Interval breathing therapy · Physician-led
You sit in a chair and breathe through a soft mask. Over forty minutes the air is moved — thinner, ordinary, richer — along a curve written for you and nobody else. Nothing to endure, and nothing to recover from afterwards.
The method
Most breathing therapies do one thing to one specification. Ours moves between three, and which two it alternates — and how deeply — is a clinical decision made for each patient, not a setting left where the last person put it.
7–16%
Hypoxia
Thinner than the air outside. At 11.5% it is the equivalent of standing on the summit of Mont Blanc — a mild, controlled shortage that asks the body to adapt.
21%
Normoxia
Ordinary sea-level air. Used as the recovery phase for patients who should not be given elevated oxygen, and as the gentle option for children and frail patients.
25–33%
Hyperoxia
Richer than anything you breathe naturally. Used to restore saturation quickly between intervals — which is what makes the whole session comfortable at rest.
The protocol
Three of the programmes we run, drawn to scale. Switch between them and watch what changes — the depth of the trough, the height of the recovery, and how far your blood oxygen is actually asked to travel.
Select a programme
The standard programme. Deepest adaptive load, and the one most of the published research uses.
42
Litres per minute
The rate at which the system can deliver your mixture — among the highest available, and the single thing you will notice most.
Why it feels different
Interval breathing therapy is only as good as a patient's willingness to finish the course. The most common reason people stop is not the thin air — it is the effort of breathing itself. If the machine cannot supply air as fast as you want to inhale, every breath becomes work, and forty minutes of work is not therapy.
A high flow rate removes that resistance. Air is there when you ask for it, at the concentration prescribed, held to within half a percentage point for the whole phase. Patients describe it as breathing normally — which is exactly the intention.
It matters most at the extremes: for a child, for an elderly patient, for someone whose lungs are the reason they came. Those are precisely the people a lower-capacity system struggles to serve.
Personalisation
Before your first session we run a hypoxic sensitivity test — we move the oxygen concentration gradually and measure how your saturation actually responds. That curve is yours, and it sets your programme. From there the system runs closed-loop on your pulse and saturation, enriching the mixture automatically if either crosses the limits set for you.
Children
Shallow hypoxic depth or none at all, shorter phases, a parent in the room. Often a normoxia–hyperoxia programme with no hypoxic load whatsoever.
Athletes
Deeper troughs, more cycles, scheduled around training blocks rather than around convenience. Adaptation without leaving sea level or losing a training week.
Older patients
Gentler gradients and longer recovery phases, with the option to remove elevated oxygen entirely where it is not appropriate.
Specific pathologies
Metabolic, cardiovascular, respiratory, post-viral and sleep-related conditions each take a different shape of curve, set by the treating physician.
Session length is adjustable from two minutes to two hours, in one-minute steps. That range is not a specification for its own sake — it is what allows a first session for a nervous child and a full protocol for a competitive athlete to run on the same equipment, in the same week.
Programmes can alternate hypoxia with hyperoxia, hypoxia with ordinary air, or run the enriched phase first and the thin phase second. Where elevated oxygen is unsuitable, it is simply not used.
Five programmes
01 · After the virus
For people whose exercise tolerance never came back. This is the indication with the most direct clinical evidence behind it — a controlled inpatient rehabilitation trial measured improvement in exercise capacity and functional outcome.
02 · Training load
Altitude adaptation without a training camp, and recovery capacity between hard blocks — for Dubai's triathlon, Hyrox and marathon population, who train at sea level in heat and cannot disappear to the Pyrenees for a month.
03 · Metabolic
Studied as an intervention in patients with metabolic syndrome, including in the absence of exercise — which matters for people whose weight or joints currently rule exercise out.
Effects on lipid profile and inflammation in metabolic syndrome
04 · Cognitive
For the long-hours professional whose problem is not sleep but the quality of the fourth hour of thinking. Research has examined adaptive potential, endurance and working capacity of the brain.
05 · Healthy ageing
The longevity case: maintaining the body's capacity to tolerate stress as it ages. Studied as personalised preconditioning in older adults, and as an adjunct in cardiovascular rehabilitation.
Not sure which?
Sixty minutes with a physician, your own hypoxic response curve, and a written recommendation — including, where it applies, the recommendation not to proceed.
The literature
Interval hypoxic–hyperoxic therapy has a genuine peer-reviewed literature — modest in size, mixed in quality, and worth reading before you spend anything. Every study we cite is linked in full. We make no claim about what it will do for you specifically.
Sessions and courses
Adaptation needs repetition — two or three sessions a week, over weeks rather than days. Every patient is assessed and safety-screened by a physician before the first session, and we will say plainly if a course is not appropriate for you.
Single
AED 300 · one session
AED 300 a session.
Course
AED 2,500 · 10 sessions
AED 250 a session — AED 50 less each time.
Full programme
AED 7,000 · 30 sessions
AED 233 a session — AED 67 less each time.
Book
Sixty minutes, one physician, your own response curve to take away — whether or not you go on to a course.
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