Oxygen Therapy

Oxygen is a gas that you need for the cells in your body to work properly. The air we breathe normally has 21% oxygen. A maximum of 100% oxygen can be given.

Oxygen therapy is usually administered in one of two ways: A facial mask attached to an oxygen tank, so that the patient breaths in oxygen for many hours of the day; or daily sessions of diluted hydrogen peroxide administered via an intravenous drip.

Books have been written promoting special breathing techniques for weight loss. Although there are skeptics, there are also many people around the world who swear by the success they have achieved in losing weight via these breathing techniques. The theory behind these breathing techniques is not merely due to the intake of the oxygen, but that the human body's metabolic process expels waste matter, including carbon dioxide, when we breath out. Our air intake is higher in oxygen than what we expire, and we breath out more carbon dioxide than we breath in.

The breathing technique therefore seeks to encourage and maximize the expulsion of carbon dioxide from our bodies - carbon dioxide that is the waste matter created when the oxygen dissolves body fat.

It fits the basic (unproven) theory that adding oxygen to body fat should result in weight loss. Furthermore, it is harmless, so long as adequate dietary intake of antioxidant vitamins and minerals are being consumed. Whether the actual results are from the technique itself or of a more psychosomatic nature is immaterial if it works, is free and available to all, and has no adverse side effects.

By all means, add these deep breathing exercises to your overall toolbox of synergistic weight loss treatments. Still, there is one more form of oxygen therapy (not usually recognized as such) that even the skeptics would have trouble disputing.

It is more commonly called exercise, more accurately, aerobic exercise. (Aerobic simply means "air breathing".) It is exercise that makes you huff and puff, deepening your breathing. It is and always has been one of the most fundamental parts of any successful weight loss program.