HBOT for Sleep Improvement

2025 Sleep Study

Assessment tools used in the sleep study included:

• Oura smart ring
• Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
• Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS)

These three data sources provided comprehensive information about participants' sleep quality, mood, and daytime sleepiness. They enabled a scientific comparison before and after HBOT treatment and clearly demonstrated significant improvement.

90% of Participants Improved Their Sleep Quality

• Among our 12 participants, 90% experienced a 50% improvement in sleep quality.
• Most also reported a reduced likelihood of daytime sleepiness, showing a clear difference compared with before HBOT.
• Oura Ring data showed overall improvements in readiness scores and sleep duration through personalized protocols.

How Can You Sleep Better?

At least 7 hours of sleep per night is recommended. However, we should focus more on sleep quality, not just sleep duration.

Sleep quality is essential to our health. The main stages of sleep include:

• Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep — one of the deepest stages of sleep. During this stage, your irises move rapidly, and your heartbeat becomes faster and irregular. REM sleep supports memory and learning because it helps restore the brain.
• Deep sleep (slow-wave sleep) — associated with physical recovery. Your heartbeat is regular, and breathing is slow. Deep sleep is vital because this is when your body repairs itself.

Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Improve Your Sleep?

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) immerses patients in high-concentration oxygen, increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity. Oxygen level and pressure inside the chamber are 40%-50% higher than at sea level. In a pressurized oxygen-rich environment, our tissues are filled with high oxygen levels, helping us enjoy benefits such as:

• Higher energy levels
• Increased metabolism
• Age-reversal support
• Help improving sleep quality
• Sports recovery and more!

According to neuroscience research, exposure to high oxygen concentrations encourages the brain to maintain deep, restorative slow-wave sleep.

Deep sleep helps the brain and body recover and supports memory consolidation.

By contrast, when we are exposed to less oxygen, the brain tends to remain in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be used to enhance deep sleep and help people prone to insomnia obtain enough restorative slow-wave sleep.

Slow-wave sleep is essential for health because the body needs this deep sleep stage to feel fully rested. During sleep, blood oxygen may drop due to reduced breathing. If oxygen intake is insufficient, slow-wave sleep can be adversely affected.

With HBOT, the blood can become fully saturated with oxygen, helping improve sleep quality.

What Are the Symptoms of Poor Sleep?

People with poor sleep may experience the following issues:

• Memory problems, thinking problems, and attention problems. Sleep helps the brain build connections that allow us to process and remember new information. Lack of sleep can negatively affect both long-term and short-term memory.
• Mood changes. Sleep deprivation can make us moody, irrational, sensitive, and irritable.
• Poor balance and accidents. Insufficient rest affects reaction speed. Slower reactions while driving may increase accident risk.

Transform Your Sleep Quality with HBOT

Beyond oxygen deficiency, other factors in daily life can also affect sleep quality.

With the help of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, we should also recognize that other aspects of daily life influence how well we sleep.

If you have been struggling with poor sleep quality, contact us to learn how HBOT may help ease your sleep problems.