Hip
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I have now written to four experts (professors) in hyperbaric medicine, asking whether breathing 100% oxygen alone would be almost as effective as breathing 100% oxygen within a mild HBOT chamber at 1.3 ATM.
So far, I have not received any replies.
But I think mild HBOT chambers may be a bit of a con.
Such chambers cost around $6000, which is very expensive (not to mention the issues with their cumbersome size once you get them home), whereas I think you will get almost as good a result just by breathing oxygen from an oxygen concentrator machine (which extracts oxygen from the air to provide a supply of oxygen at 90% concentration or higher).
This article explains how either breathing 100% oxygen and/or breathing under increased hyperbaric pressure, raises the quantity of oxygen dissolved in the blood:
Note that PO2 = the partial pressure of oxygen (O2).
Partial pressure is proportional to the oxygen concentration in the air (there is a 21% concentration of O2 in normal air, versus 100% concentration when you breath pure oxyegn).
So far, I have not received any replies.
But I think mild HBOT chambers may be a bit of a con.
Such chambers cost around $6000, which is very expensive (not to mention the issues with their cumbersome size once you get them home), whereas I think you will get almost as good a result just by breathing oxygen from an oxygen concentrator machine (which extracts oxygen from the air to provide a supply of oxygen at 90% concentration or higher).
This article explains how either breathing 100% oxygen and/or breathing under increased hyperbaric pressure, raises the quantity of oxygen dissolved in the blood:
At physiological PO2, only a small amount of oxygen is dissolved in plasma since oxygen has such a low solubility.
At elevated PO2 (breathing 100% oxygen or during hyperbaric oxygenation), however, the physically dissolved form of oxygen can become significant. Henry's law states that the amount of oxygen dissolved in plasma is directly proportional to PO2
Note that PO2 = the partial pressure of oxygen (O2).
Partial pressure is proportional to the oxygen concentration in the air (there is a 21% concentration of O2 in normal air, versus 100% concentration when you breath pure oxyegn).
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