LEARN ABOUT OXYGEN

"Without oxygen, we cannot live. Inside a body deprived of adequate oxygen, the health of the entire body is affected at the cellular level"

Dr Pavel I Yutsis "Oxygen to the Rescue"

The Earth and its atmosphere are made up of many elements that make life on this planet sustainable. However there is one element that is more vital to our survival than others - Oxygen, O2.

Breathing is the one activity that we do automatically so soon as we are born, yet few of us even give it a second thought. The quality and quantity of oxygen we breathe connects our body, mind, soul and spirit!

This page presents a summary introduction to oxygen and why we need more of it … for more detailed information, we recommend you to the references.

- Oxygen: The Essential Element
- Oxygen is "The Elixir of Life" - The Most Critical Element for Life
- Why we are Not getting Enough Oxygen?
- Oxygen and our Bodily Functions
- References

Oxygen: The Essential Element

The proportion of oxygen by volume in the atmosphere is 21%; by weight in seawater 89% and in the Earth’s crust 46.6%. These figures make oxygen the single most important element on Earth. But, generally, we take the atmosphere for granted.

Researchers estimate that the oxygen content of our atmosphere was once about 35%.

In The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight Thom Hartmann explains that “trees, it turns out, are the major source of recycled oxygen for the atmosphere. They are our planet’s lungs…. Trees literally breathe in the CO2 through that enormous leaf area after we exhale it as biological waste. Without trees, our atmosphere would most likely become toxic to us, and because rainforest trees have such a massively larger leaf area than our common trees, the rainforests of the world provide much of the oxygen which you are breathing as you read this page.”

Today, toxic gasses and pollutants from industrial factories, auto exhaust, pesticides, and increase of polluted water tables, rivers, streams and oceans, as well as the cutting and burning of the earth's rain forests and woodlands, all combine to affect our ecological balance.

So it’s time to stop and evaluate

Learn how to improve your breathing technique.

Take steps now to improve the quality of the air that you breathe!

Oxygen is "The Elixit of Life" - the Most Critical Element for Life

Oxygen is the catalyst for life.

Health, vitality, physical stamina and endurance, and our overall well-being all depend on maintaining optimum oxygen levels in the body!

Oxygen is the primary source for our energy. It is the fuel required for the operation of all body systems: 90% of our energy comes from oxygen... only 10% comes from food and water.

Why we are Not getting Enough Oxygen?

Oxygen of course needs to be replaced continuously: but our current life circumstances are such that we may not be getting the quality and quantity of oxygen intake from breathing... even when we exercise.

A lack of exercise can prevent our organs and muscles from absorbing more oxygen at the cellular level.

Physical stress due to illness and infections also consumes more oxygen as the body fights the invading bacteria: by-products of chemical toxins in the body may reduce oxygen uptake as the liver’s workload increases to filter out those toxins and waste. Emotional stress produces adrenaline and adrenaline-related hormones, putting more strain on major organs such as the brain and the heart, and thereby increasing the need for oxygen.

Oxygen and our Bodily Functions

One of oxygen's most important functions is that it allows the brain to process billions of pieces of information every second. Thus our ability to think,talk, feel and act are all dependent on oxygen. Without an adequate supply of oxygen, brain cells quickly die ... and unlike our liver cells, brain cells can not regenerate. Scientific research has shown that an increase in oxygen can heighten concentration and alertness, calm the mind and stabilize the nervous system.

Another important function of oxygen is to displace potentially harmful free radicals in the body.
Oxygen performs a vital role in the carriage of microbes, acids, proteins, and other nutrients in the body: oxygenation neutralizes environmental toxins, and destroys anaerobic infectious bacteria and parasites.

References

Dr Pavel I Yutsis Oxygen to the Rescue
Tonita d’Raye The Oxygen Answer for Health and Healing
Stephen R. Krauss O2xygen: Nature’s Most Important Dietary Supplement
Elizabeth Baker The Un Medical Miracle Oxygen
Nathaniel Altman Oxygen Healing Therapies
Ed McCabe/ Betsy Bullard Oxygen Therapies: A New Way of Approaching Disease
Nick Lane, MD Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
Bill McKibben The End Of Nature
Thom Hartmann The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight