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Oxygen Therapy For Weight Loss?

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Oxygen or Ozone Therapies are used by a number of alternative
medicine practitioners around the world. It is more popular in
Europe than in the USA. Practitioners are also found in Canada
and Mexico. Despite being banned in some countries and certainly
debunked by large sections of the - conventional - medical
profession, there is plenty of evidence that oxygen therapy
produces health benefits for many conditions far cheaper, much
faster and without the side effects of patent drugs.


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Oxygen Therapy For Weight Loss?
Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Trevor Johnson
Diet Words
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The chemistry sounds very straightforward. Human body fat is a
combination of three elements - hydrogen, carbon and oxygen
molecules (plus other substances that are stored within the fat
cells).

Add extra oxygen to the body fat, and in theory it should break
down into two well known substances:

* Hydrogen & oxygen molecules (H2O - water, which enters the
blood stream, goes through the kidneys and is then excreted via
urination); &

* Carbon & oxygen molecules (CO2 - carbon dioxide, which is
excreted via respiration).

Oxygen or Ozone Therapies are used by a number of alternative
medicine practitioners around the world. It is more popular in
Europe than in the USA. Practitioners are also found in Canada
and Mexico.

Despite being banned in some countries and certainly debunked by
large sections of the "conventional" medical profession, there
is plenty of evidence that oxygen therapy produces health
benefits for many conditions far cheaper, much faster and without
the side effects of patent drugs.

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.

Given the straightforward chemical composition of body fat
discussed above, does Oxygen Therapy actually work for weight
loss? I decided to contact a number of practitioners in various
parts of the world and ask them if, when treating patients for
other ailments using oxygen therapies, weight loss was ever seen
as a side-effect of their treatment.

All the doctors who replied responded that no such weight loss
factor has ever been observed that they could credit to the
oxygen therapy itself, and not the condition they were treating.

It seems that empirical evidence to support the theory that
oxygen therapy could reduce body fat into the easily excreted H2O
and CO2 is lacking.

Still, not everyone is convinced. The chemistry appears fine on
paper, so something is missing in the implementation. Finding
that missing factor could be crucial in the battle of the bulge,
the quest for weight loss, and conquering obesity.

Books have been written promoting special breathing techniques
for weight loss. Although there are sceptics, 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.

Personally, I must admit to being impressed though not thoroughly
convinced. It is quite reasonable to assume that the people who
are disciplined enough to follow this breathing technique
diligently for several weeks or months are probably motivated
enough to also be doing other things (dietary, psychologically,
etc.) that will be causing the weight loss.

Still, 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 sceptics 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.




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Trevor Johnson is a Masters qualified researcher cum electronic
publisher with over twenty years personal experience in the
battle against obesity. Objective information and the pros and
cons of many types of weight loss therapies is found at his
"Weight Loss, Dieting & Obesity" site: http://www.DietWords.com


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