IHHT in Berlin-Mitte with Mitovit®
Mitovit® IHHT
The body produces its energy inside the cells, in tiny structures called mitochondria. This is the cellular layer, and it is where IHHT has its place.
Intermittent Hypoxia-Hyperoxia Training, or IHHT, is a calm breathing practice you follow lying down. Through a mask, you breathe air whose oxygen content alternates between reduced and enriched, attuned to your body on the day of your visit. A simulated altitude stimulus, entirely at rest, with no mountain and no exertion.
The cellular layer on which IHHT works is, at Inanna, one of three in the Inanna Method®: at the surface, the work on skin and scalp; in the interior, nutrition with the Swiss micronutrient system HCK®. How these layers work together is set out on the Inanna Method® page.
At Inanna Wellness in Berlin-Mitte, we accompany this practice with the Mitovit®, a system made in Germany that reads your oxygen saturation and heart-rate variability throughout and guides each session individually. Every session opens with a conversation, in which we read what your body asks for that day.
IHHT in Berlin-Mitte
A session lasts about fifty minutes. You lie down, you breathe, and there is nothing more to do. The mask delivers reduced and enriched oxygen in turn, while the Mitovit® reads your oxygen saturation and your heart-rate variability and adjusts the intensity to your response. Two pulse oximeters accompany each session. The practice stays attuned to you at every moment, quietly guided and never forced.
This is how a visit unfolds. You arrive, and before each session we take ten minutes for a conversation. We listen to how you are that day and shape the session around it. Then you rest, the mask is placed, the light is low. Over about fifty minutes the breathing phases alternate while you lie still. At the end we give you a moment before you return to your day.
IHHT is not a single appointment but a matter of regularity. We think in series and in years, not in one session. After a single visit there is nothing to see, and that is as it should be. A practice like this lives on repetition, in its own rhythm and over a long time. When and how often it makes sense for you is something we discuss before each visit.
Origin and research
IHHT has its origins in high-altitude physiology. In the 1930s, the Soviet physiologist Nikolai Sirotinin studied how the body adapts to repeated time in the thin air of altitude. Over the following decades, that research grew into intermittent hypoxic training. The hyperoxic recovery phase that defines IHHT today was described later at Lomonosov Moscow State University and documented as a method in 2006.
At the center is the way cells sense oxygen and respond to it. This field was described in depth by the recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Research since then has examined how the body responds to alternating oxygen stimuli, from cellular respiration to the autonomic rhythm.
What the research describes, and what it does not. A 2022 systematic review gathers the existing work on hypoxia-hyperoxia at rest and places it carefully in context. A 2021 pooled analysis looks at resting cardiovascular measures. Both rest on small groups and concern mostly older or already unwell people, and both name open questions. We read this research as background, not as a promise. What it means for you personally cannot be drawn from a study, only from conversation. We say so plainly, because restraint is part of care where this subject is concerned.
The Mitovit® is made in Germany. At Inanna we use it as part of a calm, holistic approach, not as an apparatus placed in the foreground. Where it makes sense, it supports the work of our Meisterinnen des Hauses, the masters of the house. Technology supports what hands and attention begin. Which form suits you is something we clarify before every visit, in conversation. IHHT here is a practice of wellbeing and does not replace medical advice. To arrange a visit, reach us through contact.
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