demosfen
08-29-2006, 11:59 PM
I never took time to try it myself, but it was recommended to me as a cure-all (or prevent-all to be exact) by my homeopath, who uses it himself and from my experience really knows his stuff
http://breathing.com/articles/ewot.htm
EWOT - Exercising With Oxygen Therapy An important adjunct to living a longer healthier life
Around 1996 I got a great book written by Dr. Mandfred Von Ardenne of Germany. I was very short of cash then but felt it was so important that i spent my last $80.00. Boy was it worth it. Dr. VonArdenne was probably Otto Warburg's prize student. Otto you may recall received the 1931 Nobel prize for proving that cancer could not survive in a high O2 environment. It is anaerobic. Manfred went on to do approximately 150 studies using a combination of exercise and extra oxygen. He called it Oxygen Multistep Therapy and I gladly spent my last bit of cash on it. Very gladly.
Now I see that many are borrowing his ideas and have created home exercise programs using some of his techniques. Makes sense to me so I got my own program together which we will talk about later.
In case you are not up on this. Some Benefits of Oxygen (http://www.breathing.com/articles/oxygen.htm)
A primary reason for aging is failure of enzymatic systems that are responsible for your body's uptake and utilization of oxygen. Then, when your cells don't get enough oxygen, they get weaker and weaker. Then so do you.
Exercising while breathing oxygen may greatly increase the amount of oxygen in the blood plasma, i.e., the nearly colorless liquid carrying the red and white cells. This can be determined by testing the blood oxygen level in the arteries or veins (but NOT with a pulse oxymeter as oxygen can be in the plasma but not transferable into the cells due to low CO2 levels. We address this later in this article).
Many contemporary scientists say you can't increase the oxygen in your blood by breathing oxygen. I disagree but for now let's let them get away with that. What they most likely means is that you can't increase the amount of oxygen in your red blood cells, which are responsible for transporting oxygen to the tissues. The reason the amount of oxygen in the red cells (hemoglobin and a key source of) (http://www.breathing.com/e3live.htm) cannot be increased is because, under most circumstances, they are already 97.3 percent saturated with oxygen. So it says a three percent increase will make little difference and the red cells won't accept the extra oxygen anyway.
This is true but the role of oxygen in the plasma (the nearly colorless liquid within which the red cells flow in normal blood) needs to be considered. The oxygen content of plasma can be significantly increased and thus oxygen will be "pushed" into the body's cells without the aid of the red cells. It's called the Law of Mass Action. If you build up the concentration of a certain component in a chemical mixture high enough, chemical combining will take place with other elements of the mixture that ordinarily wouldn't happen. In this way the normal "shunting" or oxygen's bypassing cellular uptake is partly reduced and the cells get some extra O2 anyway.
Most of the oxygen in the plasma under these high-saturation circumstances will be shunted/bypassed and "wasted" in that it will not be absorbed by the cells which expect to be "fed" oxygen by the red cells. But if only one-tenth of one percent of the oxygen gets through, and you offer your cells this extra O2 dose every day, there will be an extensive increase in your total tissue oxygen level. The objective is to keep the oxygen level of your blood as close to optimum (100 percent on the oxymeter scale) as long as possible; ideally, for life.
Quite often (but not always) after 15 minutes of EWOT, there is a dramatic "pinking" of a exerciser’s skin. If this can be seen by simple observation, then stands to reason that the tiny capillaries, vessels tinier than a strand of hair, are carrying extra oxygen to cells of the body. Mentl clarity may improve immediately as well as vision. Streaming, buzzing and tingling can be felt in different areas of the body.
Presumably, although this is a little more difficult to prove, every organ (your brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, and even the tips of your toes) is being bathed in extra amounts of life-sustaining oxygen. To learn more about this you can focus on basic physiology which clearly shows many of these relationships.
With all this movement and because it will be impossible for you to measure the overbreathing part without specialized equipment, make sure you breath at a SLOW pace and that you are not ever OVERBREATHING.
One major fallacy is that if you exercise vigorously, you will increase the oxygenation of the blood and hence your tissues. But this is not true. Especially with those that have a CO2 imbalance. (http://www.breathing.com/articles/overbreathing.htm)
If you try EWOT, and I believe everyone should, make sure you actually feel better after you have a session. If you are tired or no results occur after 5-10 sessions then you may not have the physiology needed and should consult a health professional. You can restart the EWOT after that person gets you back on a more stabilized condition. The health professional will need an Optimal Breath Trainer (capno@breathing.com) to properly assess any degree of overbreathing.
This should work for just about everyone , regardless of your health or condition. Even sitting on a rebounder (http://breathing.com/rebounder.htm) gently moving up and down can work wonders in increasing your energy stores.
You can run, swim or walk miles and you will not increase the oxygen content of your blood. You may well temporarily decrease your blood oxygen as the body bums oxygen to cover the degree of increased activity level.
You may also be producing insufficient blood CO2 levels that will compromise O2 transfer into the blood cells and mitochondria. Thus you will develop "oxygen-rich blood" IF you do not have this form of hidden hyperventilation also called "overbreathing". This overbreathing can only be uncovered if you test your arterial CO2 levels to make sure you are producing enough CO2. One of our core faculty members has invented such a device that is portable and can be used by lay people as well as health professionals. more about (capno@breathing.com)
Oxygen Killers
The most punishing oxygen users of all are major operations, cancer, chemotherapy, X-ray therapy, and extensive bums. Operations have an instant effect on the p02. Within 24 hours the p02 drops below the danger zone and according to an MD I know it takes 50 days or more to make a reasonable recovery. I suggest that surgeons put their patients on EWOT before (when practical) and after surgery but make sure they test for correlations of UDB (http://breathing.com/articles/udb.htm) and or overbreathing (http://breathing.com/articles/overbreathing.htm) FIRST.
Cancer loves a low-oxygen environment and so, although chemotherapy and radiation may be killing some cancer cells, it is probably encouraging the growth of more cancer because of the low oxygen content of the tissues. Cancer starts growing again, or a new type of cancer starts. Perhaps that's why in children with leukemia, the leukemia appears to have gone away after chemotherapy, but often a new cancer, a lymphoma, develops and kills the child.
Because of the known fact that cancer cannot live in a high-oxygen environment, I am convinced that EWOT is one of the better choices for many (not ALL cancers due to lymphatic density and colonic intestinal accumulations/debris where cancer hides outside of the primary blood system) cancers. see also www.breathing.com/articles/cancer.htm (http://www.breathing.com/articles/cancer.htm)
I can't guarantee EWOT's effectiveness on cancer, but I'm still convinced that it will work as a preventive.
Putting It Into Practice
There are an infinite variety of ways that you can take EWOT, so let's talk about some of the nuts and bolts about how to do it. If you are going to use a tread mill or a stationary bicycle, get a refurbished oxygen concentrator. I have one I call O2D2 due to its short size and shape. Your initial investment will be about $450.00 delivered USA. The cost per exercise session will be nearly zero.
I also use a Rebounder (http://www.breathing.com/rebounder.htm) and cross trainer that also does reverse direction. Stationary bikes and treadmills are an option but posture is critical so make sure you read my manual (http://www.breathing.com/secrets.htm)for specific dangers of certain forms of exercising.
It's also a good idea, unless you're an accomplished athlete, to use a pulse oxymeter called a Sports Stat (purchased online for under $300.00) . If your pulse gets over 130, slow down. Naturally, if you feel faint, stop and rest. Use common sense. If you are not sure just how fit you are and you are a little nervous, just go for two or three minutes at a slow speed the first time and find your level of tolerance. Still tired or dizzy, see your health professional. My recommended program (http://www.breathing.com/oxygen-concentrator.htm)
EWOT - Exercising With Oxygen Therapy
In 1996 I got a book written by Dr. Mandfred Von Ardenne of Germany. He was probably Otto Warburg's prize student. Otto you may recall received the 1931 Nobel prize for proving that cancer could not survive in a high O2 environment. It is anaeroebic. Manfred went on to do approximately 150 studies using a combination of exercise and extra oxygen. He called it Oxygen Multistep Therapy and wrote the book with that name.
Now I see that many are borrowing his ideas and have created home exercise programs using some of his techniques. Makes sense to me so I got my own program together which we will talk about later.
In case you are not up on this. Some Benefits of Oxygen (http://www.breathing.com/articles/oxygen.htm)
A primary reason for aging is failure of enzymatic systems that are responsible for your body's uptake and utilization of oxygen. Then, when your cells don't get enough oxygen, they get weaker and weaker. Then so do you.
Exercising, while breathing oxygen, may greatly increase the amount of oxygen in the blood plasma, i.e., the portion of the blood carrying the red and white cells. This can be determined by testing the blood oxygen level in the arteries or veins. Good science says you can't increase the oxygen in your blood by breathing oxygen. What is means is that you can't increase the amount of oxygen in your red blood cells, which are responsible for transporting oxygen to the tissues. The reason the amount of oxygen in the red cells (hemoglobin - key source of) (http://www.breathing.com/e3live.htm) cannot be increased is because, under most circumstances, they are already 97.3 percent saturated with oxygen. So, it says, a three percent increase will make little difference and the red cells won't accept the extra oxygen, anyway.
This is true but the role of oxygen in the plasma (the "juice" within which the red cells flow) needs to be considered. The oxygen content of plasmas can be dramatically increased and thus oxygen will be "pushed" into the body's cells without the aid of the red cells. It's called the Law of Mass Action. If you build up the concentration of a certain component in a chemical mixture high enough, chemical combining will take place with other elements of the mixture that ordinarily wouldn't happen.
Most of the oxygen in the plasma under these high-saturation circumstances will be "wasted" in that it will not be absorbed by the cells which expect to be "fed" oxygen by the red cells. But if only one-tenth of one percent of the oxygen gets through, and you offer your cells this extra "meal" every day, there will be an extensive increase in your total tissue oxygen level. The objective is to keep the oxygen level of your blood as close to optimum (100 percent on the oxymeter scale) as long as possible; ideally, for life.
Quite often (but not always) after 15 minutes of EWOT, there is a dramatic "pinking up" of a patient's skin. If this can be seen so easily by simple observation, then it is obvious that the tiny capillaries, vessels tinier than a strand of hair, are carrying extra oxygen to cells of the body. Presumably, although this is a little more difficult to prove, every organ (your brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, and even the tips of your toes) is being bathed in extra amounts of life-sustaining oxygen.
Just make sure you use your optimal oxygenation system in SLOW to medium pace mode and that you are not OVERBREATHING.
One major fallacy is that if you exercise vigorously, you will increase the oxygenation of the blood and hence your tissues. But this is not true. Especially with those that have a CO2 imbalance. (http://www.breathing.com/articles/overbreathing.htm)
If you try EWOT, and I believe everyone should, make sure you actually feel better after you have a session. If you are tired or no results occur after 5-10 sessions then you may not have the physiology needed and should consult a health professional. You can restart the EWOT after that person gets you back on a more stabilized condition. This should work for just about everyone , regardless of your health or condition. Even sitting on a rebounder gently moving up and down can work wonders in increasing your energy stores.
You can run, swim or walk miles and you will not increase the oxygen content of your blood. You may well temporarily decrease your blood oxygen as the body bums oxygen to cover the degree of increased activity level. You may also be producing insufficient blood CO2 levels that will compromise O2 transfer into the blood cells and mitochondria. Thus you will develop "oxygen-rich plasma but blood cell deficient oxygen.
IF you do not have this form of hidden hyperventilation also called "overbreathing". This overbreathing can only be uncovered if you test your arterial CO2 levels to make sure you are producing enough CO2. One of our core faculty members has invented such a device that is portable and can be used by lay people as well as health professionals. more about (capno@breathing.com)
This technique is so simple that one wonders why no one investigated it until 20 years ago. And, equally important, why no one has followed up on the original work by Dr. von Ardenne.
Oxygen Killers
The most punishing oxygen-suckers of all are major operations, cancer chemotherapy, X-ray therapy, and extensive bums. Operations have an instant effect on the p02. Within 24 hours the p02 drops below the danger zone and according to an MD i know of can take 50 days or more to make a reasonable recovery. I suggest that surgeons put their patients on EWOT following surgery but make sure they test for overbreathing FIRST.
Cancer loves a low-oxygen environment and so, although chemotherapy and radiation may be killing some cancer cells, it is probably encouraging the growth of more cancer because of the low oxygen content of the tissues. Cancer hates oxygen, so it says, "thank you very much" and starts growing again, or a new type of cancer starts. Perhaps that's why in leukemia of children, the leukemia appears to have gone away after chemotherapy, but very often a new cancer, a lymphoma, develops and kills the child.
Because of the known fact that cancer hates oxygen, and cannot live in a high-oxygen environment, I am convinced that EWOT is one of the better choices for many (not ALL cancers due to lymphatic density and colonic intestinal accumulations/debris where cancer hides outside of the primary blood system) cancers.
I can't guarantee EWOT's effectiveness on cancer, but I'm still convinced that it will work as a preventive aswell as an important adjunct when combined with key elements represented by the specialists listed on my cancer articles page. (http://breathing.com/articles/cancer.htm)
Putting It Into Practice
There are an infinite variety of ways that you can take EWOT, so let's talk about some of the nuts and bolts about how to do it. If you are going to use a tread mill or a stationary bicycle, get an refurbished oxygen concentrator. (http://breathing.com/oxygen-concentrator.htm) I have one I call O2D2 due to its size. Your initial investment will be about $450.00 delivered in the USA. The cost per exercise session will be nearly zero.
I also use a Rebounder (http://www.breathing.com/rebounder.htm) and cross trainer that also does reverse direction. Stationary bikes and treadmills are an option but posture is critical so make sure you read my manual (http://www.breathing.com/secrets.htm)for specific dangers of certain forms of exercising.
It's a good idea, unless you're an accomplished athlete, to use a pulse oxymeter called a Sports Stat (purchased online for under $300.00 - google it) .
If your pulse gets over 130, slow down. Naturally, if you feel faint, stop and rest. Use common sense. If you are not sure just how fit you are and you are a little nervous, just go for two or three minutes at a slow speed the first time and find your level of tolerance. Still tired or dizzy, see your health professional.
http://breathing.com/articles/ewot.htm
EWOT - Exercising With Oxygen Therapy An important adjunct to living a longer healthier life
Around 1996 I got a great book written by Dr. Mandfred Von Ardenne of Germany. I was very short of cash then but felt it was so important that i spent my last $80.00. Boy was it worth it. Dr. VonArdenne was probably Otto Warburg's prize student. Otto you may recall received the 1931 Nobel prize for proving that cancer could not survive in a high O2 environment. It is anaerobic. Manfred went on to do approximately 150 studies using a combination of exercise and extra oxygen. He called it Oxygen Multistep Therapy and I gladly spent my last bit of cash on it. Very gladly.
Now I see that many are borrowing his ideas and have created home exercise programs using some of his techniques. Makes sense to me so I got my own program together which we will talk about later.
In case you are not up on this. Some Benefits of Oxygen (http://www.breathing.com/articles/oxygen.htm)
A primary reason for aging is failure of enzymatic systems that are responsible for your body's uptake and utilization of oxygen. Then, when your cells don't get enough oxygen, they get weaker and weaker. Then so do you.
Exercising while breathing oxygen may greatly increase the amount of oxygen in the blood plasma, i.e., the nearly colorless liquid carrying the red and white cells. This can be determined by testing the blood oxygen level in the arteries or veins (but NOT with a pulse oxymeter as oxygen can be in the plasma but not transferable into the cells due to low CO2 levels. We address this later in this article).
Many contemporary scientists say you can't increase the oxygen in your blood by breathing oxygen. I disagree but for now let's let them get away with that. What they most likely means is that you can't increase the amount of oxygen in your red blood cells, which are responsible for transporting oxygen to the tissues. The reason the amount of oxygen in the red cells (hemoglobin and a key source of) (http://www.breathing.com/e3live.htm) cannot be increased is because, under most circumstances, they are already 97.3 percent saturated with oxygen. So it says a three percent increase will make little difference and the red cells won't accept the extra oxygen anyway.
This is true but the role of oxygen in the plasma (the nearly colorless liquid within which the red cells flow in normal blood) needs to be considered. The oxygen content of plasma can be significantly increased and thus oxygen will be "pushed" into the body's cells without the aid of the red cells. It's called the Law of Mass Action. If you build up the concentration of a certain component in a chemical mixture high enough, chemical combining will take place with other elements of the mixture that ordinarily wouldn't happen. In this way the normal "shunting" or oxygen's bypassing cellular uptake is partly reduced and the cells get some extra O2 anyway.
Most of the oxygen in the plasma under these high-saturation circumstances will be shunted/bypassed and "wasted" in that it will not be absorbed by the cells which expect to be "fed" oxygen by the red cells. But if only one-tenth of one percent of the oxygen gets through, and you offer your cells this extra O2 dose every day, there will be an extensive increase in your total tissue oxygen level. The objective is to keep the oxygen level of your blood as close to optimum (100 percent on the oxymeter scale) as long as possible; ideally, for life.
Quite often (but not always) after 15 minutes of EWOT, there is a dramatic "pinking" of a exerciser’s skin. If this can be seen by simple observation, then stands to reason that the tiny capillaries, vessels tinier than a strand of hair, are carrying extra oxygen to cells of the body. Mentl clarity may improve immediately as well as vision. Streaming, buzzing and tingling can be felt in different areas of the body.
Presumably, although this is a little more difficult to prove, every organ (your brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, and even the tips of your toes) is being bathed in extra amounts of life-sustaining oxygen. To learn more about this you can focus on basic physiology which clearly shows many of these relationships.
With all this movement and because it will be impossible for you to measure the overbreathing part without specialized equipment, make sure you breath at a SLOW pace and that you are not ever OVERBREATHING.
One major fallacy is that if you exercise vigorously, you will increase the oxygenation of the blood and hence your tissues. But this is not true. Especially with those that have a CO2 imbalance. (http://www.breathing.com/articles/overbreathing.htm)
If you try EWOT, and I believe everyone should, make sure you actually feel better after you have a session. If you are tired or no results occur after 5-10 sessions then you may not have the physiology needed and should consult a health professional. You can restart the EWOT after that person gets you back on a more stabilized condition. The health professional will need an Optimal Breath Trainer (capno@breathing.com) to properly assess any degree of overbreathing.
This should work for just about everyone , regardless of your health or condition. Even sitting on a rebounder (http://breathing.com/rebounder.htm) gently moving up and down can work wonders in increasing your energy stores.
You can run, swim or walk miles and you will not increase the oxygen content of your blood. You may well temporarily decrease your blood oxygen as the body bums oxygen to cover the degree of increased activity level.
You may also be producing insufficient blood CO2 levels that will compromise O2 transfer into the blood cells and mitochondria. Thus you will develop "oxygen-rich blood" IF you do not have this form of hidden hyperventilation also called "overbreathing". This overbreathing can only be uncovered if you test your arterial CO2 levels to make sure you are producing enough CO2. One of our core faculty members has invented such a device that is portable and can be used by lay people as well as health professionals. more about (capno@breathing.com)
Oxygen Killers
The most punishing oxygen users of all are major operations, cancer, chemotherapy, X-ray therapy, and extensive bums. Operations have an instant effect on the p02. Within 24 hours the p02 drops below the danger zone and according to an MD I know it takes 50 days or more to make a reasonable recovery. I suggest that surgeons put their patients on EWOT before (when practical) and after surgery but make sure they test for correlations of UDB (http://breathing.com/articles/udb.htm) and or overbreathing (http://breathing.com/articles/overbreathing.htm) FIRST.
Cancer loves a low-oxygen environment and so, although chemotherapy and radiation may be killing some cancer cells, it is probably encouraging the growth of more cancer because of the low oxygen content of the tissues. Cancer starts growing again, or a new type of cancer starts. Perhaps that's why in children with leukemia, the leukemia appears to have gone away after chemotherapy, but often a new cancer, a lymphoma, develops and kills the child.
Because of the known fact that cancer cannot live in a high-oxygen environment, I am convinced that EWOT is one of the better choices for many (not ALL cancers due to lymphatic density and colonic intestinal accumulations/debris where cancer hides outside of the primary blood system) cancers. see also www.breathing.com/articles/cancer.htm (http://www.breathing.com/articles/cancer.htm)
I can't guarantee EWOT's effectiveness on cancer, but I'm still convinced that it will work as a preventive.
Putting It Into Practice
There are an infinite variety of ways that you can take EWOT, so let's talk about some of the nuts and bolts about how to do it. If you are going to use a tread mill or a stationary bicycle, get a refurbished oxygen concentrator. I have one I call O2D2 due to its short size and shape. Your initial investment will be about $450.00 delivered USA. The cost per exercise session will be nearly zero.
I also use a Rebounder (http://www.breathing.com/rebounder.htm) and cross trainer that also does reverse direction. Stationary bikes and treadmills are an option but posture is critical so make sure you read my manual (http://www.breathing.com/secrets.htm)for specific dangers of certain forms of exercising.
It's also a good idea, unless you're an accomplished athlete, to use a pulse oxymeter called a Sports Stat (purchased online for under $300.00) . If your pulse gets over 130, slow down. Naturally, if you feel faint, stop and rest. Use common sense. If you are not sure just how fit you are and you are a little nervous, just go for two or three minutes at a slow speed the first time and find your level of tolerance. Still tired or dizzy, see your health professional. My recommended program (http://www.breathing.com/oxygen-concentrator.htm)
EWOT - Exercising With Oxygen Therapy
In 1996 I got a book written by Dr. Mandfred Von Ardenne of Germany. He was probably Otto Warburg's prize student. Otto you may recall received the 1931 Nobel prize for proving that cancer could not survive in a high O2 environment. It is anaeroebic. Manfred went on to do approximately 150 studies using a combination of exercise and extra oxygen. He called it Oxygen Multistep Therapy and wrote the book with that name.
Now I see that many are borrowing his ideas and have created home exercise programs using some of his techniques. Makes sense to me so I got my own program together which we will talk about later.
In case you are not up on this. Some Benefits of Oxygen (http://www.breathing.com/articles/oxygen.htm)
A primary reason for aging is failure of enzymatic systems that are responsible for your body's uptake and utilization of oxygen. Then, when your cells don't get enough oxygen, they get weaker and weaker. Then so do you.
Exercising, while breathing oxygen, may greatly increase the amount of oxygen in the blood plasma, i.e., the portion of the blood carrying the red and white cells. This can be determined by testing the blood oxygen level in the arteries or veins. Good science says you can't increase the oxygen in your blood by breathing oxygen. What is means is that you can't increase the amount of oxygen in your red blood cells, which are responsible for transporting oxygen to the tissues. The reason the amount of oxygen in the red cells (hemoglobin - key source of) (http://www.breathing.com/e3live.htm) cannot be increased is because, under most circumstances, they are already 97.3 percent saturated with oxygen. So, it says, a three percent increase will make little difference and the red cells won't accept the extra oxygen, anyway.
This is true but the role of oxygen in the plasma (the "juice" within which the red cells flow) needs to be considered. The oxygen content of plasmas can be dramatically increased and thus oxygen will be "pushed" into the body's cells without the aid of the red cells. It's called the Law of Mass Action. If you build up the concentration of a certain component in a chemical mixture high enough, chemical combining will take place with other elements of the mixture that ordinarily wouldn't happen.
Most of the oxygen in the plasma under these high-saturation circumstances will be "wasted" in that it will not be absorbed by the cells which expect to be "fed" oxygen by the red cells. But if only one-tenth of one percent of the oxygen gets through, and you offer your cells this extra "meal" every day, there will be an extensive increase in your total tissue oxygen level. The objective is to keep the oxygen level of your blood as close to optimum (100 percent on the oxymeter scale) as long as possible; ideally, for life.
Quite often (but not always) after 15 minutes of EWOT, there is a dramatic "pinking up" of a patient's skin. If this can be seen so easily by simple observation, then it is obvious that the tiny capillaries, vessels tinier than a strand of hair, are carrying extra oxygen to cells of the body. Presumably, although this is a little more difficult to prove, every organ (your brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, and even the tips of your toes) is being bathed in extra amounts of life-sustaining oxygen.
Just make sure you use your optimal oxygenation system in SLOW to medium pace mode and that you are not OVERBREATHING.
One major fallacy is that if you exercise vigorously, you will increase the oxygenation of the blood and hence your tissues. But this is not true. Especially with those that have a CO2 imbalance. (http://www.breathing.com/articles/overbreathing.htm)
If you try EWOT, and I believe everyone should, make sure you actually feel better after you have a session. If you are tired or no results occur after 5-10 sessions then you may not have the physiology needed and should consult a health professional. You can restart the EWOT after that person gets you back on a more stabilized condition. This should work for just about everyone , regardless of your health or condition. Even sitting on a rebounder gently moving up and down can work wonders in increasing your energy stores.
You can run, swim or walk miles and you will not increase the oxygen content of your blood. You may well temporarily decrease your blood oxygen as the body bums oxygen to cover the degree of increased activity level. You may also be producing insufficient blood CO2 levels that will compromise O2 transfer into the blood cells and mitochondria. Thus you will develop "oxygen-rich plasma but blood cell deficient oxygen.
IF you do not have this form of hidden hyperventilation also called "overbreathing". This overbreathing can only be uncovered if you test your arterial CO2 levels to make sure you are producing enough CO2. One of our core faculty members has invented such a device that is portable and can be used by lay people as well as health professionals. more about (capno@breathing.com)
This technique is so simple that one wonders why no one investigated it until 20 years ago. And, equally important, why no one has followed up on the original work by Dr. von Ardenne.
Oxygen Killers
The most punishing oxygen-suckers of all are major operations, cancer chemotherapy, X-ray therapy, and extensive bums. Operations have an instant effect on the p02. Within 24 hours the p02 drops below the danger zone and according to an MD i know of can take 50 days or more to make a reasonable recovery. I suggest that surgeons put their patients on EWOT following surgery but make sure they test for overbreathing FIRST.
Cancer loves a low-oxygen environment and so, although chemotherapy and radiation may be killing some cancer cells, it is probably encouraging the growth of more cancer because of the low oxygen content of the tissues. Cancer hates oxygen, so it says, "thank you very much" and starts growing again, or a new type of cancer starts. Perhaps that's why in leukemia of children, the leukemia appears to have gone away after chemotherapy, but very often a new cancer, a lymphoma, develops and kills the child.
Because of the known fact that cancer hates oxygen, and cannot live in a high-oxygen environment, I am convinced that EWOT is one of the better choices for many (not ALL cancers due to lymphatic density and colonic intestinal accumulations/debris where cancer hides outside of the primary blood system) cancers.
I can't guarantee EWOT's effectiveness on cancer, but I'm still convinced that it will work as a preventive aswell as an important adjunct when combined with key elements represented by the specialists listed on my cancer articles page. (http://breathing.com/articles/cancer.htm)
Putting It Into Practice
There are an infinite variety of ways that you can take EWOT, so let's talk about some of the nuts and bolts about how to do it. If you are going to use a tread mill or a stationary bicycle, get an refurbished oxygen concentrator. (http://breathing.com/oxygen-concentrator.htm) I have one I call O2D2 due to its size. Your initial investment will be about $450.00 delivered in the USA. The cost per exercise session will be nearly zero.
I also use a Rebounder (http://www.breathing.com/rebounder.htm) and cross trainer that also does reverse direction. Stationary bikes and treadmills are an option but posture is critical so make sure you read my manual (http://www.breathing.com/secrets.htm)for specific dangers of certain forms of exercising.
It's a good idea, unless you're an accomplished athlete, to use a pulse oxymeter called a Sports Stat (purchased online for under $300.00 - google it) .
If your pulse gets over 130, slow down. Naturally, if you feel faint, stop and rest. Use common sense. If you are not sure just how fit you are and you are a little nervous, just go for two or three minutes at a slow speed the first time and find your level of tolerance. Still tired or dizzy, see your health professional.