ACHIEVE YOUR WELLNESS GOALS WITH EWOT

How long should I do EWOT for?

We recommend you do an EWOT therapy session for 15 – 20 minutes to get full benefits.  Depending on your health status, we recommend you work up to 70% -80% of your theoretical maximum heart rate.  For your EWOT protocol, you can calculate your theoretical maximum heart rate as 220 minus your age. 

However, for people with chronic illness, getting to 70% - 80% of your maximum heart rate can take 6 months or longer.  Even if you never get there, don’t let the pursuit of perfection stand in the way of progress.  Do only what you are comfortable with and listen to your body carefully.  Even doing EWOT therapy while walking on a treadmill, bouncing on a rebounder, or standing on a vibration plate offers lots of health benefits

How often should I do EWOT?

EWOT protocol  - We recommend you start EWOT therapy slowly and listen to your body.  Ideally you will work up to at least 2 -3 times per week.  But, you are welcome to do more.  We have folks doing EWOT every day with good results.

How does EWOT compare to HBOT?

When it comes to EWOT vs HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Therapy), they are very similar modalities that offer very similar benefits.  However, EWOT therapy is much cheaper, less time-intensive, 

For best benefits using HBOT, a person needs to do about 90 minutes in a medically-supervised chamber.  Depending on the conditions or EWOT protocol, people often need to do these sessions 5-6 times per week over the course of 12 weeks or more at a cost of £70 - £90 per session. 

HBOT uses a pump to create high pressure to ram more oxygen into your tissues during a 90-minute session where you are in an enclosed tube.  People often report feeling claustrophobic and anxious during HBOT treatments due to the confined conditions.

EWOT replaces the pump in HBOT with your heart & exercise.  Since your heart is pumping harder during exercise, and because that causes your blood vessels to dilate, your heart and lungs are primed to bring more oxygen to your tissues.  And this blood vessel dilation allows oxygen to get to more areas of your body that if you were stationary.  Additionally, since your body uses 8 times more oxygen in exercise than in rest, we can conduct the entire EWOT session in 15 minutes rather than the 90 minutes needed for HBOT.

What should I wear?

Activewear or just comfortable clothes but not too baggy and trainers. Bring a water bottle.

Is there any scientific research on EWOT?

We catalog some of the growing research on EWOT on our Research Page.  Beyond that, you can search the government research website https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=hyperoxic+training  for even more research.  EWOT is referred to by many names, but exercise with oxygen therapy is often referred to as “hyperoxic training”, with the word “hyperoxic” meaning “a state of excess supply of O2 in tissues and organs”.