The Research on Oxygen and EWOT
Why the oxygen level inside your tissue matters — and what happens when you raise it.
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Exercise With Oxygen Therapy (EWOT) is exercise done while breathing high-concentration oxygen instead of ordinary room air, which is only 21% oxygen. Our EWOT systems are built to run these sessions at home.
Aging
10% drop in your body's oxygen consumption every decade after 30 - Link
Cellular energy production declines with age - Link
Lower oxygen drives measurably worse thinking - Link
Older brains receive less oxygen than they demand - Link
2 out of 3 patients had higher resting arterial oxygen levels after EWOT — still measurable more than 3 months later - Link
Inflammation
Low oxygen causes inflammation - Link
Arthritic joints are oxygen-starved (hypoxic) — and the lower the oxygen, the worse the inflammation - Link
Oxygen-starved joints showed more tissue damage - Link
Oxygen starvation and inflammation are two sides of the same coin - Link
Mitochondria and Cellular Energy
33% more ATP production with EWOT in patients with damaged mitochondria - Link
Oxygen delivery — not your mitochondria — is what caps energy production - Link
Cancer
2× the survival rate at 18 months in tumors with higher oxygen status - Link
Tumor oxygen level: a top predictor of survival - Link
Low oxygen causes tumors to spread - Link
Oxygen starvation drives cancer to spread - Link
Nobel laureate Otto Warburg found he could turn a normal cell into a cancer cell by starving it of oxygen - Link
PET scans find cancer by detecting the broken oxygen metabolism Warburg described - Link
When Illness Is What Limits Your Exercise
15% lower perceived effort - Link
8% more power output - Link
118% longer endurance with pulmonary vascular disease - Link
60% longer endurance with COPD - Link
2× greater gains in peak exercise capacity after six weeks of EWOT in COPD - Link
38% longer endurance - Link
17% better physical capacity - Link
Long COVID
54% better exercise tolerance after EWOT protocol - Link
University of Dayton and the Pulmonary Wellness Foundation are studying EWOT for Long COVID - Link
77% of Long COVID brain fog patients had inflammation markers in their spinal fluid - Link
43% of "recovered" COVID patients drop their blood oxygen during a six-minute walk - Link
47% of Long COVID patients report fatigue, the most common symptom - Link
Brain and Mental Performance
Athletic Performance
41% longer time to exhaustion - Link
17% more power during exercise - Link
10% higher VO₂ max - Link
6% higher peak power output - Link
6% faster time-trial performance - Link
56% less lactate production during exercise - Link
52% more fat burned for fuel during exercise - Link
16% more reps before muscle fatigue - Link
15% more sprints before exhaustion - Link
14% more total work during repeated sprints - Link
14% better muscle-strength recovery after exercise - Link
65% greater endurance gains - Link
8% more power output after six weeks of EWOT - Link
Higher oxygen concentrations produced greater performance gains - Link
How EWOT Delivers More Oxygen
5× more oxygen dissolved directly into your blood plasma - Link
20× more air through your lungs per minute during exercise - Link
4–5× more blood pumped per minute during exercise - Link
20× more blood flow into working muscle through vasodilation — the widening of your blood vessels - Link
28% higher systolic blood pressure during exercise — pressure that drives oxygen deeper into tissue - Link
EWOT Systems
Complete home systems for 15-minute daily sessions
Concentrator, reservoir, and mask built to hold a high oxygen concentration through a full session.
Note
This page links to published studies for educational purposes. It does not make claims regarding the diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevention of any disease. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. EWOT is not a substitute for medical care. If you have a heart, lung, or circulatory condition, are undergoing cancer treatment, or are managing any chronic illness, talk with your physician before beginning any exercise or oxygen program.
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