Why This Wellness CEO Believes Hyperbarics Are the Ultimate Biohack and How He’s Scaling Access
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Show Notes:
In this episode of Mission Matters, host Adam Torres interviews Clay Womack, CEO of Pressure Partners, about the science and mission behind hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Clay shares how witnessing life-changing patient recoveries led him to dedicate his work to expanding access to this powerful wellness modality. Recorded live at the Newport Beach Investor Conference.
About Pressure Partners
A new startup by our experienced hyperbaric clinic management team (Clay Womack and Joshua Womack) to build out the first national chain of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and “chamber showroom” centers focused on the hundreds of “Off-Label” uses for this therapeutic modality in the Longevity and Wellness industries. In addition, they will be financing other clinics acquisition of Hyperbaric equipment from on a Revenue Sharing basis. Their focus mission is operations training and financing clinics primarily started and owned by Veterans that will also make these treatment centers available for treating their Veterans along with the general public.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest on the show, just head on over to mission matters.com and click on Be Our Guest to Apply. All right, so today I am at the Newport Beach Investor Conference, and let me tell you, this is one of my.
Favorite conferences yearly in Newport. I’ve been coming for the last two to three years and think my current guest, I, I was able to grab him from his booth and I’ve been, I met him originally, I think it was at a four M. And you can actually see on this backdrop right here, if I pointed out this hyperbaric chamber.
Last time I met him, we was in one of his own boots over at A four M and he had all these chambers around like. What is this guy doing? Like he’s telling me about all these fancy chairs. Alright, without further ado, clay man. Welcome. Finally get you on the show Adam. Thanks for having me man. I really love the title of your show.
Mission Matters ’cause I’m on a mission for hyperbarics It. It’s a 300 80-year-old technology. And it, it’s, we’re just barely scratch the surface of market penetration. Yeah. If I had a billion dollars today, it’d still be a rounding error. And, and the people that need hyperbarics for their treatment.
Wow. I wanna go way back when, ’cause I, I hear, I’ve heard of your work in Hyperbarics and you’ve been in this space for a while. You’re one of the pioneers I would consider, based on what I know of your background. How’d you get started? I want, I want to immortalize that. Well it, it, it was an interesting day.
We had a new patient in the practice who had come in and gotten his labs drawn and, and my wife had had diagnosed him with a dental infection and had him go out to see a biological dentist. And on the way out from six hours in the chair, the dentist said, Hey, you need to get in a hyperbaric chamber and kill off that infection that, that’s underlying all those teeth problems you got.
Well, this guy, being the guy, he looked around town, the only five hyperbaric clinics. Or Chambers in Austin. Mm-hmm. Were at the hospital. There were wound care centers. Mm-hmm. And they wouldn’t, they wouldn’t treat him for that. Yeah. That’s not one of the 14 FDA approved uses. So he went in and found his own.
Three days later he had it in his garage. They learned how to treat himself. He spent two and a half, three months doing two sessions a day in his blood markers changed dramatically. Wow. So much so that we thought it was his kid brother’s blood. Really? Yeah, it was just amazing. And how long ago was this, roughly?
Roughly? This was, this was 11 years ago. Wow. Right. At about 11 years ago. And he convinced me to put a chamber in our practice, but not in the medical practice. I, I wanted, I did some research on the market and I said I felt like the business opportunity I had financed the chain of MRI centers back on the West coast 20 years before.
Yeah. And I said the MRI model. It’s what works because you can ask other doctors to Yeah. Refer patients in. Yeah. Yeah. And so I put together a clinic. I ran the desk every day. I wanted to learn about this. I read, you know, hundreds and hundreds of papers about it. And it’s truly a transformative heating, healing modality because it works at the mitochondria level.
Mm-hmm. And so it works anything inflammatory. Mm-hmm. And that’s 93% of the US healthcare dollar date Yeah. Is, is chronic conditions. Mm-hmm. So. It couldn’t help but work. And then working the desk every day. I saw Miracle After Miracle After Miracle. Wow. Which, which just changed my life. Was that, was there like a moment or was it, would you say working the desk was kind of like a progression to where we’re big about mission, obviously where mission matters?
Like when did you know like this was gonna be your thing? Well, I, I tell you I got some early treatment in on some veterans and it was kind of Charity. Yeah. Doing some charity work with them. And saw some great remissions in their, in their ptsd TSD. Yeah. You can’t unknow what you know now. Yeah. Right.
And then, and then, and then I got this young lady in who had been hit by a truck. Oh. And she had had a, she had a little baby. And and her parents said, you know, do you think hyperbaric will help? She’s been sitting in this wheelchair drooling for, for 18 months. Nothing works. I mean, she couldn’t talk.
She couldn’t, she couldn’t take care of herself and she was a mess. And I said, well, you know, I hadn’t been in it that long. I hadn’t seen much yet. And I said, well. If you come every day, something will happen. So sure enough, they came every day. One of the parents would get in the chamber and work her out real good.
Had to go and wipe sweat down everyth after, of course, every session. And, and after 40 hours of sessions, she was walking from the waiting room and getting in the chamber by herself. And, and I said, Hey, we, we gotta help these people, you know? Mm-hmm. And, and so. I called her back. I called the mom up, you know, after their 40 hours ran out and I said, Hey, we got anonymous donor stepped up for another 40 hours, would you please bring your daughter back in?
And she was ecstatic. Wow. And at the end of that 40 hours, this young lady was walking back and forth to the car every day on her own, but most importantly, she was back talking to her baby girl. Whoa. She was a mom again. Wow. And that changed my life. I spent my whole career making rich guys richer. Mm-hmm.
But this. It gave me purpose. Yeah. This gave me my mission. Yeah. Which is to get hyperbarics out in the hands of many people as possible. I wanna go open some more clinics. Mm. I want to design some lower cost chambers so that we can get it. Get it out there. Yeah. But like I said, if I had a billion dollars today, I have a.
Barely be scratching the surface of what the population that needs hyperbarics. Wow. You mentioned 40 hours now. Is there some correlation to number of hours and, and maybe health benefits or how, how, what’s that connection in general? Yeah, there’s hyperbaric hyperbarics is a cumulative thing. Okay. So you gotta stay steady with a five day on, two day off routine to go through those three major stages of cumulative benefits.
At 20 sessions at 2.0. You’re gonna mobilize up to an 800% increase in progenitor stem cells. Mm-hmm. Which are the cells that get in your blood system and take on the characteristics of the organs that you want to heal. Yeah. Alright. At 40 sessions. And this was on my PowerPoint today. Yeah. Dr. Harsh showed that there’s permanent genetic changes taking place.
Mm-hmm. You’re upregulating about 4,000 anti-inflammatory genes. Yeah. You’re downregulating about 4,100 pro-inflammatory genes. Mm-hmm. That’s over 30 or protein coating genes in the body that are being permanently reregulated for an anti-inflammatory state. Wow. So that happens at 40 sessions. Mm-hmm. And then there was a study that came out about five years ago now called the ADI study.
Mm-hmm. Out of Tel Aviv University in Israel. Where they did 60 sessions, a, a big, you know, like 87 or 93 patients, so pretty good sized study. 60 sessions, 90 minutes long with five minute air breaks every 20 minutes at two atmospheres, and it reduced it, it extended the telomere length by 25 to 37%. Wow.
And got rid of up to 50% of the senescent cells, which are your dead, dead cells in your body, get it, cleaned it out. So that’s, that’s a time machine. You, you are literally making people live longer because telomere length is your, is your. Arbiter of, of longevity and as there’s like, and as this and individuals continue.
So one of the things that you do, and, and correct me if I’m off on this, but you help individuals you help. Centers with the large hyperbaric chambers. Right. And, and things like that. And then you also are able, are people able to also purchase them? Like what I’m looking at right here? Maybe that’s a good spot to start.
’cause I was thinking about that might be a little big for my living room, man. Well, you know, it, it, it’s, I I got into sales as an adjunct for treating people in the clinic. Yeah. Because they would come for 60, 80 hours. That’s what I’m thinking. Right. And they’re going and they’re like. They said, man, I wanna feel like this all the time.
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking. And, and, and I, but the drive time’s killing me. Yeah. Yeah. It, it’s Austin, Texas. I get it. It’s traffic. I get it. And I said, that’s great. We’ll just put one at your ranch or in your home, or in your co-op or whatever, and you can treat yourself and I’ll show you how. Mm-hmm. And so.
Up until, so I’ve been doing that for eight years and up until about February or March of this year, three outta every four chambers I sold was going in somebody’s home. Oh, wow. Okay. You know, so they people biohackers or people who had chronic condition that needed something long term. And then the switch kind of flipped because we’re seeing a hockey stick of, of hyperbaric popularity now mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
In the longevity and wellness space. Yeah. So I’m getting chains of clinics calling me because of my rep Yeah. And, and saying, Hey, we want to, we want to get some of these new chambers you’re importing and we wanna put ’em in our clinics and our franchises and things like that. Mm-hmm. So I’m doing more corporate type clinic sales now.
Yeah. And so it’s flipped the other way. Three outta four than I’m selling are going into, into longevity clinics. Yeah. Yeah. And so when you’re, when you’re, when somebody’s at home, so a lot of people at home, business owners, entrepreneurs, executives that watch this show and somebody’s thinking about, ah, like I’ve been thinking about hyperbaric chamber.
Maybe they’ve even tinkered around on the online a little bit. Like, and they’re like, ah, is this something I need, don’t need? And then, you know, they, they move on, right? What are, what are some reasons that somebody should consider looking deeper and, and if they are looking deeper into getting into a hyperbaric chamber for their home or otherwise what are some, what are some things when they’re shopping?
Like in general? Obviously I want ’em to go to you and I’ll, at the end of this, I’ll give, I’ll give everybody the opportunity. Don’t worry. I’m gonna give Clay the opportunity to leave a website or whatever else. But, you know, like, what should they be looking for? Well, the, the key, the key is if. If you want health as a lifestyle, right?
Yeah. And that’s becoming more and more prevalent, you know, people are mm-hmm. Cutting down on their drinking. Yeah. And you’re seeing that across the board. Cannabis has gotten big and you know, all these other things, but health is longevity. Yes. And, and so Hyperbarics is that one baseline biohack. Mm-hmm.
That works at the mitochondria level and it makes everything else you’re doing to be healthy, work better because you’ve got more oxygen, more a TP to, to, yeah. Stimulate. The body healing itself and giving energy to itself. So it’s, it’s, if you can afford it, do it. You know? Yeah. And that’s one of the reasons we’re trying to figure out a way to lower the cost of production of the chambers themselves.
Mm. So that we can get it out to more people and treat more people in clinics. Yeah. And you know, you’re looking at an average treatment of. 175 to $300 a session mm-hmm. At clinics like ours. Yeah. And, and if we can get the cost of the equipment cut in half or 60%, I can drop that treatment price to $50.
And then more and more people who really need it but can’t afford it ’cause it’s not insurance wise. We’ll have access to it. Mm-hmm. And your clinic was in Austin, I think you said, right? Yeah, we just opened our third one. The, the family just opened the third clinic in Austin a couple of weeks ago. Wow.
All right. I’m going to Austin on the 30th. I gotta cover something out there. I might have to stop by Clay, get a little, you know, a att x hyperbarics.com. That’s awesome. Yeah, one in Westlake, one round, and now out in Lakewood. I’ve never been Austin. Oh, awesome. Awesome. Be my first time going out there doing a gig and a, I was like, ah.
I’ve heard, I’ve been to other places in Texas. I’ve finally got hired to go out to Austin. I’m like, I’m there. Yeah, it’s great food. Great music. Music scene. Not as good as it was pre COVID, but it’s still stupid. Yeah. Everything’s still coming back. I, yeah. Yeah. All good. Alright, clay, you mentioned it, but I want you to do a little bit slower and I want you to look into the camera this time.
If somebody wants to follow up and they wanna learn more, they want to go to the clinic, they’re thinking about putting one in their home and or their clinic. How, how do they follow up? How do they learn more and connect with your team? Well, the best, best way is [email protected]. That’s our, that’s our central email.
Our distribution company is scientific age management. Mm-hmm. So that URL scientific age management.com will get you to see some of the chambers we have available for sale? Yeah. We, we do, we do the sales, we do the installation, we do the training, and then we do the maintenance, and then we also sell service contracts to extend the warranty on the equipment that we represent from the factory two years to five years.
Yeah. So given, given people who are making the capital investment of. Six figures. The comfort to know that there’s somebody here in the US that can help ’em with these, these imported chambers. Tariffs are a little tough right now. Yeah. We don’t know exactly where that’s going, but they’re still under, under the price of some of the domestic supply here in the US and that, and that’s why we’re representing ’em.
’cause it’s a, a really strong team of development. Mm-hmm. Second generation ship builders. Wow. I mean, they built submarines, they built hospital grade hyperbarics. Wow. And these people know Hyperbarics. Yeah. And they have all the US certifications that you need to be in a commercial environment. Mm-hmm.
They got A-A-S-M-E-P-V-H-O engineering stamp on ’em. And that’s, that’s the holy grail. Fantastic. And Freddie Washington, just so you know, we’ll definitely put some links in the show notes, so you can just click on the link and head right on over. And speaking of the audience, if this is your first time with Mission Matters and you haven’t done it yet, hit that subscribe or follow button.
This is a daily show. Each and every day we’re bringing you new content, new ideas. Hopefully new inspiration to help you along the way in your journey as well. So again, hit that subscribe or follow button. And clay, thanks again for coming out, man. It’s great to finally see you, Adam, it was a real pleasure to be with you here today.
And thank you for taking the time to introduce us to your audience because Hyperbarics is the ultimate biohack and it is the ultimate time machine. Awesome.
