I recently learned that people who stand in the observation area of Niagra Falls experience euphoria. Those who ride the Maid of the Mist behind the falls experience an even greater sense of euporia.

There's a reason and of course, it's all about oxygen. Each droplet of water is as oxygenated as water can get -- naturally. Breathing these oxygen-enriched droplets gives a boost to the brain as the water droplets transfer the supplemental oxygen to the body's bloodstream.

This morning I board a plane to attend a cousin's surprise 60th b'day. While on that plane, my body will have to work a little harder to attain its optimal oxygenated state. Here's why:

Planes have had to be built with as little extra weight as possible. As aerodynamics and the design of planes has evolved, the "skin" of the plane has become thinner and thinner.

Air pressure inside the plane has become lower and lower, in order to maintain the integrity of the skin.

While oxygen levels in the air of the plane has been maintained, and with the lower pressure, your respiratory/circulatory systems must work a bit harder to deliver life-giving oxygen to each and every cell.

Can you say jet lag?

all-encompassing

Friends,

You’d be surprised at how often, in medical and scientific textbooks, the word oxygen isn’t in the index. That's odd, you may think, but the omission is indicative of the dearth of scientific study of the role of oxygen.

When articles appear about results from clinical trials or studies, in almost every instance, the what is reported but the why still remains a mystery.

We have found the why. Oxygen’s role in sickness and in health is the why.

In the wonderful book by Sherwin B. Nuland called How We Die, Dr. Milton Helpern, who was for twenty years the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City is quoted:

Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a breakdown in the body’s oxygen cycle.

Nuland, himself a surgeon and teacher of medicine, goes on to say, “Simplistic though it may sound to a sophisticated biochemist, this pronouncement (above) is all-encompassing. If one were to name the universal factor in all death, whether cellular or planetary, it would certainly be loss of oxygen.”

Of course, varying degrees of “death” are happening to all of us all the time. Health is simply the result of controlling those degrees.

There are thousands of references that support and explain the relationship between oxygen and physiology. No one else, that I am aware of, has this body of information at hand. I have studied oxygen/water since 1985 and related biochemistry since 2000.

All-encompassing. The Big Pitcher is just the tip of the iceberg. Three years in SkyMall Magazine has raised awareness of the concept of oxygenated water but there is enormous work to be done. The market is limitless.

We are the cutting edge. Help us. Join us. Let’s change the world together.

Cheers and wellwishes,

Teri

© Teri Mathis 2010