Chronic fatigue often presents as a bit of a medical mystery because the signs can either be subtle or easy to dismiss because they are harmless. For example, you may begin to notice that getting up in the morning is an uphill task despite getting 8 hours of sleep. Your productivity at work may also decline. If you have an active lifestyle, like parenting toddlers, tickets to Mars may become a priority on your Christmas wishlist because you simply can not shake off how tired you are.
Of course, your first step should be to seek medical advice to rule out or get treatment for any underlying medical conditions. However, you can also complement medical interventions with hyperbaric oxygen therapy to get your energy levels back up a little sooner. Here is the inside scoop on why HBOT can be such a game-changer for your energy and wellness and how Oxygen Ark can help you along that journey.
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Providing Better Oxygenation
The human body relies on oxygen even more than cars need fuel. Our cells need it to stay alive, healthy, and able to perform functions such as:
- Metabolism – breaking down nutrients to produce energy in the body.
- Cell repair and regeneration – when cells get damaged by disease or age oxygen facilitates their repair or production of entirely new cells.
- Flushing out toxins and waste – well-oxygenated cells function optimally and boost circulation. This helps the body’s filtration systems to flush out toxins.
- Immunity functions – healthy cells, tissues, and organs, are more effective at fighting off disease-causing germs.
While you may be alive and breathing, the cells in your body may not be receiving enough oxygen due to medical issues or pollution in the environment you live in. Subsequently, functions like those mentioned above may become compromised and cause you to feel terribly exhausted.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy exposes you to pure oxygen which is more concentrated than the 20% oxygen we breathe in the normal air. The atmospheric pressure during HBOT sessions is also usually 1.3 to 2 times higher than the normal atmospheric pressure of 1 that we live in.
These conditions prompt your body to inhale more oxygen than you normally would but at safe levels. Any oxygen-starved cells in your body thus get a major boost of this much-needed fuel which enables them to function optimally.
The result? Improved overall wellness and better energy levels.
Promoting Healing
Alt-text: A lady in a hyperbaric chamber
Unfortunately, low energy can sometimes be caused by an underlying medical condition like anemia, vitamin deficiencies, infections, or even chronic conditions like cancer. It is thus highly advisable to get a medical exam and work through a treatment plan with your doctor because addressing the core issue is the only way to get your body and energy levels right again.
Further, if and when your doctor clears you for it, consider incorporating hyperbaric oxygen therapy into your treatment regimen. It can be an ideal way to help the cells in your body and, by extension your organs, function as best as they can to speed up the recovery process. More so considering that:
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy boosts the effectiveness of medications like antibiotics by elevating oxygen levels in your cells. This weakens oxygen-sensitive bacteria and makes it easy for antibiotics to eradicate them.
- HBOT has a remarkable effect on wound healing if, for instance, your condition requires surgery. It floods the wound cells with oxygen and high blood flow which promotes faster regeneration of connective tissue to close the wound.
- Boosting the supply of oxygen in your body using HBOT can help you avoid the feeling of malaise and fatigue as you go through treatment and recovery.
To be concise, HBOT can aid your recovery journey and improve your energy during and after treatment. Fortunately, manufacturers like Oxygen Ark now offer a wide array of hyperbaric chamber models thereby making HBOT more accessible. You can also look into getting a home-use hyperbaric chamber if you reckon that fairly regular sessions can benefit your well-being.
Promoting Relaxation
Alt-text: A woman in a grey tank top sleeping on a pillow
The gospel according to sleep experts and most physicians is to aim for 8 hours of sleep, right?
There is, however, a bit of fine print that this community of caregivers fails to emphasize: it is not enough to just sleep for 8 hours, you also need to sleep well. Sadly, demanding careers or other stressors can make it hard for your mind and body to relax enough so that you can drift off into calm uninterrupted sleep.
Mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy can help you overcome the tension that occurs in your body due to stress by:
- Improving the circulation of oxygen-rich blood thereby creating a relaxing effect.
- Decreasing the inflammatory response that builds up in the body when you are stressed and sleep-deprived thereby calming the high-strung feeling you may experience at such times.
In Conclusion
Navigating life while constantly tired can feel like swimming in an ocean with one hand tied behind your back. It is risky, tiresome, and can be utterly frustrating. So, as conventional wisdom dictates: if symptoms persist, seek medical advice and have hyperbaric oxygen therapy as that winning ace up your sleeve.
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