Oxygen Deficiency: New American Epidemic

August 22, 2024 by Robert

There are many reasons to consider an oxygen supplement like OxygenSuperCharger™. One is when you have concerns about the amount of oxygen you may be deficient. Oxygen deficiency is a chronic and epidemic problem in America and worldwide. Decreased air quality and oxygen content in cities and industrial areas. For instance, a report by the American Lung Association states that Forty percent of Americans are still affected by dangerous pollution levels.

Unhealthy air remains a threat to the lives and health of millions of people in the United States, despite great progress. Air pollution lingers as a widespread and dangerous reality even as some seek to weaken the Clean Air Act, the public health law that has driven the cuts in pollution since 1970. The State of the Air 2011 Report by the American Lung Association shows that air quality in many places in the US has improved but that over 154 million Americans, just over one half of the nation, still suffer pollution levels that are often dangerous to breathe.

Overall findings:
Roughly half the people (50.3%) in the United States live in counties that have unhealthful levels of either ozone or particle pollution. Almost 154.5 million Americans live in the 366 counties where they are exposed to unhealthful levels of air pollution in the form of either ozone or short-term or year-round levels of particles.

— CityMayors.com

This lowering of air quality has a direct impact on the amount of oxygen we have to breathe.

Indoor Air Quality

Even small changes in available oxygen have a “double jeopardy” effect. Why? Because reduced oxygen has to be replaced by other gases. Here is an explanation from a building inspector who did a home oxygen test.

I discovered that the ambient oxygen level had been reduced from 20.9% down to a startling 19.3%. This is 1.6% lower than the oxygen level found in outdoor air.

This drop may not sound like much to most people, but keep in mind that in order for oxygen levels to go down, nitrogen, the other key ingredient in our air, also goes down at the same rate. Being that there is an approximate 4 to 1 ratio of nitrogen to oxygen, if the oxygen drops by 1.6%, then the nitrogen would have to drop by 6.4%, leaving a total drop of 8% for both gasses. The missing 8% must then be replaced with other gasses in the air. In essence, it would take approximately 80,000 PPM of other unhealthy gasses to cause an oxygen level drop of just 1.6%. This is double jeopardy: not only is something essential to healthy indoor air taken away, but something very bad replaces it.

We are supposed to breathe 20.9% oxygen in our air in order to be healthy… In an average home environment the oxygen levels will commonly be between 0.5% and 1.0% lower than the outdoor air, even without having a gas range in the kitchen.

— IndoorAir.com

“It is my conviction that depleted oxygen in homes is one of the most serious indoor air quality issues today, yet it gets no press coverage.”

~Dan Schilling
Building and IAQ Inspector

The point here is that even small decreases in oxygen result from increasing the harmful gases. In turn, less available oxygen in the air lowers the oxygen to your cells. Red blood cells, your oxygen transportation system, have a ten times higher attraction to toxins like carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. They do this to get these toxins out of you through exhaling. But when the red blood cells have toxins in them, they have less room for oxygen. And so, your oxygen level decreases even further.

Free Ways to Increase Your Oxygen Levels and Decrease Oxygen Deficiency

You can help improve your air oxygen levels and decrease oxygen deficiency by simple lifestyle changes like keeping live plants in your house and opening the doors and windows for at least 5 minutes a day. Foods that are processed have lower oxygen so eat as many fresh foods as possible. And if you can’t do this consistently, then considering a non-toxic, neutral pH oxygen supplement like OxygenSuperCharger™ may be in order.