Oxygen depletion

"The mechanical work of the lungs is increased during exercise. At rest, about 3% of your total energy demands go for respiration. However, at a heavy exercise level, the total amount of energy going for breathing can exceed 30%.

As exercise continues, there is a steady increase in respiration. Eventually a steady-state for respiration is reached. When stops exercise, the respiration rate does not immediately decrease to resting levels. Respiration follows an exponential decrease to resting levels. The phase at the beginning of exercise where respiration does not match the workload is called oxygen deficit. Think of the federal government's budget defict where we are spending more money than we can provide. The recovery of respiration from exercise is called oxygen debt whereby the body pays for the exercise by keeping respiration levels high to metabolize by-products of exercise such as lactic acid."

Many athletes like to train at high altitudes because their bodies have to work harder to absorb the oxygen; their body experiences oxygen deficiency.

However, lack of oxygen and increased production of toxins may lead them to depression or anxiety. To preserve and maintain health, they need to recover the oxygen depleted during such rigorous training. Therefore, even if training in altitude is beneficent for them for a while, this sort of training should not be maintained for long stretches of time.

Dr. Albert Wahl said: "Simply put, disease is due to a deficiency in the oxidation process of the body, leading to an accumulation of toxins. These toxins would ordinarily be burned in normal metabolic functioning."

Dr. Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., author "The Textbook on Medical Physiology" "All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused by a lack of oxygen at the cell level."

Oxygen intake is so important, an Asian doctor had the idea of the invention of a machine that stimulates the spine like goldfish when they swim in water. This way, the sympathetic nerve would be stimulated and the bronchus expanded to increase the volume of oxygen intake. The way to reach this goal would be to vacillate or to move feet right left.

This revolutionary method of respirating exercise resulted in the invention of the Chi Machine by Dr. Shizuo Inoue:

"One time, I was on a train station platform, I saw a old gentleman fall to the ground. At the time, his face was pale, his breathing was weak and interrupted, in other words, he was at the brink of death. Immediately, I performed the oxygen-efficient aerobic exercise (lifting and moving his feet left and right repetitively) on him for about twenty to thirty minutes. The result was that he blew out a big breath. His face was turning red, and I was certain then that he came back to life. A moment later, he thanked me profusely with tears in his eyes. I had two experiences like this. In both incidents, they all came back to life in a very short time." Extract of the Preface: Health and Oxygen Efficient Aerobic Exercise by Dr. Shizuo Inoue.

Maybe here is an idea for a new form of aerobics exercise!

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