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jessiam

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Hyperbaric Chamber Oxygen Therapy Posted: 09-28-07 14:03pm


Hi, I am looking for the best alternative medicines to ease the symtoms of Multiple sclerosis, stabilize my condition and improve my quality of life. They advice me to do some Hyperbaric chamber session as oxygen therapy. Please advice what you think of this therapy? Thanks Jessica

TaoWarrior

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Posted: 09-29-07 06:41am


Umm I don't think so. I doubt it will help your MS at all, probably cost a ton of money and you can do serious damage to your body in one of those chambers. So far the best results I have heard about from alternative therapy were with acupuncture. I have not tried it myself but if you want to spend money on something thats where I would look first. A couple of small but promising studies have been done with Omega 3's so you might want to look there as well. I hate to say it since I am a big fan of alternative's myself but I have found very little in the way of successful alternatives for MS.

joeychristou

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Multiple Sclerosis And Oxygen Therapy Posted: 10-01-07 04:42am


MS also causes swelling and edema which leads to a reduction of effective oxygen being delivered to the nerve tissues, resulting in a variety of widespread symptoms. Drug therapies for multiple sclerosis can cause significant side effects, which may feel worse than the discomforts they are designed to relieve. A number of different drugs are used in MS therapy, including interferon and various steroids. These drugs not only cause a wide variety of side effects, but are also extremely expensive. The average cost of managing an MS patient in the USA with drug therapies is reported to be more than US$25,000 per year (Neubauer 1988). Dr Phillip James MB ChB, DIH, PhD, FFOM, Wolfson Hyperbaric Medicine Unit (1999), performed during the past 13 years specifically for MS patients to over 1.2 million chamber sessions. Oxygen Medicine with Hyperbaric is currently one of the best treatments that offer the MS patient some form of relief from the clinical symptoms without serious side effects. Unlike most of the other therapies, Oxygen therapy is the only drug-like treatment that has been shown to work on a continuing basis. In addition, HBOT has been the therapy used on the largest number of patients for the longest period of time, which means that it is the therapy with the longest period of follow-up results. 'The object of giving a concentrated dose of Oxygen is to restore the level of Oxygen in the affected area to normal and interrupt the progression to scar formation. Oxygen is necessary, not only for all metabolism, but also for the regulation of many aspects of blood vessel and blood cell function. The blood-brain barrier requires energy and oxygen to maintain its integrity. Giving more Oxygen in fact constricts the diameter of blood vessels and yet paradoxically improves the transport of Oxygen to the tissues. Oxygen also modulates the behaviour of white blood cells and the inner lining of the vessels'. However Hyperbaric Medicine is very expensive. Up to $250 per session and it has lots of side effect like creation of free radicals. Over the last 30 years, over 6,000 scientific studies have revealed that free radical activity represents a major cause of all degenerative diseases. There is an advanced oxygen therapy called Energized O2 therapy used more and more by doctors, naturopaths in France, Spain, Japan, UK, Finland, etc... EnergizedO2 technology uses one of nature’s processes which have existed for millions of years, e.g. photosynthesis in green leaves. This ensures that oxygen is activated in a way which your body understands. In nature, energy from our sun activates chlorophyll in plant leaves and acts as a catalyst to transform the oxygen produced by a plant to a higher-energy status. Nobel-winning biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi called it “a little electric charge set up by the sunshine.” Oxygen has various properties: the oxygen present in respiratory air is not reactive. In order to make the oxygen utilisable for producing energy in the body, the body must first bring the oxygen into its reactive state. However, as the body’s ability to use the oxygen diminishes with increasing age, through stress, illness and environmental toxins, etc... EnergizedO2 helps the body to increase its use of oxygen in a natural way. In the EnergizedO2 device the air’s oxygen is continually returned to its high energy state which is the physiologically active form of the oxygen that the body is familiar with. In the organism the “ EnergizedO2 energy“ noticeably improves the way the oxygen is used and has a positive effect on many of the body’s functions - without an additional supply of oxygen and without foreign substances. EnergizedO2 system is very affordable and easy to use system I would recommend. It allows to constantly increase energy-rich oxygen level in the blood and tissues allowing the body to expel toxins, heavy metals, suppress free radicals, get rid of pain, etc. Thanks Joey

QuantumGravity

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What I've Learned Posted: 10-03-07 08:20am


M.S. is autoimmune where the body attacks its own tubulin/myelin, etc. right? One thing I've learned being involved in supporting autism research is that autism is also partly auto-immune in nature. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been emerging in the autism world as a beneficial therapy. some video interviews on the subject: http://www.autismmedia.o rg/media13.html I believe autism has both toxicological and viral triggers. I believe M.S. does, too. While they haven't found a virus associated with M.S.... they do find viral titers in the spinal fluid. Same can be said for autism... but the titers for autism are often associated with the measles virus. (often the MMR vaccine strain... as gut biopsies are showing) Many autistics have high levels of heavy metals in their bodies... mercury, lead, aluminum... and the inability to excrete these metals due to poor methylation, etc. Chelation therapy has resulted in more dramatic improvements in autistic symptoms than any other therapy. I also happen to know that folks with M.S. (who are tested for heavy metals... via urinary porphyrins, fecal metals and hair metals) often are very high in metals. When treated for metal intoxication with chelation therapy... dramatic recoveries have been documented. Watch interview, here: http://www.autismmedia.or g/media2.html Toward the end of the interview, she talks about treating an M.S. patient with chelation... fyi