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Have you heard of carboxytherapy? It’s an increasingly more popular cosmetic ‘procedure’ where they inject pure carbon dioxide underneath the skin. The reasoning for why it works is that carbon dioxide increases blood flow to the surface of the body while also increasing the oxygen via the bohr effect. The bohr effect states that the oxygen loses it’s affinity for hemoglobin due to the presence of carbon dioxide allowing the nearby cells to utilize oxygen more efficiently. More oxygen utilization in turn also produces more carbon dioxide. This increases the metabolic rate of the cells and reduces pro-aging metabolic waste such as lactic acid and calcium in the cells. Additionally as a Lewis Acid, carbon dioxide reduces access electrons and increases the ratio of NAD to NADH thus producing a more youthful metabolism and appearance. The results from simply injecting carbon dioxide underneath the skin are very powerful.  This news report calls it a beauty breakthrough. As we age blood becomes more viscous. Also as we age and our metabolism slows, less blood flow and reaches the extremities of the body. This can be from less elasticity of the blood vessels as well as constriction of them due to a low metabolic rate. In a low metabolic rate the blow flood is restricted to be more inward for the vital organs. The carbon dioxide therapeutic bath works very similar to carboxytherapy. The carbon dioxide therapy bath allows you to bathe in an environment of 100% co2. Carbon dioxide is easily absorbed in this type of environment through the skin. Many studies have shown the benefits bathing in pure co2 for increasing microcirculation, improving skin quality, and reducing spider veins, cellulite and varicose veins. Spraying water on your skin while in the bag increase the absorption of the carbon dioxide. Currently our carbon dioxide bath is still at our pre-launch prices. A carbon dioxde bath is something you can do in the comfort of your own home. You can use it for however long you want and whenever you want. Carboxytherapy while extremely effective is an expensive and invasion treatment that only allows you to isolate certain areas of the body where the treatment is being done. The carbon dioxide bath is non-invasive and allows you to do the entire body up to the neck during every treatment. The bath also has greater physiological benefit to the entire body.

Dr Albert LaVerne is a psychiatrist who is known for curing many people from drug or alcohol addiction to mental retardation. His methods were so effective that even State Supreme Court Judge Vito Titone of Staten Island to urge New York City to adopt carbon dioxide therapy as an alternative to methadone for the treatment of drug addiction. Hans Selye served on his editorial board. Carbon dioxide therapy was so powerful that he claims to have cured many of heroin addiction in a matter of days. During the course of his research Dr Albert LaVerne developed a system to administer the carbon dioxide heated. Below are some of the findings of his research on how heating the carbon dioxide is more effective than breathing it cold or even room temperature. LaVerne’s work was not without controversy though. Even one of his biggest critics tried his carbon dioxide therapy. Here is what he experienced: Curious to see what CDT was really like, I took two complimentary treatments from LaVerne. While the second was like some terror-ridden experiences described in the literature and by some of LaVern’s ex-patients (as I gasped for my life, LaVern droned, “Beautiful breathing, beautiful breathing”), the first treatment left me with an enormous sense of peace, as if every once of anxiety had been drained from my. Indeed it was as if I had just climbed a mountain, slain a dragon, and fallen in love. I felt I truly belonged on this earth, and for several days afterward I seemed to be a step ahead of negative patterns of thought. Detoxification occurs rapidly and painlessly within several days and continued treatment effects a complete cure of the addiction. Heating the carbon dioxide-oxygen mixture (1) makes it easier to breathe, (2) eliminates suffocation anxiety caused by unheated gases used in prior carbon dioxide therapy (CDT) treatments, (3) eliminates treatment anxiety, the most serious and persistent side effect of CDT (unheated gas), (4) increases the therapeutic effectiveness of the CDT. These clinical and therapeutic results are impossible to obtain with unheated gases Heated  also have been formed to have more profound and lasting effects upon the body chemistry and are much more therapeutic than unheated gases. CDT treatment according to the present invention also has been found to be effective in other illnesses as psychiatric and neurological such as mental, emotional psychosomatic disorders, headaches, neurological, post concussion syndromes, dyslexia, minimal brain damage, and for people without specific disease and who are normal. For example, patients suffering from colds, acute and chronic sinus infections, rhinitis, other forms of allergic upper respiratory syndrome, immune disease, asthmatic disorders, obtain immediate relief by CDT and recovery. Their reticuloendothelial and immune systems are stabilized. It seems that the basic biological system of metabolic rhythms are reset to a healthier level. Patients appear to become rejuvenated in physiological, psychological, mental and emotional areas. Central nervous system, vascular, endocrine, stress systems (pituitary-adrental) become more efficient, and productive. The repetitive use of CDT seems to enhance total body health. It slows down catabolic processes, builds up anabolic processes of metabolism. In effect, CDT deters the aging process and encourages longevity. These observations and conclusions are based upon numerous patients treated with CDT. Clinical experience shows that carbon dioxide therapy is non-addictive and does not dull the patient’s mental processes. Nor does it slow down the patient as do central nervous system depressants such as methadone. Clinical results also show that addicts lose their desire for heroin or methadone soon after the treatments begin and many also show renewed interest in their families. Most patients become cooperative and often look forward to future treatments. An experimental clinical study of the effectiveness of carbon dioxide therapy has been performed with 42 patients, nine lost to follow-up studies, who stayed for 1 week of hospitalization and were then released for out-patient treatment. Of the heroin and methadone addicts, 4 months after the end of the hospitalization, 33% were narcotics free 100% of the time, 39% were narcotics free 60% of the time and 27% were narcotics free less than 60% of the time. Of eight alcoholics in the study, three were followed for 6 months and remained alcohol free. Heroin addicts are typically detoxified in 2 to 4 days and methadone addicts in 5 to 10 days. This rapid detoxification makes carbon dioxide therapy useful in conjunction with other treatment programs such as methadone maintenance or group therapy sessions. Carbon dioxide treatments have also been found successful in curtailing the rehabilitation time needed by other programs.  

INHALATIONAL TREATMENT OF ANGINA PECTORIS AND INTERMITTENT CLAUDICAT1ON” YANDELL HENDERSON, PH.D. NEW HAVEN, CONN.   INHALATION of carbon oxide is now administered for various thera- peutic and prophylactic purposes. The benefits afforded depend chiefly on the part which carbon dioxide plays in the control of respi- ration. Resuscitation from asphyxia of the newborn,1 prevention of postoperative atelectasis and pneumonia,2 elimination of ethyl ether,2 of carbon monoxide,4 and of other anesthetic and toxic gases3 from the lungs and blood, all alike depend upon the increase of pulmonary ventilation under stimulation of the respiratory center by inhalation of carbon dioxide.   INFLUENCE OF CARBON DIOXIDE UPON TIIE HEART AND BLOOD VESSELS   The equally marked influence of carbon dioxide upon the circulation has not as yet, or to an equal degree, been exploited for therapeutic purposes. Yet, simultaneously with the modern development of res- piration, physiology has produced also observations indicating a pow- erful influence of carbon dioxide upon the heart. In a long series of experiments,6 from fifteen to twenty-five years ago, my collaborators and I demonstrated on dogs, under artificial respiration or breathing naturally under a slight pressure of air after the opening of the tho- rax, a condition verging on tetanus of the heart-in the physiological sense of the word tetanus, that, is a fusion of successive beats. This state was effectively counteracted and heartbeats of full amplitude were restored as a consequence of the restoration of a normal,or per- haps slightly excessive, carbon dioxide content in the blood. The les- son of these observations is now generally applied in experiments upon the isolated heart in the Starling7 heart-lung preparation. It is rec- ognized that the blood for perfusion, in addition to being oxygenated, must also be supplied with a sufficient amount of carbon dioxide to overcome the tendency of an exposed or excised heart to develop an inadequate diastolic relaxation. Otherwise it passes into a continuous systolic state, an incomplete tetanus or cramp of the heart.   Following these observations upon the heart, it was shown in an- other series of experiments” that carbon dioxide may exert an equally strong influence upon the peripheral circulation, and particularly upon the volume of the venous return to the right heart. Clinically this   *From the Laboratory of Applied Physiology, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale  University,   effect is best seen as a result of the inhalation of carbon dioxide after a prolonged and extensive surgical operation under open ether anes- thesia. The return of blood to the cutaneous vessels, the flushing of the skin, the refilling of the veins previously collapsed, bear at least a superficial similarity to the effects induced by inhalation of amyl nitrite. But the effects, like those of a hot bath and in contrast to amyl nitrite, are more physiological than pharmacological; they are lasting and are accompanied by a restoration of a full strong heart action and a recovery of normal arterial pressure. Never in my expe- rience have there been any symptoms suggesting an overloading of the heart.   Among the various treatments of heart disease, that at Nauheim is the most celebrated. It consists in baths in carbonated water. The good effects, which the treatment, is claimed to have, have never really been explained. There is a stimulating action upon the skin, but there is little ground for believing that a slight cutaneous hyperemia can by itself be of much benefit. It is at least possible that the greater part of the benefit sometimes derived from the Nauheim treatment is due rather to inhalation of the carbon dioxide volatilizing from the surface of the bath.   DECREASE OF ANGINA UNDER INHALATION   With these considerations as a physiological background, it has seemed to me justifiable to try, with all due caution at first, the influ- ence of carbon dioxide inhalation upon cases of angina pectoris which are as yet in their earlier stages, but in which moderately severe suf- fering on exertion is already developing. This is not an emergency treatment, but a therapy for prolonged application. The inhalations are not given during an attack of pain, but at regular times every day, usually before the midday and evening meals, and at bedtime. The patient lies quietly on his back for a few minutes holding over his own face a mask which has a sufficiently large opening to the outside air to offer no resistance to breathing. He is told to keep his mouth open and to breathe deeply rather than rapidly. Then a stream of carbon dioxide gas through a small rubber tube from a cylinder of the pure liquefied substance is fed to the mask. At first the flow is kept small, but as respiration gradually deepens the amount of the gas is increased until at the end of two or three minutes a maximal or nearly maximal depth of breathing is developed. The stimulation is not, however, pushed to the point of increase of rate. This condition is maintained for fifteen or twenty minutes continuously. Then the gas is shut off, and the patient is directed to lie quiet for ten minutes more, so as to avoid the slight giddiness which occurs if he gets up immedi- ately.   THE AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL It is to be noted that the technic of this inhalation differs markedly from the use of a mixture of oxygen and 7 per cent carbon dioxide. which is best employed for resuscitation from asphyxia. The inhala- tion used on these heart eases is on the contrary essentially like that applied by Henderson, Haggard and Coburn, and by White after anes- thesia and operation.3 A mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide is rather expensive, and a cylinder of it, is exhausted in a single inhala- tion; while on the contrary even a small cylinder of liquid carbon dioxide lasts for several weeks of this treatment.. so that its cost, aside from the control apparatus, is slight. But of course pure carbon dioxide should be used only with such an open mask that the small volume