Joseph Dituri holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He is not a medical doctor. He does not hold a medical license, he does not practice medicine, and nothing on this website is medical advice.
What this site is
This site reports research. It describes published studies, explains how they were designed, and says plainly where the evidence is strong and where it is thin. That is science communication, and it is not the same thing as clinical care.
What this site is not
Nothing here diagnoses a condition, recommends a treatment, or tells you what to do about your own health. Reading this site, sending an inquiry, or speaking with Dr. Dituri does not create a doctor and patient relationship, because there is no doctor on this side of it.
Consultations offered through this site are conversations about science: how a study was run, what a mechanism does, what the literature says. They are not medical consultations and they are not second opinions.
Hyperbaric oxygen and brain injury
The material on this site about hyperbaric oxygen therapy and traumatic brain injury describes an active area of research in which the evidence is contested. Some trials have reported benefit. Others found that people receiving a sham treatment improved as well. The U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs clinical practice guideline does not recommend hyperbaric oxygen for traumatic brain injury, and the FDA has not cleared it for that use.
That disagreement is reported here because it is true, not because this site takes a side in it. Do not read a description of a mechanism as evidence that a treatment works for you.
Research results describe groups, not you
A published result describes what happened to the people in that study, under those conditions. It does not predict what would happen to any individual. Results from a single subject, including the Project NEPTUNE 100 observations described on this site, are weaker still. One person is not a study.
Talk to a clinician
If you have a health concern, speak with a licensed physician or another qualified provider. Do not delay seeking care, and do not stop or change a treatment, because of something you read here.
If this is an emergency, call 911 or go to an emergency department.
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Last updated 10 September 2026.