health-related metrics. We have a certification course for doctors and practitioners 

 

7:42 Integrative Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: 80% of it has nothing to do with hyperbaric therapy at all and about 20% is about hyperbaric therapy. It's this fantastic tool to help with accelerating healing, recovery, and optimization.

 

8:39 - 12:22  Pathophysiology of hyperbaric therapy: We typically carry oxygen through the red blood cells traveling through the blood vessels in our body. Once the oxygen gets to your cells, it gets to the mitochondria, which is a very specialized organelle that allows you to make ATP, which is the currency of energy.

 

14:22 Long-term benefits of HBOT: It is the epigenetic shifts that happen on your DNA. The more long-term you drive epigenetic changes to our DNA that drive angiogenesis, which increase in blood flow along with a decrease in inflammation and a boost in immunity.

 

16:02 Medical Indications for HBOT (covered by most insurance):  Diabetic foot ulcers, radiation injury from cancer treatment, chronic bone infections, osteomyelitis, cyanide poisonings, necrotizing fasciitis, acute traumas, compartment syndrome, partial limb amputations, scorpion bites.

 

17:33 HBOT for investigational conditions: Synergizer and accelerator, not only of healing, but also of optimizing and improving performance. It’s been shown that hyperbaric therapy can reverse hallmarks of aging like senescent cells, erectile dysfunction.

 

20:51 HBOT Contraindications: It’s a prescribed therapy. The main reasons you can't go into a chamber is if you have a significant cardiac and pulmonary disease, decreased seizure threshold. 

 

23:42 Mitigating contraindications: For seizures in the chamber and risk of oxygen toxicity, the best way is to do an air brake to induce hyperoxic hypoxic paradox (HHP).

 

28:06 Health Optimization Medicine Protocol: It's about optimizing beforehand the levels of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, and oxidants, gut health, hormones, developed by Dr. Ted Archer Kosovan. It's not changing the pressure, but changing the oxygen. But pressure by itself is massively therapeutic and has a direct effect at making energy more effectively, even without more oxygen in circulation.

 

37:25 Finding the right protocol: Make sure that the clinic that you're going to has knowledge about how you can integrate hyperbaric therapy with other technologies. 

 

42:13 Parasympathetic activities are extremely important and hyperbaric therapy can certainly be one of those especially the longer protocols they tend to become.

 

43:46 HBAPlus: Creating technology that makes it easier to use hyperbaric therapy in an effective, safe, and therapeutic way.

 

46:34 Dr. Sherr’s Best Medicine: Meditation. It was really transformative knowing that the external world is uncontrollable.