Re: Toxins
How would lack of sufficient oxygen contribute to the likelihood of contracting diseases??
It does not play as much of a role as people make it out to be. For instance, we hear all the time that lack of oxygen causes cancer. This is based on a misquote of Otto Warburg. People claim he said that lack of oxygen causes cells to go cancerous because the cancer cells are anaerobic. And I have heard people take this even further by claiming that Warburg claimed that a lack of oxygen causes all diseases. Problem is that this is not what Warburg said. What Warburg said was that cancer cells will ferment REGARDLESS of whether oxygen is present. And he never applied this to other diseases. So sales sites took liberty and changed what Warburg really said to help boost sales of their products. And this misquote has been repeated over and over and has even grown because nobody bothers to check if the claims of sales sites are true or if they are tweaking their information to fit their needs.
If lack of oxygen caused cancer and other diseases then why don't we see epidemics of these problems in COPD patients and cystic fibrosis patients that are chronically oxygen deficient? Or even extremely obese people who are often oxygen deficient?
Decreased oxygen can impair the function of cells, but the body is just going to give priority to the parts of the body that are most required to maintain life. So the brain and heart would get priority, then parts of the immune system. Less critical areas such as the extremities and skin will see a reduced oxygen supply.