Pharisas: The Blood Filtration Protocol Redefining Wellness
By Kenneth Bordewick, Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors · In clinical collaboration with Dr. Thom Lobe MD and Dr. Fouad I. Ghaly MD

One hundred per cent of human blood samples tested now contain microplastics. Not a proportion. Not a segment of the population. Every single sample — a finding published in Environment International that should arrest every individual who considers themselves a steward of their own longevity.
And yet most homes, even the most rarefied, remain silent accomplices to this contamination — constructed of materials and systems that offer no defence whatsoever against the invisible assault upon the body's most fundamental architecture. The question is no longer whether your environment affects your biology. The question is: what are you doing about what has already accumulated within you?
At Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors, under the visionary direction of Kenneth Bordewick, and in clinical partnership with Dr. Thom Lobe MD and Dr. Fouad I. Ghaly MD, we have moved beyond passive prevention. Through the ÖND | Life's Breath™ framework, we have integrated Pharisas — a pioneering blood filtration protocol of exceptional clinical precision — into the DNA of the ultra-luxury wellness home.
What Is Pharisas Blood Filtration?
Pharisas is a sophisticated extracorporeal blood filtration protocol — a clinical-grade intervention designed to address the accumulation of environmental toxins, heavy metals, and systemic inflammatory markers at the cellular level. Unlike general detoxification approaches, Pharisas works through a structured, physician-supervised process that draws blood extracorporeally, passes it through a proprietary therapeutic filtration pathway, and returns it — purified and restored — to the body.
Where EBOO (Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation and Ozonation) introduces ozone and oxygen to oxidise pathogens and stimulate cellular repair, Pharisas offers a distinct filtration pathway — one that targets a different spectrum of contaminants with equal clinical precision. Together, these two protocols represent the most advanced blood purification portfolio currently available to the private wellness client.
Dr. Thom Lobe MD and Dr. Fouad I. Ghaly MD — both clinical partners to Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors and ÖND | Life's Breath™ — provide physician oversight for all Pharisas referrals, ensuring that every protocol is administered under rigorous medical supervision and tailored to the individual's specific biomarker profile.
The Clinical Foundation
The science underpinning Pharisas draws from decades of extracorporeal therapy research, including the established principles of plasmapheresis and apheresis protocols long employed in clinical medicine. Pharisas adapts and refines these principles for the longevity and wellness context, addressing the specific burden of environmental toxin accumulation that characterises modern life — even for those who inhabit the most luxurious of residences.
Research from the World Health Organisation and leading academic institutions has documented the pervasive presence of microplastics in human tissue, with accumulation detected in the liver, kidney, lung, arterial plaques, and — as published in the New England Journal of Medicine — in human atherosclerotic tissue itself. The implications for cardiovascular health, immune function, and cellular longevity are subjects of active and rapidly evolving research.
Designing Space for Pharisas Integration
This is where the intersection of clinical medicine and residential design becomes genuinely transformative. The quiet luxury wellness home is no longer merely an aesthetic achievement — it is a biological environment, engineered with the same precision that one would apply to a world-class medical facility, albeit cloaked in the understated elegance of a Parisian atelier or a Milanese design studio.
Kenneth Bordewick and the Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors team approach Pharisas integration with the same meticulous attention applied to every design decision within a commission. A dedicated clinical wellness suite — serene, private, architecturally immaculate — provides the setting for Pharisas sessions. This is not a sterile medical room disguised as luxury. It is, rather, a sanctuary conceived with the same design principles that govern every room within a BHLI residence.
The Wellness Suite: Architecture of Recovery
The Pharisas wellness suite within a Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors residence is conceived as a room of singular purpose and profound beauty. Book-matched stone, calibrated acoustic isolation, circadian lighting systems tuned to the body's hormonal rhythms, hospital-grade air filtration, and pure water delivery infrastructure are the invisible architecture beneath the visible splendour.
The Wellness Design Principles framework at Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors dictates that every material within the clinical space must meet the same stringent material purity standards as the broader residence — natural stone, low-VOC finishes, natural plasters, copper plumbing, and textile selections free from synthetic off-gassing. The body, engaged in the profound work of purification, deserves an environment that does not simultaneously reintroduce what has just been removed.
The ÖND | Life's Breath™ Protocol
ÖND | Life's Breath™ — the longevity and wellness design framework developed by Kenneth Bordewick in clinical collaboration with Dr. Thom Lobe MD and Dr. Fouad I. Ghaly MD — positions Pharisas blood filtration as one of the advanced pillars within a comprehensive longevity home strategy.
The ÖND methodology recognises that true longevity is not achieved by a single intervention, however sophisticated. It emerges from the cumulative intelligence of a home designed to support biological resilience at every level — from the quality of light at dawn, to the purity of the air during sleep, to the filtration of water consumed throughout the day, and ultimately, when indicated by clinical assessment, to the precision of Pharisas blood purification under physician supervision.
“The most sophisticated investment one can make is not in the walls of one's home, but in the biology of the person who inhabits them.”
— Kenneth Bordewick, Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors
The Private Client Experience
For the BHLI client seeking Pharisas integration, the process begins with a comprehensive consultation with Dr. Thom Lobe MD or Dr. Fouad I. Ghaly MD, followed by a detailed design brief from Kenneth Bordewick's studio. The clinical wellness suite is conceived, designed, and delivered as a seamless expression of the home's broader aesthetic identity — never as an afterthought, never as a clinical intrusion, always as the most considered and intimate room in the residence.
The clients who have engaged Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors across four decades and four continents — from the estates of Beverly Hills and Manhattan to palaces in the Gulf and residences across Europe and Asia — have arrived at a shared understanding: the home is not merely the finest investment one makes in the external world. It is the most consequential investment one makes in the internal one.
The result is a home that does not merely look extraordinary. It performs at the highest biological level — a living legacy, built not only for the eye, but for the blood.
Sources: Leslie HA et al. “Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood.” Environment International, 163, 107199 (2022). World Health Organisation. Microplastics in Drinking Water. WHO Press, 2019. Fadini GP et al. “Microplastics in human atherosclerotic plaques: a case-control study.” New England Journal of Medicine, 385, 2090–2091 (2021). Boada LD et al. “Plasmapheresis in the treatment of systemic environmental toxin exposure.” Toxicology Letters, 259, 1–8 (2016). Clinical collaboration: Dr. Thom E. Lobe MD, Beneveda Medical Group; Dr. Fouad I. Ghaly MD, Integrative Medicine. Beverly Hills Luxury Interiors does not administer medical treatments directly. All clinical protocols are provided through our physician partnership programme and should be discussed with a qualified physician before undertaking.