Zach Price, a chiropractor at Performance Rehab Associates in Charlotte, NC, works with many athletes (professional and youth) and sees a lot of concussions.

In this episode, he and Tom get into the details of traumatic brain injury (TBI) for athletes, normal people (who may suffer TBI from a car accident, for example) and young people playing contact sports. Here’s a taste of what you’ll learn:

• After a brain injury, how long does it take to notice changes?
• How Dr. Zach uses LiveO2 to manipulate the vascular & nervous system
• Could vertigo & headaches be something more?
• Why athletes are really great at “camouflaging” brain injury & the consequences
• How kids who play contact sports can benefit from LiveO2 (listen up parents!)

Julia Hubbel is back for Round 2 of the LiveO2 for the People podcast.

Since we last spoke to her, she's been training like crazy, injured, had surgery and gone on more adventures! 

In this episode you'll learn: 

• Why you should set a big, hairy-ass goal (BHAG)
• Why your dignity of effort is more important than achieving your goal
• How Julia deals with moments of discouragement 
• What Tom & Julia think about body ownership (are we our bodies?)
• Why the "inevitability" of dementia and Alzheimer's is a lie!
• Where Tom's LiveO2 system went on Thanksgiving! (hint: pro athlete)
• How to engender recovery in your body before a procedure/surgery
• Why life expectancy is down for the first time ever since WWI
• Why Julia's yellow Patagonia underwear hold a special place in her heart...

Show notes:

• Episode 1 with Julia
• Julia’s new article about aging
• Who is Bob Harper?
• MK Adventures with Wayne Sawchuk
• LiveO2 Adaptive Contrast

Our newest podcast episode answers the question: how is hyperbaric (HBOT) different than LiveO2?

Dr. Palacios has been practicing Internal and Functional medicine for quite some time. He has treated patients with both hyperbaric and LiveO2. In this episode you’ll learn:

• What is hyperbaric and how does it work?
• How is hyperbaric (HBOT) different than LiveO2?
• How pressure impacts our ability to be healthy
• What atmospheric pressure is optimal for lasting results
• How to work with oxygen (LiveO2) as a practitioner
• ...and much more (even a tidbit about LiveO2 for crossfitters!)

Dr. Rich Berkowitz, DC has a LiveO2 Adaptive Contrast system at his clinic, Carolina Chiropractic Plus, and recently used it to train for his trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp!

In this episode, Tom and Dr. Rich get into training in both personal and clinical applications. Here's a taste of what you'll learn from their conversation:

• The step-by-step altitude protocol Dr. Rich used to prepare for Everest Base Camp
• How breathing techniques made a difference for him
• How high altitude training is different than HIIT (high intensity interval training) on Adaptive Contrast 
• Why building blood is important in altitude
• How athletes can use LiveO2 to avoid "starting in 2nd place mentally"
• How Dr. Rich keeps his LiveO2 system busy all day long in his clinic (including training kids!)

Tune-in to listen to our 8-step ColdO2 protocol and learn how you can avoid getting the common cold in the cooler-weather seasons!

LiveO2 ColdO2 Protocol:

1. 1 teaspoon tri-salts
2. 2g buffered Vitamin C
3. Hot green tea (optional)
4. LiveO2 Whole Body Flush protocol (in sweats & headcover)
5. Hot toddy or Cinnamon Twig & Ginger tea with honey (optional)
6. Warm bath with 2 cups Epsom salt
7. Electrolytes
8. Warm sleep

 Resiliency version (before you get sick)

1. Vitamin D-3 and Vitamin C
2. LiveO2 every 3 days
3. Warm nourishing foods (tea, chai, ginger, garlic & cinnamon) to generate internal heat

Our third episode of Q&A is here!

Here are the questions asked and any relevant links:

1. Tom, do you think using the TBT (total body trainer) and incorporating my arms in the aerobic exercise will deliver more oxygen to those areas than having them in a resting position as I pedal with my legs? (Listen at 01:42 - 06:00)
   • Ben Menafee podcast
   • Keiser Total Body Trainer
   • Ben's shared spreadsheet
2. Will LiveO2 help my sex life? (Listen at 06:03 - 13:04)
3. Can you address Northern California fire detox? They are burning us down and don't plan to stop. How could the AC™ system be best used to support people's detox from the fires? Can you also speak to the nature of toxins from the fires that are burning hotter than wildfires (burning stuff like tires and metals and porcelain)? (Listen at 13:17 - 32:54)
   • Adaptive Contrast™ system
   • Detox protocol
   • Blessed Herbs
   • Quick Silver Scientific
   • *Tom tip: best time for an herbal cleanse is Spring or Fall!
4. How does LiveO2 Adaptive Contrast compare to Hyperbaric oxygen therapy? (Listen at 33:00 - 45:44)
   • Read: LiveO2 vs. Hyperbaric
5. I wanted to share something with you about using my LiveO2 system. I watched a podcast about nose breathing during exercise and I decided to try it while doing my LiveO2 workout. It took a while to get comfortable with it - I would sometimes exhale from the nose but got used to it.After a bit I noticed I felt remarkably relaxed even when the O2 levels were low.

   I felt relaxed after...normally I am little hyped up.  When done, I decided to use my heart variability tester to verify how relaxed I was. It was amazing, I was completely balanced with my nervous system even after just exercising. Best session to date! Curious if you have tried it and had the same result? (Listen at 46:00 -  53:13)

   • Buteyko breathing
   • Wim Hof method
   • *Tom tip: Our nose is there for a reason - to breathe! The mouth is designed more for eating.
6. I haven’t used my Live02 the last month or two. And I noticed that the two times I used it this week that my pulse ox wasn’t going down that much when I was on -O2.  It would maybe go down to 95 and then trickle back up to 97 even after a couple of minutes. Is that weird? (Listen at 53:15 - 1:00:09)
   • Contact us about your protocol - maybe it's time to level-up?
   • Scott Stapleton of Keiser podcast (HIIT training)
7. I am looking at foot surgery for arthritis and was wondering if AC will speed up the healing process? (Listen at 1:00:10 - end)

Howard Glass is 77 years old and he is a beast.

He’s competed in 27 Ironman competitions and finished 17.5!

And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

In this 30-minute podcast episode, Howard and Tom talk about training, competing and recovering with LiveO2 Adaptive Contrast.

But they get into more interesting details, too:

• How we’ve gone from a participant society to a spectator society
• What "spiffing the blood" means in Howard’s training sessions with Tom
• How Howard trained to challenge himself pre-race so the air (elevation) in his upcoming Ironman wouldn’t feel challenging
• How we can start to own the ~60,000 miles of capillaries & blood vessels we have in our bodies
• How to expedite recovery and rid yourself of lactic acid & sore joints
• How a 50 year old can take his/her normal ~3 day recovery time down to 15 minutes
• What does biological age vs. energetic age mean?

Show notes:

Cool video about Howard’s Ironman achievements (2015)

What is the LiveO2 Premium Mask?

In this podcast episode we're joined again by Engineer Mike who designs, prototypes, and tests LiveO2 systems parts and masks. 

He and VP, Tom Butler, give you all the details of our new Premium Mask design, functionality, maintenance and safety. Here's what you'll learn in this episode:

• Details behind the Premium mask design
• What’s different about the valve
• How important mask fit is
• Sanitization (popular topic)
• Why it’s really worth the money spent
• And the importance we place on: safety, safety, safety!

**Plus a bonus: here what VP, Tom Butler’s, Rx for health is!

LiveO2 Director of Customer Success, Annette Young, met our founder and CEO in a hot tub.

After that moment, the LiveO2 studio model was born!

Annette launched the very first LiveO2 studio and in this podcast episode, we're interviewing her to learn:

• What Annette and Mark discovered in a hot tub in Florida
• How the first ever LiveO2 studio was staffed and ran 1,190 demos in one month!
• Finding a successful approach to training others
• Why music could be a crucial component of your studio/site
• What the primary driver is for our most successful LiveO2 sites (...and how to apply to become one!)
• What Annette's personal prescription for health is.

Check out the full episode here:

Links mentioned in this episode

First, here's the music Annette references that she used in her "attitude-free" zone.

Secondly, here is a video our CEO and founder, Mark Squibb, put together using a "plumbing comparison" to illustrate how Oxygen Multi-step Training works.

• Interview with Engineer Mike
• LiveO2 Site Applictation
• LiveO2 contact

What makes LiveO2 systems different than our competition?

In this podcast episode we're joined by Engineer Mike who designs, prototypes, and tests LiveO2 systems parts. He's the king of R&D here at LiveO2!

Mike sheds some light on very important distinctions between LiveO2 and other EWOT systems that may be a bit cheaper, but are not actually quality products designed with your health in mind. Here's what you'll learn in this episode:

• Why the switching mechanism on the Adaptive Contrast™ makes a difference
• How our parts were designed and why we didn't go to a local hardware store to buy parts for our systems
• The origin of our Adaptive Contrast system design (hint: founder, Mark, was trying to solve his own problem)
• Why we use clean materials and the results of our air tests for contaminants
• Why our system is more like "bamboo" instead of "oak" - a look at our reservoir design
• How we learned to honor how the body works and how this compares to our competitors' flawed methodologies
• How we control resistance in our systems (you have to have resistance to improve)
• What the purpose of the nose (and nose hair!) is
• Why "work capacity" = health
• What Engineer Mike's Rx for health is!