Dr. Mike Bauerschmidt: A Decade of Oxygen-Driven Healing
He bought LiveO2 for himself when mold illness destroyed his memory. After five treatments, his brain clicked back on. Then he brought it to thousands of patients.
Dr. Bauerschmidt’s Full Interview
Nearly a decade of clinical experience with LiveO2 — treating the sickest patients other doctors couldn’t help.
Dr. Mike Bauerschmidt is a physician who has treated hundreds — possibly thousands — of patients with LiveO2 since 2015. In this conversation with LiveO2 inventor Mark Squibb, he explains how oxygen training became the cornerstone of his practice.
It Started with His Own Brain
Dr. Bauerschmidt didn’t start with patients. He started with himself.
He was suffering from mold illness. The brain fog was so bad he couldn’t remember what he’d just said to a patient. He had to look at the computer screen to remember who he was talking to.
So he bought a LiveO2 system. For personal use. Just to see if it would help.
“After the fifth LiveO2 treatment, my brain suddenly clicked on. And I went — whoa.”
— Dr. Mike BauerschmidtFive sessions. That’s all it took. His brain came back online. He could think again. He could practice medicine again.
That was 2015. He hasn’t stopped using it since.
Treating the Sickest of the Sick
Dr. Bauerschmidt’s patients are not the kind of people who have a simple problem. They’ve been to 5, 10, sometimes 15 different specialists. Rheumatologists. Neurologists. Cardiologists. Pulmonologists. Endocrinologists.
Nobody could tell them what was wrong.
His approach is different. He doesn’t chase diagnoses. He goes after the total body burden of toxicity. Because environmental poisoning doesn’t just hit one organ. It hits everything.
“The diagnosis is not the disease. It’s always about everything.”
The biggest challenge? Getting toxins out of the cell. That requires two things: open blood vessels and enough oxygen to power the cellular pumps that push the junk out.
That’s exactly what LiveO2 delivers. Research supports the role of oxygen in enhancing detoxification pathways at the cellular level (PubMed: 22160803).
15 Minutes vs. 90 Minutes
Dr. Bauerschmidt is blunt about passive oxygen chambers. They work. But the math doesn’t add up.
A passive chamber is passive. You lie down. Someone else controls the oxygen. Your heart rate doesn’t go up. Your blood pressure doesn’t increase. You’re getting more oxygen, but you’re not driving it anywhere.
It takes 90 minutes minimum. It requires a trained operator. The initial equipment investment is massive. And you can only treat about 8 people a day.
“I can do in 15 minutes what it takes an hour and a half to do in a passive chamber. I can realistically treat 20 to 30 people a day.”
— Dr. Mike BauerschmidtWith LiveO2, exercise raises your heart rate. That increases driving pressure in your vascular system. The Adaptive Contrast cycle dilates your blood vessels with nitric oxide, then floods them with oxygen-saturated plasma.
The result? Up to 600% more dissolved oxygen in your plasma than breathing pure oxygen through a mask alone.
In 15 minutes. On a bike or treadmill.
The Lasting Effect
Here’s the part that separates LiveO2 from quick fixes.
Dr. Bauerschmidt has seen patients who did 40 to 60 sessions of passive oxygen therapy. They felt great for a day or two. Then they crashed again.
With LiveO2? Ten to twelve sessions. And the improvement holds.
“I do 10 to 12 LiveO2 sessions and they are better and maintain it over time. That’s totally in keeping with the research.”
— Dr. Mike BauerschmidtHe combines LiveO2 with sauna and lymphatic drainage. The oxygen opens the cells. The lymphatic system carries the toxins away. The sauna helps eliminate them through sweat.
But the cornerstone is always oxygen. Without it, everything else stalls.
He puts it plainly: “Nobody gets out of here without doing the LiveO2. If you don’t do that, you’re just asking for failure.”
From a Wheelchair to a New Job in 12 Weeks
Not every patient can hop on a bike. Some of Dr. Bauerschmidt’s patients arrive in wheelchairs.
He starts them on a hand crank. Anything to get the heart rate up. Anything to create the turbulent flow that drives oxygen into restricted tissues.
One patient came in unable to walk. Started with the hand crank. Did the altitude contrast. Took longer than average. But twelve weeks later, he was driving his own car on his way to a new job.
Another group: patients who’d been sick for over 20 years. Half their lifetime. Once the oxygen started moving and the toxins started flushing, they could see — for the first time — that getting better was possible.
That shift in belief matters. When someone who’s been told “we don’t know what’s wrong with you” for decades suddenly feels better after two weeks, everything changes.
At 69, He Has the Energy He Had at 50
Dr. Bauerschmidt has been using LiveO2 for nearly a decade himself. He works 12-hour ER shifts. He sleeps well. He eats well. He has the energy he had 20 years ago.
He says it simply: without LiveO2 back when the mold illness hit, he wouldn’t be here. He would have retired years ago — or worse.
His prescription for longevity is three things: LiveO2, lymphatic drainage, and a sauna. That combination, he says, will do more for your long-term health than anything else you can do at home.
“Oxygen is the great healer. Without it, you’re pushing the stone uphill.”
Common Questions
Dr. Bauerschmidt is a physician who specializes in treating patients with complex, multi-organ environmental illness. He has used LiveO2 as a cornerstone of his clinical practice since 2015 and has treated hundreds to thousands of patients with the system.
Passive chambers deliver extra oxygen while you lie still. LiveO2 combines exercise with Adaptive Contrast to actively drive oxygen into tissues. Dr. Bauerschmidt reports achieving in 15 minutes what takes 90 minutes passively, and the results tend to be longer lasting. Learn more about the difference.
He specializes in complex, chronic cases — patients who have seen 5 to 15 specialists with no diagnosis. His focus is environmental toxicity, mold illness, chronic fatigue, and multi-organ conditions that conventional medicine struggles to address.
Dr. Bauerschmidt reports that most patients experience measurable improvement within 10 to 12 sessions, with some noticing changes as early as the first week. Results vary depending on the individual and their condition. More on the results timeline.
Oxygen powers the cellular pumps that push toxins out of cells. Dr. Bauerschmidt combines LiveO2 with lymphatic drainage and sauna therapy to support the full detoxification pathway. Read more about oxygen and detox.