How Important Is Oxygen?
November 12, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Asthma, Breath Building, COPD- Lung Disease, Choice, Diagnostics, Foods For Fluid Balance, Harm of Low Level Oxygen, Heart, Oxygen, Relax, Sleep Apnea
If you have low oxygen levels you are dying.
Denial is not effective treatment for low oxygen levels. Even if you “feel okay”.
Oxygen hitches a ride on your red blood cells in order to travel around your body. If your oxygen level is too low (below 92%) the oxygen molecules can’t make the leap. The pressure is too low.
When your oxygen level is below 92%, the oxygen that is in your blood cruises around in your circulation but the pressure isn’t high enough for it to actually get where it is needed.
Want to improve low oxygen levels? Read more
What Does Low Oxygen Level Feel Like?
November 3, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Asthma, Breath Building, COPD- Lung Disease, Diagnostics, Heart, Oxygen, Relax, Sleep Apnea
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Low oxygen levels rob you of your health and can kill you. Will you feel it if you have a low oxygen level?
Many people who have dangerously low oxygen levels report “feeling just fine” despite their pale color and confusion.
Watch for the following signs:
- water retention (especially feet/ ankles)
- shortness of breath/ difficulty breathing
- extreme fatigue
- chest tightness
- mental confusion/ short-term-memory loss
- tingling fingers
- chronic cough
- blue coloring around lips
- waking at night gasping for breath
Your body requires 92% blood oxygen saturation or above. There is no getting around your oxygen requirement.
If you ignore your low oxygen level you will lose your eye sight, short term memory, and your strength and stamina. The progressive weakening of your heart muscle will contribute to your heart failure.
Whether you feel concerned or not, get to your doctor and have your oxygen levels checked if you have any of the symptoms listed above.
It does NOT matter whether you suffer with low oxygen levels, or you “feel fine” with low oxygen levels, YOUR HEALTH WILL BE LOST! Read more
Will Low Blood Oxygen Levels Kill You?
November 2, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Breath Building, COPD- Lung Disease, Choice, Detoxing, Diagnostics, Foods For Fluid Balance, Heart, High Blood Pressure, Oxygen, Relationship, Relax, Sleep Apnea
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Low oxygen levels will kill you slowly, OR can kill you instantly.
For years I worked in a very large hospital in Tacoma, Washington. I can not count the times that I have been part of a CPR effort on someone who had taken their oxygen off to get out of bed, and then experienced a cardiac arrest in the bathroom.
Very low oxygen levels can cause stimulation of your vagus nerve, which can stop your heart. Bearing down can also stimulate the vagus nerve.
You do NOT want to have low oxygen levels when you are sitting on the toilet!
2am, lunch time for night shift, the familiar bells, bing-bing-bing. Code 4 room xyz, Code 4 room xyz!
Instead of lunch, we were on our knees in shit, trying to save someones life.
You WANT to meet your oxygen needs, especially when you are on the toilet.
If you have low blood oxygen levels any time you exert yourself, sleep, habitually hold your breath, or anything else you might do, you are robbing your vital organs of the oxygen needed for wellness.
If you have low blood oxygen levels you WILL lose your eye sight, your short term memory, your strength, and your charming disposition.
Guaranteed.
If your low blood oxygen levels become extreme enough Read more
Definition Of Happiness: Did You Know That Your Health, Wealth, and Happiness Depend On Your Breath?
October 25, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Asthma, Breath Building, COPD- Lung Disease, Depression, Diagnostics, Finances, Happiness, Heart, High Blood Pressure, Relationship, Relax, Sleep Apnea
What is YOUR definition of happiness?
It may seem hard to believe, but your health, wealth and happiness most definitely depend directly on the quality of your breath.
Clinical studies prove that oxygen, wellness, and life-span are totally dependent on proper breathing.
Lung volume is a primary marker for how long you will live.
Past the mid twenties the average person loses 9–25% of their lung capacity per decade!
When I started teaching rehabilitation, I thought that the cause of this decline in lung function was from “couch potato syndrome”. You know, from not moving enough.
Then as I got to know my patients, I noticed something else. Read more
Will Your Life Improve If You Use Oxygen For a Few Minutes a Day?
October 20, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Breath Building, COPD- Lung Disease, Heart, Oxygen
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Yes. AND NO! Oxygen can be a huge benefit to you if you use it while engaged in activity for 15 minutes a day.
HOWEVER, if your oxygen level is below 92% at any time during your day or night:
Every occurrence of low oxygen level is BAD!
That means that if you don’t use oxygen WHEN you need it, then using oxygen for a few minutes a day WILL NOT help you!
If you know that your oxygen level tends to run low, then you should use oxygen all day and night.
The way to improve your oxygen level is to bathe your cells in oxygen.
Once a day, with your doctor’s okay, increase the amount of oxygen you are using and get up and walk for as long as it feels comfortable. Time yourself, and you will be able to record your progress.
Leave your oxygen turned up until you recover from your effort, then reduce your oxygen flow to your normal prescribed level.
Even if you don’t have low oxygen levels, you will reap great rewards from using supplemental oxygen while working up a sweat. It’s called Exercise With Oxygen Therapy or EWOT and it is an amazing “fountain of youth”.
EWOT was first explored in Germany with a very impressive study.
This is a direct quote from the German Researchers: Read more
If My Doctor Says I No Longer Need Oxygen, Do I Need a Second Opinion?
October 13, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Breath Building, COPD- Lung Disease, Diagnostics, Harm of Low Level Oxygen, Heart, Oxygen, Sleep Apnea
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A critical care unit is a good place to learn about the importance of oxygen. You will find out in a quick hurry how closely they watch oxygen levels.
The sicker you are, the more closely the doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists will monitor it.
In a home care setting, oxygen is just as important to the quality of your life.
In critical care, we are trying to save your life.
In a home setting, oxygen becomes something that annoys the patient. They often think of it as a crutch, rather than the valuable health building tool that it is.
The family tires of the tanks and tripping over the tubing, not to mention the growing electric bill.
Everyone is overjoyed to hear that they no longer need oxygen!
Hold on a moment before you give up that supply of oxygen!
What? Doesn’t your doctor know what’s best for you?
He wouldn’t take you off of oxygen if you still needed it.
Right?
Well, I’m sure he wouldn’t take you off oxygen, if he THOUGHT you needed it. Certainly we can agree on that.
The challenge comes in, because: Read more
