Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is just one tool in our toolkit for reversing early-stage Alzheimer's in our residents.
We’re seeing them reclaim their memory, feel steady on their feet and hold a conversation again.
Here is how it works:
We already help residents with healthy food, exercise, vitamins, and saunas.
But when we added oxygen therapy, everything changed.
This is another example of a resident regaining her memory: remembering what state they live in, their city and playing music again.
Firstly, how does Alzheimer's develop?
It starts with sugar.
Americans eat 152 pounds yearly, which causes insulin resistance in the brain—what scientists call "type 3 diabetes."
The excess sugar literally burns your brain tissue.
What else drives it?
Blood vessel damage after age 50 starves neurons of oxygen, causing brain shrinkage.
Amyloid plaques & tau tangles build up—they're the result of sugar damage, infections, and toxins creating clumped, damaged proteins.
What are early signs of it?
• Forgetting recent talks repeatedly
• Brain fog and trouble focusing
• Mood changes and more depression
• Pulling away from social activities
• Trouble finding words mid-sentence
Damage starts 30-40 years before diagnosis.
Along with a keto diet, getting daily sunlight, eating real, natural foods, we've added HBOT to help reverse it.
How it works: patients breathe in oxygen through a tube or chamber, the oxygen is forced into the brain plasma under pressure, bypassing broken glucose metabolism.
Here are the 3 main benefits of it:
#1: Bypasses broken glucose metabolism
When insulin resistance prevents your brain from using glucose for energy, HBOT forces oxygen directly into brain plasma
This gives starved mitochondria an alternative fuel source to produce ATP.
#2: Releases healing stem cells
• Triggers 200% more stem cells into circulation than normal
• Stem cells travel to damaged brain areas to begin repair
• Help rebuild neural pathways and connections that Alzheimer's destroys, even without added oxygen
#3: Grows new blood vessel networks Over 20-30 sessions, HBOT stimulates angiogenesis—the creation of new blood vessels.
This restores long-term oxygen delivery to brain areas damaged by chronic metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance.
The results speak for themselves.
Through HBOT, our residents are:
• Walking without falling, talking without forgetting
• Feeling happy after years of sadness
• "It's wonderful to feel alive again" - real quote.
The brain CAN heal when you give it what it needs.
After what I've seen, I think everyone over 50 should know about this.
At A Paradise for Parents, we use this alongside our other solutions:
• Low-carb diet
• Red light therapy
• Daily exercise
All this together makes healing possible - not just one treatment alone.
But there's a problem we face right now:
HBOT requires 30-60 treatments per person for cognitive recovery.
We've seen how life-changing this therapy is, but expanding it to all our residents requires substantial funding for treatment costs.
This is why we need your support.
Help us bring this therapy to all residents.
We're aiming to raise $200k for treatments, transportation, and medical costs.
Every dollar helps restore someone's grandparent’s lost memories and gives families their loved ones back.
Old people don't have to move into an assisted living or nursing home. Some people accomplish amazing things even into their 8th, 9th or 10th decades of life.
Let's celebrate a few of them in this thread. Hopefully they will inspire you or your family members.🧵
Yuichuro Miura has been a mountaineer and skiier his whole life. In 1970 he was the first person to ski down Mount Everest.
Fast forward to 2013 when Mr Miura was 80. In that year he became the oldest person to climb to the summit of Everest.
Entrepreneur Ted Vallas started a California-based airline at age 91 in 2012. He was 97 when the airline finally achieved FAA certification and began to operate.
Unfortunately the airline suffered a lot of issues such as pilot shortages, delays and maintenance problems. It shut down shortly after it started but is still a testament to what you can do very late in life.
Just had a meeting with our mobile doc at our assisted living home. We have a resident that is complaining of a lot of dizziness and constipation.
So I put together a spreadsheet of their meds showing the usage, side effects and any considerations for stopping the medications.🧵
After discussing everything with his great doctor, out of his 11 medications we agreed on the resident eventually either stopping all of them or taking them ‘as needed’ (PRN in medical terms).
We also looked into problematic interactions between the meds.
This resident was previously dizzy to the point of passing out on a regular basis. He had gone to the hospital multiple times over the last couple of months to figure out what was going on.
A lot of these medications were prescribed at the hospital over all the visits.
(1/10) Although we work hard in our assisted living home to improve the health of our residents, we still have to work with people with cognitive decline on a daily basis.
Our caregivers have received a lot of training in this area. Some of the best training came from @amindforallseas CEO Eric Collett. Here is a summary of his program called the VITAL 5 Pillars.🧵 amindforallseasons.com
(2/10) Eric ran a large assisted living facility (100+ beds) and is an expert in working with people with dementia.
He believed we can do better, and so started his company @amindforallseas to do just that.
They are the company that helps us interpret lab results of our residents and set up a program to improve their cognitive abilities. amindforallseasons.com/enhance-protoc…
(3/10) VITAL is an acronym for 5 aspects of dementia care that really help. Our caregivers have been using them for several years now with great success.
Here is an overview of some of the activities we do in our assisted living homes to help of our residents.
Hopefully some of the activities might help you if you're caring for an elderly parent or spouse. We definitely see improvements in people's health as a result. 📷(1/9)
Starting with a tour of the home.
After people are up in the morning, we'll often take some of them on a walk around the neighborhood. Not only does it help wake them up to start the day, but it also exposes them to morning light.
Early morning light helps reset their circadian rhythm, starts the day off with Vitamin D and let's them breathe some fresh air.
Especially in summertime Phoenix where the rest of the day is too hot to go out.
If your loved one is struggling with sundowners, try having a routine of waking them up early and exposing them to morning sunlight.(2/9)
After a breakfast of mostly eggs, bacon or sausage and water, we'll take residents outside (temperature permitting) just to relax, socialize and enjoy more sun and vitamin D.
We're careful about not too much sun. We'll also give showers and maybe do some therapies indoors as well. (3/9)
We use a piece of exercise equipment at our assisted living homes called the X3. It is a lot safer than traditional weights & is much easier on the joints. I want to show you how this equipment can help you and your family fight sarcopenia.🧵
Sarcopenia is the inevitable loss of muscle mass as we age. Everyone eventually suffers from it. You can fight it with a good diet and resistance training.
What if you don't fight it?
"Sarcopenia is associated with a 2 times higher risk of mortality in community-dwelling adults and nursing home residents and 3 times higher risk in cancer patients." karger.com/ger/article/68…
I first found out about the carnivore diet from a podcast. The inventor of the X3, @johnjaquish was talking about his new book. The title really surprised me because I had been working out with weights since my high school days. amazon.com/Weight-Lifting…
We often receive a new resident in our assisted living homes from a hospital or rehab clinic. Here is an example I put together of the paperwork we receive for them. It's not pertaining to any particular resident. First of all the diagnosis for a resident for some context🧵:
Acute hypoxic respiratory failure
Pulmonary HTN
PNA (Pneumonia)
Pleural effusion
AKI (Acute Kidney Injury)
C. difficile diarrhea
CAD (coronary artery disease)
Diabetes
Dizziness
Encephalopathy
Foot ulcer, left
Hyperkalemia
Subtherapeutic international normalized ratio (INR)
Wheelchair dependent
Here is what a typical medication list from the hospital might look like: