OXYENERGY PLUS

Oxygen is a tasteless, colorless, odorless gas, and the most abundant of all the elements. It is essential for combustion, and also essential for the metabolism of food, which is a form of precisely controlled biological combustion. This process is called oxidation, which means 'the combining of a food substance with oxygen to release the stored chemical energy."

Every human cell needs oxygen to live. Deprived entirety of it, brain cells, for example, begin to die in just fifteen seconds. Deprived partially of oxygen, all body cells, regardless of where they are located, are weakened and impaired in their functioning, since oxygen is the very breath of life itself.

It is said by many that oxygen even fits the definition of a vitamin, which is "a substance found in our food (or the environment, like vitamin D) that is required for life, but not usually manufactured by the human body. Dr. Stephen A. Levine, Ph.D., asserts that if nutrients were given numbers to designate their importance, oxygen would be "numero uno" because it is the single most importance substance for living.

MANY OF US DO NOT OBTAIN ENOUGH OXYGEN!

In today's modem society it is a fact that many of us do not obtain enough oxygen for optimum health. And it is now being demonstrated that less-than-adequate oxygenation of tissues and cells --a condition called HYPOXIA-- predisposes an individual to a number of degenerative illnesses, such as circulatory problems, digestive disorders, and even cancer.

Let's look at three major reasons why many people are not getting enough oxygen:

1-MODERN-DAY STRESSORS TEND TO USE UP OXYGEN EXCESSIVELY

It has been shown that any type of stress to the body will bring about an oxygen deficiency. Basically, there are four major types of stress to which we can become subjects which will deplete us of oxygen:

• TOXIC STRESSES: Stress resulting from toxic environmental chemicals requires the use of oxygen, since oxygen is used in all detoxification processes.
• EMOTIONAL STRESS: The type of stress that virtually everyone is familiar with, it brings about the production of adrenaline and adrenal related hormones, which involves the utilization of oxygen.
• PHYSICAL TRAUMA: which reduces circulation and subsequent oxygen supply to a great many cells and tissues throughout the entire body.
• INFECTIONS: Which use up "free radical" forms of oxygen to combat bacteria , fungi and viruses, frequent use of drugs to counteract infections also depletes cellular oxygen since oxygen is required to metabolize them out of the system.

Oxygen is lone of the important keys to good health, but not everyone is aware of this. Scientists are now looking at the role that oxygen starvation plays in the development of disease. The four modern day stresses -toxic stress, emotional stress, physical trauma and infection, draw upon and excessively deplete the body's oxygen supply.

If the stress or stresses are not reduced, harm can result, with the individual becoming predisposed to any of a number of maladies. Oxygen is indeed an important key to good health. Torn Valentine, author of "Medicine's Missing Link", says, "It would be interesting to compare the amount of oxygen in a strong, healthy person with the amount in a chronically ill individual."

2-ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN STEADILY DECREASING

We are currently at a stage in our technological advancement where our efforts to forge ahead have turned the tide and caused oxygen levels in the atmosphere to be on the downswing rather than upswing. Oxygen utilization in the atmosphere has risen tremendously due to the growth of industry and the excessive burning of carbon-based fuels by all forms of modern - transportation. Planes, trains, boats, and automobiles use up vast amounts of oxygen daily. At the moment, there is no reason to believe that there is going to be any change in this trend in the near future.

Coupled with this is the reduction of our forested areas and all plant life, as you are probably well aware, is charged with the responsibility of renewing the earth's oxygen supply. As the need for lumber and paper continues, we can only expect as things to get progressively worse in the future.

At the present time scientists have determined that oxygen concentrations in our atmosphere are being reduced by about .3% every fifteen years. Further compounding the problem, indoor environments often become oxygen-depletion as a result of air pollution, insufficient ventilation, or over-insulation to reduce energy costs.

3-IMPROPER (TYPICAL) DIET ACCELERATES OXYGEN UTILIZATION RATE.

The majority of people today consume a diet that is excessively acidic. This is a diet that emphasizes such foods as red meats, coffee. and even soda pop. This causes the development of an acid, (less-than-optimally alkaline), constitution where there is an excess of positively charged hydrogen ions (H+) in the entire system. When excessive numbers of hydrogen ions are in the tissue environment they are obligated to combine with and thus use up oxygen This reduces the amount of oxygen available for the primary function of metabolism. Problems follow.

Diets particularly high in fat, especially polyunsaturated fats, we are told by Dr. Levine, will also cause an increase in oxygen utilization. This is because unsaturated fats contain available double bonds which attract oxygen to them, bringing about the formation of fatty acids. In addition, toxic chemical such as pesticides, herbicides, hydrocarbons, and solvents are typically fat-soluble and therefore reside in high-fat tissue. When an individual consumes a high fat diet  and bear in mind that the typical North American diet is about 45% fat - he cannot help but consume quantities of these fat-soluble toxins, which require the utilization of oxygen to metabolize them. Carbohydrate foods tend to be lower in toxins, but the average individual doesn't eat as much Carbohydrates as he should. Such an imbalance in the diet can only lead to an oxygen shortage in the long run.

OXYGEN SHORTAGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANCER

Cancer, certainly one of the most feared diseases of our time, can develop in an environment of oxygen shortage. Cells that have become cancerous have lost their ability to utilize oxygen. They have been oxygen-starved for so long that they undergo a metabolic shift and revert to an ancestral metabolism where, unlike normal cells, they are capable of thriving in a low-oxygen environment. The late Professor Otto Warburg, a highly-acclaimed biochemist and two-time Nobel Prize winner, was the first to suggest that a lack of the need for oxygen is the property of cancer cells that uniquely distinguishes them from normal cells. In view of this, it is clear that oxygen will be a toxin, (poisonous), to cancer cells. In the presence of adequate levels of oxygen they will be less able to survive, and therefore less resistant to the healthful operation of the immune system. Here again we see the advantage accruing from adequate oxygenation.

OXYGEN SHORTAGE AND YEAST INFECTIONS

Common yeast infections, (Candida Albicans) - currently at epidemic levels - take root with relative ease in an oxygen-poor body. Because of the low-oxygen environment, the yeast cells generate large quantities of acetaldehyde, a substance that does harm by bringing about cellular damage. Acetaldehyde in the intestinal wall and liver will disrupt intestinal absorption processes and impair white blood cell and red blood cell function as well.

It is a fact that when yeast cells are limited in oxygen, they became even more resistant to immune defenses since they are capable of anaerobic (no-oxygen) metabolism. Low oxygen levels in an individual is a major contributing factor to yeast susceptibility for this very reason.

ONLY OXYGEN CAN KILL HARMFUL ANAEROBIC BACTERIA

There are two types of bacteria - aerobic and anaerobic. Aerobic bacteria, are healthful bacteria, and they make up the natural bacteria flora of the body. Without aerobic bacteria, we could not survive, anaerobic bacteria, on the other hand, are harmful to body processes. They cause disease. Oxygen is the only known element that will kill anaerobic bacteria and at the same time stimulate the growth at healthful (aerobic) bacteria.

Good oxygen nutrition optimizes the amount of oxygen in the cells and tissues in relation to the body's overall needs. If an individual were to increase the amount of oxygen he is carrying In his blood, he could indeed be in a position to improve cell oxygenation and hence oxidation at all levels of biochemical functioning. There can be no doubt, in view of all that which has been said so far, that a good oxygen ratio is a prime requirement that must be satisfied in order that the highest level of health can be arrived at and maintained, it Is quite reasonable to deduce, then, that health benefits are potentially to be derived from any means that provides an abundance of stable oxygen to the human system. This can help fine tune the metabolism and often make the difference between good health and impaired health for anyone who lives in today's modern world. struggling with an often stressful and less than ideal life style that places excessive demands on the human physiology.

So now you can feel free to add another nutrient to your list of essentials that are required for good health. It's OXYGEN - THE SPARK OF LIFE !