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What O2 does for you: are you oxygen deficient?

Being that it’s the third most abundant element in the entire universe, it might not surprise you to learn that humble, old oxygen is the most abundant element in the human body (which makes even more sense when you factor in that, despite all the chemicals in the Earth’s atmosphere, 20 percent of it up there’s made of oxygen1). In actual fact, a whopping 65 percent of our body mass is accounted for by oxygen2 – and, yes, that really does have everything to do with the fact it’s everywhere and all around us, so we’re breathing it in each and every second of our lives. Again, little surprise then that this odourless, colourless gas3 is so critically important for basic and healthy function in the human body. But just why and how? And, despite its abundance, are all of us actually getting enough oxygen?

 

What are the benefits of oxygen?

Oxygen is primarily necessary to enable the crucial process that’s known as cellular respiration – the breaking down of food in the body to provide its cells with energy so the body itself can properly function4, 5. In this process, oxygen’s called on to break down sugar in order to transform it into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), ensuring then it’s in a form absorbable by cells6; resulting in the by-products that are water and carbon dioxide (the latter, which is toxic, is removed from the body via respiration, of course).

Quite clearly then, the body requires an ever-ready supply of oxygen to function at all effectively – without it, a plethora of health issues will inevitably arise8. And yet, one study has discovered that laboratory mice, thanks to receiving supplemental oxygen, enjoyed increased T-cell counts, immune function and twice the lifetime of mice allowed normal oxygen levels7. So, could all of us do with receiving more oxygen? Well, exactly how much each of us needs (everyone clearly needs a lot, but some more than others) depends on things like general health, how active you are and how hydrated you are8. If you’re not doing well in those areas – yes, you probably could do with more oxygen in your body.

 

What are if you don’t get enough oxygen?

Quite clearly, it’s bad for your health. We’re not talking oxygen deprivation here per se; more oxygen deficiency. You can experience the latter over many months and years, with pollution and questionable indoor air quality often serving as culprits, as well as the very gradual decline of oxygen in the atmosphere9. And, like it or not, some experts have linked oxygen deficiency to tumour growth10, 11.

 

Oxygen supplements

So, how does one actually boost their oxygen intake? By breathing more? Well, no. One genuinely effective way is through naturally-derived supplementation. For instance, at The Finchley Clinic we’re presently finding two of our highly reputed oxygen products (Oxygen Elements Max and OxyLift; which, yes, essentially provide similar benefits) very popular. So much so, we’ve decided to make them both available on special offer – together. Why? Because a number of our customers find that one works for them better than the other; but many definitely find one of them of great benefit for their overall health. So why not take a look at them both – and try them out for yourself…?

Oxygen Elements Max – may help with the following issues: candida overgrowth, fatigue problems, joint issues (in conjunction with Silica Plus), poor immunity, respiratory problems and boosting athletic performance.

OxyLift – a synergistic blend of powerful nutritional supplements that provide oxygen, hydrogen, structured water, etheric respiration energies, major and trace minerals, enzymes and amino acids.

 

References:

  1. University of Florida. ‘Liquid Oxygen’. Environmental Health & Safety. University of Florida.
  2. Shyamala I. ‘Building Blocks of Life’. ASU – Ask A Biologist. Sep 2009.
  3. org. ‘Oxygen – Element Information, Properties and Uses | Periodic Table’. Royal Society of Chemistry.
  4. Alberts B., Johnson A., Lewis J. et al. ‘How Cells Obtain Energy from Food’. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 4th edition. New York: Garland Science; 2002.
  5. phy. ‘Cellular Respiration’. Hyperphysics.
  6. Encyclopædia Britannica. ‘Adenosine Triphosphate’. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.; 2016.
  7. Hatfield S. M. et al. ‘Immunological mechanisms of the antitumor effects of supplemental oxygenation’. Science Translational Medicine. Vol. 7; Mar 2015; p. 277ra30. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa1260.
  8. nih. ‘What Is Oxygen Therapy?’. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Feb 2012.
  9. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ‘Scripps O2 Program | Atmospheric Oxygen Research’. Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
  10. ‘An Introduction to Indoor Air Quality’. United States Environmental Protection Agency.
  11. University of Colorado Denver. ‘Lack of oxygen in cancer cells leads to growth and metastasis’. ScienceDaily; Sep 2012.
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Healthy skin’s the thing: how ozonated olive oil is so good for your skin

If you’ve never come across ozonated olive oil, the combination of ozone and olive oil may sound like something of an odd combination; they’re strange bedfellows, surely?

Indeed, olive oil tastes terrific and offers many particularly nutritious properties, while although ozone tends to trigger fear and dread in many people’s minds (owing to the inevitable thought of the depletion of the all-important ozone layer in the Earth’s atmosphere), it obviously plays a critical role up there between terra firma and space.

In fact, ozone (a pungent blue gas in its most natural form) is crucial because of its air-cleansing capabilities and, although toxic when inhaled, it can be treated and combined with olive oil to forms half of a hugely therapeutic product – not least for the surface of the skin.

 

Ozonated olive oil – what is it?

As so often happens with scientific breakthroughs, ozonated olive oil was discovered quite by accident. Back in the early 1900s, tuberculosis was often treated by having sufferers breathe in ozone through olive oil. Once this concoction was found to be more effective as a salve treatment for the skin (and so on; see below), the ozone-containing oil was transformed into a gel, ensuring the ozone could be held and prevented from escaping for longer.

Indeed, in this form, ozonated olive oil really began to become popular after the legendary engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla first marketed it in 1904, which led to pharmacies throughout the world selling it as ‘Glycozone’. Popular in Europe, especially, for many decades, its use for treating a wide variety of ailments is now growing throughout the United States, which has ensured further research into what ozonated olive oil is capable of has ramped up like never before.

 

How is it manufactured?

Ozonated olive oil is produced via cold-pressing virgin olive oil through a process called ‘ozone injection’. This sees ozone bubbled into the olive oil – actually, for several months to thoroughly complete the process. And that’s a moot point because, while lesser companies tend to rely on low-quality ozone (a corona generator) to create the product, potentially resulting in contamination of the oil, highly respected manufacturers of ozonated olive oil instead opt for the best possible quality (a cold plasma generator); so, obviously, buying only well-reviewed products from reliable manufacturers is definitely the way to go.

 

Ozonated olive oil benefits

Of all the ailments that ozonated olive oil is popular for treating, skin problems and conditions are usually top of the list. Used as a topical treatment then, it can be applied directly to the skin as would be a salve or cream; its advantages being its capacity, thanks to its antibacterial and antioxidant properties, to sterilise and clean wounds, cuts and bites and stimulate cell regeneration:

  • Candida and thrush – candida is a form of infecting-yeast that can cause much irritation in the body, not least vaginitis in pregnant women or those who commonly take antibiotics, and the same yeast is responsible for the mostly-female-afflicting condition that’s thrush; candida and (especially) thrush then can be treated by swabbing an affected area with a cloth daubed in ozonated olive oil to reduce symptoms and infection

 

  • Burns, cuts, bites and wounds – a big treatment focus for ozonated olive oil are minor burns, lesions, bites and the such like (including insect bites and chapped lips); indeed, many people use ozonated olive oil products for this alone and why not, especially when recent research has found that guinea pigs treated with it to recover from wounds showed significant success over those treated with products containing totally unrelated ingredients1

 

  • Athlete’s foot – sufferers of Athlete’s foot or nail fungi may want to soak they feet in water for about 10 minutes, dry them thoroughly and then apply ozonated olive oil to the affected areas; this process ought to be repeated a few times each week for a three-week-period (indeed, beyond when affected areas show signs of improvement)

 

  • Acne and eczema – as it’s excellent for increasing the rate of healing and, thus, reducing inflammation and easing irritation, ozonated olive oil’s ideal for applying as a topical massage product to the skin, its natural antioxidant properties ensuring it combats toxins and lactic acid emanating from pores to cleanse the skin’s surface, while its antibacterial capabilities ensure it can treat acne, eczema and psoriasis effectively

 

  • Diaper rash – finally, ozonated olive oil’s also great for treating diaper rash on babies’ skin; as it contains no potentially harmful chemicals that a baby may encounter (and be allergic to) via other skin treatments, thus it’s an entirely naturally-derived treatment to ease discomfort and swelling.

 

Ozonated olive oil supplements

As made clear, ozonated olive oil is today readily available and very popular, yet it’s important to seek it out in its best possible versions. To wit, we urge you to check out the following – fully naturally-derived – products available through us at The Finchley Clinic:

O2-Zap – contains the highest saturation of ozone and oxygen ever developed; for best results, use the supplement on alternate days (or as needed) to moisturise, condition and re-oxygenate the skin’s tissue and promote its natural beauty and health.

Medcare (Ozonated Olive Oil) – can be used practically anywhere on the body (except the eyes) for symptomatic relief of acne, bites, fungal infections, haemorrhoids, impetigo, psoriasis, ringworm, skin yeast, stings and vulvovaginitis.

 

Reference:

  1. H.-S. Kim. ‘Therapeutic Effects of Topical Application of Ozone on Acute Cutaneous Wound Healing’. J Korean Med Sci. 2009 Jun; 24 (3): 368–374. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2009.24.3.368.
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The big O: a lowdown on oxygen – and why you might try oxygen cleansing

Don’t doubt it; oxygen is an absolutely critical substance for humans. The odourless, colourless gas that accounts for a fifth of the air all around us (and is the third most abundant in space beyond the Earth), it’s absolutely critical to our wellbeing, given that, along with hydrogen it makes up water – the basis for all life – and is the single most common chemical element in the human body; accounting for a whopping 65% of the body’s overall mass3. To that end then, its functions and benefits in the body are many and plentiful – and what can go wrong when the body’s deprived of it are serious, indeed.

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The importance of oxygen to the body

Oxygen. We all know what it is, right? One of the first elements on the periodic table and represented there by the letter ‘O’. The one-part to hydrogen’s two that, together, make up water. And, maybe most important to us and all living things on this planet, the air-bound, colourless, odourless gas that we breathe in and without which we can’t survive. But why is that? Why can’t we live without oxygen? Just why is it so important to us? And what happens – and what can we do – when we don’t get enough of it?

Aerobic and cellular respiration

As many are aware, via the act of breathing (respiration) the body takes in oxygen and releases waste gas from its lungs, namely carbon dioxide. This is what’s specifically referred to as aerobic respiration; that’s to say, it refers specifically to the breathing in and consumption of oxygen to help create energy in the body to feed our cells. How does this happen? Well, as the air you’ve breathed in reaches your lungs, it makes its way into their microscopic air sacs (alveoli) and, from there, the oxygen slips through their shallow walls and passes into the bloodstream1, through which it’s transported to the body’s millions of different cells where it plays its critical role in the process of converting vitamins and nutrients into energy (referred to as cellular respiration)2,3. And it’s from this process that, along with water, the body creates CO2 as a by-product.

Oxygen health and deprivation

Now, obviously, the higher the oxygen content in the body, the higher the rate of activity its cells can perform at. So when the body takes in more oxygen, the more hydrated it becomes and the better it can function. And, naturally, the healthier it is too4. For instance, using a study conducted on laboratory mice as an example, a group of these mice were proved, by receiving supplemental oxygen, to have developed better immune function, a higher count of T cells (a type of white blood cells that play an important role in immunity) and actually lived around twice as long as a comparative group that had received normal levels of oxygen5.

So much for high levels of oxygen intake, but what if you’re not getting adequate oxygen in the first place? Well, under that scenario, suffering health problems are pretty much guaranteed6. In fact, maybe one of the unexpected truths of oxygen deprivation is it doesn’t just occur suddenly (in the manner of choking or drowning), but can also occur over the long-term; say, months or even years. How so? A common cause is that levels of poor quality indoor air7 and outside air pollution (carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and ground-level ozone) are ever rising8.

Oxygen cleansing

Finally, you may not know it, but there’s another – far less well known – way oxygen can do your body a lot of good. That is, helping to cleanse your body of impurities, not least those present in the colon. These impurities get into our bodies via the water and fluids we drink, the foods we eat and often too the different environments we live in – so, yes, via the air we breathe. But the inherent goodness of oxygen (its natural health-supporting and cleansing abilities) does a terrific job in combining with our bodies’ in-built self-healing mechanisms, ensuring impurities, blockages and the like can be removed.

oxy-powder-capsules

Indeed, a product formulated with soothing oxygen that’s achieved great results for people by gently cleansing and detoxifying their digestive tracts is Oxy-Powder (120 capsules). It’s one of the major oxygen cleansing products on the market and is available through The Finchley Clinic – and needless to say, we highly recommend it. Other colon-cleansing products we sell that leverage the power of oxygen include both Mag 07 Oxygen Colon Cleanse (a fast-acting, vegan-friendly digestive-system-cleanser and supplement that’s designed to release oxygen over a 12-hour period; available in 180 capsules, 120 capsules, 90 capsules and as a powder) and Colosan powder (a magnesium based colon-cleansing product that oxygenates the bowels at the same time).

References:

1 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. ‘What Happens When You Breathe?’ U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 17 July 2012. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.

2 Alberts B., Johnson A., Lewis J. et al. ‘How Cells Obtain Energy from Food’. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 4th edition. New York: Garland Science; 2002.

3 Hyperphysics. phy. ‘Cellular Respiration’. Hyperphysics, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.

4 Nhlbi. nih. ‘What Is Oxygen Therapy?’ National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 24 Feb. 2012. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.

5 Hatfield S. M. et al. ‘Immunological mechanisms of the antitumor effects of supplemental oxygenation’. Science Translational Medicine.­­­ Vol. 7, March 4, 2015, p. 277 ra30. doi: 10.1126/ scitranslmed. aaa1260.

6 LaValle, J. B., and Lundin, S. Yale. ‘Cracking the Metabolic Code: 9 Keys to Optimal Health’. North Bergen, NJ: Basic Health Publications, 2004.

7 Environmental Protection Agency. ‘Factors Affecting Indoor Air Quality’. (n.d.): 5-12. EPA.gov. Environmental Protection Agency, Aug. 2014. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.

8 AirNow. ‘Air Quality Index (AQI) Basics’. AirNow.gov, 28 Jan. 2016. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.