April 13, 2026

You’re Breathing Wrong… And It’s Destroying Your Health

You’re Breathing Wrong… And It’s Destroying Your Health

Most people never think about how they breathe—but what if the way you're breathing is quietly affecting your energy, your healing, and even how long you live? In this episode of Chasing Eden, we explore the powerful role oxygen plays inside the body and why modern life may be working against it.From the discovery of oxygen in the 1700s to cutting-edge therapies like hyperbaric oxygen chambers, this episode breaks down how oxygen fuels your cells, supports healing, and impacts brain function. We also explore the Bohr Effect, the connection between carbon dioxide and oxygen delivery, and why lung capacity is now being linked to longevity.You’ll learn how to test your own oxygen efficiency, recognize the subtle symptoms of low oxygen, and improve your breathing through simple, natural changes—like nasal breathing, movement, fresh air, and environmental adjustments. If you’ve been feeling tired, foggy, or off… this episode may change the way you think about your health.oxygen therapy benefits hyperbaric oxygen therapy how to increase oxygen levels breathwork benefits Bohr effect explained lung capacity longevity oxygen and healing natural health oxygen oxygen and energy levels how to breathe properly nasal breathing benefits oxygen deficiency symptoms methylene blue benefits hyperbaric chamber healing holistic health oxygen See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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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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dot net. Until next time, stay grounded, stay healthy, and

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