Our past time when traveling is to coordinate vacation travel around some medical conference. We go to 2 Metabolic confs a yr, Boca, FL in spring and Denver in Julyish. The trade shows have been showing several mild hyperbaric chambers, the soft sided 1.3ATA type. After much research we can add our home decorating tactic to this thread. We bought a summit to the sea grand dive verticale.
With a military discount, around $16k, $18k list. 1.3ATA and big enough for 2 to sit side by side or enough room for a chair and one person to streach out and be comfy. I do my computer work, reading every morning for a 1.5hr 1.3ATA + 95% oxy canula. Its made an improvement in mental and physical endurance. My wife’s nerve / tremens has improved. youtube has alot of benefits of frequent mHBOT use.
Dollar for dollar IMHO its one of the more benefical spends. We have LED panels, alot of power, no noticible bernefit. Like rapa, LED is on faith basis. One of the problems with PEMF, LED, (etc) is frequency and duration of treatment. If not in the range of 5 hr / week (picked off the top of my head) you’ll get little benefit, or noticable benefit.
I find it easy to do HBOT, since I sit and do computer work. One of my LED panels is on the back of my chair and all I would have to do is pull my shirt off and flip it on… I rarely do. Upon typing this I’ll try to do it more often. LOL.
I bought an ebike, lectric xp 3.0. Geeze I love zooming around for 1/2 hr a day. I come back winded. Thats effective at getting me to do excersize. The ebike adds a fun factor. I have a gym I hate, includng vibration plate. Just can’t do nothing useful.
In 2022, I spent $209.42 on making my urine more expensive with supplements. About 57 cents per day. Plus another 16 cents a day on vitamins, which some also consider a waste of money. I’m going to have to work pretty hard to catch up with the Rastegars on biohacking expenditures.
Interesting! Have you been doing pre and post testing on key measures that might be relevant to you - blood test, telomere length, etc. that might quanitify any changes and benefits you’ve seen?
I appologize to this scientific community, I did not, have not done before and during testing. I have only my “feelings” of more energy. I don’t feel too incompentent youtube and a ton of research papers find many benefits of HBOT. 1.3ATA (termed mild HBOT or mHBOT) has nearly idendical results as 2.0ATA and above., One just ratios the time spent at 1.3ATA to longer for the same benefits you find in the papers.
Hormesis is an important tactic in whole body health. Cold therapy, ice baths, high temp sauna, intense LED, and high pressure oxygen is a stressor going from sea level and 20% O2 to 1.3ATA and breathing 95% O2 (via a concentrator which is std in mHBOT setups) causes the differential before and after. Done daily and pretty soon the body gets the message it needs to be more efficient at 02 update (angiogenesis etc). I’m just the parrot messenger.
Google in your area; rent hbot time. I did several series of $70/hr to $125/yr at various local clinics to get the gist of mHBOT. I bet there’s by the hour mHBOT in your area too.
Money is relative. What appears a lot for one, can be none for other. and also enter time in the equation.
In percentage of wealth maybe his 2 million per year to feel healthy, is more economical then a typical worker, drinking a coca cola 3x per week.
It’s been a while since you posted this, but wanted to check, did you use to inject Radiesse by yourself? In hyper dilute form it seems to be used with mesotherapy.
Yes, I inject it myself, but not in a super diluted meso form. I don’t dilute it at all. It works well and I believe it promotes collagen and elastin as claimed by the manufacturer.
I’ve got my skin quality pretty much where I need it but the better it gets, the more my nasolabials are driving me nuts as there’s nothing else “wrong” distracting me from them and I don’t think any of the devices I have or can afford will do the trick there. The folds are shallow but very defined. Think: an origami fold on paper, then the paper almost flattened out again but you can see the line nice and sharp. Courtesy of rapid weight gain and loss 5 times now back to back from my pregnancies. I don’t want any HA fillers but very open to Radiesse as it would help me make my own collagen. What got me excited was reading that it can be applied via mesotherapy as that’s something I can DIY. Actually using a regular needle? I won’t cross the Rubicon on that. Any tips you can give me to learn techniques much appreciated.
I use regular needle that comes with the filler. Radiesse requires a deeper application (if not diluted for meso) and by going deeper it’s easy to perforate a vein especially in nasolabial area. So be careful. I don’t inject Radiesse there. For the lines I recommend a simple taping for the night along the lines and if you still need a lift there, use either Voluma (it’s thickerl) or Volbella ( good for more superficial application, like meso, with a thin needle). You may be surprised by quick effects of taping. https://a.co/d/eBwqkGT
Why don’t you want to use HA fillers? Skin needs HA. Radiesse was not designed for meso applications. Yes, it’s trendy now to super dilute it either with saline or lidocaine but is it good for long term effects? Saline and lidocaine will be quickly absorbed leaving you with minimum amount of good stuff. It works for a quick fix on young faces (that don’t even need any fix).
I don’t like the HA filler look. It’s too puffy and filler can migrate. I can always tell when it’s filler vs a Fotona 4d lift or a correction using a biostimulant. So there’s the aesthetic consideration. This may sound silly but there’s also my biohacker vanity. Like @John_Hemming I don’t like to make a change that’s only cosmetic. I don’t die my hair and I love not wearing makeup so I’m sure when I see changes to how I look, it’s all “earned” as opposed to “paid” media. I want to know what’s working and what’s not for building my own tissues.
Re: radiesse, I’m no expert at all but even though they call it hyper dilute, the ratio to saline / lidocaine is often 1:1, sometimes 1:2 or 1:3 so still a lot. I am seeing a lot of really positive before and after changes even with hyper dilute radiesse and even in older folks. I’m late 30s and with very good skin and ample volume. Just need a boost in certain areas like nasolabials and maybe neck.
What makes me leery is the potential for nodules and lumps if I don’t know what I’m doing with mesotherapy techniques. So I’m thinking of getting it done in the old country when I visit this summer.
If you use high quality thin HA, like Volbella, CytocCare 516, you won’t have any lumps and nothing will migrate anywhere. It will simply moisturize and plump the nasolabial area. At your age, you definitely don’t need any lift there. And taping will help much. If it helps me (@70), it’ll help you for sure.
I had always thought taping was bullshit so never tried it but since you recommended it I looked it up and there’s definitely some mechanistic plausibility there, as fibroblasts need mechanical tension to properly function. I’m a side sleeper and I think that has contributed to the folds, especially since it’s more pronounced on my right side and that’s the side I sleep on the most. So I’ll give it a try.
Re: filler, supposing that’s all well and true, it still has to be injected deep by someone who really knows what they’re doing to avoid vascular occlusion. So why not inject radiesse (non diluted) which gradually turns into your own tissue than inject a purely HA solution?
Ohhh, is that what the new ‘moisturizers’ are, like Profhilo … simply HA diluted! Eureka!
When I was getting Botox, I asked my derm about moisturizers vs filler, and she rolled her eyes and simply said that ‘moisturizers’ ARE filler and I don’t like them because they make people look puffy. (Puffy doesn’t sound so bad!)
I’m only curious because I would never dyi inject my own face, but is it easy to obtain these materials? Botox, fillers etc? I feel differently about someone with your background because you are a pro.
@medaura, there are derms/surgeons out there who can inject without anyone being the wiser, but usually they cost$$$$. Especially easy at your age. I didn’t realize how young you are!! Now, if you are 60 and trying to look 20, the best of the best can still do an excellent job, but you can only do so much before it shows.
I’m not suggesting you do anything, but only sharing they exist…
Also, taping works. I was staring to get a sign of a chest wrinkle and I tried the tape and it was gone the next day. It turns out I was allergic to the tape, so I couldn’t continue. However, I’ve learned to sleep on my back, and even doing that for part of the night made the difference, so no issues anymore.
I look at it like this: at your age you do not need a boost to regrow tissue, your body will do it on its own if you give your skin a little TLC (hydrate it and nourish with a little HA cocktail and prevent mechanistic damage at night by taping). You still can add Radiesse or something better in 5 years. Life is long… and taping works wonders
That’s two of you now vouching for taping! I’m sold. I’m 38 turning 39 soon but always been a skincare fanatic since I had a bout of bad acne in my late teens and had to intervene to keep it at bay and fade the scars. I’ve done everything right since except getting pregnant 5 times and gaining and losing 50-60% body mass and also never cared much about sunscreen. Blessed with thick skin that doesn’t hyperpigment or wrinkle but 3 years ago after a couple of years of high stress it started to all go downhill fast. That’s when I started on rapamycin, supplements, and professional devices and brought it back from the brink. My nasolabials still need work though.
I understand now what you mean. You’re saying since I’m youngish and my folds are very shallow, just the superficial moisturizing type of fillers that I can self inject via mesotherapy should do the trick. Plus taping.
I hope so! There are some anatomical propensities of certain people to have folds vs grooves vs sharply defined folded paper type nasolabials, I’ve noticed. Some people have overall aged looking skin, with sag and droop and crepey texture but their nasolabials have soft depressions that look more natural. Mine are shallow so very little volume lost there, yet the outline is sharply defined. It might have to do with the muscularure there or how hard we use those muscles when we smile or talk or chew. So part of me suspects I may need to still add some volume under the outline for it to completely flatten out. But I hope I’m wrong. Can you give me your full list of mesotherapy-friendly boosters / cocktails that you’ve tried and loved? I’ve heard you mention Profhilio. What else?
I’m 38 turning 39 soon but always been a skincare fanatic since I had a bout of bad acne in my late teens and had to intervene to keep it at bay and fade the scars. I’ve done everything right since except getting pregnant 5 times and gaining and losing 50-60% body mass and also never cared much about sunscreen. Blessed with thick skin that doesn’t hyperpigment or wrinkle but 3 years ago after a couple of years of high stress it started to all go downhill fast. That’s when I started on rapamycin, supplements, and professional devices and brought it back from the brink. My nasolabials still need work though.