Executive Summary
- Bartonella’s preferred habitat is endothelial cells,
which it inflames in an effort to create low oxygen environments that will
stimulate the growth of more endothelial cells. This allows it
to proliferate in the body. Bartonella does this by activating a
human immune chemical called hypoxia inducible factor 1
(HIF-1). It is the stimulation of these new endothelial cells
that cause many of the bartonella symptoms.
- EWOT is the practice of breathing high volumes of
oxygen while exercising to increase the body’s oxygen demand
- EWOT has the ability to produce profound benefits with
sessions as short as 15 minutes per day when done with a reservoir.
- EWOT was discovered by Manfred von Ardenne, a prolific
German inventor and physicist.
- EWOT’s primary action is the increase of cellular
oxygen uptake by decreasing inflammation in the endothelial cells that
line blood vessels – a process that increases with age and disease.
- EWOT is very specific for eliminating the inflammatory
process that allow bartonella to live and spread in the human
body. By reversing the expression of HIF-1, bartonella can no
longer create new endothelial cells or spread.
- EWOT is similar to hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT),
but it is much better suited for bartonella. EWOT is quicker
and cheaper, with more dramatic results. EWOT will
down-regulate HIF-1 whereas long term HBOT could aid the bartonella by
turning on HIF-1.
- EWOT will work synergistically with other treatment
modalities by allowing herbs and antibiotics to penetrate deeper into the
tissues and also helping the body detox bartonella and cellular waste and
helping the elimination organs filter toxins more efficiently.
- If you have a bartonella infection, you should seriously
consider adding EWOT to your repertoire.
- The most economical EWOT system on the market is from here.
What is Bartonella and What
is it Doing to My Body?
According to nature.com, Bartonella
is a “bacterial pathogens that typically cause persistent infection of
erythrocytes and endothelial cells in their mammalian hosts. In human
infection, these host-cell interactions result in a broad range of clinical
manifestations. Most remarkably, bartonellae can trigger massive proliferation
of endothelial cells, leading to vascular tumour formation.” So
Bartonella is a bacterium that attacks human red blood cells (RBCs, a.k.a erythrocytes)
and endothelial cells. The primary job
of RBCs is to transport oxygen through the blood to where the body needs it. Endothelial cells are specialized cells that
work as a barrier to allow the passage of certain liquids and substances while inhibiting
others. They line the interior surface
of blood vessels ensuring that oxygen, for instance, can pass through to the
cells that need it, but that blood plasma remains inside the blood vessels and
does not leak out into the body cavity. The
vascular endothelial cells line the entire cardiovascular system from the heart
to the tiniest of capillaries. Endothelial cells can be found
throughout the human body, including lining the organs. They also form the blood brain barrier (BB) -
keeping harmful substances out of the brain and they are part of the vasculature
supplying oxygen to the brain. The
glomerular cells that help the kidneys perform their filtering function are
also endothelial cells, and endothelial cells also perform similar filtering
functions in the liver.
Endothelial cells are
both critical to human health and life, and they are dispersed throughout all
of the systems of the body. These cells
are such a critical part of the human body, that some scientists have been
petitioning to have endothelial
cells classified as their own organ system.
It is these systems of cells that is a primary target for bartonella.
According to Stephen Buhner, in his
book
Holistic Treatments for Bartonella and Mycoplasma, Buhner states that
“Bartonella primarily live in endothelial cells. By entering CD34+
cells [pluripotent stem cells], they are immediately taken to locations
throughout the body where endothelial inflammation is already
occurring. This allows them to access the exact niche they need and
to do so at the locations where endothelia integrity is already
compromised.” He also states that “Once the bartonella
bacteria are established in the endothelial cells… they begin to infect the red
blood cells…. These new bartonella bacteria then colonize the red
blood cells, making the organism ready to be picked up by insects seeking a
blood meal.” In other words, the bartonella use the stem cells as a
transportation mechanism to find compromised endothelia cells, which they then
infect. Once they have infected the endothelial cells, their
preferred habitat, they then seek to infect red blood cells as a secondary
infection as a means to transmit to a new host.
Bartonella is also a
very “intelligent” bacteria capable of hijacking the human immune system,
similar to Lyme disease, to make the host more hospitable to the bartonella
infection. Once the endothelial cells are infected, Bartonella will
manipulate the human immune system to create a cytokine cascade that benefits
its own proliferation and survival. For instance, bartonella has been show to
increase cellular hypoxia (oxygen starvation) and decreased APT (cellular
energy). This results in the human immune system activating
hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1). HIF-1 is a response to oxygen
starvation and its purpose it to create angiogenesis (the production of new
blood vessels). Typically, the body would do this in response to a
blocked or damaged blood vessel, as a means to create a new path to send blood
and oxygen to cells that were experiencing hypoxia. In bartonella’s
case, the purpose of this is the production of new endothelial cells, giving it
more real estate for bartonella to infect. Cancer is
known to use this same angiogenesis pathway as a means to grow tumors
and allow for metastasis (the spread of cancer to other parts of the body).
What is Exercise with
Oxygen Therapy (EWOT)?
Exercise with Oxygen
Therapy (EWOT), or Oxygen Multi-Step Therapy, is the practice of exercising
while breathing high concentrations of pure oxygen. An oxygen
healing therapy, similar in it mechanisms to hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), it
helps drive oxygen deeper into the tissues by super-oxygenating the red blood
cells and blood plasma.
Normally when a person
breathes, oxygen makes up just 21% of the air entering their
lungs. With EWOT, when done properly with a reservoir, oxygen
concentrations can be well above 90% of the volume of air entering the
lungs. This process greatly increases the oxygen saturation level in
the blood and pushes that oxygen deeper into the tissues.
Greater oxygen in the
tissues reverses oxygen starvation and switches cells from anaerobic
respiration to aerobic respiration. This
allows cells to produce more energy and helps them detoxify from the build-up
of cellular toxins created due to the low oxygen state (hypoxia). The
increased oxygen also leads to a powerfully anti-inflammatory
state. In 2013, there was a study in
the Journal of Leukocyte Biology showing oxygen’s amazing impacts on reducing
inflammation.
EWOT can produce
profound benefits in as little as 15 minutes per day, when performing EWOT with
an oxygen reservoir. The benefits are long lasting and accumulate
over time. This makes it a very powerful therapy.
How was EWOT discovered?
Exercise with Oxygen
Therapy (EWOT) was first discovered by German researcher, physicist and
inventor, Manfred von
Ardenne. Von Ardenne was a prolific inventor; according to vonardenne.biz,
“he held about 600 patents in radio and television technology, electron
microscopy, nuclear plasma and medical technologies and was the author of
countless books and publications”. Von Ardenne was a student
of Dr. Otto
Warburg, the Nobel prize winning medical doctor who is best known for his
discoveries of the connection between cancer and low
oxygen states at the cellular level.
Professor von Ardenne
discovered that when people exercised while breathing pure oxygen, it created a
series of physiological changes in the body that initially increase the head
pressure of oxygen in the veins and capillaries. In his book, Oxygen
Multistep Therapy, von Ardenne states that they observed “narrowing of
capillaries due to swelling of endothelial cells in …O2 deficiency
(hypoxia)”. He goes on to state that “poor O2 supply situation leads …[to] narrowing of the cross-section
[of the capillaries] with a drop in the blood microcirculation” which then
causes more inflammation and worsening local blood flow due to increasing blood
viscosity caused by the blood stagnation - in effect, creating a negative
feedback loop.
He found that this
negative feedback loop could be reversed by pushing larger quantities of oxygen into
the blood and to the sites of inflammation. In the presence of
higher concentration of oxygen, the cells inflammation is reduced and the body
is able properly detoxify. This process leads to restored microcirculation in
the capillaries, allowing them to exchange oxygen more efficiently with the
cells of the body.
Professor von Ardenne
noted that this endothelial inflammation, due to hypoxia, was a commonality
between various disease states, cancer development, and even aging
and proposed EWOT as capable of reversing each of these conditions. The
increased oxygen leads to increased cellular energy, allowing damaged cells to
repair themselves and remove toxins built up in cells from the anaerobic
processes caused during hypoxia.
EWOT and Bartonella – A Perfect Pair
EWOT is very specific
for treating a bartonella infection, perhaps one of the most specific treatment
modalities one can find. Bartonella
hitches a ride on stem cells to the site of endothelial cell inflammation,
where there are weakened endothelial cells it can easily co-opt. Once inside endothelial cells, it creates a
hypoxic condition to hijack the human immune system and cause it to create new
blood vessels and more endothelial cells to infect (angiogenesis). In fact, bartonella
are the only bacteria able to produce angiogenic tumors in humans. And wherever this angiogenesis occurs, a
person is likely to suffer the symptoms from the bartonella infection.
EWOT’s mechanism of
activity is to reverse the endothelial cell inflammation that causes hypoxia. By forcing large quantities of oxygen into
the body under greater pressures, HIF-1, the instigator of angiogenesis is
snuffed out. The endothelial cell
inflammation is abated, and the bartonella organism has no means of
proliferating in the body. EWOT doesn’t
just stop bartonella angiogenesis, it stops all errant angiogenesis, regardless
of source – be it bartonella or cancers.
For this reason, EWOT has strong anti-cancer benefits.
At the same time, the
increased oxygen helps the body detoxify from the metabolites and cellular
debris caused by a bartonella infection and its effects on the various organ
systems (remember that bartonella easily lives in the endothelial cells of your
filtering organisms – your kidneys and liver).
Because of its
anti-inflammatory actions on the exact cells that are the preferred habitat for
bartonella, and because bartonella cannot live in the body without inflammation
and inflammatory processes, EWOT is very specific for treating the bartonella
infection.
What Other Conditions is EWOT Good For?
EWOT is great for a
variety of conditions and symptoms that Lyme disease and bartonella sufferers
are very familiar with. It is also good for improving general
health, well-being, and its anti-aging. It is very similar to HBOT
therapy but can be done in much less time for a fraction of the
price. If you are mobile and can even do as little as bounce on a
rebounder, EWOT is likely a better place to start. For bartonella
specifically, EWOT is much more specific than HBOT for the
infection. EWOT will reduce HIF-1 (the mechanism bartonella uses to
create more infected cells) whereas HBOT will increase HIF-1 over
time. Here are some of the many benefits of EWOT.
- Inflammatory conditions
- Detoxifying cellular waste and improving liver
detoxification
- Combating
circulatory disorders in extremities
- Reduction
of frequency and severity of migraine and cluster headache attacks.
- Acceleration recovery after serious illness
- Reduction of side effects and increase of the main
effect of drugs
- Increasing performance reserve reduced by a lack of
exercise after serious illnesses (especially such as paralysis, arthritis,
rheumatism and nursing cases)
- Sleep better at night.
- Stimulate the immune system.
- An increase in your energy levels.
- Improve
mental clarity, memory, and ability to focus (and here).
- Decrease recovery time from strenuous training
- Reduce
stress.
- Increased
metabolism and weight loss - Burn 30% more calories than regular exercise
- Anti-aging
- reduction of the “biological age“ by average 10 years
- Cancer
and cancer relapse prophylaxis
- Amelioration of toxic side effects of conventional
cancer therapies (operation, radiation and chemo therapy)
- Reduction of frequency of angina-pectoris attacks by
support of perfusion of coronary vessels in coronary heart disease
- Contributes to prevention and rehab from heart disease
and diabetes
- Acceleration of wound healing / contribution to
renormalizing low blood pressure
- Improved
physical endurance.
- Hearing
loss.
My Personal Story
After a lifetime of
undiagnosed bartonella and over a year of fighting the disease with only
partial progress, EWOT and liposomal herbs became the cornerstone to my rapid
improvement. In the summer of 2017, my bartonella foot pain was so
bad that I had difficulty walking. In order to make exercise
tolerable, something I had been doing continuously for 15 years, I added 1”
thick foam pads to the pedals of my elliptical machine. After a few
weeks, that started to give me iliotibial band syndrome in my knee, and I knew
I needed another solution. Months of antibiotics helped me a bit, as
did CBD oil. However, my foot pain was still a major issue for me,
as was my low metabolism and energy. By march of 2018, after a year
of hard work with herbs, antibiotics, supplements, ozone, saunas, and many
other treatments, I was only about 25% better, on my best days.
In March, I started my
new EWOT program. The net result was that I cut my cardio time down from 30 minutes to 15-20 minutes five times per week, but was able to increase the intensity without much more percieved effort - due to the oxygen.
A few weeks later, I also started liposomal herbal
treatments. This combination led to a rapid reduction of
symptoms. Within a couple weeks I was 80% better and within a month
I was 90% better. When I visited my doctor, I asked him if I could
get off my thyroid medicine. He requested that I do a bioenergy test to determine
how efficiently my body was producing and utilizing energy. The lady
who was running the test was unaware that this same doctor had asked me to
start EWOT, and as a matter of fact, she was unaware of EWOT at all.
First, she tested my
lung factor (a measurement of lung capacity compared to a typical person at age
40), she was shocked to find that I was at 125% of average. She was
even more shocked when she ran the aerobic tests. I came back with a
maximum aerobic energy production (measure of oxygen consumption under exertion
– something that should be low in a bartonella patient) of 161% of
average. My biological index (comparing my energy dynamics to the
average 40-year-old) was 149% of average. My metabolic factor
(resting metabolism – an indicator of thyroid function) was 111%, with the
optimal range being 100-110%. My thyroid was just slightly above optimal! And
my adrenal factor, something that should have been low with adrenal fatigue
from all of the inflammation in my body, was at 106% of average. She
told me I should be an extreme athlete. Let’s be
honest. I have no intentions of abusing my body like that any time
soon. I am just thrilled to be able to walk bare-footed again and
play with my children.
EWOT can be a major treatment modality
for bartonella because it is so specific for bartonella. It is also
a great treatment modality because it is a one-time expense that is very
affordable over time, because it fights the bartonella exactly where the
bartonella harms our bodies, and because it helps us detoxify at the same time,
making any treatment more tolerable. Between the sweating, the
oxygen as a strong detoxifier, and the improvements to the elimination organs
(liver, kidney, etc.) it is an amazing treatment.
While there are a range of systems to choose from, we have purposefully designed our EWOT system to be the most economical and useful on the market for people with chronic illness. If you are interested in learning more, you can find it here. If you want to know what to look for in an EWOT system, we will have a blog coming up on that soon.
If you are interested in learning how EWOT can help you with your bartonella recovery, please feel free to email me or leave a comment below. If you have been using EWOT to treat your bartonella, please share your experience in the comments.
If you are interested in learning how EWOT can help you with your bartonella recovery, please feel free to email me or leave a comment below. If you have been using EWOT to treat your bartonella, please share your experience in the comments.