21/02/2026
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What Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Protocol should you follow to support someone with Lyme Disease?
The answer would really be determined by which phase of Lyme Disease a person is in.
If they're in a very acute phase of active infection, higher pressures are more important.
Although we're not just trying to blow up spirochetes from pressure itself, we are also trying to improve a patient's immune response to fight the infection.
So, usually a range of pressures, anywhere from 1.5 through to 2.0 atmospheres and even above, could all be appropriate within that active phase.
However, many of the patients that we end up seeing are pretty well into the chronic phase of Lyme. I believe that in the chronic phase of Lyme, we could focus on the inflammatory phase of recovery, and then the tissue repair and regeneration by using lower pressures.
A lot of these benefits could be seen anywhere between 1.3 and 1.75, even up to 2.0, but that high of pressure usually is not necessary in this phase.
So, the range of pressures could all be used technically, but it's really about understanding where the patient is in that journey and applying the appropriate type of therapy and protocol based on where they fall in that continuum.
So, higher pressures are usually used for acute infections and low to mid pressures are usually used for chronic Lyme infections.
Watch the full YouTube Video we did on Lyme here:
https://youtu.be/fWwiJgQcvrU&list=PLLBK4Ii9--jFmpg8NT5qpJ4TWGthFS22q