Free Ways to Correct Oxygen Deficiency: Part 5

April 6, 2012 by Robert

You can correct common oxygen deficiency by creating habits in your daily life that will increase your body’s oxygen – naturally. We have created a complimentary video to this post which further explains “Free Ways To Increase Your Oxygen Level.”

Oxygen is the world’s most basic fuel! Most people who have common oxygen deficiency (as contrasted to low oxygen because of a medical condition) because of several factors, which include:

Eating cooked food,
Not breathing from the diaphragm,
Eating animal products and processed food,
Living a sedentary lifestyle,
Living in houses full of stagnant, oxygen-depleted air,
Living in cities full of stale oxygen-depleted air.

In this six-part series, we look at each in more detail. Today’s topic is oxygen and stagnant air in your house.

Free Ways to Correct Oxygen Deficiency, Part 5: Stagnant Air in Your Home

Oxygen is primary for all aspects of the health of our body and mind. Here are just a few of oxygen’s many miraculous accomplishments for you.

Using clotheslines to freshen clothes naturally, just like opening the doors and windows of your home, freshens stagnant indoor air.

Oxygen purifies your blood streams so harmful waste can be effectively oxidized and flushed out of our system. In other words, it detoxifies and cleanses your body, as laundry hung on an outdoor clothes dryer in the sun to “air out.”

When your body has extra oxygen, it will help encourage quicker recovery times from strenuous exercise, injury, and even stress. Our energy level dramatically increases when our system has a total oxygen supply. With enough available oxygen, we feel calmer, can think more clearly, find our ability to concentrate is greater, and generally feel more alert.

Oxygen Deficiency in Indoor Air Quality

One common contributing factor to common oxygen deficiency is our homes’ stagnant, over-used air. Our modern homes can be highly insulated and have energy-efficient windows and doors to keep out the elements. Locking out of the outside heat and cold also stops the fresh air flow from cleansing your home.

Additionally, live a predominantly sedentary lifestyle. You probably do not go in and out of the house very often—just opening the doors to exit and enter lets fresh air in.

So what do you do? Well, two things are simple and can have excellent effects on reversing stagnant air in your home.

Open an outside door or window (or a few of them) for 5 minutes daily.
Grow indoor plants.

Opening doors and windows for 5 minutes may cost a little bit in terms of having to re-cool or reheat the air, but because this is not enough time to rob the heat/cool from your furniture, walls, floors, and furnishings, the cost to reheat only the air is minimal. Just choose a time during the day with the mildest temperature, and the little bit of energy cost will pay for itself all day long in feeding your body fresh oxygen.

Plants are excellent air cleaners. Plants “breath in” carbon dioxide, the waste gas we breathe out with every breath we take. Our bodies need to remove this waste gas often because when we have too much room in our red blood cells, there is little room left for them to transport oxygen. Plants are just the opposite, as they need carbon dioxide to live. Plants “exhale” oxygen. We have a natural and necessary symbiotic relationship with plants.

A NASA Study House Plants Clean Air found these to be the top 10 plants most effective in removing: Formaldehyde, Benzene, and Carbon Monoxide from the air.

Free Oxygen from Plants

Plants that help sick-building syndrome.

Bamboo Palm – Chamaedorea Seifritzii
Chinese Evergreen – Aglaonema Modestum
English Ivy Hedera Helix
Gerbera Daisy Gerbera Jamesonii
Janet Craig – Dracaena “Janet Craig”
Marginata – Dracaena Marginata
Mass cane/Corn Plant – Dracaena Massangeana
Mother-in-Law’s Tongue Sansevieria Laurentii
Pot Mum – Chrysantheium morifolium
Peace Lily – Spathiphyllum
Warneckii – Dracaena “Warneckii”

Put an English Ivy next to the window on a stand, or place a fern on your desk with a grow bulb in the lamp. You’ll feel better about it.

Additionally, there are several more suggestions from Lori Thayer for other ways to have less stagnant air in the house:

Clean out the vents – you can dust and clean out the tops yourself or pay for a “duct cleaner” to do a professional cleaning.
Dust – Thoroughly dust all surfaces, window sills, ceiling fan blades, and baseboards. Dust your plants, too. Wiping down the leaves will leave them and you healthier. Note: The brush attachment to the nozzle on your vacuum can make this easy.
Vacuum – Thoroughly clean your carpets and rugs. It’s time to move the furniture and get underneath as well. Go over each section a few times. You may also want to assess whether your vacuum cleaning is doing well. Note: You may need to clean the brushes on the bottom to improve the vacuum’s performance.
Use White Vinegar to clean your floors. White vinegar is a natural deodorizer.
Set out some baking soda. Baking Soda is regularly kept in most people’s refrigerators to absorb odors. Set some out in various rooms in your home to do the same job! Make this a beautiful addition to the room by putting the soda in a decorative container.
Clean the sheets, bedding, blankets, and pet beds. Sheets are generally cleaned quite often, but bedding blankets and pet beds also need regular cleaning. Clean these items quarterly.
Use Seventh Generation or another non-chemical freshener to clean your air.

Oxygen Supplementation

When looking for easy ways to improve the available oxygen your body needs, OxygenSuperCharger™ should be on your list.

Part 6, our last installment of free ways to increase oxygen, looks at the relationship between stagnant air in our world environment and oxygen deficiency.

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