Exclusivia Talks KAATSU with Steven Munatones

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Steven Munatones has launched new products, services and technologies in the U.S. over the last 20 years. At TOTO Frontier, he licensed TOTO’s sanitary ware technologies outside of Japan. At RealLiveSports, he designed and marketed the ESPN Play by Play, a 2006 Toy of the Year. At Aruze Gaming America, he launched hybrid slot machine reel technology in the gaming industry. At the World Open Water Swimming Association, he utilized 9 years of national team coaching to help shape and promote the new Olympic sport of marathon swimming. The Harvard graduate and certified KAATSU Master Instructor co-founded KAATSU Global with Dr. Sato, the Japanese inventor of KAATSU, to introduce next-generation KAATSU equipment.

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If you increase the elasticity of your capillaries and veins is obviously you gain better blood flow, better circulation. And most people don’t really appreciate this fact because if we lined up all of our capillaries in the human body end to end, it would literally wrap around the earth three times. That’s how many capillaries we have.

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This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares the story of how KAATSU was first discovered by Dr. Sato in a Buddhist temple over 50 years ago.

So Dr. Sato invented this in 1966. The inspiration for KAATSU came to him when he was sitting on his knees in a Buddhist ceremony. And when you sit on your knees, your calves, there’s a reduction of blood flow to your calves, and your calves get very hard. Most people, when they sit a long time during a ceremony, they fidget, they move around, and some people sort of start massaging their calves. And when Dr. Sato was massaging his calves, he realized my calf feels really hard like he had just been doing some heel raises. And he said, “I wonder if it has to do with this modification of blood flow to my lower extremity.” And this is back in 1966. He actually took an old bicycle tube and put it around his upper leg. And he started doing some exercises. And he realized when he started to modify the blood flow, and at the time, he didn’t know whether he was restricting blood flow out or pooling blood flow in the leg.

His quadriceps, his hamstrings, and his calves would become very toned, hard like he was lifting weights or doing squats. And that was his inspiration for starting KAATSU. And it took him literally 30 years of all kinds of self-experimentation and testing with people from all walks of life in all ages to really, in about the 1990s, set the protocols that we are now using today. And so how I became involved was in 2001, my old swim coach asked me to join him on the U.S. national swim team at the 2001 World Championships. They were held in Fukuoka, Japan. And because I had spent previous 15 years in Japan working with Japanese, my fluency in Japanese was pretty good, both written and spoken. And so I joined the staff, and I saw some Japanese athletes putting bands around their arms and legs, and I thought, “What are they doing?” One thing led to another, and I was introduced to Dr. Sato. And after the World Championships were over, I went to Tokyo, visit Dr. Sato at his research facility, and really changed my life then. I saw all of the people that he was working with. He explained to me, you know, briefly what the mechanism was. Then I asked him, I said, “Gosh, I want to learn how to do this.” At the time, I wasn’t thinking about business or opportunities or anything. I was actually literally thinking about myself and my parents and my family. And he said, “Well, I don’t really have anything written. It’s all in my head. But if you come back, I’ll be very willing to teach you.” And so I did that. I did that for at least four times a year over the next 13 years. And he took me to hospitals. He took me to medical clinics. He took me to sumo dojos. He took me to baseball teams. They saw golfers, Olympic wrestlers, old people, comatose people, people with MS, people with cerebral palsy, people with broken bones, torn ligaments. And during each of these visits, he would teach me more and more about KAATSU.

So that was basically a 13-year apprenticeship that I underwent. And during that period of time, everything I was learning, I was translating into English and coming up with terminology in order to explain what was happening, the mechanism that was happening in the human body when Dr. Sato was doing KAATSU. And then in 2014, Dr. Sato and I started KAATSU Global. And the purpose of KAATSU Global was literally to share KAATSU equipment and KAATSU technology and KAATSU protocols with the rest of the world.

And over these last five years, we’re now in 47 countries, and we think we’re doing well. We’re proceeding along, dealing everything from militaries to Olympic athletes, pro athletes. But, you know, people as old as 104, young people, overweight people, deconditioned people, people with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, broken bones, everything that I saw and learned in Japan, I’m trying to replicate here, here, meaning the United States and teach our distributors and specialists around the world to do the same.

This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global, founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares what KAATSU is and what it does to the body.

So KAATSU, which means, KA in Japanese means additional, and ATSU in Japanese means pressure. So KAATSU, the combination of those two words means additional pressure. And it was just a word that Dr. Sato thought of it. And how we apply additional pressure to the human body for physiological benefit is we put the bands on the upper arms or the upper legs. And when you put the bands on the upper arms or upper legs, with a certain amount of pressure, it actually leads to blood pooling in the limb. And what that means is every time there’s a heartbeat, blood is being pumped out of the heart and pushed through the body. And when you put slightly modified pressure on these bands around your upper arms or upper legs, the blood goes into the limb and is being modified coming out.

So in other words, you have more blood in the arms or in the legs than you normally would. And when that happens, that is really the catalyst for a bunch of biochemical reactions to begin in the body. The first one is, visually, you actually see your hands or your feet become pink. Some people, if they’re very fit, become red or even purple. And that’s literally, you just have more blood in the limb. What that means is each capillary vein in the limb is engorged in blood. And when the blood is engorged, this leads to an increase in the elasticity of your capillaries and veins. And the importance of this was not known, frankly, with Dr. Sato in the first years when he was doing this, but now we know the importance. And one reason if you increase the elasticity of your capillaries and veins is obviously you gain better blood flow, better circulation.

And most people don’t really appreciate this fact because if we lined up all of our capillaries in the human body, end to end, it would literally wrap around the earth three times. That’s how many capillaries we have. Obviously, we have a good number of capillaries in our arms and legs. And so when we engorged the limbs in blood, we actually enable the elasticity of that capillary veins to increase, and therefore you get blood or blood circulation. Now, if you move the muscle, moving the muscle doesn’t necessarily mean push-ups or pull-ups or lifting weights. It could literally mean just typing on a keyboard. It could mean opening and closing your hand. It could mean stretching. When you do that and you have an engorged amount of blood in your capillaries and veins, that leads to a generation of lactate. Most people feel it like, oh, my muscle is getting tired.

And so you can do very simple movement, and that is chemically actually equal to doing vigorous workouts. Now, why is that important? Let’s say you have a broken arm. Let’s say you sprained your ankle. Let’s say you have a broken finger. Therefore, your normal human activity or training regimen is necessarily reduced. With the KAATSU bands on, you could actually maintain your vascular elasticity, meaning that your stamina will maintain. You can maintain your strength even if you can’t lift a weight, even if you can’t do a push-up. And so it’s a natural biological process in the body. Engorgement of your capillaries and veins plus simple movement leads to a secretion of hormones, one of which is the human growth hormone. And why does the human growth hormone come into the equation? Is that when you add stress to the muscle, that sends a signal through your central nervous system up to your pituitary gland that’s in your brain, just right behind your eyeballs.

And that actually shoots out hormones, one of which is a human growth hormone. Now, the good thing, and the very fortunate thing about a secretion of hormones, is it flows through the human body through the vascular system. And because our vascular system is literally just one system, so the capillary in your toes is literally connected to the capillaries of your brain. Once we secrete the hormones through our blood system, it actually goes everywhere. So there’s practical benefits to this. And that is, let’s say I broke my right arm and I have it in a cast. Well, I could still do KAATSU on my right arm or with my legs, in other words, on my three other healthy limbs. And this leads to a secretion of hormones. And those hormones will actually help your injured left arm rehabilitate or recover faster, even when it’s in a cast. And when you can do that, you actually effectively eliminate muscle atrophy.

And especially with a broken bone or any kind of lower body injury, if you can eliminate muscle atrophy, you can actually recover much faster. So that’s what we know up to date. Now, the Japanese and Chinese researchers have gone even further than this. They know that doing KAATSU somehow positively impacts the mitochondria in our cells, and they’re still going through the testing process in order to validate this through the scientific method. And we can speculate what is actually going on. But instead of speculating, we’re waiting for the Japanese and Chinese researchers to come up with the definitive explanation of what is actually happening in the human cells when you do KAATSU.

This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares how KAATSU training stimulates the body’s own healing abilities.

The mitochondria. Think of it as the engine of the cell. And so when you rev up the engine, you enable the impact of this increased activity within the cell to be enhanced, to be faster. So in other words, with KAATSU, when you break a broken bone, it could be a finger, it could be a rib, it could be a clavicle. You’re literally booster charging in layman’s terms that mitochondria, the bone will repair itself faster or the ligament and tendon muscle, whatever it is. And so the body is going to repair itself anyway. So let’s say you break a finger or break a rib and you don’t do anything at all.

You don’t see the doctor, you don’t do anything. Eventually that rib or that broken finger will repair itself. What we’re doing with KAATSU is we’re just supercharging. We’re enhancing that natural biological process to help the body heal itself faster. And when we do that, the Chinese and Japanese research believe that somehow within the mitochondria, the natural processes that would occur, let’s say in, I don’t know, 10 milliseconds is now 1 millisecond. And if you do enough of that, that’s why we see really remarkable advances in something like recovery from an ACL. So they have an ACL tear, they do the surgery, and typically a football player or a soccer player is out from anywhere from nine to 12 months. And now we can literally get people back within two to four months without any muscle atrophy. And so when you really enhance the natural mechanisms of the human body at such a high rate, effectively, we are revolutionizing how medicine, how the medical community can help the body heal itself much, much faster. You may have some injury to a peripheral nerve. You might have some injury to a ligament and tendon, which is capillary poor as opposed to a muscle or an organ, which is very capillary rich. And so how we utilize KAATSU for, let’s say, a torn ligament is slightly different than we utilize it for a pulled muscle. But essentially, you have captured what is happening in the body.

All it basically is, is the human body knows how to heal itself well enough, and I’m not addressing anything like cancers or some kind of bacterial viruses or anything. I’m talking about the muscle, ligament, tendon, bone injuries, or inflections that we may have. We’re enabling the body to heal itself much, much faster in a natural state. This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares the difference between KAATSU training and blood flow restriction products such as occlusion bands and tourniquets that are commonly mistaken for KAATSU. The amount of pressure that you have in compression wear, let’s say on a scale from one to ten is a two. And let’s say the amount of compression that you experience taking your blood pressure taken and you have a tourniquet on your arm or a blood pressure cuff, let’s say that’s a 10. Tatsu is somewhere between a 4 and a 7 on that scale. And so the amount of pressure that you feel is more than compression wear, but much less than a blood pressure cuff.

So that’s one difference. The second difference is usually the compression wear goes over, let’s say, a calf or in the case of swimmers, their quadriceps. KAATSU is only at the point of where your artery sits. The artery sits in your upper arm and upper leg. So the general differences is how we approach the mechanisms and the circulation of the human body. So I’ll take the blood pressure cuffs or Delphi or occlusion band. In those cases, they start off as their products are at a tourniquet or a blood pressure cuff, and they start at the point of occlusion or completely cutting off the circulation in the arms or legs. That’s their starting point. And from that starting point, then they back off, let’s say, 50% or 80% or whatever the appropriate number is for that particular product. And so they measure a person’s occlusion pressure, and then they back off. They reduce it a certain amount. In our case, we begin not at occlusion, but we begin at full arterial flow.

So we begin at the exact opposite end of the scale. We start off where, okay, nothing on your arm, we put on the band and we started very, very low pressures, almost so low that many people tell us in the very beginning when they first put on KAATSU, I don’t feel anything. They may not consciously feel anything, but there is their small capillaries begin to feel something. Whereas the occlusion bands go from occlusion and reduce down, we go from full regular normal blood flow, and we gradually begin that process.

The reason we begin that way is because, unlike the other occlusion products, we began with Dr. Sato and with cardiologists working with people who actually had cardiac issues. And so we had to be very, very careful in putting any kind of pressures on these people’s bodies. So we began very, very gently and increasing to a certain point. Again, in that previous example, when I mentioned the compression sock is maybe two, and the blood pressure cuff is 10, we’re somewhere between four and seven.

And so when you get that, the capillaries and veins have the opportunity to gradually, just gradually start to expand. And I always explain it like when you blow up a brand new balloon. When you blow up a brand new balloon, you have to force a lot of air in that balloon, and gradually it becomes more and more elastic and you can get more air inside. The second time you blow up that same balloon, it’s easier. The third and fourth time becomes easier and easier. And that’s what we’re doing more or less with the capillaries and veins.

We’re starting out at a very slight pressure and increasing ever so gently. And we call that process the KAATSU cycle. And that’s when we put slight pressure on for 20 seconds, then we release. Then we put slightly more pressure on for 20 seconds and release. And we do a series of those. Pressure on, pressure off, pressure on, pressure off. And that’s why we can use KAATSU with people who have serious medical issues. It’s very gentle on the body and it allows the body to acclimate to this pressure. An occlusion band, you know, you go at 100% occlusion and then you back off to 80%. Well, I would challenge any of the occlusion banned people to do that with a person who has a stent in their heart or some kind of serious medical issue. Our product was 15 years in the research halls of the University of Tokyo Hospital, where we dealt with at least 700 cardiac patients a year to come up with all these protocols. And our focus is on older people. Our focus is on people with medical issues, aging baby boomers. It was not initially focused on soldiers, young people, and athletes. Now, as it turned out, soldiers, athletes, and young people use KAATSU, but we see the most benefit to people who are older, and I’ll say, you know, over the age of 50, or those people who are too busy to go to the gym, they just don’t have time to drive, you know, 20 minutes to a gym, work out in the gym, take a shower, go back to work, or go back home.

That’s one difference. The second difference is in the band itself. Our bands are pneumatic, and therefore, when it’s pneumatic, your limb is sitting against a bed of air. And that’s very, very, very important. And when your limb is sitting against a bed of air, anytime you do, let’s say, even a bicep curl, or you contract the muscle in any way, the band itself adjusts accordingly. And we know that’s very important because when we did our research with NASA, they actually put eight sensors in our band.

And those sensors, according to the NASA scientists, had to be equal. They wanted to know that the pressure around the entire limb, whether that was the upper body or upper leg, was the same. And that is very, very critical, whether we’re here on Earth or somewhere in space. And some of the occlusion bands you have, there’s different pressure points where one point is tighter than another. And the third major reason is the width and shape of our bands. The width and shape of our bands actually took us many years to develop. We needed to create an air bladder inside that was spherical. So imagine when you blow up a balloon, air expands in all directions equally. So the band becomes circular or spherical. We needed to create an air bladder that only expands in the direction of the skin. And we wanted to do that because the pressure that we have on the arteries and veins had to be very specific.

So in other words, we want to continue the arterial flow into the limb, but we want to modify or reduce the blood flow out of the limb. And that’s a tricky goal. And we accomplish that by designing a very specific air bladder and KAATSU band that is significantly different than anybody else. Again, our goal was not to occlude anything. Our goal was to allow the blood to flow into the limb as it normally does, but being reduced coming out. And we accomplish that by creating this spherical air bladder of a certain width. So those three differences are the real big differences between KAATSU and other products in the market. This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares why he believes that KAATSU training saved his life during a serious heart attack and then how KAATSU training also accelerated his recovery time.

I had a heart attack in May of 2016 and that was preceded by, I actually traveled between the U.S. and Japan three times in the matter of 11 days. We were really working hard and I was really pushing myself a lot harder than I should have. I mean, I didn’t know how many hours I slept in those 11 days, but it was not much. And I just had pushed myself to the max. And I had a heart attack at my home. Fortunately, my 17-year-old son gave me CPR and had a stent in my heart, left ventricle, and it really shocked me. But, you know, I survived and I told my cardiologist I want to use KAATSU to rehabilitate because I had seen KAATSU being used in the cardiac wards at the University of Tokyo Hospital. Now, up until then, the KAATSU on people who had heart bypass or heart attacks or some kind of stroke, they had always had KAATSU administered to them by a physician, and I am not a physician.

But I just spoke with Dr. Sato and said, “Well, you know how to do it. You know, you’ve seen me do it. Just go ahead and do it yourself.” And I was excited to do it. I think everybody else in my family and my friends thought I was absolutely crazy. But again, I was literally the only Westerner who had seen KAATSU being applied to people with serious cardiac issues. I had all the confidence in the world and I did KAATSU, the standard KAATSU protocols that I had learned, and I improved incredibly fast.

I mean, I was, you know, the doctor said he’d actually called me his miracle man, but I actually attribute my survival to KAATSU. Now, that’s probably not the only thing. Obviously, I was very lucky with my son, with the first responders, with the physicians and all. And I’m sure prayer also helped. But, you know, my body was able to withstand that shock, I think, because the elasticity of my capillaries and veins was vastly improved with KAATSU, because I had been doing KAATSU for, oh, what, 13 years before then? You know, during that 11-day period, as I look back, I didn’t do KAATSU. I mean, I was literally on a plane, flying in Japan, coming back, you know, working with our engineers for our new products. I was a crazy man. And that just pushed me over the edge. But how I recovered from that was very rapid. I am now a spokesperson for the American Heart Association. I don’t endorse KAATSU, that would be a conflict of interest, but I do tell my experiences of how I recover from that.

But even our chief operating officer, he had an aneurysm in his aorta. He’s 71, Richard Herstone, and his doctor said he was going to be out for nine months. The surgery was successful, and he was back normal, I think, within two weeks, you know, and he was doing the exact same thing that I was taught at the University of Tokyo Hospital with Dr. Sato. And so we’re very confident of what we’re doing. And in fact, one of the last steps that we were able to accomplish before we got to Department of Veterans Administration was with a 61-year-old man. He had a heart attack and three strokes, and he can’t speak. He could barely move, but he did KAATSU. And I visited him in Longmont, Colorado, and he improved very well with KAATSU. Our goal was to enable him to walk around his home, which we were able to do.

And when the VA saw that using KAATSU, we can teach people how to recover at their home without a medical professional there. They said, “Okay, we understand this potentially could be a big game changer and a huge cost reduction for an organization like the VA. This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares a very powerful story about KAATSU training being used to help treat a quadriplegic woman who had suffered from a traumatic brain injury in a car accident over 12 years ago.

Tina from Long Beach, California, was our first major patient who was quadriplegic in the United States. And she had a traumatic brain injury. There’s a scale that they use for traumatic brain injury patients. It’s called the Glasgow scale. And she was a three, which is really bad, really, really bad. She hadn’t moved in 12 years, and I had met her because of a client, actually. It was a man. He was 68, former basketball player, very good, and he had lost the ability to walk up and down stairs and even raise his arms above his shoulders. And we got him back. And they had a common friend. And Tina, she hadn’t moved in 12 years. Her hands were always locked up. She had to take daily spasmodic medicine. And within six weeks, we had gotten her to the point where she could take a spoon and raise it to her lips.

It was all absolutely remarkable to see firsthand, but it was also very, very satisfying to hear her health providers absolutely see the changes in her body. Because they had basically seen this poor woman who had a serious car accident just sort of exist in this shell of a body, but Tina very much felt the KAATSU effects. There were very practical benefits that she experienced. For example, her body, instead of being tensed up all the time, was much looser.

And what does that mean? That means when her caregivers carried her from her bed to the bath or from her bed to the restroom, they were able to pick up her body and move it much more easily than before. It’s meant that her hands and feet, legs, and torso, instead of being cold all the time and being in her room, sort of locked up in a warm room, now we’re able to open her windows. In the summertime, you know she opened the door to her bedroom that looked out in the garden.

And just being able to feel warm, to feel the breeze. She lives in Long Beach. So, you know, to feel the ocean breeze and hear the birds instead of being in this airtight room and wear all these heavy clothes. By the sixth week, I would walk in and she’d be wearing a t-shirt, you know, in shorts. Whereas before, when I first saw her, you know, she was in a coat with blankets over her. And so we were able to increase the mobility of her limbs. She felt better emotionally, psychologically.

And from her and her case, we started to meet more and more paraplegics. And each one of the people that we’ve helped, whether it’s a young man who had a rock climbing accident, or a young person with a car accident, or a Purple Heart recipient who took a gunshot to the head, each of these people improves in their own way, very significantly. And it’s remarkable because A: their outlook on life is much improved.

The stress that their family members or caregivers have is much less, and it’s very, very heartening when we can use KAATSU for such significant improvements. Tina, the quadriplegic from Long Beach, she taught us a few things. When I was with Dr. Sato and Dr. Nakajima and the other physicians in Japan, and they would teach me how KAATSU was for, you know, their paraplegic patients, I was not there year round. I would go into Tokyo, I would visit, I would fly out.
So I never had the opportunity to see someone improve on a daily basis. With Tina, because I live in the town next to her, I was able to see her nearly on a daily basis. And so she gave me a tremendous amount of feedback. And we did all kinds of different things. And one of the biggest things we learned was that Tina did KAATSU twice a day.

Now we’d always known that KAATSU was useful, but we didn’t realize if you use KAATSU twice a day as a quadriplegic, how much significantly faster her improvement came. So now, actually, when we have someone who has a broken bone or a torn ligament or someone who is paraplegic, we always go through what we now call the TINA protocol twice a day, once in the morning, ideally once again an hour before bedtime.

And the reason why that’s important, and that was backed up by our research in Japan and China, is that when you do KAATSU and you have a hormonal response, and you have this hormonal response just before bedtime, that improvement in the hormonal release in the body while you’re sleeping, really helps the body to recover very, very well. And so when we work more and more with quadriplegics and paraplegics, because they’re so sensitive to movement, to sensation, to touch, to feeling, to blood circulation, they really teaching us a lot that is not only applicable to patients like them, but also able-bodied people who just have a broken bone or a torn ligament or sore muscles.

This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Monatone shares how KAATSU training actually improves weight loss. He also discusses how KAATSU training assists with recovery time, jet lag, and insomnia.

When every heartbeat, our capillaries and veins and arteries expand and then they contract, expand, contract, expand and contract. And that expansion actually requires energy. So the more that you can expand, the more energy that is used, the more calories that you burn. So in other words, if you run, let’s say, one mile and you have, let’s say, an average heart rate of, I don’t know, 140 beats a minute, or you walk a mile and let’s say that the number of heartbeats is 82, those are different caloric burns. Now with KAATSU, because we’re engorging the capillaries and veins and arteries in blood, they’re expanding more than normal. And when you expand more than normal, you’re using more energy, you’re burning more calories.

Now, the downside of KAATSU is most people feel, after they’ve done KAATSU, hungry. It’s a natural reaction. I just exercise more at a metabolic level than I did without KAATSU. And I always tell this one story about this one, I think in his early 40s, and he did KAATSU for the first time, and he was very enthusiastic. He was a former NCAA Division 1 athlete, but he had gotten out of shape in his 30s and early 40s. And he did KAATSU for the first time, and he felt great. And he called me about an hour after he had tried KAATSU for the first time. He said, “Steve, KAATSU is great, but I won’t buy it.” I said, “Why?” And he said, “Cause I just went to Krispy Kreme and I just mowed down 12 glazed doughnuts.” He says, “I was so hungry.” And I said, “Okay, we learned this from the wrestling world.

Wrestlers like boxers, like M&A fighters, they have weigh-ins, and they control their weight.” And so what we recommend for people who want to lose weight with KAATSU, do KAATSU, but do not eat 90 minutes after you finish KAATSU. Drink water, drink, you know, 12 fluid ounces of water. The body naturally goes to about or uses about more or less, depending on how big you are, how active you are. Two ounces of water every 10 minutes, more or less, and just drink that amount of water to replenish where you are. And people who do that will see a reduction in weight, but more importantly, they will see an improvement in muscle tone. So, even though you’re losing weight, when you increase your muscle tone concurrently, your clothes fit differently. So, you’re either filling out places or you’re not filling out places.

That’s the mechanism of why using KAATSU burns more calories than not. One practical example is when we have NBA or Major League Baseball players, and what we always recommend to them, because they’re flying so often and crossing so many time zones over their long season, their use of KAATSU always should include what we call either the jet lag or insomnia protocol, which is an hour before going to bed, to actually stimulate that hormonal response. And over the length of the season, that kind of very, very deep sleep really helps improve your recovery mechanisms that happen when you’re in a deep sleep. Especially, and now we do the same for business people who travel a lot. If you’re on a flight from New York to LA, vice versa, or New York to London, wherever you’re going with our business people, we do the same thing with our jet lag and insomnia protocols. And again, this all stemmed from a quadriplegic 47-year-old woman in Long Beach.

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This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones explains how KAATSU training can be done by anyone, anywhere, anytime, and requires no additional time commitment into an already busy day.

You know, when you’re 18 years old or 28 years old, you view time much differently than when you’re 58 or 68 years old.When you’re 18 or 28, you know, it’s not that hard to go to the gym. You want to be out, you’re active, you want to meet people, et cetera. When you’re 58, that intention or that desire to leave the comfort of your home or even the office and go to a gym is much less. However, the human body still needs exercise and movement. So now that 58-year-old can take the KAATSU equipment and literally do their exercises, their movement, improve their health and wellness and fitness, their range of mobility, their stamina, their strength at their office in their workloads, or at their home on their couch. And I think when a 58-year-old, for example, views that, they start to go, “Oh, I am totally efficient now. I could be working my shoulders, my pecs, my biceps, my triceps by folding clothes. I literally can be working on my forearms by typing with KAATSU. I can walk my dog around my neighborhood with the KAATSU bands on my legs.”

The time between, let’s say, work, family time, and exercise suddenly starts to blend together and you become much more effective, efficient in the use of the 24 hours that each of us has on Earth. When you do that, your perspective of what can be accomplished starts to change, improve. So in other words, this 58-year-old is now doing KAATSU while they’re washing dishes, typing emails, folding clothes, just stretching.

Now they’re going, “Oh, my back doesn’t hurt so much when I get up in the morning,” or, you know, “I can raise my arms above my head without any kind of creaking of the bones or anything.” And now when they go, “Oh, maybe I can do this, maybe I can do that.” And what they think they can accomplish, their true potential, starts to be a realization. And we see this all the time. I can’t tell you the number of 50-year-olds, 60-year-olds and 70-year-olds who tell me, “Steve, you know what? I don’t have to bend over to wash my hair anymore because I have frozen shoulder or my shoulders ache when I’m just washing my hair. When you’re 18 or 28, you never realize that. Steve, I don’t have to sit down to tie my shoes anymore. You know, I’m much more flexible. These little things in life, we get literally every day from people who tell us. And they say, “Well, why is this happening?” And when I tell them, when you can increase the elasticity of your capillaries and veins, it’s absolutely remarkable what your body, how you can move your body, how you can stress your body.

And stress can be simply walking two flights of stairs. It could be carting luggage through an airport. All these little things, people tell us all the time, like I’m only walking with KAATSU, but now I can walk up five flights of stairs, you know, without huffing and puffing. And when people realize that, they go, “Well, you know what? I work on the fifth floor. I’m going to just take flights of stairs.” And suddenly they realize the amount of exercise they’re doing, even beyond KAATSU, is leading to weight loss, is leading to a muscle toning.

I have so many people who said, “Steve, this is great.” But guess what? I have to buy a whole new set of wardrobe. For some people, that’s a bad thing. For others, it’s a good thing. You know, these little changes in life, my back doesn’t hurt. I can put the dishes up on a cupboard. I was able to carry a heavy box that I couldn’t do before. We hear this all the time, and it begins when you can increase the elasticity of capillaries and veins, and you’re getting this regular stimulation of hormones, a release of hormones.

We call KAATSU a way to overlay exercise in your daily life. When you are going to fold clothes, put your KAATSU armbands on. If you’re going to stand and wash dishes, put the leg bands on. Anybody can do this at any time. So I’ll take a typical day. If I’m in Southern California, I have a meeting in New York. In the morning, when I wake up, I’ll be packing my bags with the KAATSU armbands on, doing a cycle. So pressure on, pressure off, pressure off, pressure. I don’t travel with too many things, so it doesn’t take too long to pack. But it does take 5 to 10 minutes, 15 minutes, if I got stuff to do. I get in the car, I drive to LAX. At LAX, I go into the airport lounge or at the gate. I’m doing more KAATSU cycles, two or three. Depending on how much time I have, because I’ve already done KAATSU on my arms, I might do KAATSU on my legs. If I’m rushed for time, you know, I’ll wait until I’m in the airplane. I’m actually in the airplane and doing KAATSU.

Most of the time, I’ll travel by economy class, but I’ll occasionally be bumped up to business class. If I’m in business class with the wider seats, I have room to put on my leg bands and do cycles. In economy class, and especially if I’m in a middle seat, I only have room to do it on my upper arms. We always do this before the meal comes, and therefore, we’re burning more calories as, you know, eating generally the unhealthy airplane food.

Once we’re down in the ground, I’ll check into the hotel. I’ll check email. I can throw on KAATSU again as I’m in the hotel room or let’s say in an office lobby, whatever. And again, at night before, especially if we’re crossing lots of time zones, we can do the jet lag insomnia. Always KAATSU cycles. Very gentle. We don’t even think about it. We just put the bands on, hit the button, and the machine automatically puts pressure on, pressure off. That’s how we use it. There’s nobody in our company who goes to a gym and actually does bench press or anything. We all use it in the course of our daily lives because we know there is no impact on something that we’re doing instead. So in other words, I know that I’m working on my chest or my shoulders or my quads or my calves while I’m doing something that I would normally be doing anyway. It’s the stereotypical kill two birds with one stone. I’m working doing emails and I’m working on my upper body or improving my or maintaining my stamina by doing a conference call with the leg bands on. I’m not sweating. I don’t have to change clothes. I do it in the course of my day. And the people who really, really appreciate this, I think more than anybody are working mothers. Women who have children, you know generally school-aged children, two or more, their time is so valuable to them.

Yet they’re in their late 20s, 30s, 40s, and they want to maintain their physical being and maintain their health and wellness. And when we teach them, you don’t need to go to the gym. You can if you want. If you enjoy spinning, by all means, go ahead and go to your spinning class, throw the bands on. By all means, if you like to work with a kettlebell, go ahead and do it, but you don’t have to. And once people realize that they can work it into their daily lives, time becomes much more efficient and the perspective of what is possible is vastly expanded.

This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Monatona shares why KAATSU is so beneficial for your joint health. He also explains why it’s important in combating arthritis and can help you stay younger for longer. So you can do KAATSU while you’re sitting down.

That’s the whole idea that when you engorged a limb in blood, let’s say your legs and your heart beats obviously normally, that is adding mechanical stress on your body that you can do while you’re sitting down or standing up. Many men have and physicians tell us the extra abdominal fat that we put on as we age. That’s not a good thing for men. So I always tell men like, “Oh, you know I’m in good shape, but I just got to get rid of my beer belly.” And so what we tell them is, “Okay, you know do you work? Do you go into the office? Whatever you do, do you have a meeting? Do you have a telephone conference? Put the KAATSU leg bands on and literally stand up. Stand up and put a book on your head. Stand up and balance on one foot. And lo and behold, that puts a lot of additional stress, in a good way, stress on their lower body and their core. And gradually, instead of doing planks, instead of doing sit-ups, they’re getting the benefit of strengthening their abdominals and their core. It’s helping their back.

It’s helping them largely their gait. Because usually when you go into the gym, they’re telling a man, okay, let’s do three sets of 15 bench press and shoulder press, et cetera. Yet where they really need their help is their core. Being able to walk properly with your shoulders back, you know walking with confidence, walking like a supermodel, just very fluidly. That’s all you need to do. You don’t need to do leg presses. You don’t need to do Olympic lifts or anything. Just walk normally, stand tall, stretch.

If you can’t touch your toes, and you can only bend slightly at the waist, okay, put the KAATSU bands on. Try to bend over. Do it again. So nothing feels like you’re being stretched or it hurts or anything, just gradually. And lo and behold, you do that time and time again with KAATSU and the range of motion increases. And I can’t tell you the confidence that older men get when they can touch their toes. It’s amazing. Because by the time they can touch their toes, they’re walking much more fluidly with perceived confidence. Their shoulders are back. They’re not walking with a limp or a poor gait. And so these little things are remarkable. And then once they get to a point where they can touch their toes or they’re walking comfortably, now they go, okay, I want to start lifting weights now. Okay, fine. But when you do KAATSU, you don’t have to use 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 pound weights. Use a one kilogram weight. Use the tiny little pink dumbbells. You would never touch. They’re saying, oh gosh, I’m using these tiny little dumbbells.

But look at my biceps. Look at my chest. Because when you do KAATSU and you have only slight resistance, all of a sudden your muscles start bulging out. And not only do they bulge out, because you’ve got this release of endorphins, et cetera, you just feel good the rest of the day. And you don’t have that soreness that would come if you went to any local gym and suddenly you had a young 25-year-old trainer. He’s telling you, lift, lift, lift. The next day you’re like, God, I can’t even lift a fork. I’m so sore. And so when these things happen, people don’t get injured, and they see the increased benefit. And I’ll give you one example which you tell all women and many men appreciate this. And this is when you do squats. You go to the gym, you put the plates on the bar, then you put this bar on the back of your neck, and then you do squats with a trainer or coach, and they’re teaching you how to actually stand properly in order so you can lift that weight up and down as you’re doing the squats.

Well, the trick of this is actually the proper body position. So you don’t fall forward or you don’t fall back. But with KAATSU, put the KAATSU bands on and just do squats without a bar on your back crushing your vertebrae. We can get anybody. It doesn’t matter with the Navy SEAL, NFL down lineman, NBA power forward, we can get that person to total fatigue, total fatigue faster than they can do in a gym just by doing the proper pressure on their leg. We have no fear of falling forward. We have no fear of falling backwards. We have no issues with an older man putting a heavy amount of weight on his backbone and trying to squat forward. And so when we can do this and show people with full range of motion or with limited mobility, how they can increase their muscular strength on their leg, this is really where people are saying, “Wow, I am saving time and my perspective of what is possible start to change for the better.”

This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global, founder and CEO, Steve Munatones, shares why KAATSU training is so rare in that it actually increases both the power and the endurance of the user by building both fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers at the same time.

From what we know now, there are 256 types of defined muscle fibers. That is what I’ve been taught, you know, as I go from lab to lab and from educated exercise physiologists to the next. And they range from slow twitch to fast twitch. And everybody has slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibers. Someone like Usain Bolt has trained his fast twitch muscles to do something very specific, namely the 100 meter dash. And a marathon runner has trained his muscles to work in a different manner running 26 miles at a certain pace. But they’re all activated doing exercise. The trick with KAATSU is when you do engorge the limbs and blood, what is actually happening is you’re activating that entire range of fast twitch and slow twitch muscles together simultaneously. Athletes who need stamina, but they also need raw speed. And so how we practically use this with those kind of athletes is we use KAATSU on them and we go through, let’s say we’re teaching a boxer the proper way to jab, let’s say.

You know, we start off very nice and slowly and then we gradually build up. So he’s doing, let’s say, some shadow boxing with proper jabs as his coach or trainer is teaching him exactly how to do it. As the process begins, both that entire range of 256 muscle fibers are being entirely stressed. And when he’s finished, we take off the KAATSU bands, let him hydrate a bit, let him relax a little bit, and then we ask him to do it again, this time without KAATSU bands and without the stress of reduction of venous flow. And inevitably, they actually do it much, much better. And so, on an athletic scale, we do this frequently, whether they’re track athletes, Olympic swimmers, snipers, firefighters, policemen, et cetera, who have very specific needs. They need to be fast, yet they need to maintain a certain level of stamina. We can work on both at the same time. This is that one benefit we say that the perspective changes.

When the coach and athlete knows that you can work on your stamina, you know, and your slow twitch muscles, as well as working on your speed with the fast twitch muscles together, their workouts actually change. What they’re actually doing, whether it’s a swimmer diving off a block or a track athlete starting on the field, or a soccer player making a move on the field that he’s going at a slight jog, and all of a sudden he breaks out into an all-out sprint, and then he kicks the ball.

All of these things, when you can understand that you can be working on this entire range of muscle fibers simultaneously, intelligent coaches or coaches who understand human physiology and human movement start to literally change their workouts, and their workouts become much more effective and efficient. And therefore, we always tell coaches, “Hey, you’re going to have two or three hours working with these athletes anyway. If you can improve their speed and stamina effectively, that actually gives you much more time for watching film or plays or other things. And so whether it’s the athlete or a coach or a trainer, KAATSU can help change the perspective of what is possible. So instead of, you know, if it’s a high school football team, instead of spending 45 minutes or an hour in the gym, now they’re spending 15 or 30 minutes in the gym. And they’ve got that extra half an hour to work on plays. You know, if you’re a quarterback, just throwing technique or a running back or wide receivers working on certain pass routes or whatever.

This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares how KAATSU training gives the user vastly greater results for performance, recovery, and rehabilitation in less time.

There’s three areas. One is we call athletic performance, the second is recovery, and the third is rehabilitation. So for athletic performance, whether that’s speed, stamina, strength, range of motion, et cetera, generally if you have an hour of work without KAATSU, we say you can achieve the same amount in 15 minutes, so a one to four ratio. For recovery, which most accomplished athletes realize, recovery is a huge, underappreciated form of training for most athletes. Most coaches are really focused on how much can I push you? How much work are we doing? This is hell week. We need to push you to your limit and beyond. They speak much less of recovery. How much sleep are you getting? How well are you sleeping? If you have a cold, am I going to push you the same amount as when you’re abiled?

So the recovery aspect is not even comparable. So again, going back to the case of Major League Baseball players or NBA players who are traveling coast to coast or across time zones, what they’re doing is they’re taking a shower, putting on clothes, going back to the hotel, doing recovery through KAATSU, and then allowing that recovery continuum to continue as they’re sleeping. And so you’re going from almost not even thinking about recovery to recovery actually before bed and during sleep. And then obviously with rehabilitation, whether it’s a ligament, tendon, bone, or muscle, depending on the athlete and depending on the extent of the injury, not only are we getting that body part to improve faster, in the course of it repairing itself, we’re actually not allowing any degradation of stamina, speed, or strength. So we teach, let’s say, football players who tear their pec, and if you tear any of your shoulder or your chest muscles, you’re generally not doing shoulder lifts, you’re not doing bench presses, you’re not doing push-ups, et cetera, until the muscle has improved themselves.

But with KAATSU, you can literally go through the motion. And I’ve taught many football players. Get on a bench press, don’t touch the bar, don’t touch any weight, and just go through the motion of the bench press. Once that muscle has repaired itself, they go back on the bench press, and guess what? They still can lift the same amount of weight as they did before. So they’re not starting from a negative point. In other words, they were injured, they maintained their strength and speed and stamina, and then they are able to pick up exactly where they were prior to the injury.

We had known this in Japan. We know this in China, but in the United States, it was very difficult for us to explain this process. And our initial testing was done at Lackland Air Force Base with some elite Air Force called Special Operators. It’s sort of the Air Force equivalent of the Navy SEALs or Army Rangers. So these are very, very fit men. And we took 12 of them, and they did no running for three weeks, zero running.

What they did is they walked comfortably on a treadmill with KAATSU on. Not only after those three weeks, did their max VO2 improve, but their mile running time improved. In other words, got faster. So they got faster by not running. I always say to coaches, hey, if your athletes are in the off season, they’re hurt, and they can walk, have them use the KAATSU bands on their legs, and just have them walk. So when you do get that athlete back, you know, after his injury has improved, he’s not at a deficit situation. He’s as fit as he was before the injury. And that really shortens the recovery time. In the case of athletic performance, I would say it’s a one to four ratio. In the case of recovery, it’s really not comparable. And in the case of rehabilitation, it’s significant. Two to one ratio, a one to three ratio.

We had an athlete recently, he broke his heel, and the heel is a very hard, solid bit of bone, and he was supposed to be out for six weeks, and then there’ll be some period of time after that. He was back walking without a boot, without crutches, without anything. The doctors were shocked. We have the x-rays to prove this. He was back walking normally in 11 days, and he was supposed to be out six weeks, and then six weeks plus some period of time with a broken heel bone.

The time savings and the perspective that we can help people realize this is significant. This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares an incredible story about a 104-year-old woman who suffered from Alzheimer’s. He then continues to discuss how KAATSU training impacts the neurology and cognitive function of the body, including how it relates to diabetes and stem cell production.

This was probably 12, 13 years ago. I had never personally seen an MRI machine before. And what they did at the University of Tokyo Hospital is they put some volunteers in what they call it half MRI. So the whole body does not enter into the chamber. Only the upper half of your body enter into the chamber. As they were doing the MRI, we were doing KAATSU on their upper body.
And we actually saw on the screen the capillaries in their brain, actually a formation of these capillaries. They were just getting bigger. What we couldn’t see on the screen, now we could see. We’re just delving into this area, but we know what the effects are. We have many students who do KAATSU before an examination. We have many business people who do KAATSU before a major speech or major presentation.

And they tell us, and I know from my own personal perspective, that if I want to be focused, if I want to be dialed in, I am optimized by doing KAATSU cycle before that period of time. It has nothing to do with increased VO2 max, has nothing to do with stamina, range of motion, strength, et cetera. I just want to be, you know, as I would call it defined, dialed in. I want to be focused. But in the case of patients with dementia, we have all kinds of clinical tests and patient improvements that are just remarkable.

That’s what happened with our oldest patient who is 104 years old. She was bedridden. She hadn’t opened her eyes or spoken or even acknowledged any of us for two months. And her family gave us permission to do KAATSU in this, you know, sort of semi-conscious state. She was being tube fed and we’re basically just keeping her alive. But we started to do KAATSU on her regularly every day. And all of a sudden, she woke up. She acknowledged those around her. She understood that when she was in the state, she knew something was happening to her body, but she couldn’t define what it was because her eyes weren’t open. And it turned out later that I have an MRI of her thigh when she was bedridden and afterwards. Again, this is a woman who was not moving during the time we were doing KAATSU on her and her quadriceps, her hamstrings increased in girth. Later, she was very mobile, walking around, had no problem getting from here to there.

And this is a person at the age of 104 had severe dementia and we thought she was close to death. Obviously, to get her from this state, it was not a chemical, it was not a pharmaceutical that led to this improvement. It was doing KAATSU every single day. She came back, you know, she was able to discuss many things, you know, explain many things, just have a normal conversation.
And then we have to delve more deeply, why does KAATSU help so well people, especially the older people with dementia, that just requires us to do more and more testing, and that’s what we’re doing on a daily basis. We know for a fact that your hemoglobin A1C levels will fall when you do KAATSU. We know that for a fact.

We know that because of testing in Japan and China, but we also know it anecdotally because people who use KAATSU, let’s say, for a broken bone, they get a blood test and all of a sudden they go from diabetic to pre-diabetic, from pre-diabetic to non-diabetic. And they go, “Oh, you know, doctor says, “Hey, I got your blood work back. And the good news is we can take the cast off.” And the even better news is I noticed your A1C levels are falling. And they say, hey, did you change your diet? No, I didn’t change my diet, but I did start KAATSU. And one of the elements that is produced with KAATSU is IGF-1, insulin growth factor. And it’s just a matter of time before the medical community actually acknowledges this. And we have to go through standard clinical testing and prove it in the United States, but we already know this is the case with humans in Japan and China.

This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global, founder and CEO, Steve Munatones, shares how KAATSU training is being implemented in spas because forcing the blood into the capillaries actually improves the health and appearance of the skin.

This area is really advanced in the Asian countries where skin beauty is probably at a level even more than in the Western world. They are really, really advanced in what they do. Basically what they do is they use KAATSU as one protocol in improving the elasticity of the capillaries that sit right under the surface of our skin. It’s a remarkable process. It’s often used before a wedding, you know, to prepare their bride to look as ravishingly beautiful as possible, you know, with flawless skin. But like anywhere in the world, whether you’re a male or female, you know, having unblemished skin is really nice. So there are very specific protocols that we use.

We call it KAATSU beauty. You know, the KAATSU beauty is as established in Korea, China, Japan as is KAATSU for muscle growth. But it’s remarkable. So basically what you do is you do a lymphatic massage on the limbs and it could be your core also or your face. Just a nice sort of rapid movement massage for 5-10 minutes. Then you wrap the limb or the abdomen in, I’ll call it cellophane, and then wrap it again in sort of like a Lululemon kind of fabric. And then you put the KAATSU’ bands on your arms and your legs and you do simple movement. It could be stretching, it could be walking back and forth, it could be anything. And the perspiration that is excreted from the skin is remarkable. It isn’t like the perspiration that you do in a gym that sort of runs down your forehead. It’s the kind of perspiration that you get in a sauna. And it just sort of it’s a healthy kind of glow in the skin. Then you reverse this process and at the end you do the KAATSU cycle at the end. And the skin just becomes so much more elastic, more vibrant. That is extremely popular use of KAATSU in Asia. And we’re trying to create such a KAATSU beauty segment here in the United States.

But right now people look at KAATSU more for muscle building or rehabilitation. But this area is so much more cosmetically visible. And we know this is I’ll go back to Tina, the quadriplegic. She had a 13-inch gash on her calf, huge gash. Because she’s quadriplegic, lacerations do not improve. They just sort of sit there because she has no movement. And so she had a home healthcare provider come in every day to her home and clean the wound and then dressed the wound every single day. Well, when she started doing KAATSU, that 13-inch laceration went to 12 inches, 11 inches, 10 inches, nine inches, et cetera. And the home health person said, how is this happening? Because he had been treating her for several months and the laceration continued.

It was deep, it was long, it was bloody, it’s filled with pus, et cetera. Also, we started doing KAATSU and the same effects of KAATSU beauty were helping her with wound care. And that ability for the wound itself to heal itself is remarkable. And our podiatrists who deal with diabetic ulcers, et cetera, who use KAATSU, you know, report to us like, “Oh man, like all of our diabetic patients should be using KAATSU because their lower extremity wounds just heal so slowly.” And so that’s another area. And I’ve even done tests, scraped my hand or my forearm, done KAATSU, and I wish I had a high-powered microscope because I could actually visually see how these small capillaries really get engorged, and it literally helps the skin to repair itself much, much faster. That’s a whole ‘nother area. So KAATSU beauty and wound care in our minds are tied together with the same mechanism.

This is Exclusivia. KAATSU Global founder and CEO Steve Munatones shares how KAATSU training is actually used to make space travel physically safe for the body and for the brain of the astronauts.

Our initial work in zero gravity conditions were with the Russians and the Japanese. And Dr. Sato was actually asked to go to Moscow to meet with Putin and his cabinet officers because we know that when we’re in space for a long time, in zero gravity conditions, that there are several impacts to the human body. One of them is muscle degeneration and one is bone mineral loss. And we can make vehicles that go from here to Mars or here to the moon and colonize or whatever the government leaders want to do. But we have to keep the human species alive and well during those long periods in zero gravity conditions. The initial work with the Russians and the Japanese space agency was to mimic exercise in space that we do on land. That is our goal. We proved that to be the case. So in other words, if you do KAATSU in space that the body, even though they are in zero gravity conditions, the body is actually functioning as if it was here on Earth and we had the gravity pull that allows our bodies to maintain themselves as we know it. One of the goals or one of the questions that NASA has had to do with headaches that astronauts experience in space.

And the reason astronauts experience headaches in space is because when we’re here on Earth, we have gravity pulling down everything in our body. All the fluids, all the everything. Our human species has evolved so we can exist under these conditions. When we go up into space and we have zero gravity condition, now the fluids in our body don’t know where is up and where is down. It doesn’t know where left and where is right is. And so what happens is the fluids that normally would not be in our brains, now we have more fluid in our brains. And it actually creates these headaches for the astronauts. And there’s so much additional fluid in the astronauts’ brains, it actually pushes on the eyeballs of the astronauts. And their vision can change. So the test that we did at the Harvard Medical School with the NASA researchers was, can KAATSU help relieve this kind of headache and shift the body’s fluids in a normal way so they don’t experience these headaches. And that’s what we did with them. We haven’t gone to the Elon Musk or the Jeff Bezos of the world, but we know if they’re concerned about the human being in space for long periods of time, at some point they’re going to realize that they need to do KAATSU in order to keep that person alive and well for long periods in space. And that long meaning months at a time or possibly years at a time. And so it’s only a matter of time. Right now, it’s not a market we’re focused on. It’s intellectually interesting, but we have all the equipment. It’s all the stuff that we know that we’ve worked with the Russian Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency and at least the physiologists responsible for the human health at the Harvard Medical School.

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