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Think about it. How long could you hold your breath before getting uncomfortable? There are two claimed world records for holding your breath.

The current Guinness World Record¹ is held by David Blaine who spent 17 minutes, 4.4 seconds in a water bubble on the Oprah Winfrey show. Before the attempt he breathed pure oxygen for 23 minutes. The other record, is called Static Apnea. This type doesn’t allow breathing anything else than atmospheric air before the attempt. The AIDA world record² is held by Stéphane Mifsud who spend 11 minutes, 35 seconds under water.

You could go for more than 40 days without food. You’ll survive a day or five without water. But you can’t go that long without oxygen. After three to four minutes, brain damage begins. After 8 to ten minutes the brain is dead.

Oxygen isn’t only vital for survival, we need it for optimal body function, that is optimal health. Here are a couple quotes from research to show the everyday importance of oxygen for our health and wellness. After the quotes, there are some tips on how to improve oxygen absorbtion and delivery.

"...When the body has ample oxygen, it produces enought energy to optimize metabolism and eliminate accumulated toxic wastes in the tissues.
Natural immunity is achieved when the immune system is not burdened with heavy "toxic buildup".
Detoxification occurs when oxygen is introduced into the system".
Dr. Norman McVea

"...Insufficient oxygen means insufficient biological energy that can result in anything from mild fatigue to life threatening disease. The link between insufficient oxygen and disease has now been firmly established. The more oxygen we have in our system, the more energy we produce."
Dr. W. Spencer Way: Journal of the American Association of Physicians

"...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they live and proliferate best in environments where there is LITTLE OR NO OXYGEN".
Ed McCabe: Oxygen Therapies: A New Way of Approaching Disease

"...Lack of oxygen clearly plays a major role in causing cells to become cancerous."
Dr. Harry Goldblatt: Journal of Experimental Medicine

"...Cancer has only one prime cause. It is the replacment of normal oxygen respiration of the body's cells by an anaerobic (i.e. oxygen deficient) cell respiration."
Dr. Otto Warburg: Nobel Prize for Cancer Research

"...In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state. Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease. Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease."
Dr. Stephen Levine - Molecular Biologist: Oxygen Deficiency: A Concomitant to all Degenerative Illnesses

"...The true cause of allergy is lowered oxidation process within the body, causing the affected individual to be sensitive to foreign substances entering the body. Only when the oxidation mechanism is restored to its original highest state of efficiency can the sensitivity be eliminated."
Dr. Wendell Hendricks - Hendricks Research Foundation

"...Oxygen is ideal as the main ingredient in any life form with a nervous system. Oxygen's conductivity allows it to readily combine with conductive organic materials for transmitting nerve signals. The brain and nervous system consume far more oxygen in proportion to their weight than the rest of the body.
The constant firing of micro-electric impulses across the synapses requires a great deal of energy. If there isn't enough oxygen available for the nerve cells to fire dependibly when needed, the brain can't help but function less effectively."
The Townsend Letters for Doctors


Here are some general tips on how to increase your oxygen intake and absorption:
• Focus on aerobic exercises. That is also called cardiovascular exercises, where you heart and lungs get a good workout.
• Drink plenty of water. It helps with oxygen transportation through the body.
• Eat colourful fruit and vegetables. It contains lots of antioxidants.
• Laugh a lot. Laughter squeezes stale air out of the lungs and replaces it with fresh, revitalising air.
• Do breathing exercises to increase lung capacity. Some breathing exercises also improve the release of oxygen from the blood into the cells.
• Make use of an ozone (O₃) generator. There is a well established medical community in Europe (about 15 000 doctors) who use ozone for general health improvement.


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