6 Things You Didn't Know About Oxygen!
Posted by Performance Supplements on Mar 24th 2017
We all know that oxygen is vital to life
But what if we’re not getting enough?
1.Most body pain can be resolved with higher oxygen levels
Dr. Arthur C. Guyton, M.D. in his medical text The Textbook of Medical Physiology, wrote “All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused by a lack of oxygen at the cell level.”
Yes, pain is when your nerves tell your brain that something isn't right. That's usually only when you get injured though, right? Wrong! Pain is also a sign that your body is deficient in oxygen which is one of the essential blocks your body needs to repair itself.
2.Oxygen is a BIG part of your body’s life force!
Your body contains more oxygen than any other element! Oxygen makes up about 65 percent of the human body and 90 percent of the body's life energy is created by oxygen.
Along with food, oxygen is the primary nutrient needed for maintenance, growth and repair of all your cells and tissues. Your body uses oxygen to convert nutrients into energy and heat. The more energy or warmth your body needs the more oxygen is consumed.
Right this minute, hundreds of thousands of reactions are taking place in your body; from the synthesis of chemical compounds, the transportation of molecules to the assimilation of nutrients from the digestive tract, and muscle contraction, to name just a few.
Oxygen is also needed to remove waste products from your body.
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3.Oxygen fights off bad bacteria and viruses
Do you suffer from colds, infections and allergies more than other people?
Infectious microorganisms thrive in anaerobic or low-oxygen places. They can’t survive in a slightly alkaline and well oxygenated cellular environment. But listen to this...
Because of the afore mentioned reasons, complex reactions your immune system is able to fight viruses and infections; your heart is able to pump blood and your nervous system and brain to process information.
Dr. Stephen Levine, renowned molecular biologist, geneticist, and author of Oxygen Deficiency: A Concomitant to All Degenerative Illness said, "In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease... Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease. Oxygen is the source of life to all cells."
When the amount of oxygen is reduced below optimal levels, this creates a polluted and even toxic environment in your body that is conducive to the growth of bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi and even cancer cells.
4.Oxygen rejuvenates and recharges your body
Do you often experience mental exhaustion and burnout?
Your brain represents only about 2 percent of the weight of an average adult but it uses over 20 percent of the body’s oxygen supply! That’s a heck of a lot of oxygen! If you’re engaged in complex mental tasks and intellectual pursuits, your brain’s supply of oxygen will be depleted much more rapidly than the average individual.
If you don’t replenish the supply of oxygen to the brain, on a regular basis, you’ll soon experience mental fatigue, stress and burnout.
Prolonged stress creates chronic muscle tension. A result this tension causes muscles to lose their suppleness and elasticity, which slows down the action of the diaphragm and lungs. It’s a chain-reaction that causes the lungs to become less flexible and efficient at their ability to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen.
Stress also causes your breathing to become rapid and shallow, which decreases the oxygen available to the muscles and internal organs, and performance and health begin to suffer as a result.
Dr. John Muntz, nutritional scientist, said "Starved of oxygen the body will become ill, and if this persists it will die. I doubt if there is an argument about that."
If you often experience mental exhaustion or burnout, chances are high that your body, and particularly your brain, needs more oxygen!
5.Lack of oxygen promotes illness and even cancer
If you’re like most people in the U.S. you’re probably exposed to environmental pollutants and toxins on a daily basis like pesticides, heavy metals, smog, out-gassed toxins from indoor carpets and furniture. All those chemicals and pollutants rob your body of the needed oxygen. When the oxygen saturation of blood falls, conditions then become ripe for the creation of viruses, infections, diseases and even cancer.
People with various degenerative diseases are often found to have low venous oxygen saturation. Once the venous oxygen saturation level rises, their health and vitality improve dramatically.
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Otto Warburg believed that there is a direct correlation between a person’s health and the level of oxygen in his or her bloodstream.
To test his theory he put rat cells in bell jars with both normal and 60% below normal oxygen levels. The cells that had less oxygen weakened, mutated, or died. Dr. Warburg was convinced that cancer cells can only begin to proliferate in the human body when the cells become oxygen deficient.
Dr. Harry Goldblatt, author of Journal of Experimental Medicine, said “Lack of oxygen clearly plays a major role in causing cells to become cancerous.”
The development of a shortage of oxygen in the blood could very well be the starting point for the loss of the immune system and the beginning of feared health problems such as cancer, leukemia, aids, seizures, nerve deterioration, and other degenerative diseases.
6.Oxygen lengthens activity time and reduces recovery time
Each strenuous physical training produces lactic acid, which is also called the acid of fatigue and sore muscles, or acidosis. This lactic acid accumulates in the tissues and causes many problems such as muscular fatigue, joint pain, stiffness, slower recovery from injury or exertion. That murders your progress and results.
The toxins produced in an oxygen deprived cellular environment reduce the absorption of proteins and minerals, which in turn weakens the body’s ability to produce enzymes and hormones necessary for your body to operate at its peak level. As a result, you’ll be pounded with stress, fatigue, lack of stamina, poor endurance, and general weakness.
To achieve your full potential you need to oxygenate your blood more. That way you’ll have more energy and stamina to make the most of every minute while training. By providing your body with more oxygen you’ll recover much quicker from muscle fatigue and soreness.
Maximum oxygenation allows your body to train harder, run faster for extended periods, and recover faster from physical exertion or injury.