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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 © 2004-2008 Trevor

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 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