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Article: The most essential nutrient: are you getting enough? Dr. Sharon Willingham reminds us of the body's important and often forgotten about necessity ... oxygen.(new life journal's wellness update)
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- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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No vitamin C? Scurvy in three months. No vitamin D? Osteoporosis in three decades. No oxygen? Death or brain damage in three to ten minutes. Sounds like oxygen's the winner for the body's most essential nutrient.
Nutrients like vitamins C and D are easily supplied to the body through specific foods and/or in supplement form. How, though, can you increase the availability of oxygen?
Breathe more oxygen, right? It's not that easy. Room air contains enough oxygen (at a 21-percent concentration) to fill most of the oxygen-binding sites inside our red blood cells. Breathing even 100 percent oxygen only fills the few remaining sites, and it increases the ...