How do you decide which treatment I need?
A therapy is prescribed when a measurement asks for it. Hyperbaric oxygen is not offered because it is fashionable; it is offered when tissue repair, inflammation load or post-injury recovery in your own results justifies it. That principle is the difference between a longevity practice and a wellness menu, and it also protects your money: an intervention you do not need is still an intervention you should not have, however harmless it looks.
Each course opens with the relevant biomarkers, runs for a defined number of sessions, and closes with the same biomarkers repeated. If the second set does not move, the protocol changes. Patients see both sets.
What is hyperbaric oxygen therapy?
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) means breathing oxygen inside a pressurised seated chamber. Its approved indications include carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression illness, air or gas embolism, problem wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers, compromised skin grafts, radiation tissue injury and certain severe soft tissue infections. Pressure, session duration and the number of sessions are set by the treating physician for the indication being treated.
Use outside approved indications is not offered as a listed service.
What do the device-based modalities involve?
Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF) applies low-frequency pulses through an applicator, in timed sessions and within the certified purpose of the device. Red and near-infrared light is applied to skin and superficial tissue at a set wavelength, distance and duration. Medical sauna and cold immersion are dosed rather than improvised: duration, temperature and frequency are set against your cardiovascular data, which matters if your stress ECG showed anything at all.
Evidence for these modalities is emerging. Dosing follows the device instructions and the physician's judgement for your findings, and the relevant markers are repeated at the end of a course.
What about hormone therapy, procedures and dietary supplements?
Hormone therapy is prescribed only where laboratory values, symptoms and risk profile agree, and it is monitored on a schedule rather than renewed indefinitely. It is prescription only, decided individually by the treating physician, and not offered as a listed service.
Prescription medicines are not listed on this website. Greek and EU law prohibit the advertising of prescription-only medicines to the public, so no prescription therapy is named, described or offered here. Any medicine is decided individually by the treating physician after assessment, on the basis of your results, your history and your risk profile, and is discussed with you in consultation before anything is started.
PRP and PRF use your own platelet fractions for tissue, skin and hair indications. These are procedures and are delivered at the day-hospital unit. Evidence: emerging.
Dietary supplements are foods, not medicines. They are used where a measured value or a dietary gap indicates it, they are not used to prevent or treat disease, and no brand is named here.
How long before I see results, and what does it cost?
Recovery and sleep markers are re-measured at two to four weeks. Body composition, inflammatory markers and hormonal parameters at eight to twelve weeks. Epigenetic age is meaningful only over longer intervals and is re-tested annually, which is why we resist quoting it as a short-term scoreboard.
Therapy is prescribed individually after assessment, whether alongside a single day of measurement or over a longer course. How an assessment is structured is described on the approach page, cost is determined individually in writing as described on the fees page, and the physician who will supervise your course is introduced on the Dr. Erietta Galani profile.
Which therapies are used?
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, within approved indications
- Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy
- Red and near-infrared light therapy
- Medical sauna and cold immersion protocols
- Platelet rich plasma and platelet rich fibrin procedures
Aesthetic and dermatological procedures are not part of the minus10med scope of practice and are not offered here.
No result is promised
No result is promised. The relationship between physician and patient is an obligation of means, not of result. Individual results vary. Before anything is prescribed, your physician states the evidence level for that specific intervention in your case, and records it.
Start with a conversation
See how an assessment is structured on the minus10med approach page, or request an appointment with Dr. Erietta Galani in Athens.