How Does Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Work?

Lyme disease, like many chronic illnesses, causes a chronic, debilitating dysregulation of the entire immune and nervous system. Patients suffer from simultaneous exhaustion and insomnia, they become sensitive to noise, sound, smells, and light; they react adversely to chemicals; they may even suffer from visual and olfactory hallucinations. All of this may be treated by mild pressure hyperbaric oxygen. According to Ignacio Fojgel, M.D., The action of pressure and oxygen on the autonomic nervous system has never been given its due attention. I have been insisting that many effects of the chambers are dependent on modification in the autonomic nervous system. Many people sleep during the session or become relaxed and kind of peaceful. Parasympathetic up-regulation, and/or sympathetic down-regulation occur. That is why we sleep during an illness: a relatively high parasympathetic tone is needed for most healing process to happen. The Proof is in the Brain and Blood Mild Hyperbaric ...  more