Paul Cheney's New Oxygen Therapy : better than traditional re breather equipment

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The message below is parts of a conversation between Carol Sieverling and
Paul Cheney

Date posted: August 2004

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As I mentioned earlier, I ended up with an unplanned phone consultation
yesterday with Cheney regarding my upcoming cavitation surgery. (Unplanned
in the sense that it was scheduled only three days prior, in response to my
faxed inquiry.)

Cheney wants me to go on oxygen ASAP, so that I can start restoring
microcirculation in preparation for my cavitation surgery. He stated that
you won't get cavitations if you have good microcirculation. And that if you
don't have good microcirculation, the source of your cavitation problem will
not be addressed by surgery - it will eventually recur.

The surgery can certainly be of value, but to be of lasting benefit, I need
to get to the source of my cavitations, and that's the compromised
microcirculation. (Part of the problem elucidated by Dr. Marshall's work
that has really inspired Cheney. If I understood Cheney correctly, the
inflammatory process that Marshall decribes includes compromised
microcirculation.)

Cheney has a new technique to be used with "regular" low flow oxygen -
cupping your hands over your nose and mouth and "rebreathing" both the O2
from the nasal canula and your exhaled CQ2. Much cheaper and easier to get
than the actual rebreather apparatus. And this new method allows for much
finer control than the traditional rebreather equipment. Let me stress that
Cheney no longer believes that traditional rebreather equipment is of
benefit - it provides too much rebreathing.

He told me to do it 1 minute of rebreathing every 2 or 3 minutes. A patient
who is much, much sicker was told to only do the cupped hands rebreathing a
few times during each 20-minute session. So how often you cup your hands
over your nose and mouth, and inhale through your nose (so that you get a
mixture of O2 from the nasal canula and the CO2 from your expired breath),
will vary from patient to patient and will likely only be determined by
trial and error. As always, if in doubt, start low and go slow!

Cheney prescribes two sessions a day, 20 minutes each.

Because this rebreathing technique opens up the microcirculation and gets
more oxygen into your cells, it's a powerful anti-microbial. He said it's
like taking antibiotics!!

I'll need to watch for a die-off effect. If I start herxing, I'll have to do
less rebreathing - less cupping of my hands over my nose and mouth. It's my
Lyme treatment too!!!!

Very cool that's he's figured out how to do a rebreathing technique that we
can finely tune, and that is much less expensive that the traditional
apparatus.

Another new thing with the O2 - the script includes the use of a "demand
regulator" on the tank. O2 flows when we inhale, but shuts off when we
exhale. Less oxygen is used. It's going to cut the cost by 2/3!!! And of
course he writes the script for headaches (which we all have) and that's the
one thing that may get insurance to pay for this.

He said the medical supply companies may tell you they don't know what a
demand rebreather is, or that they don't have them. But virtually all of
them do. They don't like it when we use them, because they sell less oxygen
and it cuts into their earnings. Cheney said to tell them it's on the
script, and that I have to have it. If they won't provide it, I'll just tell
them I'll find a company that will. :-)

He gave a much more detailed description of what's actually happening when
you rebreath and how that increases microcirculation and gets more oxygen
into the cells. Stuff about respiratory acidosis (I think) and pH and off
loading oxygen from the hemoglobin in to the cells, I think. No energy now
to go back and get the details off my tape, but I will at some point.

Carol Sieverling

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