How our lives are connected to cellular oxygenation.

Oxygen is absolutely essential for all human function. The respiratory and cardiovascular systems provide and properly distribute oxygen to our cells. 

All human performance, energy, and function is based on appropriate tissue oxygenation.  

Would you like greater endurance? This is the ability to sustain vigorous effort by the ability of the heart and lungs to supply oxygen to the working muscles. Although many factors have an impact, endurance and human working capacity end when the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems can no longer keep up with the demands for oxygen. In addition, the structural and functional integrity of brain and viscera are profoundly dependent on regular oxygen supply. Any disturbance of this supply can be life threatening.  

The connection between oxygen and disease  

The world famous Dr. Arthur Guyton theorized that all chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused from a lack of oxygen at the cellular level. Lack of cellular oxygen is termed hypoxia. Hypoxia has been implicated in central nervous system pathology in a number of disorders including cancer, heart disease, stroke, and various other neurodegenerative diseases.  

Among other diseases, regions of low oxygen tension are commonly found in malignant tumours and are associated with increased frequency of tumour invasion and metastasis.  

Medical science has revealed an alarming fact 80 % of the population is breathing wrong – shallow & inefficient, chest only. Stress … response … is a vicious cycle which through time results in a stressful and shallow “default” breathing pattern, producing 12 – 18 breaths a minute – while science tells us we need only 6 proper deep breaths in a minute to supply our needs.  

All the extra activity involved in our short, shallow breathing habits is robbing us of precious energy, producing toxic waste products and promoting a wide range of pulmonary & other diseases in our bodies and depression for our mind, further contributing to an ever more widely present “burnout syndrome”.  

The average human being breaths between 12 – 18 breaths a minute. That equates to 18,000 to 26,000 breaths every 24 hours.  

It has been suggested that, at rest, we should consume 6 breaths in a minute to supply our needs.  

The extra activity involved in our short, shallow breathing habit is robbing us of precious energy, producing toxic waste products and promoting disease in our bodies.  

(Source: Instructor Manual for Nirvana Fitness) 

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