my favorite of Dr. Hendler's books
The Oxygen Breakthrough,
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780688081133

Sheldon Saul Hendler, MD.
A much researched, simply understood collection of helpful and interesting facts and anecdotes about oxygen.


How Breathing Can Kill You
By Christopher Caile

Everyone knows that an adequate oxygen supply is critical to health. Of all the elements the body needs, only oxygen is in such constant and critical demand that if breath is cut off, in a few minutes one dies.

Few realized, however, that improper breathing, over time, could have dire consequences, leading to disease, ill health and even premature death.

Proper breathing isn’t easy. It takes a lot more than just filling the lungs with air. Oxygen must be transported to the cells by the circulatory system and absorbed by body cells. The efficiency of this process varies greatly and is influenced by many factors, including what we eat and drink, exercise and, even posture.

If our cellular oxygen supply is impaired, the energy used to fire our biological functions is reduced. Sheldon Saul Hendler, MD, PhD, notes in his book, “The Oxygen Breakthrough,” that an “emerging spectrum of disorders characterized by impaired immunity, and are at a still deeper level by disabled energy-making mechanisms in the cells.” Disorders include infectious diseases, auto-immune disorders, AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety, depression, respiratory aliments, cardiac symptoms, and susceptibility to aches, pains and irritability.

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=545


What The Experts Say On The Importance Of Oxygen

"Deep breathing techniques which increase oxygen to the cell are the most important factors in living a disease free and energetic life... Remember. Where cells get enough oxygen, cancer will not, cannot occur." --Dr. Otto Warburg, President, Institute of Cell Physiology, Nobel Prize Winner (Dr. Warburg is the only person to ever win the Nobel Prize twice in medicine and he was nominated for a third.)

"Breathing correctly is the key to better fitness, muscle strength, stamina, and athletic endurance." --Dr. Michael Yessis, Phd., President Sports Training Institute, Fitness Writer - Muscle and Fitness Magazine

"Oxygenation through deep breathing boosts the immune system and can rid the body of chronic illnesses." --Dr. Sheldon Hendler, MD, Medical Researcher Cell Oxygenation, Author "The Oxygen Breakthrough"

"All body functions are breathing related. Proper oxygen delivery to all parts of your body is crucial to health and well-being. Aerobic exercise increases the body?s available oxygen and therefore promotes wellness. Delivering oxygen to the body is the responsibility of the respiratory system. Breathing is the process by which air enters the bloodstream, via the lungs. Thus, proper breathing, and correcting common breathing disorders, is the ultimate form of aerobics." --Dr. Robert Fried, Breath Connection, Insight Books, 1990, p. 52

"Oxygen tension in tissues enhances the action of some antibiotics, notably amino-glycosides, and the immune system, and stimulates cellular metabolism." --Linda Collison, Hyperbarics: when pressuring patients helps, Health Index

"Deep diaphragmatic breathing stimulates the cleansing of the lymph system by creating a vacuum effect which pulls the lymph through the bloodstream. This increases the rate of toxic elimination by as much as 15 times the normal rate." --Dr. J.W. Shields, MD, Lymph, lymph glands, and homeostasis. Lymphology, v25, n4, Dec. 1992, p. 147

"Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases." --Stephen Levine, a respected molecular biologist and geneticist, and Dr. Paris M. Kidd, Ph.D., Antioxidant Adaptation

"Carbon dioxide is the most abundant of all the end-products of metabolism." --Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., Textbook of Medical Physiology, W.B. Saunders Company, p. 4

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