The Oxygen Therapy Journey: A Special Review by Tuptim Malakul Na Ayuthaya
29 May 2024
About our exclusive writer: Tuptim Malakul is an esteemed writer and interviewer known for engaging with high-powered and influential leaders. With a global upbringing, she was educated in England and raised in various countries during her father’s Ambassadorial postings, which has shaped her multicultural mindset.
In this exclusive blog series consisting of four articles, Tuptim provides a genuine account from the perspective of a working woman who values her inner self and strives to live life to its fullest potential.
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Immediately when Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy or HBOT was mentioned, the small twinge of panic attack arises, as a sufferer of claustrophobia, pretending enthusiasm was one of my many Oscar performances.
Packed lifts, small cars, small aircraft, the London tube, or Bangkok’s Skytrain at peak hours, have been places to avoid as much as possible. Sometimes unavoidable service repair days at the condo has only 2 lifts out of 4 in working order. I use the service lift together with astonished window cleaners that just couldn’t fathom this lady’s malady.
So how am I going to even try HBOT. My only option was to use the psychology tricks that I teach my clients, to teach myself. Now truth will tell if I’m as good as I think I am. It’s very leveling and humbling to self-evaluate.
‘Allow me to take you through the doors of fear to the doors of freedom’
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy room
A Hyperbaric Chamber
Health goals are challenged, like everyone else, by age. As each birthday repeats, we are at the front of new innovations to repair and keep the illusion of youth and strength. How the human mind can illude the reality of the life-span process is incredibly self-deceiving.
My theory is while my body ages, I am as young as my beliefs, that keeps-up with the changes of time. I judge that by my ability to use the phone apps that upgrade their technology every two weeks. If I can match their speed, then all’s well. Simple, the body ages but the mind should be intellectually sharp, savvy with retort, and hilariously funny.
The trick to defusing fear requires 100 percent self-discipline.
When faced with fear, practice breathing exercises, to alleviate symptoms of short breaths, that does not bring enough oxygen, so that the flight or fight response becomes rigid, then with less and less oxygen, comes panic attacks, anxiety and eventually losing control.
As I stepped into the metallic steel chamber, intently listening to instructions, my breathing was short and shallow. Claustrophobia coming out of its hiding in full force as the chamber reminded me of Titan submersible that imploded touring the Titanic in June 2023, killing all five passengers, a frightening thought process.
On the left was a phone I could use to call if I needed assistance. It was reassuring but it was, also considered by me, a failing, if I had to use it.
The moment the latch automatically closed; oxygen pressurization started. Anxiety leapt from 7/10 instantly became 10/10. Wim Hoff’s 11-minute breathing exercise came to the rescue plus the chamber was filling with oxygen equally at the same time. As my ears started to pop like when flying in an airplane, I was able to look at my disabilities squarely in the eyes and accept them as part of the makeup of me.
The shock of the level of calmness was electrifying because my brain was intellectually sharpened and gave me answers to many problems that was hanging. I was amazed by the brainpower imploding, whatever else the oxygen was doing within the body, I wasn't so interested, because the brain was just an incredible machine that moved at great speed absorbing new ideas as fast as only having spent ten minutes in the chamber. It was obvious my whole body was lacking the required amount of oxygen through neurological deficiency, and this was food for the starving brain.
Epiphany after epiphany I was beginning to think, did they inject magic mushrooms to enhance this ride, but of course not. I was just picking up as I left off when my dopamine deficiency was diagnosed. Not to make a discovery that this cures all neurological disorders, it just dramatically helped alleviate the lack of oxygen that should have been there, had my substantia nigra worked as it should have done.
The peace that came with the oxygen was equal to an end to life’s daily struggle. I am not over stressing its values or making Longevity Hub a branded membership, a must have. I'm stating the value it added to my life for an extra 6 hours to the day, and on the flip side of how it showed that my body had disintegrated to a certain level through the failings of certain organs, a normal process of living the life.
But what a life I’ve led.
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