The best part of building Huemn

One of the great joys of building Huemn is walking our floors. I get to sit with our patients, listen to them and see how they're really doing. This week, one of those conversations stopped me in my tracks.

One of our patients, who has been with us for a while, was coming to terms with the possibility of losing her leg. She had even started going to amputation support groups.

It goes back to an injury she had as a child. She was left with screws and hardware in her leg, and over time her body started to reject them. That left her with a wound she was really struggling with.

She came to us wanting to try hyperbaric for that wound. As she's gone through her sessions, she has noticed a huge shift. The wound and the tissue around it are improving significantly.

Today she's hopeful. Her amputation may have been prevented through hyperbaric.

I can't tell you how grateful I am that we get to be part of a story like hers. This is why we do this.

What this means for the rest of us

Hospitals have used hyperbaric oxygen for hard-to-heal wounds for years. You breathe pure oxygen under pressure, which pushes far more oxygen into your blood and tissue. Healing tissue needs oxygen, and damaged areas often can't get enough of it.

Now think about the rest of your body. Your brain, your heart and your muscles run on the same things as that leg: blood, tissue and oxygen. If this is what hyperbaric can do for one part of the body, think what it could mean for the rest of you.

The research is exciting. In one small study from Israel's Shamir Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, 35 healthy adults over 64 completed 60 hyperbaric sessions. Telomeres in their blood cells lengthened by 20% to 38%, and senescent immune cells, the worn-out cells that stop working properly, dropped by as much as 37%. Read the study

The same team also ran a randomized trial in 63 healthy older adults. They found better attention, processing speed and executive function, along with more blood flow to key areas of the brain. Read the trial

Even Bryan Johnson, who may be the most measured man in longevity, calls hyperbaric “one of the highest value health therapies I've done.” He had already spent years pushing his biomarkers to elite levels and was struggling to find anything new that moved them. After 60 sessions, he reported systemic inflammation below detection limits and a 28.6% drop in pTau217, a marker tied to dementia.

Curious whether hyperbaric fits your goals? See how it works at Huemn →

Why we keep investing in this

I believe we're on the cusp of something truly incredible for longevity and health, and we're going to keep investing in it at Huemn.

Here's what drives that investment. At a hospital, a single hyperbaric session costs at least $1,000. Our goal at Huemn is to bring you the same therapy, with the same treatment and safety standards, at a fraction of the cost, so it can become a regular part of your longevity or health routine.

If you're thinking about how to improve your health in a way that really moves the needle, hyperbaric is where I'd look first.

Better humanity begins with better health.

Bill Hanks Founder · Huemn