Frequently Asked Questions for Dr. Ronald Stram & Dr. Korey DiRoma: How does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and IV Therapy Support Your Health?
We sat down with our medical founder, Dr. Ronald Stram, and our Naturopathic Doctor, Dr. Korey DiRoma, to discuss the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and IV therapy at the center. Dr. Stram and Dr. DiRoma have over 15 years of experience with working together to support hundreds of patients struggling with chronic illnesses all across the globe.
We first asked, "can you explain how HBOT can help patients who are living with post-COVID-19, or long haulers syndrome?”
Dr. DiRoma: "I think with COVID and long haulers we don't know the exact mechanisms, but we believe it to be as some type of inflammatory or chronic inflammatory response post infection. This could be a cytokine response, and we know that COVID causes a lot of cellular damage to tissues, whether it's lung tissue or other cellular structures. Based on this, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is going to not only allow those tissues to actually heal quicker from the damage of the infection but also help to reduce the inflammatory response of the cytokines.
We then asked, "what about the use of intravenous therapies, for instance using vitamin C, what are some of the benefits of using intravenous therapies versus oral supplements?”
Dr. Stram: "With IV vitamin therapy, we bypass issues with gut absorption, so we're getting the vitamins directly into our bloodstream. This is helpful for people who maybe more depleted or feeling weak and fatigued. We can oftentimes get them all such an instant increase in vitamin levels, such as B vitamins, magnesium, B12 injections or vitamin D injections. In this way we can see almost a direct result, meaning often times when people have deficiencies of vitamins, we can get the quickest result as to which vitamin they are deficient in with IV therapy. Specifically with high dose of IV Vitamin C, it is more of a pro oxidant, or a killing effect. So, with chronic viral infections, or bacterial infections, we utilize high doses of vitamin C, versus low doses of vitamin C we would use for antioxidant and immune support."
We asked Dr. DiRoma, "can you talk about the tissues that are benefitted from high dose Vitamin C?”
Dr. DiRoma: For chronic viral infections or chronic bacterial infections that may be more intracellular, than vitamin C might actually be more helpful for that.
"Intravenously what tissues may be benefited from nutrient therapy? Or B Vitamin Therapy? What would be useful in the lower doses?”
Dr. DiRoma explains, “with lower dose Vitamin C we’re going to find that it's going to have more of an antioxidant affect, so with chronic inflammation, for people with diabetes, people with high LDL, high cholesterol levels, or some who are more immunosuppressed. Especially during the winter months, immunosuppressed people may benefit from low dose vitamin C and vitamin D injections to give that extra protective factor. We also do mineral therapies like zinc and selenium to help improve immune and thyroid function.
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