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Welcome back to Chasing Eden, where we begin to rediscover
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our body's divine design. I'm your host, Carolyn Thompson. There's
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something almost unsettling about how easy it is to ignore
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the one thing keeping you alive right now, breathing. It's
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happening without effort, without awareness, quietly in the background, and
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because of that, most of us never stop to ask
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a very simple question, actually breathing in a way that
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supports life or just sustaining it, because there's a difference.
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You can be breathing and still not be oxygenating your
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body well, you can be alive but not functioning at
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your full capacity, And over time that gap starts to
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show up in ways that feel completely disconnected from breathing,
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like things like low energy that never quite rebounds, or
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brain fog that lingers longer than it should, a body
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that takes more time to heal or never quite feels
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fully restored, and often a quiet sense that something just
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isn't right. And most people don't trace that back to oxygen.
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But when you begin to understand how oxygen actually works
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inside the body, everything starts to connect. Because oxygen is
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not just air, it's fuel. It's the driver of energy production,
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it's the foundation of healing, and in many ways it's
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one of the most overlooked pieces of modern health. So
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today we're going to take our time. We're going to
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walk through how oxygen was discovered, how it functions inside
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the body, how modern life is quietly interfering with it,
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and how to bring your body back into alignment with
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something it was designed to do. From the very beginning,
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we'll talk about lung capacity and longevity and the connection.
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We'll talk about breathing patterns, we'll talk about healing, and
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some fascinating real world stories of how oxygen has been
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used to help the body recover in ways that seem
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almost unbelievable at first. So just take a breath and
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let's begin. Now, there was a time when people didn't
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know what oxygen was. They understood breath, but not its purpose.
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They knew life stopped when breathing stopped, but they didn't
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know why. And in the late seventeen hundreds, a scientist
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named Joseph Priestley began experimenting with gases. He heeded different
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substances and captured what he believed to be a new
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form of air. In one of his experiments, He placed
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a candle inside this air and watched as it burned
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brighter than usual. Then he placed a small animal inside.
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It lived longer than he expected. There was something different
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about this air, something life giving. Not long after that,
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Antoine Levosier built on Priestley's work and gave this substance
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a name oxygen, And with that something invisible became understood.
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Breath was no longer just a sensation. It was a process,
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a transfer of energy. Today we understand that oxygen is
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involved in nearly every function inside the body. Deep within
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the cells are mitochondria, tiny structures responsible for producing energy.
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They take in oxygen and neutril and convert them into ATP,
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the fuel your body runs on. Without oxygen, that process slows,
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and when it slows, everything slows. Doctor Josh Acts has
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said this quote Oxygen is essential for cellular energy production
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and healing. Without it, the body cannot function or repair effectively. Unquote.
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And when you really sit with that, it explains more
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than most people realize, because when people feel tired, they
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rarely think about oxygen as a factor. They think about sleep, stress, hormones,
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and those things do matter, but underneath them, there's often
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something more foundational. The body is not producing energy efficiently,
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and that inefficiency often traces back to oxygen. The challenge
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is that oxygen problems don't always feel obvious. They don't
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feel like gasping for air. They feel like a kind
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of fatigue that doesn't fully lift, or a mental fog
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that comes and goes, a body that feels like it's
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working harder than it should, and over time that becomes normal.
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But it's not. Here's where things shift. Because oxygen alone
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is not enough. Your body needs carbon dioxide to release
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oxygen into your tissues. This is known as the bore effect,
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and it changes everything. Carbon dioxide is often treated like waste,
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something to get rid of, but in reality it plays
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a critical role. It tells your body release the oxygen.
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Without enough carbon dioxide, oxygen stays bound in the blood
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and it doesn't reach yourselves efficiently. Human biologist Gary Brecka
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explains it like this quote, It's not about how much
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oxygen you take in, it's about how well your body
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can use it unquote. And modern life works against this balance.
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We breathe faster, more, shallow, more through the mouth. We
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live in a constant state of low level stress. All
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of This lowers carbon dioxide levels, which means oxygen delivery
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drops even though we're breathing more. That's the paradox, more breathing,
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less oxygen where it matters, And once you understand that,
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you start to see how something so simple can influence everything.
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We're going to take a quick break. When we come back,
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we'll talk about how to actually measure your oxygen efficiency
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at home, and what your lung capacity says about your lifespan.
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Also how your breathing patterns are connected to stress and anxiety.
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We'll be right back. Most people assume that if they're breathing,
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they're fine, but breathing and oxygen efficiency are not the
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same thing. One of the most common tools people use
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today is a pulse oximeter. You place it on your
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finger and it gives you a number, usually somewhere between
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ninety five and ninety nine percent, and for most people
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that number feels reassuring, but it only tells part of
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the story because it measures oxygen in your blood and
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not in your tissues. Now, you can have normal oxygen
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saturation and still have cells that are not getting what
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they need, and that's a very where a simple test
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becomes more revealing. If you take a normal breath and
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you hold it, and you observe how long your body
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comfortably allows you to stay there, you begin to see
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something different because the urge to breathe is triggered by
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rising carbon dioxide, not falling oxygen. So what you're measuring
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is not just your lung strength, your measuring tolerance efficiency balance.
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A shorter breath hold time can indicate that your body
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is not tolerating carbon dioxide well, which often means oxygen
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is not being delivered efficiently. A longer comfortable hold often
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reflects better balance. There's a BBC article I read and
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it talks about the relation between lung capacity and longevity.
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There's a growing body of research showing that lung capacity
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is one of the strongest indicators of long term health.
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The article explored this idea and introduce the concept of
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quote unquote lung age. In simple terms, your lungs may
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be aging faster or slower than the rest of your body,
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and that matters because your lungs determine how much oxygen
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your body can deliver, and that affects everything energy, healing, resilience.
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Your lungs peak in your early twenties and then slowly
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begin to decline, but that decline is not fixed. Breathing patterns, movement, environment,
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All of these things influence how your lungs age, which
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means your breath is not just sustaining your life, it's
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shaping it. Breathing is also directly tied to your nervous system.
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Fast breathing signals danger, slow breathing signals safety. Doctor Bergh
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has explained it like this quote Shallow breathing reduces oxygen
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delivery and increases stress responses. Unquote. This creates a loop.
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Anxiety speeds up breathing faster breathing lower CO two. Lower
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CO two reduces oxygen delivery, which increases your stress. But
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when breathing slows, the body shifts. We're going to pause again,
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and when we come back, we'll talk about how to
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improve oxygen levels naturally through breathing, movement, your environment, and
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some deeper therapies that take oxygen even further. We'll be
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right back. There's something encouraging about realizing that improving oxygen
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levels doesn't require anything extreme. It starts with awareness. Breathing
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through the nose instead of the mouth is one of
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the simplest shifts. The nose filters air, slows it down,
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produces nitric oxide, which then improves your oxygen delivery. Doctor
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Berg says this quote Nasal breathing enhances oxygen absorption and circulation. Unquote.
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Slowing the breath is another Most people breathe too quickly
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without realizing it. Breathing allows carbon dioxide to stabilize, which
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improves oxygen release. Now, if you were alive in the
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nineties like I was, you may have heard of a
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type of exercise system called body flex And there was
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a woman named Greer Childers who was on one of
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the shopping networks, and she was selling this exercise system
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that had to do with a type of breathing system.
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It actually seemed too good to be true. However, I
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was one of the people that purchased at the time
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the VHS videos and started to do the workout. She
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asks you at the very beginning to take your measurements
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to compare, because she insists you're going to lose inches
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and you want to be able to track that because
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it's almost too good to be true. I remember writing
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down my measurements and then a week later taking them
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again and being really surprised at my inch loss and
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I remember thinking at the time, maybe I didn't measure
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myself right, maybe I was doing something wrong. But then
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the following week I lost more inches and it was
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kind of unbelievable at the time. Now they do talk
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about the type of system that Greer uses. She doesn't
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use this phrase, but there's something called intermittent hypoxic training
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or IHT. And what you do is you hold your
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breath for brief periods of time and then inhale. And
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this is supposed to have several effects on the body,
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according to doctor Jockers. He says, it increases your stamina
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and endurance, supports optimum blood flow, stimulates cell production and regeneration,
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lowers your blood pressure. It can be achieved through the
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simple breathing techniques. It encourages growth and development of nervous tissue,
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naturally restores normal blood flow to an obstructed coronary heart artery,
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prevents degeneration of tissue and organs. Relieves from many chronic
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diseases like asthma, arthritis, diabetes, and sleep disorders. Now, I
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know this sounds like a lot, but because you're oxygenating
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your body through controlled breathing, you are going to get
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the benefits of oxygen. Now, maybe not to the extreme
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that say a hyperbaric chamber might give you, which is
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really going a bit deeper, but it's something that you
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can do without paying anything. And hyperbaric chambers, I was
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looking those up and they can cost anywhere from three
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hundred to two thousand dollars per treatment, and then I
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don't even know how much buying your own personal hyperbaric
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chamber costs. I know Mel Gibson was on Oh Joe
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Rogan and they were talking about hyperbaric chambers and mel
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Gibson says, I got to get back in my chamber again.
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So we know he owns one, but not all of
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us can afford that. So if you want a more
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affordable way to increase oxygen and get some benefits, you
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might look into the intermittent hypoxic training. Greer Childers and
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her Body Flex method does use this type of breathing technique,
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which explains why it increases your energy and it helps
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burn fat. There are lots of people talking about how
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it helps with your stem cell production, which is a
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very cheap way to do that. There's conspiracy theoristying out
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there that nobody wants you to know this if you
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google it, it's going to come right up that it
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does help stimulate cell production, which is a really great
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way to do it for free. And considering that some
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people are pushing another cheap way of stem cell production,
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because we both know that if you go do that
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through the medical field, it's a lot of money and
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people will oftentimes leave the country to get a more
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affordable way to do this. People are encouraging people to
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drink their urine. They want you to put your urine
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aside for twenty one days and then drink it. And
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I'm thinking, Nope, not doing that one. But if all
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you have to do is just learn how to intermittent
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hypoxic breefe, then you can learn how to do it
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yourself and you don't have to worry about drinking your urine.
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So that being said, now, Greer Childer she built an
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entire exercise system around this idea, and her body flex
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system method focuses on the controlled breathing, oxygenation, and core engagement,
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so you're flexing and you're doing certain positions. I just
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started her new system. Coincidentally, she just came out with one.
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I downloaded it because it's a download online and there's like,
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I think, three different ways to download it. It's I
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believe it's twenty nine ninety nine. It's pretty simple. She
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has streamlined it and made it easier, so pretty much
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anybody can do it. I believe it's it's only three positions. Actually,
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because this is day three for me, I'm feeling pretty
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darn good. As a matter of fact, on day two,
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I was buzzing all over the house doing housework, and
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I just feel more sharper and focused. So this inspired
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me to do a podcast on oxygen because I just
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was being reminded of how fantastic I feel when I
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do her system. So movement does also play a role. Walking,
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especially outdoors, has a powerful effect. It naturally regulates breathing
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and improves your circulation, and it also increases oxygen efficiency. Now,
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when you want to go walking, it's better to walk
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among the green natural green plants and trees because obviously
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we know that exchange we make right from science class,
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where we breathe out the carbon dioxide the plants need
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and they return us with oxygen. So in return, we
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get the oxygen, but we also get the mental effect
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of green. It's actually been proven in experiments that they've
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done that people who are surrounded by the natural green
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of the outdoors actually it releases it relieves some of
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their stress. So there's so many benefits. We talk about
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the grounding where you just walk barefoot on the ground
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and you connect with the energy force and the earth
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which is actually there and the body is electrical. And
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then we have the benefits of the oxygen from being
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around trees and the green plants. And then we also
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have the psychological effect, the calming effect of being out
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among nature. So that being said, modern environments often work
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against oxygen. Indoor air can become stagnant. I remember Jordan
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Reuben years ago saying that at the time they had
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lived in Florida. He said, we live in Florida, but
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we somehow still find a way to open up all
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of our windows at least for an hour a day
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to air out our house. Because indoor air is very polluted,
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and you don't want to keep breathing out carbon dioxide
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fill your whole house up with it. Then you might wonder,
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why am I so dire today? How come I don't
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have any energy? And it could just be something as
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simple as getting fresh air. Indoor air again, it can
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be stagnant. It could be filled with chemicals and cleaning
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products and the furniture. You know from the chemicals that
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your furniture was treated, and even the paint on your walls.
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Simple changes can make a difference. So if you do
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open those windows for an hour a day and you
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let the fresh air in through your home, you are
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most likely going to fill a lot better and you
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may be surprised at the energy that you're going to get,
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and maybe even you'll breathe deeper. So bringing in plants
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also helps to filter toxins. Besides spending time outside and
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breathing air that hasn't been recycled, these small shifts restore
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something that used to be natural. Some of the plants
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that you can bring in that are going to help
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help with the air that are known to help our
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spider plants and snake plants, Alivera peace Lily's, Boston ferns,
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and one of my favorites, the Eureka palm. So just
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if you can't remember that and you want to bring
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some plants into your home to help clean out the air,
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and some people or not some people, actually it's been
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said it does help clean up mold to what degree,
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I don't know, but it will help with that as well.
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You can also look that up and see which one
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you want. I picked the Eureka palm because we have
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pets and I wanted something that was non toxic. So
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what's also working against us, of course, is pollution, a
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sedentary lifestyle, our artificial environments, and these things all quietly
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reduce our oxygen quality. So awareness helps us to make
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those necessary changes. Another thing that helps with oxygen production
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is something that is becoming more well known in the
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whole health social media buzz and that's methylene blue. Methylene
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blue has been explored for its ability to support mitochondrial function,
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helping cells produce energy more efficiently. It's not foundational, but
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it highlights something important. The goal is always improving how
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the body uses oxygen, and if you're interested in doing
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more research on that, I did do a podcast on
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methylene blue. Some of the additional benefits besides the oxygen assistance,
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is that it gives us mitochondrial support and it has
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antioxidant properties. It also supports your brain health and enhances
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wound healing. Now I talked earlier about the hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
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This is available. It takes oxygen and it amplifies it.
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Some of the benefits of the oxygen therapy via the
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hyperbaric chamber are accelerated healing and tissue repair, reduction of
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inflammation and pain, enhancing your cognitive function, improving circulation, supports detoxification,
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It boosts your immune system, It reduces fatigue and boosts
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your energy. It fights infections, it stimulates stem cell production,
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and it just enhances your overall well being. We're going
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to take one final break, and when we come back,
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we'll explore the healing power of oxygen, including real world
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recovery stories and how this all connects to longevity. We'll
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be right back. In the early nineteen hundreds, physicians began
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experimenting with pressurized oxygen environments. One of the most notable
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figures was doctor Orville Cunningham. He built a large chamber
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designed to deliver oxygen under pressure. Patients entered, and some
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experienced improvements and conditions that had not responded to other treatments.
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While early approaches were not refined, the idea was clear.
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Oxygen could reach deeper into the body under pressure. Today,
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hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used in more controlled ways. Patients
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enter a chamber and breathe pure ocationxygen at higher pressure.
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This allows oxygen to dissolve deeper into your tissues. Now,
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there have been documented cases of individuals with chronic wounds
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that would not heal beginning to recover. There are also
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accounts of people recovering from brain injuries experiencing improved clarity
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and function. One widely shared case involved a patient with
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long term neurological symptoms who underwent repeated hyperbaric sessions. Over time,
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their symptoms improved gradually, not instantly, but noticeably. It wasn't americal,
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it was oxygen. Doctor Axe has said this quote. Hyperbaric
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oxygen therapy enhances healing by increasing oxygen availability at the
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cellular level because healing requires oxygen. The immune system uses
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oxygen to fight infection, cells use oxygen to repair damage.
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When oxygen improves, healing improves. Coming back full circle, your lungs,
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your breath, your oxygen. These are not small details. They
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are foundational, and maybe the shift is this not adding more,
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not chasing more, but returning to what was already designed breath.
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There's something powerful about realizing that one of the most
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important things for your health is something you already have breath,
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and maybe the goal isn't to complicate things, but to
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return to what was designed to slow down, to breathe properly,
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to allow your body to function the way it was
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created to. Because when oxygen is working the way it should,
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energy improves, clarity improves, healing improves, and over time, so
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does life itself. If this episode helped you to see
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your health in a different way, make sure to follow
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the podcast and share it with someone who needs it. Also,
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you can find more information and links at Chasing Eden
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dot net. Until next time, stay grounded, stay healthy, and
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keep Chasing Eden.
