The working of a car engine presents an interesting analogy to the working of our body cells.
I read this somewhere, and when I thought about it, the statement is actually true. The cells in our body works pretty much the same way a car engine works.
Our body cells, much like a car engine, require three things to work properly:
- Fuel
- Heat
- Oxygen
Take away any of the above three and you will be left with body cells that will work as inefficiently as the engine of any old, broken car.
Examples of health conditions that occur due to oxygen deprivation
I’m continuously discovering that more health conditions are basically a result of oxygen deprivation, or in other words, are caused when certain body cells do not receive enough oxygen.
Shared below are the names of a few diseases that are caused by oxygen deprivation:
- fibromylgia
- headaches
- migraine
- vertigo
I believe that we tend to focus a lot on the first two requirements of our body cells, i.e., fuel and heat, but don’t do much about filling our body cells with enough oxygen. Even the majority of health-related articles and online posts talk in length about eating right (giving the body adequate fuel) and exercising regularly (to create heat necessary for burning fuel), but only few talk about why it is imperative to fill give our cells adequate oxygen.
Various factors, both external and internal, are responsible for our cells not receiving enough oxygen.
The most prominent reason is pollution in cities. It is no secret that air in big cities is polluted and contains less oxygen. The situation is sad, but there is not much we can do about it, at least nothing that will yield immediate results.
So, it is better to focus on what is in our control.
Breathe deep to draw more oxygen
How we breathe is in our control, but we often don’t breathe right. The most common causes for this are:
- The muscles around the breathing passage are weak or tense.
- Other muscles such as the diaphragm that help in lung expansion when we breathe are weak or tense.
As a result of all this, we inhale less air. Less air in lungs mean less oxygen is available for blood cells. Furthermore, tense or weak muscles hamper blood delivery to the cells. The result is an illness which typically materializes in areas where oxygen deprivation is most severe. For instance, migraine is caused when certain parts of the brain do not receive adequate amounts of oxygen.
In many of my recent health programs that address fibromyalgia, migraine/headache, and the vertigo/dizziness programs, I’ve primarily focused on increasing the intake of oxygen and improving the blood flow.
These programs have been hugely successful and numerous people have written back to say that exercises listed in the programs have been instrumental in either completely curing or alleviating the symptoms of their diseases. I’m going to write more on how to ensure enough oxygen reaches our body cells in my future posts, so stay tuned.
Warm Regards,
Christian Goodman
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One problem is that we don’t sing anymore. It’s a tribal tradition that we’ve left behind. Just as cars made us paraplegics, so portable radios turned us into deaf-mutes. Even whistling is a lost art. (When I was a kid, I used to hear the most exquisite melodies from working people making their rounds through the alleys and streets of the city. No more.) Now we have a wire plugged in our ear. Get rid of it. Sing out! It’s the best lung excercise there is.
Thank you all for the “oxygen” comments. This makes a lot of sense! Best regards.
This really makes sense. We have become to lazy!