You settle into a one-person chamber, and as the pressure rises your ears feel clogged, then pop. Inside, you breathe pure oxygen at two to three times normal air pressure. At that pressure your lungs take in more oxygen than they do in ordinary air. Your plasma, the liquid part of your blood, carries that extra oxygen out to your tissues. A session usually runs one to two hours, and you rest or watch something during it.
Whatever brings you to the chamber, new connective tissue in a wound or around a joint is built from collagen. Your body makes that collagen with vitamin C, and zinc supports the repair of a wound as well. Both nutrients reach your body through your food, and they are the part of your recovery we work on with you at Cambiati Wellness Programs in Lafayette.
The Pressure Inside The Chamber
When you swallow or yawn, air moves into your middle ear, and the pop is the pressure evening out on both sides of your eardrum. The clogged feeling just before it is the rising pressure pressing on your middle ear. As the chamber comes back down to normal pressure at the end, air moves out of your middle ear the same way. Injury to the middle ear from the pressure change is the most common side effect, and a squeeze in the sinuses is another. Some people also find a one-person chamber closed in.
The Conditions The Chamber Is Cleared For
The FDA has cleared hyperbaric chambers for a specific list of conditions. Non-healing diabetic foot ulcers and crush injuries are on that list, and so are decompression sickness and carbon monoxide poisoning. Joint pain and arthritis are not on that list. A soft-sided mild chamber is a different device from a pure-oxygen chamber. It runs at a lower pressure on room air, and it is cleared only for acute mountain sickness. In a wound on the cleared list, the extra oxygen supports the growth of new blood vessels and connective tissue. That growth draws on the vitamin C and zinc you take in.
Inside Your Joint And The Tissue Around It
Joint cartilage takes its nutrients from the joint fluid around it, and it has a limited capacity to repair itself. The tendons and ligaments around that joint are connective tissue, and collagen is the main protein in them. Humans, unlike most animals, cannot make vitamin C, so all of it comes from food or supplements. The collagen in a mending tendon or ligament depends on that intake, just as it does in a wound. Your body also uses zinc to make proteins, and it draws that zinc from what you eat. Peppers and citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C, and meat and fish are good sources of zinc, so both of them sit together on an ordinary dinner plate.
Your Vitamin C And Zinc, Measured Inside Your Cells
Our micronutrient testing measures how nutrients function inside your cells, and vitamin C and zinc are among them. Each result from that testing reflects roughly the past several months. That window covers the weeks your recovery has already run, along with the meals that went into them.
Our nutritionists choose which test to recommend after hearing your symptoms and what you have already tried. A test only measures, and your nutritionist decides what your result means for your recovery. From that result, your nutritionist builds an anti-inflammatory, whole-food plan, with herbs and lifestyle changes matched to your history. Every plan starts from food, and a personalized supplement recommendation joins it where your result shows a gap. In private nutrition consulting, your nutritionist also assesses your diet with you. When your vitamin C or zinc runs short, the foods in your plan change what your body has to build with.
Book A Breakthrough Session About Your Recovery
By the end of our no-cost Breakthrough Session, you and your nutritionist have decided whether a micronutrient test fits your recovery. If it does, your result becomes the starting point for your plan. Book your session with Cambiati Wellness Programs in Lafayette at (925) 280-4442.
