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Isn't oxidation dangerous?
Maybe I am breathing too much?
A recent call from a NIH physician member got me to thinking. He was concerned whether people breathing too much oxygen could be harmful. I do not believe this possible unless artificial means such as hyperbaric chambers are employed (hyperbaric chamber recipients are given extra antioxidants to offset this). If you are breathing improperly or in an unbalanced way then yes, but uncoordinated unbalanced breathing is more a nervous system issue, not an oxygen one. See hyperventilation for more on the nervous system aspects and breathing too often in an unbalanced way.
Oxidation often gets confused in the good guy-bad guy scenario.
Oxygen has at least four major byproducts.
- Aiding cellular function often with an oxidized waste byproduct
- Killing germs, viruses and parasites (which are transformed into another type of oxidized waste (see "soot" below)
- Stabilizing unstable molecules that have only one electron (as with 03 - ozone that gives off an extra electron to a single electron "toxic" molecule to stabilize it into a two molecule entity. So this reduces waste and allows for constructive use of what might have been a free radical
- Being transformed into "soot, smoke oar ash" like from your fireplace in the normal process of logs being burned up.
Breathing too much?
Some people worry about breathing too much because of the oxidation process and the formation of free radicals. Oxidation is a natural event. Nothing much in biochemistry occurs without it. It happens because that is a primary purpose for oxygen. To give fire (life) to and to burn and to make whole (as in the ozone example).
So the more you breathe, the more soot you produce and the more you have to "clean the fireplace". But oxygen is necessary for millions of life functions. Even if soot production were the only oxidative function, which it clearly is not, would you not use the fireplace if you were very cold just because you knew the fireplace would get dirty? What you WOULD do is clean the fireplace. That is what high antioxidant raw organic foods do. They supply natural fireplace cleaners. Certain supplements work similarly.
Antioxidants
People take antioxidants like vitamin E, germanium, selenium, and COQ10 in supplements and this is good if they are eating poorly, breathing a lot and/or are in a toxic environment. But if they are doing that instead of eating a majority of raw living foods, they are deluding themselves because the enzymes in the raw foods are much more efficient at doing a lot of the work that the oxygen will have to be sidetracked to try to do. The oxygen that should have gone to other NORMAL functions gets used up with a lot of the functions that the enzymes could have done, and much better.
Digestion is critical with all this as undigested food cause massive diversion and oxidation of both oxygen and antioxidants to handle the debris instead of performing healing and cellular strengthening functions. The most natural and effective healing agent is the way you breathe.
Learn to breathe better. No one thing is the do-all-to-end-all, but breathing and oxygen sure are on the top of MY want list. Learn to breathe so you minimize oxidation and get all the oxygen you most often will ever need.
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