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Boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya, 52, precocious shared a quality concealed that is raising immoderate eyebrows.
"These lasers lone making maine younger and cuter … atrocious fellas," helium precocious posted connected Instagram, on with a video of himself receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) on with a laser treatment.
"CO2 laser + hyperbaric chamber=sexy papichulo by adjacent week," helium went on.
While HBOT tin service arsenic a supplement for different therapies, it is not a primary treatment for illnesses, experts emphasized.
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Fox News Digital spoke to the experts to find retired whether HBOT is simply a harmless aesthetic treatment.
What is hyperbaric oxygen therapy?
In mundane life, humans breathe successful air truthful that humor tin present oxygen to cells for vigor — but that aerial is lone comprised of 21% oxygen.
Boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya, 52, precocious shared that helium undergoes hyperbaric oxygen therapy. (Getty/iStock)
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy works by pumping 100% oxygen to the tissues, which tin assistance successful healing. (Tissues request oxygen to relation normally, but they necessitate much oxygen aft injury, experts say.)
For an HBOT session, the diligent enters a long, tube-shaped enclosure that resembles an MRI machine. They typically prevarication connected their backmost portion oxygen is pumped into the enclosure for 1 to 2 hours, experts confirm.
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The enclosure has two-and-a-half times much aerial unit than normal, the National Institutes of Health notes.
That accrued unit past "floods" injured tissues with oxygen-rich humor to assistance them heal.
"Exclusively relying connected HBOT is not recommended."
"Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has surely gained much momentum successful the medical community, assisting with the healing of terrible diabetic ft ulcers, failing tegument grafts/flaps and insubstantial severely damaged by radiation injury," Dr. Caesar A. Anderson, aesculapian manager astatine UCSD Hyperbaric Medicine & Wound Healing Center successful California, told Fox News Digital.
The therapy besides helps to trim inflammation and beforehand maturation of caller humor vessels, the doc added.
However, Anderson added, "Exclusively relying connected HBOT is not recommended."
For an HBOT session, the diligent enters a long, tube-shaped enclosure that resembles an MRI machine. They typically prevarication connected their backmost portion oxygen is pumped into the enclosure for 1 to 2 hours, experts confirm. (iStock)
HBOT has besides been shown to beryllium effectual successful coiled healing — "especially successful burns, infections and immunocompromised patients" — and to dainty c monoxide poisoning, according to Dr. Suzanne A. Trott, a treble board-certified integrative and wide surgeon successful Beverly Hills.
Additionally, the attraction is often adjuvant for improving outcomes aft surgery.
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"Oral surgeons notation patients who person had radiation for head oregon cervix cancer and necessitate bony extractions," Anderson said.
HBOT primes the radiated insubstantial with oxygen, which enables the assemblage to amended tolerate country portion minimizing post-operative complications, helium noted.
Trott said that successful her ain practice, she recommends 1 pre-operative and 5 post-operative HBOT treatments for each aesthetic and reconstructive patients — "because it truly does amended recovery."
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy works by pumping 100% oxygen to the tissues, which tin assistance successful healing. (iStock)
"When you travel retired of it, you've got a bully glow, truthful it's a large red-carpet attraction — but that look is temporary," she added.
Approximately 15 conditions are approved for hyperbaric oxygen therapy by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS).
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Some of these include carbon monoxide poisoning, burns, decompression sickness, terrible anemia and severe wounds.
"Chronic refractory bony infections and/or necrotizing insubstantial infections are besides approved indications for HBOT use, arsenic terrible anaerobic infections bash not thrive successful a hyper-oxygenated environment," Anderson told Fox News Digital.
Potential anti-aging effects
The quality for HBOT to reverse oregon abbreviate the aging process has not yet been endorsed by the governing aesculapian body, the UHMS, according to Anderson.
"The aging process is complex, and surely we cognize that with aging, our quality to efficiently utilize oxygen connected the cellular level is modified," helium told Fox News Digital.
"I don't deliberation we are astatine the constituent wherever we tin conscionable people the parts of our assemblage that we don't privation to age."
Past studies person shown that the attraction decreases compartment decease by maintaining and expanding the magnitude of telomeres, which are extensions of DNA that forestall cells from degrading, Trott said.
"While this makes it dependable similar a cure-all for aging … I don't deliberation we are astatine the constituent wherever we tin conscionable people the parts of our assemblage that we don't privation to age," she said.
The enclosure has two-and-a-half times much aerial unit than normal, the National Institutes of Health notes. (iStock)
For astir people, the doc surmised, that would apt see things similar maintaining tegument elasticity, musculus mass, and hairsbreadth measurement and color.
"We person not yet harnessed the powerfulness of HBOT to visibly dilatory down oregon reverse the outer signs of aging," Trott added.
Cautions of broadside effects
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the attraction is mostly harmless and that superior complications are not common.
The accrued unit and attraction of oxygen, however, tin origin middle receptor infections, rupture of an eardrum, impermanent imaginativeness changes and, successful uncommon cases, illness of the lungs, according to the agency.
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Others whitethorn acquisition a feeling that their ears are plugged, akin to being astatine precocious altitude oregon successful an airplane, per Johns Hopkins Medicine.
People who are claustrophobic whitethorn person much trouble receiving the attraction successful an enclosed space.
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As immoderate whitethorn acquisition headaches and consciousness lightheaded, experts urge that patients person idiosyncratic thrust them location aft the therapy.
The FDA besides warns that the precocious concentrations of oxygen tin pb to explosions oregon fire, which person occurred astatine unaccredited facilities.
Experts recommend receiving the therapy lone for FDA-approved conditions astatine an accredited installation from an experienced healthcare supplier – ideally 1 that has been certified by the UHMS. (iStock)
To forestall this risk, experts recommend receiving the therapy lone for FDA-approved conditions astatine an accredited installation from an experienced healthcare provider – ideally 1 that has been certified by the UHMS.
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In January 2025, a 5-year-old lad was killed portion wrong a hyperbaric oxygen enclosure that exploded astatine a Michigan aesculapian installation portion receiving attraction for conditions not approved by the FDA, arsenic Fox News Digital previously reported.
Fox News Digital reached retired to Mayo Clinic, which declined to comment. Fox News Digital besides reached to De La Hoya for comment.
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