Summary
Kelly hosts Brad Pitzele to discuss the healing power of oxygen for Lyme disease, cancer, and chronic inflammation. Brad shares his personal journey through autoimmune arthritis, melanoma, and eventually Lyme disease, explaining how EWOT became the cornerstone of his recovery when conventional treatments failed and created dangerous side effects. The episode provides a thorough scientific explanation of how EWOT works, covering the relationship between hypoxia and inflammation, the role of oxygen in cellular energy production, and why exercise creates a synergistic pull mechanism for oxygen absorption that outperforms the push mechanism of hyperbaric chambers. Brad discusses applications for Lyme disease, cancer, autoimmune conditions, chronic fatigue, and brain fog, emphasizing that EWOT addresses multiple pathways simultaneously: anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, immune-boosting, and energy-restoring.
Key Points
- Hypoxia and inflammation are inseparable; wherever you find one, the other is always present
- EWOT uses exercise to pull oxygen through dilated blood vessels, unlike HBOT which pushes with pressure
- Oxygen directly kills Lyme bacteria, which cannot survive in an oxygen-rich environment
- EWOT supports all three of Dr. Horowitz's three I's: infection, inflammation, and immune dysfunction
- 70% of detoxification occurs through the lungs; EWOT maximizes this pathway
- Lymph system has no pump; exercise during EWOT moves lymph while simultaneously oxygenating
- Brad noticed benefits at 3 months of EWOT, with incremental improvements continuing into year three
- Bartonella thrives by creating hypoxic blood vessel environments; oxygen reverses this
Key Moments
Hypoxia and inflammation are inseparable in chronic disease
Brad describes his biggest aha moment: research showing that wherever you have hypoxia you have inflammation, and wherever you have inflammation you have hypoxia. They are two sides of the same coin, making oxygen therapy a direct anti-inflammatory intervention.
"And the reason for that is whether you're using traditional treatments or non-traditional treatments, even traditional treatments require oxygen to oxidize the cancer. Oxidization is basically a chemical reaction that helps destroy the cancer, but chemotherapy and radiation will not work in the absence of oxygen. So we have people..."
EWOT addresses all three of Dr. Horowitz's three I's of Lyme treatment
Brad explains how EWOT simultaneously tackles infection (oxygen kills Lyme), inflammation (oxygen is anti-inflammatory), and immune dysfunction (oxygen powers immune cells) in a single 15-minute session.
"sign off and, and because I just like, I don't know, I'm, I'm, I'm fired up. The only other one I would say is I think we mentioned a little bit more energy. Most folks notice more energy in a clear head. And then the flip side of that is also true. Most folks will come back to us and tell us they're getting better, higher quality sleep. And as you know, sleep is so important to recovering from anything, whether it be an athletic endeavor or from an illness. Um,"
70% of detoxification occurs through the lungs
Brad reveals that 70% of the body's detoxification happens through the lungs via breathing, making EWOT one of the most powerful detoxification modalities. Oxygen also breaks down complex toxins through oxidation so kidneys and liver can eliminate them.
"is there's exercise involved. So you do want to take a break and let your body rest and recover. That's why I usually recommend five times a week, not seven times a week. So it's just an overtraining, overuse sort of thing is the only major risk. Yeah. It's that balance of like when you're healing, you want to allow your body the energy for the immune system to take care of the"
Bartonella creates hypoxic environments in blood vessels to thrive
Brad explains how Bartonella strategically creates oxygen-deprived environments in endothelial cells, triggering HIF which grows new blood vessels that the bacteria use as more real estate. EWOT turns off this mechanism.
"And the reverse is true. Anywhere you have hypoxia, you have low oxygen. So you cannot have inflammation in an oxygen rich environment either. And so when we're flooding the body with oxygen or reopening all those capillaries and feeding all these cells, all of the oxygen they need, we've shut off the oxygen spigot. And that goes back to my story where I said I didn't feel results for three months. So"
