My goal in this post is to tell the oxygen story without getting too technical. I do not want cause your eyes to glaze over, but do want you to understand the importance of this element and what it does that you should care about. Remember, you can go days without water or food, but only moments without oxygen. You need oxygen for life.

Oxygen is the most important of all the elements. Life as we know it is impossible without oxygen. Every living creature on planet Earth is dependent upon oxygen in one way or another. You need oxygen for energy, and for survival. After all, mammals can’t extract oxygen from water; the free flow of oxygen-containing air is necessary to support life.

Breathing brings oxygen containing air into your lungs. Your lungs do something pretty amazing with the oxygen; they diffuse the oxygen into your blood plasma through membranes that are so thin that the oxygen passes right through them. Hemoglobin, in iron-rich blood cells, grabs (binds) the oxygen. As the hemoglobin grabs the oxygen, it releases carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide travels a pathway opposite to the oxygen and your lungs exhale the carbon dioxide as a waste gas. This process is referred to as respiration.

A few of the benefits of oxygen are:
a. Higher energy levels
b. Anti-oxidant benefits
c. Anti-microbial properties
d. Contributes to good sleep
e. Helps maintain “clean” blood
f. Anti-aging benefits

Increase your energy, wellness, skin beautification, and more with increased oxygenation. Maximize oxygenation for free with simple and easy breathing techniques. Be sure to read the upcoming “Breathing” post for details about deep breathing techniques.

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Only you can achieve wellness. Eighty percent of wellness is achieved by a good, healthy diet. No medical system, doctor, pharmaceutical preparation(s), exercise program, or medical treatment can make you well, or keep you well. The medical system can assist you where appropriate, but you can stay out of the that system by staying well.

The medical profession can treat injuries and perform diagnostic tests, and prescribe potions that can be beneficial, but ONLY your immune system can heal you. If you contract a disease or life threatening condition such as cancer, the treatment meted out by a physician can buy some time for your immune system to finish the healing. If the underlying reasons for disease are not addressed and you do not invigorate your immune system with a healthy lifestyle, the disease will often return.

The sad truth is that the medical industry is woefully inadequate regarding wellness. The medical model is built on disease research and treatment. There is a real need for a medical system that treats injured bodies, and performs heroic surgeries, and develops vaccines and treatments to address various diseases. There is also a huge need for a wellness model. A wellness model that addresses the dissemination of information regarding the very real opportunity to stay well and live a long life using common sense nutrition and dietary supplementation.

The current FDA bias in favor of a medical model, to the exclusion of other wellness models, has resulted in suppression of health and wellness information that could help people take charge of their wellness needs. We all just need good information that explains, simply, how to stay well.

In future posts, I will address the basic cornerstone steps that, if followed, could improve your level of wellness. Many wellness devotees are really well informed, but in my experience, most people do not understand the basics of wellness. Wellness is not taught in school, so most people have little or no understanding of nutrition.

I want to keep the basics very simple. To be well, your body needs oxygen, minerals, enzymes, and vitamin D. You can certainly purchase dietary supplements by the hundreds, but most people do not have the resources to spend hundreds of dollars a month on supplements. It is important to stick to the basics and build on that if there are resources to allow that.

Watch for my next post about oxygen.

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