The Synergy of Naturopathy and Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
People often arrive for mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (mHBOT) with an intuitive knowing that their body is capable of healing when the right conditions are in place. That belief sits at the heart of both mHBOT and naturopathy. Each approach recognises the body’s innate capacity to regulate, repair and restore balance when supported appropriately.
As the naturopath at CellRegen, I work alongside mHBOT to help create those conditions. While oxygen therapy provides a powerful physiological stimulus, naturopathic care focuses on the internal terrain that determines how effectively that stimulus is received, integrated and sustained. Together, they offer a complementary, whole person approach that supports both short term outcomes and long term resilience.
How mHBOT Supports the Body
Mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy delivers increased concentrations of oxygen to the body in a gently pressurised environment. Under pressure, oxygen dissolves more readily into the plasma, increasing the amount available to cells, including those in areas with reduced circulation.
This increased oxygen availability has been shown to support:
- Mitochondrial function and cellular energy production
- Tissue repair and recovery
- Neuroplasticity and cognitive function
- Reduction of inflammation and oxidative stress
- Immune system regulation
By increasing access to this essential resource, mHBOT helps shift the body into a state of repair, allowing cells to carry out their natural functions more efficiently.
Where Naturopathy Complements mHBOT
Naturopathic care supports the body alongside mHBOT by tending to the factors that influence how the body receives and utilises the oxygen at a cellular level. This includes nutrition, digestion, circulation, detoxification, antioxidant capacity and nervous system regulation.
Naturopathy works with the broader physiological context supporting energy availability, reducing competing stress signals, and enhancing recovery between sessions, whilst considering the individual capacity of each person. When digestion is more resilient, sleep is deeper, inflammation is better regulated, and the nervous system feels safer, the body becomes more receptive to therapeutic inputs and better able to integrate change.
What Does This Look Like In Practice?
In practice, naturopathic care is always tailored to the individual. Support is shaped around your unique health history, current capacity and goals, whether you are recovering from injury, managing inflammation or fatigue, supporting cognitive function, or investing in long term vitality.
Care often begins by strengthening the foundational factors that influence how oxygen is transported and utilised at a cellular level. This may include identifying and correcting key nutrient deficiencies such as iron, B vitamins, magnesium, zinc and antioxidants; supporting mitochondrial function and ensuring adequate protein intake to meet the demands for tissue repair and recovery.
From here, support expands to include herbal, dietary and lifestyle strategies that may be used to reduce inflammation, support circulation and microvascular flow and gently enhance liver and lymphatic clearance, to help the body process and integrate the physiological shifts initiated by mHBOT. Alongside these physical foundations, attention is given to nervous system regulation, metabolic stability and gut health. Sleep quality, stress resilience and blood sugar balance directly influences oxygen delivery, cellular demand and the body’s ability to remain in a state of repair, while gut health underpins nutrient absorption, immune signalling and systemic inflammation. Personalised lifestyle practices, including hydration, movement, breathwork and pacing, help integrate mHBOT into daily life in a sustainable way.
Why Work with a Naturopath Alongside mHBOT
For those already investing in oxygen therapy, naturopathic care can help to:
- Prepare your system for a block of mHBOT sessions
- Enhance and sustain benefits between and after sessions
- Understand the origins and underlying drivers of the symptoms you’re navigating
- Address long standing health patterns that require broader physiological support
My Approach as a Practitioner
My approach is grounded in curiosity, balance and the understanding that healing is most effective when the body is supported as a whole. I work with you as an individual, recognising that we all respond differently to therapies and require personalised care.
I’m drawn to a multi therapeutic approach, one that weaves together the insights of modern science, functional testing and evidence informed therapies with the timeless foundations of nutrition and restoration. It’s the integration of advanced modalities like hyperbaric oxygen therapy with traditional, personalised care that creates a truely holistic path towards improved wellbeing.
If you feel drawn to explore naturopathic support alongside your mHBOT sessions, you’re welcome to book through the clinic or reach out with any questions. I’m always happy to help you decide what feels most aligned for your health.
By Ebany Holloway
Clinical Naturopath and Founder of Bona Dea Naturopathy