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Why we Practice Functional Medicine & Hyperbaric Medicine

What is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine is a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness.

What is Hyperbaric Medicine?

Hyperbaric medicine is the medical use of oxygen at a higher-pressure level than our atmosphere. Ordinarily, the air we breathe is made up of 21 percent oxygen. Hyperbaric medicine uses 100 percent oxygenated air at an elevated ambient pressure to treat a variety of conditions.

Normally we breathe about 21% oxygen at sea level. While we are under pressure and breathing 100% oxygen this allows the oxygen to be pushed into and dissolved directly in the blood plasma. By increasing the oxygen concentration in the body and pushing oxygen into plasma it can be carried into tissues much further and can help boost the body’s natural ability to heal. This mechanism of action is due to universal gas laws: Boyle’s Law, Henry’s law, and Dalton’s Law.