Oxygen Concentrator Factors

My blood oxygen raises 2 points while using my concentrator (I call it 02E2).
I often feel better when I use it then when I do not. I always feel more clearheaded.  I always last longer without fatigue while at the computer or exercising. 
 
I have personally observed others using our 5 liter a minute machines and exercising using a stationary bicycle.  They report to be less tired using the concentrator during the same time than they would exercise without it. Some actually have to be stopped using the oxygen unit along with the stationary recumbent bicycle as they are taking too long because they feel no fatigue and "just keep feeling better."  But I suspect it is not the same for everyone.

I personally do not trust the heart rate levels that stress tests demand as people die during stress tests as well as the following day after passing a stress test.  I advise those using O2E2 to maintain a lower hart rate and end the session feeling energized or at least not feeling fatigued. Sweaty perhaps, fatigued no.
 
How much is enough? Some reports say that 10 Liters per minute for 15 minutes is the gold standard.  That probably stems from Manfred VonArdenne's Oxygen Multistep Therapy book. Read it and decide for yourself. 10 liter equipment is very expensive, and requires a prescription. We are not making any health claims in any event so if they want to think were not benefiting any then let them. If somene feels they need 10 liters I suggest they get 2 5 liter units or at least a second one after they try just one. No one has added one yet.  I believe the best way to address someone you disagree with is to learn to love them and then outlive them.
 
I know very well O2E2 is helping because of the oxygen that the pulse oximeter shows an increase as well as how I feel more energy and I am encouraged more to exercise because I believe I am getting the benefits of this added booster.  So if it is placebo so be it.  But my understanding of the benefits of oxygen lead me to strongly believe it is in actuality doing me a great deal of good. I also advise to not use it as a replacement for exercise but as a supplement and encouragement to exercise more albeit moderate.
 
OXYGEN BENEFITS
When oxygen levels are properly increased, the red blood cells pick up the extra oxygen, and provide it to our body tissues. Waste gases and toxins are removed more efficiently and cells begin to function normally.

Anaerobic viruses, bacteria and fungi, unable to live in an oxygen enriched environment, are compromised. Oxygen builds resistance to infections like yeast (candida albicans) that thrive in an oxygen deficient environment. Oxygen helps to neutralize acids in our body, like lactic acid resulting from muscle overload. Our body's chemical reactions are "fired-up" due to the increased oxygen levels. We burn fat more efficiently. We feel better, our body is healthier and we think more clearly because of increased oxygenation.

Here is more benefits discovered by extensive research:

* Removes free radicals

* Reduces tissue swelling

* Increases neuronal energy metabolism in the brain

* Can create sustained cognitive improvement

* Wakes up sleeping (idling) brain cells that are metabolizing enough to stay alive but are not actively "firing".

* Enhances the body's ability to fight bacterial and viral infections

* Deactivates toxins and poisons (e.g. side effects from some chemotherapy, spider bites, air pollution, etc.)

* Enhances wound healing, (stimulates new capillaries into wounds).
* Creates an immediate aerobic state
* Acts as an anti-inflammatory

TOO MUCH OXYGEN?
Aside from being in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber where they put you into pressurized oxygen at two atmospheres for 1 hour I personally believe it is very difficult to get too much oxygen and it is pretty easy to get too little.  One could say that water should never be administered without a prescription because it can lead to drowning if used incorrectly, or that baseball bats should be licensed as deadly weapons. But people don't say these things, because they defy common sense.
 
HOW MUCH IS GOOD
"There has been no scientific research that this extra shot of pure oxygen has any benefits," says a certain MD on the net. But many MDs still say the same thing about nutritional and nutritional supplements.
Even the American Lung Association says, "there is no evidence that oxygen at the low flow levels used in bars can be dangerous to a normal person's health." So while oxygen bars should perhaps not make claims of any specific medical benefits, which we do not, it is certainly hard to dispute that breathing clean air for an hour or so is better than breathing polluted or dusty air or outgassing from contaminated or dusty furniture and carpeting for the same period of time.  Especially when we can see the increase with a pulse oximeter on the end of our finger and feel better as well.

BREATHING TOO MUCH
To me, hyperventilation is not always hyperventilation. In my opinion and due to my experience with transformational breathwork it should often be better called hyper-inhalation and governed by phenomena called the Law Of Mass Action whereby extra oxygen not measurable in the hemoglobin or plasma can somehow be "packed" into the body tissues for later recovery and usage.  In terms of what is called "overbreathing" or hyperventilation, if the way you are breathing makes you anxious then you are probably chest breathing and need to change the way you are breathing and not sacrifice potential oxygen stores by breathing shallowly or less. 

One very well informed client actually believes that the future will see portable oxygen "enhancers" carried by millions as a preventive health measure.
 
Bottom line is if someone wants to pay for a few minutes of air with higher-than-normal concentrations of oxygen, whether or not that has any "scientifically" objectively measurable effect, it seems ridiculous to object.  Some will benefit and others will not or at least not feel the benefit. It is just that the commercial oxygen bars are expensive and I prefer to have my own in house version.  I still visit one when available after a long plane ride out of town to help offset being in a 16% oxygen atmosphere for an extended period of time.
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