Ask A Cancer Survivor

Are You Getting Enough Oxygen

Several years ago I was taken to the hospital with horrific stomach pain.
Within an hour of arriving at the hospital, I was in the operating room having
my gall bladder taken out. That is no longer a major surgical procedure inasmuch
as it is done with just a couple if small incisions. Normally you go home the
next day. I was there for 9 days.

The problem was they couldn’t get my oxygen up to a safe level. When I left the
hospital I didn’t give much thought about having to breathe with oxygen tubes in
my nose while I was in the hospital. I thought it was a minor and temporary
condition.

A few years later I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Again, the hospital had
to keep me hooked up to oxygen through out my treatment. When I returned home
after 32 consecutive days in the hospital my surgical wounds would not heal. I
had the Visiting Nurses coming to my house twice a day for about a year. The
nurse tested my oxygen level and expressed concern.

I discovered that an insufficient level of oxygen in the blood is called
hypoxia. It prevents the blood from being adequately oxygenated. If the
condition worsens to the total absence of oxygen it is called anoxia. This
condition is serious; it kills healthy cels and can cause death. You don’t have
to have a medical degree to know that without oxygen, you die. Try seeing how
long you can hold your breath.

I could not understand why my oxygen level kept dropping down. I mean I was
breathing and air contains oxygen. I was drinking water (H20). That’s one part
oxygen isn’t it? So I did some research. The air we breathe today has far more
pollutants than the air people breathed before the birth of the industrial
revolution. The water we drink is not as pure as the water our ancestors drank.

Ed McCabe, author of “Flood Your Body with Oxygen” brings this into clear focus,
“By breathing, eating, and living, we are constantly taking unnatural non-food
substances into our bodies. We can’t help it! Preservatives, colorings,
flavorings, hydrogenated oils, artificial chemicals, smog, etc., day-in and
day-out, over and over, pile up inside our cells and body fluids. Because of
this piling up of toxic waste within us, we prematurely age, and become fertile
breeding grounds for bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi and every manner of
disease-causing microorganism, which unnecessarily causes us to age, suffer, and
die, way too early.”

I discovered, from my personal experience and from my research that we may not
be getting enough oxygen. I also discovered that oxygen is a nutrient. I
discovered that my oxygen deficiency was a factor in my cancer.

Here are some of the things my research revealed:

The planet’s quality of oxygen is declining. Researchers have documented that
the oxygen in today’s environment is as much as one-third less than in ancient
times.

Dr. W. Spencer Way writes in the Journal of the American Association of
Physicians, Insufficient oxygen means insufficient biological energy that can
result in anything from mild fatigue to life-threatening disease.

Dr. Otto Warburg, recipient of two Nobel prizes in Medicine, referred to oxygen
as A vital cell detoxifier, and pointed to oxygen deficiency as the underlying
cause of degenerative diseases, and ultimately the death of the cell.

Thankfully the world’s population is becoming aware of the health hazards we are
breathing. We are making progress with alternative energy, hybrid cars, and
fewer chemicals in many of the products we consume. We need to do our part in
protecting the environment.

Equally importantly, we need to be conscious of our own oxygen level. Talk with
you health care provider and be certain you are getting you sufficient supply of
vitamins, minerals and nutrients including oxygen. Remember, Oxygen is a
nutrient.