The Revival of America Podcast Recap with Info on HBOT & Combination Therapy for Brain on Fire
Lydia M. | In Light Hyperbarics News | Post #26 | August 2023
Hello Friends!!
This is a really exciting post for me and quite personal. Thank you, Edna & Cait, for the space and time allowed to dedicate to ambassadorship for In Light, HBOT & high tech natural modalities!
I was blessed to be a part of a podcast interview last week on the topic of my journey with Alec’s TBI, HBOT, and combination therapy, which I believe saved his life, with God’s hand guiding us all the way…you’ll understand how much we were led if you listen to podcast.
I promised to give the audience information and links that could potentially help each of the listeners on their own healing journey.
This blog will make better sense if you have listened to the podcast first, but regardless, I hope you all get some valuable information, and please keep in mind, that this is a personal story of what a prescription drug did to my son, Alec, and how he and our family chose to help heal it. This is NOT recommending anything specific to anyone, or for any personal condition, nor claiming a cure by any of these modalities. Please take all of this as information to further do your own research, speak with your practitioners, and make an informed plan of action for yourself and family.
Jenni Jerread is host of the
In God We Trust Chat
This lady is my kinda gal with how fierce she is for fighting for our country & the littles. She invited me to share my raw story, without rehearsal, to introduce how HBOT and natural therapies, promoted healing for the struggles I watched Alec experience with brain on fire. Hope you enjoy!
I’m going to start this off with the understanding that what is being shared here are two things: fighting inflammation & detoxification of the drug causing it, and then, allowing the body to repair itself with further modalities and healing options.
This is my informed opinion, proven by personal testing & results, and the opinion of those therapists, practitioners and doctors who have gotten myself, my family and Alec out of crisis…over, and over AGAIN! With that said, think about how many physical, mental & emotional issues are caused by inflammation, and then the need to detox from WHATEVERRRRRR is in the environment that is causing it.
AND YES, we do need to detox from chemicals that cause an inflammatory reaction in the brain, which can look like emotional & mental symptoms, the same as we do when the injury appears as physical symptoms of a rash, vomitting or a headache, for example…we know how important the gut - brain connection is, so this would make sense, right? Detoxification of the gunk in us is important to keep all of our systems in tip top shape, and especially critical for brain health.
Detox is CRITICAL in uncertain times!
Read here if you’re interested in learning about dioxins & heavy metals in our environment (think about all of the train derailments, fires, and such with chemical waste bi-products); what they cause deep down, and how they’re wreaking havoc on our health through the environment. Then, learn how HBOT, light therapy, Infrared Sauna & our additional modalities can help detoxify them out!
If you want to learn about different ways to help yourself, your family and friends, I will give you lots of information below, but my main goal here is to SPARK something in YOU to dig deeper for yourself and your own journey.
I will guide you along with my tidbits here, but the bulk of this blog will be taking you to other sources to read how new technology has merged with ancient technology that used oxygen, light and the earth to heal without significant side effects.
Alec’s 2020 Columbian Newspaper Interview
If you’d like to understand what drug caused a biochemical reaction in Alec, or learn about the first few months of the journey that got him out of crisis, read this short article. Thank you to Shannon Sundin for the referral that early Fri morning. To Edna, Cait, Dr. Kate, ILH staff & client community; our blended family with Chuck, Jillian & Ashley, for all the support in the beginning and throughout. To the BIG HEARTED & generous people of Alec’s school & athletic community, who donated to the GFM that helped save his life! Thank you, Colton Looney, for starting it for your brother! Ya’ll, he’ll do BIG things for people some day - through and for - the Glory of God!
Interesting Random Tidbit:
The potential conditions caused by allergy meds are covered in a story featured on a show streamed on HULU, based on the book, 9 Perfect Strangers. Four of the characters are centered around suicide due to brain on fire from an allergy drug. It’s really a thing!
Directly from the FDA website itself:
“FDA requires Boxed Warning about serious mental health side effects for asthma and allergy drug montelukast (Singulair); advises restricting use for allergic rhinitis. Risks may include suicidal thoughts or actions.”
Click Here to view on FDA website
Alec went to 3 doctors within 3 years and they each recommended HBOT as priority on his treatment plan.
I, myself, can attest to this therapy working from personal experience with my own conditions, and for my son’s TBI, especially! The basic “in’s & out’s” of how this works from his docs is: “often, healing is inhibited by a restriction of blood flow (and oxygen) to the injured part of the body. With HBOT, healing is promoted by maximizing the amount of oxygen in the blood that can reach the injured area, and it provides this extra oxygen naturally with minimal side effects.” Click here to learn more about The Amen Clinic and why they love HBOT
What’s the big deal with oxygen anyway?
…Almost like there’s magic in the pressure or something…hmmmm, who knew?!! Watch the few min clip of an interview with Dr. Dituri.
“So far, every single inflammatory marker in my body was cut in half,” Dituri said. “The oxidative stress and cortisol - a measure of stress - is down significantly. I mean, it went down from the mid-70's to single digits. It's crazy.”
Dr. Joseph Dituri, PhD, CDR, US Navy Saturation Diving Officer (ret) is shown above doing an experiment on himself while being in a sub. Edna was blessed to attend his Level 2 Safety Course on HBOT during the 2023 IHA conference in June. This man is an expert and knows his stuff! The changes in his DNA and how his cells began to express themselves is OFF THE CHARTS INCREDIBLE!
So, there’s a thing that happens when you spend time under pressure breathing oxygen… please have faith that your body was designed to want to heal itself if given the correct environment to do so in…it’s called epigenetic changes.
Epigenetics is the science of how cells express themselves in the environment in which they live, and it really is your responsibility, if you have a choice with your particular condition, to help repair your environment, and then, to trust that if you do, your body will begin to show you some level of healing. O2 helps shift your cellular expression. Are you turning your cells “on” or “off”?…you have a say in the matter!
The following is one big way that O2 under pressure helps heal our cells:
Angiogenisis: Inflamed and injured blood vessels can re-grow as off shoots from the injured vessels…they literally sprout in a different direction from where the injury is; they go around the construction zone with a detour, to get to the destination (body is sooooo smart), so to speak, and that is the process of angiogenisis.
ANNNND…..
Neurogenisis: A vital function of our body is that circulation allows the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the body's tissues…including, and especially to the top dog, the BRAIN! So the same thing that would happen above in your leg, let’s say, to help reduce inflammation & promote healing, that’s the same process happening to the brain while breathing O2 UNDER PRESSURE. New off shoot blood vessels will carry O2 and help neurons begin to connect better!
HBOT is backed by SCIENCE and so many experts because it WORKS! In fact, The Amen Clinic experts believe that HBOT: “delivers up to 15 times more oxygen to the body’s tissues; stimulates the body’s natural mechanisms for self-healing, and is highly effective for the treatment of a wide range of serious conditions and diseases.”
Why? How? …one simple reason!
The fact is that oxygen is transported via plasma in the blood, and not the red blood cells, when under 1.3 atmospheric pressure (9 feet below sea level) or more. The simple reason for this is that 02 is a gas - that when under atmospheric pressure - dissolves into liquid, so it becomes able to be transported throughout the liquid in the blood and then circulated, instead of as a gas in red blood cells…makes it much more EFFICIENT and able to flow throughout the body. Therefore, HBOT increases oxygen flow throughout the body due to higher solubility of the gas as pressure increases in the chamber.
It is so beneficial, that in fact, it protects our DNA….WHATTTTT???: “A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Shamir Medical Center in Israel indicates that hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT) in healthy aging adults can stop the aging of blood cells and reverse the aging process. In the biological sense, the adults' blood cells actually grow younger as the treatments progress.
The researchers found that a unique protocol of treatments with high-pressure oxygen in a pressure chamber can reverse two major processes associated with aging and its illnesses: the shortening of telomeres (protective regions located at both ends of every chromosome) and the accumulation of old and malfunctioning cells in the body.” Click here for article
What do these chambers look & feel like?
This advanced type of healing technology has been around longer than most people think, and is more commonly used amongst professional sports teams, alternative medicine specialists, wound clinics & hospitals. It involves a soft or hard - very comfortable, cylindrical chamber that you lay in for a duration of 60 or 90 min per session, depending on results you’re after - while breathing in oxygen through a mask or comfortable cannula.
It’s a TANK!!
This is the creator of the OXYHEALTH Fortius 420 EXP (shown here), Samir Patel, with our co-owners: Edna Ness & Caitlin Wilson at a convention. I gotta tell ya, these ladies are ROCKSTARS with a HEART!
Jenny was a committed member for 2 months of continuous healing!
Let me tell you guys!! This woman is a WARRIOR…stay tuned for more of her story in a future blog. Look how comfy Pearl looks…yes, we have a theme going on…Moby, Pearl & Nemo are siblings =)
The ‘dive’, as the session is typically referred to, creates a submarine type atmospheric pressure that is raised up to 3 times higher pressure than normal - and - very - slowly - to accommodate the body regulating itself to the pressure. The chambers go from 1.3 to 2.0 ATA typically 9 to 33 feet for general use, and even higher for indicated cases, but we won’t get into that here, just yet…that’s for a future podcast.
Imagine the feeling being similar to going up in an airplane and your ears popping, or scuba diving and feeling pressure in your ears, that’s what it feels like. The purpose being that your lungs, brain & all cells can receive more oxygen in that kind of atmosphere for increased healing potential versus breathing normal air…LIKE over 15 times MORE capacity… why? Because the O2 turns from a gas into a liquid under pressure to circulate through blood and not chubby red blood cells that hit a wall against inflamed blood vessels. O2 can get through those inflamed areas easier then, as we discussed earlier.
Meet the little sister of the hard shell chamber
Amen Clinic recommended this beauty at 1.3 ATA for Alec’s continued healing in year 2, and beyond, of his journey for recovery, and then also, maintenance.
You can even “date dive” in mild chambers!
This is my 21 yr old daughter who goes in with me in a mHBOT regularly…yes, we can fit copmfortably! She raves about the benefits!
Alec’s psychiatrist recommended mild - mHBOT - for his brain healing, and that’s 60 min at 1.3 atmospheric pressure (9 feet) and breathing O2 from a cannula, as shown above on my daughter.
“HBOT is perhaps the safest procedure in medicine used to treat brain injuries.”
https://www.ihausa.org/cme2022/speaker/dr-daniel-amen/
Benefits of HBOT promote function in the ENTIRE Body!
Enhanced Brain Function: mHBOT, especially, can help enhance brain function by increasing blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain and promoting neurogenesis.
Increased Oxygen Delivery: HBOT provides an environment where oxygen is delivered to penetrate tissues and organs more deeply due to solubility of O2, which can help improve overall health.
Improved Circulation: The increased pressure in mild hyperbaric chambers helps improve blood flow, which is beneficial for people with circulatory problems or active lifestyles...can be imagined as exercising on the inside.
Reduced Inflammation: HBOT can help reduce inflammation by increasing the amount of oxygen and nutrients available to the body by way of increased delivery capacity throughout. So, as recommended by our medical director, it’s a good idea to drink a green juice, green superfood powder, a smoothie, or eat a large salad to give yourself antioxidants for the atmospheric pressure can drive deeper into cells via the oxygen push.
Wound Healing: HBOT has been shown to speed up wound healing by increasing the amount of oxygen delivered to the affected area…as proven by the pics above.
Improved Immune Function: Hyperbaric chambers can boost the immune system by repairing and replacing cells, making immune function better able to fight off infections and diseases…PREVENTION IS EVERYTHING!!
Improved Physical Performance: Hyperbaric chambers can help improve physical performance by increasing oxygen delivery to muscles, reducing fatigue and improving recovery.
But why does it take so many sessions, can’t it be a one and done? NOPE, and here’s a simple answer why…
My Fam… it’s the same thing we’ve been talking about for 5 years now: Drip, drip…well, it’s more like drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, on and on, and then FLOOD, right? That’s what we’ve been taught now for years from those we call our hero’s, and since the ‘flood gates’ opened due to C19. Information is pouring out and our minds & emotions needed it to come slowly at first, before we could handle so much more.
Same premise with oxygen and HBOT. The average person dealing with any issue has cells that are hypoxic (lacking O2) and they don’t function as created, thus, disease, disorders, inflammation, etc. occurs.
Now, if you listened to the podcast, sorry this is repetitive, but for ya’ll who didn’t, this explains it with using my mommy brain. Imagine an old dry old sponge left out in the sun for a while. It certainly won’t be able to hold water enough to wring out…it will likely feel like it’s a coral at this point. You need to hold that sponge in water long enough for it to permeate through all of the layers, to get to the center, and enough for there to be excess enough to wring out water.
Our cells are the same as this. The cell needs to become pliable enough to accept, AND THEN HOLD, enough oxygen to function at intended capacity. So, one session and they plump up…few hours later, the cell can be done feeding on that amount and runs out again. Next session, the cell receives more and can accept and hold more. Next session, and you get the point. At some point the precipice is reached - everyone is different and responds differently with needing more or less chamber for desired outcome - and the cells begin to function more as intended and the healing plays out!
It’s a beautiful process to witness. And I see it over and over and over again in people with all kinds of different conditions.
Combination Therapy works! The following segment shows how Therapeutic LIGHT Therapy fits into all of this!
Click here to read Linda’s story about combination therapy of Oxygen & Light, and her Christian perspective on Therapeutic Light Therapy being too “Woo-woo” or not. She knocks the explanation of all this OUT of THE WATER…love my sweet Linda and look forward to seeing her each week, and having her as my sister outside of work…what a blessing this community is for all of us!
Our mitochondria - the energy center of the cell - require light to function as intended. Red light therapy (Therapeutic Light Therapy) supplements the environmental light we experience, but while using concentrated doses of red and near-infrared light. This specific spectrum of light, the mitochondria uses to produce ATP (Adenosine triphosphate is an organic compound that provides energy to drive and support many processes in living cells). An increase in ATP = decrease in oxidative stress…Soooo, LIGHT is your antioxidant supplement!
Why are some people predisposed to addiction or harmful side effects from prescription drugs? We are all different with a different genetic makeup, learn the science below!
Alec was blessed yet again to have an amazing doc as his second specialist to help detox from Montelukast, and help his body re-wire the neurons in his brain for healing! I found Dr. Evelyn Higgins on one of the Facebook groups I joined looking for help with this drug reaction.
She is amazing, loving, kind and compassionate. Her methods are effective, and her understanding of the brain related to genetics, hormones, & environment, and the possibilities of healing with detox, homeopathics, supplements, HBOT and emotional counseling is highly advanced.
Some are born with a predisposition of not being able to metabolize everything given to them, or have the same reaction as 75% of the general public to common medications, alcohol, anesthesia, artificial food dye, or gluten for example in some cases, and instead, they have a genetic makeup that leans towards excessive reactions, physical discomfort and possibility of addiction thereafter.
Read further here about what this looks like and inform yourself if someone you know, or yourself, acts sensitively to some things, unlike others…there may be a reason for this, and this knowledge can help us with our own patience and empathy towards others!
What is the VA doing to help our vets with technology such as, HBOT, and not simply prescribing drugs for PTSD and TBI’s?
What does the research say about HBOT and benefits for active military and vets?
There is growing belief in the military that HBOT is a GAME CHANGER, so much so, that advocacy groups have begun to affect changes in policy decisions. Policies such as, promoting more scientific research and securing insurance coverage, not only from commercial sectors, but government issued coverage as well.
In recent years, Hyperbaric Medicine International (HMI) became ADVOCATE for HBOT! Their board of directors are highly impressive and well known, for instance, one of their directors is Lieutenant General (US Army) Retired, Michael Flynn who served as the National Security Advisor to the 45th President of the United States of America, and who has served all of us for over 33 years.
Also, NC Representative, Dr. Greg Murphy, has been advocating for our vets struggling with PTSD and TBI’s to have HBOT as an option, in lieu of, or in addition to, prescription drugs for a valid therapy. He shares with us over and over that veteran suicide is a problem and hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a solution.
Click here for article from Dr. Murphy on vets and suicide from PTSD, with HBOT to help as a modality.
Click here for article on Representative Murphy lobbying for legislation to pass to treat vets with TBI’s &. PTSD with something other than drugs…instead try HBOT!
Edna & Cait with Michael Flynn at a HMI Conference!
Click Here to learn all about current & former military personnel and medical professionals advocating for HBOT to become more available for PTSD & TBI recovery for our vets and civilians alike!
Where can I find a local facility, office or clinic in my own city? Also, what about research studies all in one place?
Click on the photo above to learn more about the research on HBOT, and for contacting IHA for locations in your area. The image above was taken at the 2023 IHA Conference from left to right: Dr. Masha Makeeva, ND; Shannon Kenitz, President of IHA; Dr. Melissa Sonners, DC, DACCP, CACCP, and Dr. Mindy Pelz (ROCKSTAR), author of Fast Like a Girl & The Menopause Reset.
Ya’ll, please email me if I can help provide you with info; put anything into laymen terms, and help you find or vet a facility for you.
Proof in pics how oxygen under pressure helps rapid healing… now think about what it can do for your insides!
LOOK AT THESE RESULTS!!
This client was thrown out of the back of a pick up truck going 55 miles an hour. He did 5 sessions in our hard shell chambers starting at 1.5 ATA and the remaining 4 at 2.0 ATA. He used combination therapy with Therapeutic Light Therapy to get these results SO QUICKLY!!
*Permission to post from the client
UDATE AS OF THIS MONTH!
Look at the continued healing which occurred after HBOT!!! This client’s vision was protected from the speedy healing of tissue over the first days after the accident. Now imagine what it’s doing to your insides and the brain!!!!!
What you can do to supplement your oxygen at home & how to help promote a parasympathetic state! A WHAT?…Read on!
The goal for the nervous system while healing any condition, but especially PTSD or TBI, is to be CALM and in a parasympathetic state.
Our nervous system has two states: Sympathetic & Parasympathetic:
Sympathetic: the body feels in a state of fight or flight, as in a response during any potential danger, but with PTSD and TBI that state can take the person over, mentally, emotionally & physically, for long periods of time and wreak havoc on their hormone status, sleep, circadian rhythm, appetite, immune function, energy levels, ect…its AWFUL to stay in prolonged, or recurrent states like this.
Parasympathetic: the body feels calm and composed and in a state of peace, let’s say. Where the hormones flooding the body are good and promote sleep, balance and stronger immune function.
Avoid Screen Time at LEAST 2 Hours Before Bed, and give a pair of these protective glasses a try!
One of the first things we were told to help reduce the brain on fire symptoms, and a very good tip for ALL OF US to follow, is to avoid screens two hours prior to sleep, if not for longer periods of time before bed and throughout the day to prevent a sympathetic state, and promote a parasympathetic state.
When you are in front of a screen, it is important to protect your eyes and pineal gland from flashing and blue lighting. The way that you can do this is by wearing protective amber colored lens glasses, or blue light protective coating on lenses. Click here to read about the top brands and why, and all kinds of information on why protecting your eyes is important for your sleep and circadian rhythm.
HBOT, light therapy and the tip above are a few ways, among others, that the ILH Tribe can help you with a more calm and parasympathetic state. DON’T FORGET TO BREATHE to calm yourself down in any given situation as well.
Here are tips for at home to increase your O2:
Keep it natural inside!! How? PLANTS!! By adding plants such as a peace lily, snake plant, money plant, gerbera daisy, aloe, English ivy, philodendron, spider plant, and many more you can look up. Just green it up with your favorites, as it can help to naturally promote levels of oxygen in your home and purify the air.
Get yourself outside, your feet on the grass and breathe. Really focus on inhaling, holding and exhaling…over and over again. When you breathe, focus on using your nostrils, and then, breathe all the way in to your belly, not only chest breathing…that’s too shallow to increase some good ‘ol O2…get it in deep to your belly!
An air purifier through a pink Himalayan salt lamp (s) in lots of rooms throughout your house can also help clean the abundance of positive ions in the air (it’s a thing, really…we can talk about that later), and reduce the electrical pollution in your home for better O2 absorption.
Water, water, water…gotta stay hydrated. Circulation will help to oxygenate the body, and you must hydrate for that! The rule is: half of your body weight in oz’s, for example: 30 lbs = 65 oz per day, MINIMUM…each time you drink caffeine, sugar or red dye #whatever…you have to add another 6 to 8 oz of good ol’ H2O to stay hydrated.
Ventilate your home!! Did you know that indoor pollution can be as bad as some places outside if you don’t air out the house? Open your windows regularly and let the freshness come inside! Get yourself an air purifier / filter for multiple rooms in the house if you can.
If any of you are ever in our small town of Vancouver, WA (The Couve)…we’re right across the river from Portland, Or, and a couple of hours away from Seattle, WA, then please consider yourselves invited for a FREE Tour of our facility, and get to meet our knowledgable owners & staff to pick our brains for more info!! Knowledge is FREEDOM Patriots!!!!
Want more info? Tell me how I can help and send me your question!
If you have questions, want to learn more about all of this stuff…email me: lydia@inlighthyperbarics.com and/or, we can come back to talk with Jenni about these topics, where we can bring more guests who are docs and therapists, and are involved in our AMAZING & ever growing community. We are blessed with those in our network who are involved in natural, modern modalities & technology from all of over the country!
We can’t wait to help out and spread the word,
Lydia, and Your In Light Tribe!
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