MemberAs my pseudo suggests, I'm a seasoned scuba diver, although my T is not related at all. I dive deep air in the 40-60m area (once 80m) (130/200/260 ft) with oxygen mix for decompression. (helium is too expensive here to replace a fraction of nitrogen = trimix).
I noticed many times when I surfaced, my T was barely noticeable, it had simply "fadded" to a 0.5/1.
I was told it was surely related to the relaxing effect of scuba diving... One-of-those-who-do-not-have-T-explaination.
I recalled my diving instructor "physiology of diving" course. Scuba divers know narcosis, also called "Martini cocktail effect". The deeper you go, the higher partial pressure of nitrogen becomes (Air: 80% x 6 bar @ 50m = 4.8 bars).
Oxygen is metabolized, it does not accumulate like nitrogen into your boby (mainly in fat), but is also toxic from 1.6 bar and beyond. Decompression time allows you to softly eliminate nitrogen from your boby throughout the lungs.
Nitrogen fixes on neurons (the myelin to be precised, if I recall) and slows down their activity. This was to me a basic explaination of my T "easing". I was surprisingly happy when I found this article of a French neurophysiologist who demonstrates that scuba diving can be addictive (it is). Sorry it is in French but I've translated the most interesting part (google translation is your friend for the remaing part of the article):
"Nitrogen acts on the GABA receptors of dopaminergic neurons, which increases their inhibition. In other words, the presence of nitrogen increases the inhibitory effects of GABA. These neurons thus release less dopamine. This neurotransmitter has many actions on some other neurons, for example glutamate neurons."
I went to scuba divers forums and some of them reported the same experience. A kind of self-HBOT...
I noticed many times when I surfaced, my T was barely noticeable, it had simply "fadded" to a 0.5/1.
I was told it was surely related to the relaxing effect of scuba diving... One-of-those-who-do-not-have-T-explaination.
I recalled my diving instructor "physiology of diving" course. Scuba divers know narcosis, also called "Martini cocktail effect". The deeper you go, the higher partial pressure of nitrogen becomes (Air: 80% x 6 bar @ 50m = 4.8 bars).
Oxygen is metabolized, it does not accumulate like nitrogen into your boby (mainly in fat), but is also toxic from 1.6 bar and beyond. Decompression time allows you to softly eliminate nitrogen from your boby throughout the lungs.
Nitrogen fixes on neurons (the myelin to be precised, if I recall) and slows down their activity. This was to me a basic explaination of my T "easing". I was surprisingly happy when I found this article of a French neurophysiologist who demonstrates that scuba diving can be addictive (it is). Sorry it is in French but I've translated the most interesting part (google translation is your friend for the remaing part of the article):
"Nitrogen acts on the GABA receptors of dopaminergic neurons, which increases their inhibition. In other words, the presence of nitrogen increases the inhibitory effects of GABA. These neurons thus release less dopamine. This neurotransmitter has many actions on some other neurons, for example glutamate neurons."
I went to scuba divers forums and some of them reported the same experience. A kind of self-HBOT...
Im going every saturday to the chamber but I would like to know what will happen to the T if going almost all days . The person who build it , says he goes every day into it , hes got more than 6000 sessions , he´s a really good guy and knows a lot , but he is not from the medical field , im really amazed about how he could understand all of this , according to his experience he was near liver failure and needed a liver transplant about 10 years ago , so he went everyday into the chamber and make excercice in it , now we see his liver profile and its normal , and scanners from liver also . I do not know if all that sessions could help T , or inner ear problems , but I will do my best to go inside as many times as possible and let know anything .
