Celebrating Healthy Heart Month with LiveO2
Celebrating Healthy Heart Month with LiveO2!
Spring is just around the corner and we would like to help you renew your exercise goals. In six LiveO2 sessions you will feel recharged, improve cardiovascular fitness, and be ready to resume your outdoor activities. For the next month we will be booking appointments for our Healthy Heart Month Special.
Here is how it works: Book six LiveO2 sessions and you will receive each session at the special price of $60 per session (regularly $75 per session for six sessions).
Here is a review from one of our patients (52 year-old male patient):
"I saw a dramatic increase in my health and well-being. I would recommend Dr Gruber to anyone. Overall had a great experience with LiveO2"
Haven't heard of LiveO2?
In 2016 Family and Environmental Medicine became the first clinic on the east coast of the United States to offer patients the most advanced system for oxygen multistep therapy, a system called LiveO2. This advanced system that uses altitude contrast therapy has been clinically demonstrated to be more effective in LESS TIME than traditional oxygen multistep therapy, exercise with oxygen therapy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. In addition to reversing and slowing the effects of aging, LiveO2 has been effective in our clinic in treating chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, chronic lymphatic congestion, chronic infections and chronic Lyme disease.
https://youtu.be/lT07CewOIh4
Podcast: LiveO2 Whole Life Challenge Episode 117
The Vice President of LiveO2, Tom Butler, recently appeared on the Whole Life Challenge podcast.
We are reposting this recording on our website for you to listen to an exquisite explanation of the Adaptive Contrast™ system that we are using in our New Canaan office.
**Tip: skip ahead to around the 13 minute mark to get to the actual interview...the intro is a bit long.
Oxygen is the necessary material that every cell in the body uses to make energy efficiently. If oxygen doesn't reach the tissue, diffuse into fluids, then shuttled into the cell, energy efficiency is disrupted. When energy is inefficient the function of cells declines. It is well-established that by 50 years old, a person is absorbing 50% of the oxygen that was available during their 20's. This decline in oxygen absorption leads to many diseases as well as aging. Oxygen Multistep Therapy reestablishes oxygen absorption and is well-established as an "anti-aging" therapy (I like to call it aging gracefully).
LiveO2: What's it all About?
It is well-established that by 50 years old, a person is absorbing about 50% of the oxygen that was available during their 20’s. This decline in oxygen absorption leads to many diseases as well as aging. Oxygen is the necessary material that every cell in the body uses to make energy efficiently. If oxygen doesn’t reach the tissue, diffuse into the fluids, then shuttled into the cell, energy efficiency is disrupted. When energy is inefficient the function of cells declines. Oxygen Multistep Therapy reestablishes oxygen absorption.
Family and Environmental Medicine has made Oxygen Multistep Therapy (also known as Exercise with Oxygen Therapy or EWOT) a growing part of our practice here in Connecticut. We're proud to be one of the few that supply this therapy in the area, especially LiveO2 in Connecticut.
Why LiveO2?
If the percentiles above weren't enough, LiveO2 is quicker, deeper, and ultimately more effective because of the pumping action of the lungs, heart, and cardiovascular system. You may be a tad more familiar with hyperbaric oxygen treatments...and while hyperbaric treatments are typically 60 – 120 minutes, Oxygen Multistep Therapy takes only 15 minutes. LiveO2 is an alternative to hyperbaric oxygen treatments, and we feel that is a very important alternative to consider when it comes to improving your overall health!
All it takes is 15 minutes riding a stationary cycle breathing 75% – 90% oxygen.During this time we monitor heart rate, intensity, and oxygen saturation. The treatment is very safe and is available to anyone who is able to exercise.
LiveO2 is Exercise with Oxygen Therapy (EWOT)
The LiveO2 advanced delivery system is the latest and most improved technology for EWOT at this time. The advantage over other basic EWOT systems is the Altitude Contrast mechanism.
The human body is so programmed for survival such that when there is any change in oxygen concentration levels that there is an immediate physiological response to preserve the most important organs and systems. We can tap into this with the LiveO2 Altitude Contrast Mechanism. The physiological change from Altitude Contrast are likened to opening the flood gates to allow massive infusion of oxygen into the tissues. The LiveO2 Altitude Contrast Mechanism allows the patient to go from sea level to approximately 19,000 feet (and back again) by the flip of a switch. With the fast change in a patient’s altitude physiology oxygen uptake is significantly increases along with the resulting impact on energy production to the neurological, hormonal, immunological communication systems of the body as well as the high energy organs such as: brain, heart, muscles, liver, kidneys, and eyes.
If you live in CT, NYC, MA, NJ, and are interested in LiveO2...There are limited spots available at our office for Live O2, so don’t miss out.
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LiveO2 in Fairfield County CT and Surrounding Local Areas
Family and Environmental Medicine help patients with Holistic Solutions that support health and well-being. Dr Gary Gruber provides private appointments for patients from around the country who seek health and healing with Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The majority of patients are from the local area of southern Fairfield County (including Greenwich CT, Stamford CT, Darien CT, Norwalk CT, New Canaan CT, Wilton CT), Westchester County, NY, NYC, and Northern NJ. See if we're a good for your liveo2 near me! LiveO2 CT, LiveO2 in Connecticut. For personal questions about anti aging therapy and LiveO2, please contact us at (203) 966-6360.
More on LiveO2 from Family and Environmental Medicine:
Listen to a powerful, life saving story about LiveO2
Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland covered LiveO2
Learn about LiveO2 with regards to Anti-Aging
Friends for Fall 2017
Focus on your overall health and recharge your energy this Fall!
Have you experienced a loss of energy? Perhaps wrinkles, or brain fog? Live O2 can help with that! For a limited time only, this Fall, you and a friend can experience the benefits of a true anti-aging system at an unbeatable price!
With our Friends for Fall promotion, you and a friend are able to save 20% or more on Live O2 sessions! Here's how it works...during the promotion, book a minimum of 6 sessions, and you + a friend will receive Live O2 sessions for $60 each (compared to $75+ each).
Here is a review from one of our patients (66 year-old female patient):
"I love this therapy. I found it to be so beneficial to my health and overall well-being. It has been a few months since I have stopped but I feel it has longevity i.e. my sense of smell is acute as ever and I am still very focused. I am looking forward to resuming it again."
Haven't heard of LiveO2?
In 2016 Family and Environmental Medicine became the first clinic on the east coast of the United States to offer patients the most advanced system for oxygen multistep therapy, a system called LiveO2. This advanced system that uses altitude contrast therapy has been clinically demonstrated to be more effective in LESS TIME than traditional oxygen multistep therapy, exercise with oxygen therapy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. In addition to reversing and slowing the effects of aging, LiveO2 has been effective in our clinic in treating chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, chronic lymphatic congestion, chronic infections, and chronic Lyme disease.
https://youtu.be/lT07CewOIh4
LiveO2 Featured On Wordwide Business
LiveO2, as a part of Whole Health Network, was very recently featured on Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland® to discuss restoring vitality with oxygenation technology.
Take a look at the full story in the video below!
LiveO2 Can Save Your Life
In this podcast, Tom Butler explains the concept of super-oxygenation and how different parts of the body have priority for oxygenation.For many reason, certain body systems may be deficient in oxygen for extended periods of time,leading ultimately to dysfunction and then disease.
The interviewer and host, Stephan Spencer, first experienced the benefits of LiveO2 at a health conference. At the conference, he met Kristen who was demonstrating the equipment and explained how LiveO2 gave her back her life. Listen to this podcast to hear her powerful testimonial about her LIFE-SAVING experience with LiveO2.
How to Boost Your Body & Brain: the Optimized Geek Podcast
Tom Butler, VP and Partner at LiveO2, was interviewed by the folks at Optimized Geek Podcast. The podcast focuses on different tips, tricks, and ways to help reboot your life. Click on the player above to hear Tom Butler talk about the science behind super-oxygenation!
Alternative to Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments
Athletes and Hyperbaric Oxygen
Over the past few months there have been news reports about athletes who are using hyperbaric oxygen chambers to support recovery from their day to day regimens of intense training and competition. As a avid tennis fan I found a newsworthy article in the Wall Street Journal about Novak Djokovic and other players at the 2015 Australian Open.
Recently, Family and Environmental Medicine has brought another similar yet more effective oxygen treatment i
nto our clinic called Oxygen Multistep Therapy (also known as Exercise with Oxygen Therapy or EWOT). It is quicker, deeper, and ultimately more effective because of the pumping action of the lungs, heart, and cardiovascular system. While hyperbaric treatments are typically 60 – 120 minutes, Oxygen Multistep Therapy takes only 15 minutes while riding a stationary cycle and breathing 75% - 90% oxygen. During this time we monitor heart rate, intensity, and oxygen saturation. The treatment is very safe and is available to anyone who is able to exercise.
EWOT is Anti-Aging and Longevity Medicine
Oxygen is the necessary material that every cell in the body uses to make energy efficiently. If oxygen doesn’t reach the tissue, diffuse into the fluids, then shuttled into the cell, energy efficiency is disrupted. When energy is inefficient the function of cells declines. It is well-established that by 50 years old, a person is absorbing about 50% of the oxygen that was available during their 20’s. This decline in oxygen absorption leads to many diseases as well as aging. Oxygen Multistep Therapy reestablishes oxygen absorption and is well-established as an “anti-aging” therapy (I like to call it aging gracefully).
Here is a short video that explains inflammation and poor oxygenation of tissues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2a2azCm07o&feature=youtu.be
Exercise with Oxygen Treatments
Treatments: The patient’s treatment plan is thirteen 15-minute sessions, either once or twice weekly. The total cost of the treatment plan is $975.00. Therefore, the average cost per session is $75.00. Additional sessions after the initial treatment plan will be charged at $75.00 per session. The payments will be cash or credit only, i.e., no insurance reimbursements.
The treatments do not include the cost of oxygen mask, oxygen hose, and supplements. These costs will be charged separately. After the first session, the oxygen mask is required to be purchased. While certain supplements are recommended they are not required.
Family and Environmental Medicine help patients with Holistic Solutions that support health and well-being. Dr Gary Gruber provides private appointments for patients from around the country who seek health and healing with Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The majority of patients are from the local area of southern Fairfield County (including Greenwich CT, Stamford CT, Darien CT, Norwalk CT, New Canaan CT, Wilton CT), Westchester County, NY, NYC, and Northern NJ. For personal questions about Exercise with Oxygen Therapy, please contact us at (203) 966-6360.
LiveO2 is Exercise with Oxygen Therapy (EWOT)
Oxygen Multistep Therapy
Manfred von Ardenne (1907 - 1997) was a brilliant scientist and inventor. As a medical researcher he discovered a very important mechanism of the human aging process. Along with his discovery he was able to develop a therapy that effectively reversed this mechanism with a corresponding cure to many chronic illnesses. In his textbook, Oxygen Multistep Therapy, he described the results of years of testing his theory along with the chronic conditions that the therapy cured: Erectile dysfunction, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, hypotension, and other circulatory disorders.
He found that there was a common condition whereby the capillary beds were swollen, narrowed, and thicken thereby reducing blood flow, increasing blood viscosity and oxygen delivery to the tissues (see Anti Aging Medicine Exercise with Oxygen). He called this condition the Cellular Wall Switching Mechanism. He also discover that this condition was reversible. This condition is always present in the aging process but may also occur with:
- Infection
- Cancer
- Trauma
- Toxicity
- Low pH (acid)
- Allergic reactions
- Low and high blood pressure
- Anesthesia
- Noise
- Hormones
- Poor nutrition and diet
Dr von Ardenne’s oxygen multistep therapy was studied and applied to reverse this switching mechanism.
The basic therapy was to have a patient exercise while breathing oxygen. The protocol was typically 18-days for 2 hours each day. First the patient took some nutrients (magnesium and thiamin) that enhanced the utilization of oxygen for energy production. After 30 minutes, the patient began to exercise (using a stationary bicycle or treadmill) while breathing oxygen through a mask with a storage balloon at a flow rate of four to six liters per minute.
Every 20 minutes the patient pushed his exercise capacity for two minutes to the aerobic target heart rate which increased cardiac output as well as oxygen delivery to hypoxic areas. After 36 hours of oxygen multistep therapy, the patient’s switching mechanism was generally found to be reversed.
Dr von Ardenne also used a modified protocol where the patient exercised at the target heart rate for 15 minutes at an oxygen flow rate of 10 liters per minute. This quick treatment protocol has been used extensively throughout the United States and Europe and is referred to as Exercise with Oxygen Therapy (EWOT).
LiveO2 is Exercise with Oxygen Therapy (EWOT)
The LiveO2 advanced delivery system is the latest and most improved technology for EWOT at this time. The advantage over other basic EWOT systems is the Altitude Contrast mechanism.
The human body is so programmed for survival such that when there is any change in oxygen concentration levels that there is an immediate physiological response to preserve the most important organs and systems. For example, when a person flies from New York at sea level to Denver at one-mile above sea level, the respiratory system is immediately challenged by the reduction of barometric pressure and oxygen concentration. This results is several changes to the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.
The carotid bodies are specialized cells that are located in the carotid artery that signal the brain that there is lower oxygen levels in the blood that is traveling into the brain. In response,
- The brain sends a signal to increase the rate of breathing and constrict vessels in the lung
- The brain sends a signal to increase the heart rate
- The brain sends a signal to dilate peripheral circulation to arms, legs, hands, feet, and head
Knowing these physiological changes occur rapidly, we can take advantage of it to provide enhanced EWOT. We can do this with the LiveO2 Altitude Contrast Mechanism. It is enhanced because the physiological change from Altitude Contrast are likened to opening the flood gates to allow massive infusion of oxygen into the tissues.
The LiveO2 Altitude Contrast Mechanism allows the patient to go from sea level to approximately 19,000 feet (and back again) by the flip of a switch. With the fast change in a patient’s altitude physiology oxygen uptake is significantly increases along with the resulting impact on energy production to the neurological, hormonal, immunological communication systems of the body as well as the high energy organs such as: brain, heart, muscles, liver, kidneys, and eyes.
Anti-Aging Medicine is Exercise with Oxygen
Botox Injections and Collagen Therapy are not Anti-Aging Medicine in Fairfield County
As a naturopathic physician for over 12 years I am always researching to find and implement new therapies that generate health and healing for our patients. The current state of anti aging medicine consists of hormone replacement therapy, laser treatments, botox injections, and collagen therapy. This type of anti-aging medicine reminds me of the Saturday Night Live skit: “Its not how you feel but how you look, and you look marvelous….” Skip to the following video to watch an anti-aging presentation by Dr Gary Gruber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT07CewOIh4
In this article we are going to explore one of the most important causes of physical aging and a therapy that effectively reverses the mechanism of aging.
What is Aging?
Aging is a complex process of changes in biological systems that results in progressive decline in function and degeneration of one or more physical systems of the body.
Changes are observable as well as experienced: Changes in sensory experiences such as vision, hearing, taste, and smell. Changes in the skin and joints; changes in sleep patterns; changes in urinary and sexual function, changes in cognition and mood. Cardiovascular changes (heart, veins and arteries) and neurological (neuropathies and dementias).
Many people are told by their doctor that their symptoms are just the result of getting older, as though it should be accepted as fact. And while some people will buy into the getting-old program and stereotypes, others will look for alternatives to aging that reverse the signs and symptoms.
Cause of Aging is Lack of Biochemical Energy
What is the underlying cause of physical aging. Can the mechanism be reversed?
When we consider all of the factors that influence the aging process, there is one factor that consistently declines throughout life … Energy!
We progressively lose the vitality of youth. All biological functions require energy and lots of it. Biological functions including metabolism, regeneration, digestion, respiration, locomotion, cognition, immune, neurological, hormonal, ALL require energy. To get energy we have to make it. It requires nutrients and oxygen.
It is possible for cells throughout the body to make energy without oxygen. But the process, called anaerobic respiration is inefficient and results in a net loss of biochemical energy. Anaerobic respiration results in two molecules of energy or ATP but after considering the removal of waste products from the body which also requires energy, there is a net loss of four molecules of ATP.
On the other hand in the presence of oxygen, that is called aerobic respiration, the cells make in excess of 30 molecules of ATP energy for each molecule of glucose, fat, or protein.. Aerobic energy production is efficient and effective and is the source of youthful vitality. Oxygen is the critical factor. Without sufficient quantities of oxygen cells make energy inefficiently. Yet with every breath there is a vast supply of oxygen so why aren’t cells always making energy aerobically. It is because the delivery system has changed over the years.
It is well understood that the body fluids of a 50 year old contain less than 50% of the dissolved oxygen than the same person at 25 years old. In order for the cells to get oxygen, the oxygen must be dissolved in the fluids that surround the cells. This fluid, predominately water is outside of the vascular system, the system that carries the oxygen-rich red blood cells.
The fluid of the body is like a fish tank. Suppose you fill a tank with 10 gallons of water and put a dozen goldfish in the tank. What happens after a week?
The water gets murky is depleted of oxygen and the fish die. To prevent this condition you either need to replace the oxygen-depleted water or add a bubbler system that creates turbulence in the water. It is the turbulence that is necessary for oxygen to be dissolved in the water.
In the human body the only way to create turbulence in the fluids, like a fish tank, is to engage your own pump, the heart. We do this through exercise. When the heart rate is sustained above 110 beats per minute, or greater, such as a cardiovascular workout, the turbulence is created that promotes oxygen to dissolve into the body fluids.
Oxygen is not dissolved in blood but rather it is attached to hemoglobin within the red blood cells. But remember, the oxygen must dissolve in the fluids in order to be picked up by the cells.
However, as we age, inflammation of the capillaries prevents oxygen from dissolving into the tissues. Here is how it happens: In order for the oxygen to be stripped off the red blood cell, each red blood cell, one by one, must pass through the tip of the smallest vessel in the vascular system, the capillary. If the red blood cell by-passes the tips of the capillaries, the oxygen is not stripped off and does not dissolve into the fluid.
Advanced Oxygen Multistep Anti Aging Therapy in Fairfield County
There is only one effective way to reverse inflammation of the capillaries: oxygen multistep therapy. Oxygen Multistep Therapy was first developed by Manfred von Ardenne, a German physicist in 1987 after years of research into the question of how to maintain good health in older age. Since then hundreds of clinics throughout Europe have reversed or slowed aging using this simple therapy of combining oxygen while exercising.
In 2016 Family and Environmental Medicine became the first clinic on the east coast of the United States to offer patients the most advanced system for oxygen multistep therapy, a system called LiveO2. This advanced system that uses altitude contrast therapy has been clinically demonstrated to be more effective in LESS TIME than traditional oxygen multistep therapy, exercise with oxygen therapy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. In addition to reversing and slowing the effects of aging, LiveO2 has been effective in our clinic in treating chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, chronic lymphatic congestion, chronic infections and chronic Lyme disease.
Anti Aging in Fairfield County CT and Surrounding Local Areas
Family and Environmental Medicine help patients with Holistic Solutions that support health and well-being. Dr Gary Gruber provides private appointments for patients from around the country who seek health and healing with Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The majority of patients are from the local area of southern Fairfield County (including Greenwich CT, Stamford CT, Darien CT, Norwalk CT, New Canaan CT, Wilton CT), Westchester County, NY, NYC, and Northern NJ. For personal questions about anti aging therapy and LiveO2, please contact us at (203) 966-6360.