Invited to Italy by Professor Gerardo Bosco to participate in the international conference of the University of Padua “Emerging indications of hyperbaric medicine”, the Israeli doctor, world luminary of brain anti-aging SHAI EFRATI, as well as professor of Medicine and Neurosciences of the University of Tel Aviv and director of the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center in Israel, visited Y-40 The Deep Joy yesterday afternoon. Accompanied in Montegrotto Terme by Professor Bosco, director of the Master in Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine of the University of Padua, Dr. Efrati had the opportunity to “immerse himself” in the atmosphere of the deepest swimming pool in the world with salsobromoiodic thermal water to discover the apnea.
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Location and experience are closely linked to the curriculum and studies that Dr. Efrati is carrying out: since 2008 president of the Israeli Society for Immersion and Hyperbaric Medicine, since 2020 he has developed studies on the administration of oxygen in the treatment and in antiaging processes, establishing itself as one of the biggest names in the world in research on the brain and its aging. Now, at the head of the research program on neuroplasticity and cognitive rehabilitation through the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, he demonstrates in his clinical studies how this treatment improves neurocognitive functions in post-stroke and traumatic brain injury. His work is focusing on the regenerative effects of hyperbaric oxygen on brain injuries such as stroke, post-concussion syndrome, traumatic brain injury, long Covid, severe emotional trauma, post-traumatic stress, Alzheimer’s disease as well with a special focus on decline functional age-related.
Efrati is thus demonstrating that delivering oxygen at a concentration and pressure higher than atmospheric ones improves the brain and physical performance in healthy aging adults, also thanks to the foundation of the Global Aging Consortium, a center that treats up to 200 patients a day demonstrating improvements on attention, information processing speed and executive functions, energy levels, sleep patterns, psychiatric symptoms, and pain management, which generally decline with aging.
«I am very curious about Y-40 as an Open Lab, especially if linked to freediving which I believe is also a brain training activity – explained Dr. Shai Efrati. – Each of us looks at freediving from our own angle and I, as a physiologist, see in this discipline above all mental control. This activity, if not taken to the extreme, does not involve risks for the organism and indeed through the control of the brain it prepares and challenges the body by stimulating it in an active way. My intentions include the study of some free divers who, by wearing a helmet that measures brain activity, demonstrate control over body movements, blood pressure, their own performance and the reserves that the brain develops.”
«Y-40 is the underwater laboratory where we carry out part of the research into hyperbaric medicine – explains prof. Gerardo Bosco – The international conference of these days, which is part of the university’s master’s course in underwater and hyperbaric medicine, is strongly supported by the Association of patients treated in hyperbarism, with honorary president Prof. Giuliano Vezzani, former head of anesthesia in Fidenza, one of the pioneers of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Fidenza/Parma and in Italy. After many years of work, a new indication for hyperbaric oxygen therapy was accepted or scientifically proven in Europe and then in the United States as the osteonecrosis I spoke about at the congress. Shai Efrati’s speech, however, focused heavily on the benefits on brain regeneration and therefore the use of Oti on neurodegeneration, while Folke Lind’s speech from Stockholm explored the benefits on inflammatory intestinal pathologies and ex master’s student Simone Schiavo, now in Toronto as a professor of anesthesia, discussed very promising results in neurodegenerative diseases.”
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