Too Much Oxygen
From Dr. Len Saputo:
"In people with severe lung disease, when you give them too much
oxygen from an external source, they often will slow down their
breathing enough that carbon dioxide can build up to dangerous levels.
This is called CO2 narcosis. I doubt that this could occur from natural
breathing... So in these people, when we give supplemental oxygen it is
important to measure blood gases to be certain of what is going on."
From Mike:
Intolerable levels of CO2 may cause anxiety and tension in most if
not all muscles and I strongly
suspect that it inhibits deepest easiest breathing long before the
pulmonary specialist believes it is harmful.
SUPPLEMENTAL OXYGEN.
Aside from the above lung conditions where no exercise is involved, there
are very few contraindications for extra oxygen. Stress steals O2 like a
blood starved vampire. And the low atmospheric oxygen and toxic air
situation will continue to worsen due to global warming, polluting the
oceans that give us some 80-90% of our oxygen supply as well as reduction of
the remaining 10-20% that is fast disappearing via deforestation.
According to the latest edition (2008) of America’s Health Rankings™, our nation’s health report card is troublesome: We “continue to fall short of our potential” and “fare poorly in comparison to many other nations.” Perhaps the worst news from the report is that over the last four years, health improvement has stagnated.
The report states that one reason for this situation is that “our healthcare system is heavily tilted toward sick care at the expense of well care or keeping people healthy. About 95 cents of every dollar spent in the U.S. on health goes to diagnose or treat disease after it occurs, leaving less than 5 cents on the dollar to prevent disease.”
That makes
supplemental oxygen for both
wellness and prevention a very good idea. O2 is necessary for every
cellular function and we die after a few minutes without it . When
extra Oxygen is given to many it has a strong
cellular restorative effect. The key is how well the body utilizes the O2. I
call it Oxygen Baseball or O2BB. Oxygen is the ball. The cells are the
catcher's mitts. No oxygen, no ball game. No catchers mitts, the oxygen gets
dropped and the team loses anyway.
In addition to oxygen, nutrition, detoxification, cellular strength and
moderate exercise become significant
factors in vitality. Our
recommended basic fundamental of breathing improvement program
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