Ross Schilling, DC — founder portrait
Ross Schilling, DC
Why I built AEIR.
I'm a chiropractor with a biology degree. My clinic is in Long Lake, Minnesota. My patients include NHL players, NFL players, and endurance athletes. Also a lot of people nobody reads about. I didn't set out to start a company. I set out to fix a problem the best recovery tools weren't fixing. Here's what happened.
How this started
What I saw in the clinic that no tool could fix.
I spent years watching the same pattern. Athletes who trained too hard. Patients whose joints wouldn't heal. Older clients whose circulation was quietly failing them. They came in with a closet full of recovery tools. The closet kept growing. The underlying problem stayed.
It wasn't a lack of oxygen in the blood. Most of my patients had plenty. What was missing was the delivery — the signal that moves oxygen from blood into cell.
That signal is carbon dioxide.
For decades, the research on transcutaneous CO2 — CO2 delivered through the skin — has been sitting in Japanese and European journals. Faster wound closure. Better circulation in diabetic foot ulcers. Faster muscle repair. Faster fracture healing. Better oxygen use in sick tissue. The mechanism was proven. What wasn't proven was how to get it into a patient's hands. A suit they could wear at home. A tube they could keep in a drawer.
I built AEIR to bridge that gap. Because the mechanism works. And because the people who need it shouldn't have to find a specialty clinic to access it.
Doctor of Chiropractic
Biology degree — undergraduate foundation
Clinical practice — Long Lake, MN
NHL · NFL · endurance athletes · post-surgical patients
Who walks into my clinic
I work with bodies under real load.
My patients include NHL Stanley Cup winners and NFL veterans. A growing number are endurance athletes — triathletes coming back for Ironman, pros rebuilding around old injuries. Most of my work is in hockey and football. Some is in endurance. All of it is people under real load.
The patients I care about most aren't the pros. They're the post-surgical patient told "it takes time." The weekend athlete whose knee hasn't been right in three years. The older client whose circulation is closing off. Those are the cases that pushed me hardest. The pros are proof. The rest of my patients are why the work had to become a product.
I watch pro athletes push their bodies past reasonable limits. My job is to give them a tool that works in the cell while they sleep. The same tool works for my 70-year-old patient with arthritis in both wrists. Same mechanism. Same biology.
The scale argument
I can't physically see everyone. The paste is how I scale.
There's a hard ceiling on what any one clinician can do. I can only treat one patient at a time. One hour. One clinic. A few new faces each week.
But the mechanism I was using in that clinic was the same biological signal your own body produces every second. It didn't need me. It needed a delivery form that anyone could use without training, without hardware, without a prescription.
That's why the paste exists.
CO2 Renew is the only patented at-home carboxytherapy paste of its kind. A tube in a medicine cabinet. Twenty minutes. The same Bohr Effect I use with a suit, concentrated into something my mother could apply to her own knee without me in the room.
The Flex Kit is the other half. A complete system for anyone who wants the full-body version of what happens on a clinic table. A $2,799 kit that replaces years of session costs — and lasts for years.
Together, the two products let me care for a population instead of a waitlist. That's what I wanted. That's what AEIR is.
What changed
The research has been there for decades. The product hasn't.
Dig into the literature and you'll find CO2 therapy in clinical use for decades. Japanese rehab medicine. European circulation clinics. Orthopedic research groups. The published studies showed faster fracture repair. Faster wound closure. Better blood flow in small vessels. Better energy use in the cell.
What never happened: a version anyone could use outside a specialty facility.
AEIR is what happens when that research becomes a product you can use. Clinical-grade carboxytherapy that moves out of the clinic and into your recovery day. The paste is the home form. The suit is the full-body form. Both use the same dose I use with my own patients.
The research is cited on every product page. The studies are in the footer. Nothing about AEIR is invented — it's just translated.
"Your body already knows how to heal. It just needs the right signal. My job was to find that signal, check it against decades of research, and put it into a form anyone can use. That's all AEIR is."
— Ross Schilling, DC
Founder, AEIR Therapeutics
Practice Gallery
Moments from the clinic and the road.
AEIR clinic — Long Lake, MN
Long Lake, MN
In practice
The AEIR flagship facility — where the protocols were built.
Clinical Recovery
The professional population
Athletes who use CO2 therapy as standard recovery — not a gimmick.
Mike Barwis / Barwis Methods partnership
Performance Partnership
Barwis Methods
Working with Mike Barwis and his performance training network — the kind of partnership that proves the clinical work scales.
Go deeper
Where to next.
The athlete network
The full list of athletes and teams who've integrated AEIR — named, attributed, no logos.
See the network →
Why CO2, not more oxygen
The full mechanism argument — why pressurizing oxygen into already-saturated blood doesn't deliver, and what does.
Read the science →
CO2 Renew Paste — $99
Five 10mL tubes. The entry point into the AEIR mechanism. Travel-friendly. Used by clinicians and DTC customers alike.
Shop CO2 Renew →
Full-Body Flex Kit — $2,799
The complete at-home system. The same kit used in partner clinics — suit, filling kit, enhancing hydrogel.
Shop Flex Kit →The mechanism is the product.
Two flagships, same biology. The paste is the entry. The suit is the system. Pick what fits your week — and sign up for notes from the clinic.
Notes from Ross.
One short email per week, sometimes written by me. Research I'm reading, clinical notes, the occasional athlete story. No spam, unsubscribe any time.