When we inhale we take in oxygen, which is used to produce energy (ATP) efficiently. In this process of manufacturing energy, which is called metabolism, our body also produces heat, water, and carbon dioxide. The excess carbon dioxide is exhaled. However, if we are stressed, our breathing will increase and we will exhale too much CO2. If we are inactive, our metabolism will decrease, and less CO2 is produced. Combining the two, stress and inactivity, has a double negative effect resulting in lower levels of carbon dioxide in our body. Since carbon dioxide has many important properties in our body, we may experience health challenges when the CO2 levels go down. One effect of CO2 is that it creates vasodilation, which allows greater blood flow to the cells, which in turn means increased oxygen delivery and improved removal of waste products. The heart will have to work less hard to pump the blood through your circulatory system, and this will activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which creates a state of relaxation throughout the entire body.
PHOTOS FROM THIS STUDY USING CARBOXYTHERAPY FOR CELLULITE.
Comparison of gluteal region before and after treatments.
A and C are before the carboxytherapy treatment and B and D are 7 days after the last treatment.
Results: After the treatment, there was a significant reduction (P=0.0025) of the cellulite from degree III to degree II, and this improvement had correlation with the improvement in the organization of the fibrous lines and the disposal of adipose tissue lines of the treated regions observed through the panoramic ultrasound images diagnosis.
Conclusion: Carboxytherapy is an effective technique of treatment of cellulite in the
buttocks region and posterior thighs of healthy women.
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BENEFITS OF USING THE BODYSTREAM
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Increase in energy
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Anti-Aging
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Reduced Stress and Anxiety
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Reduction in cellulite
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Faster healing of wounds
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Reduction in body pain
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Improved skin quality
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Increased microcirculatio
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Increased metabolic rate and fat burning
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Firmer and more youthful skin on the entire body
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Reduction of cellulites, spider veins and varicose veins
CARBON DIOXIDE THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF CELLULITE: AN AUDIT OF CLINICAL PRACTICE
Results –
A total of 101 women underwent abdominal therapy (Table 1). A significant reduction in upper, mid, and lower abdomen circumference occurred in all three age groups: respectively, 1.8 ± 0.5, 1.6 ± 0.4, and 2.1 ± 0.3 cm in the 20- to 29-year-old group, 1.6 ± 0.4, 2.3 ± 0.3, and 2.1 ± 0.3 cm in the 30- to 39-year-old group, and 2.0 ± 0.4, 2.5 ± 0.4, and 2.6 ± 0.4 cm in the 40- to 50-year-old group. For the 10 men who underwent the same therapy, the fall in abdominal circumference was not significant. For the 57 women who underwent thigh therapy (27 in the 20- to 29-year-old group, 18 in the 30- to 39-year-old group, and 12 in the 40- to 50-year-old group), thigh circumference was significantly reduced respectively in the right versus left thigh 1.6 ± 0.3 versus 1.5 ± 0.2 cm, 1.1 ± 0.3 versus 1.1 ± 0.3 cm, and 1.6 ± 0.3 versus 1.5 ± 0.4 cm.
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Weight loss was significant (Table 2) for the older women who underwent abdominal therapy: 1.3 ± 0.2 kg in the 30- to 39-year-old group (n = 43) and 1.3 ± 0.2 kg in the 40- to 50-year-old group (n = 29). Older women who underwent thigh therapy also recorded significant weight reduction: 0.9 ± 0.4 kg in the 30- to 39-year-old group (n = 18) and 1.6 ± 0.3 kg in the 40- to 50-year-old group (n = 12). Figure 2 shows the typical ultrasound evidence of decreased subepidermal thickness after five sessions of carboxytherapy.
Ultrasound examination of the abdomen showing measurement of subcutaneous fat befor and after carbon dioxide therapy. The subepidermal thickness is reduced.
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FOR WHAT CAN THE BODYSTREAM BE USED?
The BodyStream improves overall cellular health on all levels so it may be used to improve health and outcome in a wide variety of health conditions. It may be used for skin wound healing or it may be the soft tissue, or even the joint. Carbon dioxide baths have been known to reduce body pain, increase metabolic rate and fat burning, increase in energy and for firming, softer and more youthful looking skin. Even if you have no health issues currently you can use it to take your health to the next level, have more energy, recover from fatigue faster and increase your overall vitality. Exposing the body to carbon dioxide, increases oxygen delivery to muscles, organs, brain, and more; it dilates arteries to increase blood flow, helps dissolve more fat, and is a powerful treatment for dozens of ailments.
WHEN DO I USE THE BODYSTREAM?
FOR DIFFERENT HEALTH ISSUES
- Pain
- Inflammation and swelling
- Muscle Soreness
- Lymphatic problems
- Low Energy
- Poor circulation
- Sleeping problems
- Weight loss and toning
IN STRESS AND DIFFICULT EMOTION
- Stress, Worry, Anxiety, Addiction
- Cravings
BEFORE OR AFTER PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
- As a performance enhancer
- As a recovery tool
PHYSIOLOGY BASICS OF CARBON DIOXIDE
1. The Bohr Effect allows more oxygen to get to the tissues. The Bohr Effect states that the oxygen loses its affinity for hemoglobin due to the presence of carbon dioxide allowing the nearby cells to utilize oxygen more efficiently. More oxygen utilization in turn also produces more carbon dioxide.
2. How CO2 is stored in the bones. Submarine studies show that over several months they would store up to 10 pounds of CO2 in the bones. Additionally there is something called Marble Bone Disease or Osteopetrosis. It is a condition where there is a deficiency of carbonic anhydrase causing CO2 in the body to build up to higher than normal levels.
3. The body can store 120 liters of CO2, but this is mostly as bicarbonate. 120 liters is only about .48 lbs.
4. CO2 being stored in the body in carbamino groups changing the function of amino and protein groups. Carbaminos also protect cells from glycation like in diabetes, as well as from oxidative damage.
At high pH and in the presence of dissolved CO2, the N-terminus and ε-amino groups of amino acids, peptides, and proteins can form adducts with CO2, known variously as carbamino groups, carbamino acids, carbamates, carbamides, or carbo amino groups [1] C. Stadie, H.J. O’Brien
The Equilibrium of Amino Acids, Carbon Dioxide, and Carbamates in Aqueous Solution: with a Note on the Ferguson-Roughton Carbamate Method J. Biol. Chem., 112 (1936), pp. 723-758
The formation of carbamino groups alters the electrostatic properties of peptides and proteins and can have many different effects. For example,
carbamino groups can change peptide conformation [1], influence peptide degradation and receptor binding [2], and increase the neurotoxicity of amino acids [3]. Carbamino groups increase the stability of insulin dimers [4] and are required for metal binding at the active sites of ribulose-1,5-biphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (RUBISCO) [5] and urease [6]. Carbamino group formation at the N-termini changes the oxygen binding properties of hemoglobin [8, 9, 10, 11, 12] and allows hemoglobin to transport carbon dioxide [13, 14, 15]. Nearly any peptide or protein that does not have the N-terminus blocked is subject to the formation of carbamino groups
5. It’s our number one anti-inflammatory.
The results testify to the fact that CO2 is a powerful inhibitor of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation by cells (blood phagocytes and alveolar macrophages of 96 people and cells of inner organs and tissue phagocytes (of liver, brain, myocardium, lungs, kidneys, stomach, and skeleton muscles), as well as by mitochondria of the liver of 186 white mice and human tissues.
6. CO2 directly increases the NAD+/NADH
Effect of carbonic acid concentration in blood on content of keto-acids and redox state of nicotinamide coenzymes in rabbit tissues
A rise in the level of carbonic acid in animal blood at practically unchanged pH causes an increase in the value of free [NAD+]/[NADH] and [NADP+]/[NADPH] ratios in the liver cells cytoplasm. The increase in the oxidizing power of the liver cells cytoplasm is observed against a background of a rise in both the total level of keto-acids in blood and concentration of pyruvate oxaloacetate and alpha-ketoglutarate in the liver and kidneys of animals.
Evidence points to the ability of CO2 to favor the oxidized state of the cell, directly increasing the ratio of NAD+ to NADH.
NAD+ levels decline when you age. When you are 50 years old, you have half the levels of NAD+ as you do when you are 20.
7. CO2 acting as a Lewis Acid
An unhealthy cell or cancer cell is in an overly reduced state having an excess of electrons and being more alkaline. In the presence of carbon dioxide, it acts like a Lewis Acid, withdrawing electrons from excited protons and facilitating oxygen delivery and restoring a healthy oxidative metabolism
8. CO2 streaming sodium and calcium out of the cell in the form of sodium bicarbonate and calcium bicarbonate.
9. CO2 has an effect on removing water from the cell and contributing to the structured jellylike state of the cell. When CO2 is formed in the cell it forms carbonic acid which is the combination of water and carbon dioxide. As it is formed, it is streamed out of the cell. Too much water in the cell causes the water in the cell to be less structured.
CARBON DIOXIDE THERAPY – A NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF NERVOUS DISORDERS BY L.J. MEDUNA M.D PUBLISHED IN 1950.
Carbon dioxide has a direct effect on increasing your resiliency to handling stress and producing energy. Meduna in 1950 observed the following changes to nerve cells in the presence of higher co2.
1. Increase in the member potential.
2. Increase in the threshold of stimulation.
3. Increase in ability to release energy.
4. Decrease in fatigability
A more general description of the effect of CO2 upon the functional ability of the nerve is given by Lorente de No:
1. The ability of the nerve fibers to release energy which is required to maintain the flow of the demarcation current or what amounts to the same thing to withstand without failure the effect of an applied cathodal current is increased markedly by the presence of 5% CO2 in the atmosphere of the nerve.
2. CO2 increases the ability of the nerve to conduct trains of impulses because the presence of 5% CO2 in the atmosphere of the nerve noticeably delays the appearance of the signs of failure, namely, increase of threshold, decrease of speed of conduction, decrease of the height of the spike.
Thus, it can be said that the presence of 5% CO2 increases the ability of the nerve to perform work, undoubtedly because the enzymatic mechanisms of the nerve utilize stores of metabolic energy more readily or more effectively in the presence than in the absence of a certain concentration.
The presence of CO2 in the atmosphere of the nerve not only increases the value of the membrane potential of the resting nerve, but also prevents the progressive depolarization of the nerve during tetanic stimulation.
HOW DO I USE THE BODYSTREAM?
Our BodyStream carbon dioxide dry bath allows you to easily bathe in an environment of 100% CO2.
The BodyStream carbon dioxide bath is very easy to use. You first vacuum out all the air and then fill the suit with 100% carbon dioxide to the desired fullness and pressure. It’s built with a neck seal and an airtight zipper to allow you to easily get into the suit, while retaining all of the CO2, ensuring that it’s at 100%.
The BodyStream carbon dioxide bath is a convenient way to cover your entire body with CO2 from your feet all the way to your neck, including your arms and hands. The CO2 dry bath allows carbon dioxide to be delivered into the body through the skin (carbon dioxide is easily absorbed through the skin).
CO2 EFFECT ON PHYSIOLOGY – SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
- The inefficient healing of chronic wounds is a result of poor blood perfusion at the wound and surrounding tissues.
- During CO2 therapy the LD flux in the studied extremity increased from 5.8 PU ± 3.9 PU to 30.3 PU ± 16.7 PU
- CONCLUSIONS: Our results confirm a local vasodilatory effect of applied CO2 therapy.
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- Diabetic foot. It is the most common foot injury in diabetic patients and can lead to lower-extremity amputation.
- Carboxytherapy refers to the subcutaneous injection of CO2 to improve the microcirculation and promote wound-healing by stimulating the microcirculation
- The results showed that this treatment that included carboxytherapy promoted wound-healing and prevented amputation.
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- In their study, 42 patients were divided into three groups: A, B, and C.
- In Group A, only liposuction was performed.
- In group B 3 weeks after liposuction CO2 therapy was administered in two weekly subcutaneous applications of CO2 for 10 consecutive weeks.
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- This study has shown that with CO2 therapy to obtain improvement in skin irregularity and cutaneous elasticity is possible.
- Our study has shown the positive response to reduced fat accumulation.
- This was confirmed by analysis of the results obtained by measurement of thigh circumference in group B than in group A.
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“It seems essential to use procedures stimulating the production of collagen, such as radiofrequency, intense light source, LED light (light-emitting diode), IR (infrared light), laser treatments, and chemical peels in activities aiming to improving skin elasticity. Nevertheless, none of these treatments has long-lasting effects related to the improvement of skin microcirculation which seems to be a factor necessary for proper functioning of various cells, including fibroblasts. It has been demonstrated that carboxytherapy improves cutaneous circulation, which is mirrored by overall improvement of skin function.
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