Tech­ni­cal­ly speak­ing only a med­ical treat­ment has a con­traindi­ca­tion. Ath­let­ic train­ing as with LiveO2 has no contraindications.

Oxy­gen train­ing is a form of exer­cise. Avoid any form of exer­cise which are unsafe for you or which may not be rec­om­mend­ed by your doctor.

See Also: Exer­cise guide for the health-challenged

Specific Training Guidance for individuals with Health Conditions 

Users with health con­di­tions are advised to start mod­est and increase train­ing inten­si­ty and dura­tion with tolerance. 

The fol­low­ing expla­na­tions seek to address spe­cif­ic phys­i­ol­o­gy that affects exer­tion tol­er­ance. Users with these con­di­tions are advised to start easy and work up. The con­di­tion relat­ed notes attempt to inform users, and their health sup­port team about spe­cif­ic issues that may occur as a result of exer­cise with LiveO1.

Anemia

Dur­ing exer­cise, the heart rate increas­es to pump blood more vig­or­ous­ly through the vas­cu­lar sys­tem. Tur­bu­lent blood flow through the vas­cu­lar sys­tem stress­es the blood and may cause frag­ile red blood cells to rup­ture. A healthy red blood cell, RBC, has a lifes­pan of about 90 days.

Exer­cise renews the blood. The tur­bu­lence from exer­cise caus­es frag­ile blood cells to fail. In response, the body replaces them with young new cells. These young cells have are flex­i­ble and have opti­mal oxy­gen car­ry­ing effi­cien­cy. This is one rea­son healthy LiveO2 users have very healthy look­ing blood.

Ane­mia is a blood dis­or­der in which the blood has a reduced capac­i­ty to car­ry oxy­gen due to a low­er than nor­mal num­ber of red blood cells or a reduc­tion in the amount of hemo­glo­bin.

In the case of ane­mia where red blood cells are frag­ile, aggres­sive exer­cise may cause too many ane­mia-affect­ed blood cells to fail reduc­ing the oxy­gen-car­ry­ing capac­i­ty of the blood. The user will expe­ri­ence a decrease of exer­cise tol­er­ance. If this occurs reduce the inten­si­ty and dura­tion to a lev­el where there is no loss of exer­cise tolerance. 

This explains how exer­cise lit­er­al­ly cre­ates younger blood, and why more intense exer­cise lit­er­al­ly cre­ates younger blood. More intense exer­cise caus­es old­er and less effi­cient blood cells to fail and be replaced sooner. 

This is one of the rea­sons High-Inten­si­ty Inter­val Train­ing increas­es exer­cise tol­er­ance more than long-dura­tion aer­o­bic exer­cise. HIIT exer­cise forces the body to main­tain younger thus more effi­cient red blood cells. 

A decrease in your exer­tion tol­er­ance means you are train­ing too much and your body needs more time to recov­er. If you have ane­mia — this will show up as a decrease in your exer­tion capac­i­ty and red blood cell count. 

Longer or more intense exer­cise will be counter-pro­duc­tive and will decrease your over­all health and phys­i­cal capac­i­ty. Mon­i­tor your blood health and seek med­ical guid­ance in search of ways to improve your blood health.

Elevated Cardiovascular Event Risk

Indi­vid­u­als with an ele­vat­ed risk of car­dio­vas­cu­lar events should lim­it max­i­mum heart rate dur­ing exer­cise to 10% over rest­ing and increase grad­u­al­ly per our exer­cise guide for the health chal­lenged.

Exer­cise strains the vas­cu­lar sys­tem by stress­ing the vas­cu­lar struc­tures. An abrupt increase in exer­cise inten­si­ty or dura­tion may over-stress car­dio-vas­cu­lar capac­i­ty result­ing in a car­dio­vas­cu­lar event.

Con­sult your med­ical advi­sor to deter­mine safe exer­cise lim­its before using LiveO2 or any exer­cise program. 

• You have an ele­vat­ed Car­dio­vas­cu­lar event risk if you have any:
• Slow or fast rest­ing heartbeat;
• Car­diac insuf­fi­cien­cy of any sort, angi­na, chest discomfort;
• High or low blood pressure; 
• Angi­na or pain in the chest or arms;
• You get dizzy when you stand up;
• A his­to­ry of high cho­les­terol, or use of any cho­les­terol medication.

People taking anti-seizure medications;

• Exer­cise with LiveO2 rapid­ly clears tox­ins from the system.
• Indi­vid­u­als using anti-seizure med­ica­tions should grad­u­al­ly ramp LiveO2 exer­cise start­ing at 1 minute and increas­ing by one minute to deter­mine exer­cise exer­cise tolerance. 
• This strat­e­gy enables the user to grad­u­al­ly expe­ri­ence the counter bal­anc­ing effects. On one hand Oxy­gen nor­mal­ly reduces the ten­den­cy for seizures, on the oth­er LiveO2 rapid­ly decreas­es the con­cen­tra­tion of drugs, includ­ing seda­tives, in the sys­tem. This process should be con­duct­ed gradually. 

Exercise is not appropriate during acute hypertension, angina pectoris attacks, or during acute spasms.

Oxygen Training removes Drugs from the body

Tech­ni­cal Sug­ges­tion: Author’s Note: Med­ical or pro­fes­sion­al super­vi­sion is advised when indi­vid­u­als with drug-con­trolled seizure dis­or­ders use Oxy­gen Mul­ti­step Ther­a­py or LiveO2. This is nec­es­sary because Oxy­gen Mul­ti­step Ther­a­py and LiveO2 rapid­ly elim­i­nate tox­ins and drugs from the system.

There are two types of seizures:

1. Those caused by oxy­gen deficiency;
2. Those caused by some­thing oth­er than oxy­gen deficiency.

Type 1: seizures tend to be reme­di­at­ed or resolved by oxy­gen train­ing. The simul­ta­ne­ous elim­i­na­tion of the cause of the seizure and cir­cu­lat­ing drugs has no adverse effect and does not increase exer­cise injury potential.

Type 2: For seizures caused by any rea­son oth­er than oxy­gen defi­cien­cy, very rapid elim­i­na­tion of drugs from the sys­tem occurs may increase the prob­a­bil­i­ty or inten­si­ty of a seizure dur­ing or after training.

Indi­vid­u­als who use drugs to con­trol seizure dis­or­ders should only use Oxy­gen Mul­ti­step Ther­a­py, or LiveO2:

• With com­pe­tent med­ical super­vi­sion to pro­tect the user from injury;
• Pre­pared for urgent admin­is­tra­tion of seizure reme­di­a­tion medications;
• And restrict exper­i­ments to exer­cise meth­ods which will not injure the user if a seizure occurs dur­ing exercise.

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Epilepsy Drugs

List of Seda­tives often pre­scribed for seizures includ­ing epilep­sy:

During migraines

If you choose to use LiveO2 dur­ing a migraine — titrate oxy­gen con­sump­tion using pri­mar­i­ly Low Oxy­gen, with brief expo­sure to oxy­gen, 1 – 4 breaths, and take breaks every 1 – 3 min­utes to deter­mine symp­tom inten­si­ty. Stop if symp­toms worsen.

Oxygen Multistep Nonresponders

From Page 55 — Oxy­gen Mul­ti­step Ther­a­py. These fac­tors con­tribute to non-responders:

1. Struc­tur­al pul­monary dis­eases with dif­fu­sion dis­or­ders, name­ly, in the exis­tence of a gen­er­al­ized res­pi­ra­to­ry insuf­fi­cien­cy. The pro­por­tion of such cas­es in non-select­ed patients in less than 10%.
2. Cere­brovas­cu­lar decom­pen­sat­ed patients lack­ing com­pli­ance due to organocere­bral psychosyndrome.
3. Patients with a high pro­por­tion of shunt vol­ume in the lung.
4. Indi­vid­u­als with severe CO poi­son­ing (e.g. chain smokers).
5. Car­diopul­monal­ly decom­pen­sat­ed patients: a rec­om­men­da­tion is a pre­req­ui­site here for imple­men­ta­tion of the procedure.
6. In per­sons with a high PO2-art over 90 mmHg ~12 kPa, e.g. due to phys­i­cal sta­mi­na train­ing, a high­er lev­el can­not be expect­ed to be achieved.

The difference between LiveO2-AC and Oxygen Multistep

Adap­tive con­trast dif­fers from Oxy­gen Mul­ti­step Ther­a­py because Ardenne exclu­sive­ly used exer­tion or strain to mod­u­late blood flow. The oxy­gen sup­ply var­ied from 5LPM to 50 LPM. 

Exclu­sive use of high oxy­gen breath­ing mix­tures lim­it­ed per­for­mance in con­di­tions which would be non-respon­sive to exclu­sive use of high oxy­gen mix­tures, and poten­tial­ly inhib­it­ed safe­ty for indi­vid­u­als where exclu­sive con­sump­tion of ele­vat­ed oxy­gen mix­tures could be problematic.

With LiveO2, switch­ing between vari­able low-oxy­gen mix­tures, and high oxy­gen mix­tures enables com­plete vari­abil­i­ty in the amount of oxy­gen deliv­ered to the user. This range is vari­able from about .66 ATM to about 4 ATM dur­ing exertion.

The Adap­tive Con­trast fea­ture enables users who may adverse­ly respond to titrate from a less­er to greater amount of oxy­gen dur­ing train­ing. The abil­i­ty to con­sume a sin­gle-breath of oxy­gen and then switch back to nor­mal or hypox­ic air, enables pre­cise con­trol of the amount of oxy­gen deliv­ered, which in turn enables safe titra­tion and pro­gres­sion to high­er oxy­gen levels.

Experimental Guidance

Here are sum­maries for the sug­gest­ed dis­cov­ery of effects rel­a­tive to spe­cif­ic conditions.

Cerebral Palsy

We could find no ref­er­enc­ing that exer­cise or oxy­gen would be harm­ful for this condition.

See Also:

• How fast can I ramp my exer­cise?

Ref­er­ences:

• https://www.texaschildrens.org/health/cerebral-palsy
• https://support.liveo2.com/kb/what-are-contraindications-for-liveo2-training/
• https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/cerebral-palsy/treatment/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy/
• https://www.flintrehab.com/cerebral-palsy-exercises-for-adults/
• https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00827.2017

Hemochromatosis — Suggested Tolerance Experiment

Hemochro­mato­sis is a genet­ic con­di­tion where the body has excess iron. Iron excess cre­ates vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to oxida­tive stress which may occur when doing activ­i­ties with high con­cen­tra­tions of oxygen.

LiveO2 uses adap­tive con­trast which enables users to exer­cise under low oxy­gen con­di­tions. This fea­ture enables indi­vid­u­als who may have adverse respons­es to high oxy­gen lev­els to lim­it expo­sure of high oxy­gen to very brief peri­ods of 1 – 5 breaths, and only to con­sume a small about of oxygen.

This tech­nique poten­tial­ly avoids adverse effects that may occur if they were to con­tin­u­ous­ly exer­cise using a high oxy­gen mixture.

The use of low oxy­gen with brief peri­ods of oxy­gen enables users to use a small amount of oxy­gen for max­i­mum effect.

If you have hemochro­mato­sis titrate work­outs start with low oxy­gen lev­el dwell and grad­u­al­ly increase dwell time on oxy­gen. Note any adverse effects and reduce oxy­gen dwell time with­in well-tol­er­at­ed limits.

See Also:

• Tox­i­c­i­ty of iron and hydro­gen per­ox­ide: the Fen­ton reac­tion — PubMed
• HFE gene vari­ants and iron-induced oxy­gen rad­i­cal gen­er­a­tion in idio­path­ic pul­monary fibro­sis — PubMed