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You’d be surprised at how often, in medical and scientific textbooks, the word oxygen isn’t in the index. That’s odd, you may think, but the omission is indicative of the dearth of scientific study of the role of oxygen. When articles appear about results from clinical trials or studies, in almost every instance, the what is reported but the why still remains a mystery. We have found the why. Oxygen’s role in sickness and in health is the why. In the wonderful book by Sherwin B. Nuland called How We Die, Dr. Milton...
Read MoreWhy You Get Jet Lag
This morning I board a plane to attend a cousin’s surprise 60th b’day. While on that plane, my body will have to work a little harder to attain its optimal oxygenated state. Here’s why: Planes have had to be built with as little extra weight as possible. As aerodynamics and the design of planes has evolved, the “skin” of the plane has become thinner and thinner. Air pressure inside the plane has become lower and lower, in order to maintain the integrity of the skin. While oxygen levels in the air of...
Read MoreNiagara Falls And Supplemental Oxygen
I recently learned that people who stand in the observation area of Niagara Falls experience euphoria. Those who ride the Maid of the Mist behind the falls experience an even greater sense of euporia. There’s a reason and of course, it’s all about oxygen. Each droplet of water is as oxygenated as water can get — naturally. Breathing these oxygen-enriched droplets gives a boost to the brain as the water droplets transfer the supplemental oxygen to the body’s bloodstream.
Read MoreA New Way To Lose Weight!
A recent post from HealthDay News exhorts us to “close the diet books and skip the pills!”. Their advice is partially true: Drink a couple of glasses of water before meals and you’ll lose pounds. Sounds easy, right? If you’re full of water, you won’t eat as much, but there’s more to it. Fatty tissue has plenty of carbon and hydrogen atoms but very few oxygen atoms. Your body is constantly equalizing itself — that’s called homeostasis — and that fat wants more oxygen to...
Read MoreRed And Processed Meats And Cancer
You’ve heard it before — eating red meat causes cancer. Well, a huge study by the World Cancer Fund has found a convincing link between red meat consumption and elevated risk of colon cancer, as well as a likely link with cancers of the lung, stomach, pancreas, esophagus, prostate and uterus. The study is huge because it’s based on 7,000 health reports selected from a worldwide pool of 500,000 health reports spanning five decades! Wow. That really is huge! Want to know why? Let’s go back to our lesson...
Read MoreThrowing Up
I was talking to the FDA guy a couple of weeks ago about The Big Pitcher becoming an FDA-approved Medical Device (long journey but we’ll get there) — he was late returning my call because his child was nauseated and throwing up. It was difficult to — wait — Miner # 14 just reached the surface! Chile! Chile! — ok, where were we? I wanted to tell the FDA guy that a prime reason people throw up is the body’s automatic response to oxygen demand. Digestion requires enormous amounts of oxygen...
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