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Why We Need Sufficient Oxygen

Good oxygenation leads to good heat shock proteins performance that prevents damage to tissue components and cell death after injury, including stroke and infections. It promotes tissue repair even if damage has already occurred. Severe immune response(autoimmunity) produces acute inflammation with fever and aches, promotes apoptotic cell death from mitochondria dysfunction, and regeneration follows. Moderate immunity leads to chronic inflammation, little regeneration but rather degeneration through mesenchymal tissue replacement of functional parenchymal tissue. Little immunity leads to a carrier state with usually neither disease signs nor pain, if there is limited microbe invasiveness. Good oxygenation leads to good tissue repair, decreased inflammation and decreased cell damage and death. Immune cells are more effective, much stronger and alert. Oxygen, therefore, encourages repair, cell rejuvenation and, in less frequent situations of irreversible damage like in trauma, to p...

Brain Signals and Stress

High frequency transmission from the rapid firing of our brain nerve cells is the order of the day for 'live' signals that come from our sensory perceptions and thoughts. Stored past activities, reactivated through memory recall or our normal imaginations, are not usually so vivid and therefore are handled and transmitted differently as low frequency signals. They, usually, are faint, due to the low energy that they carry; exceptions, of course, are high frequency signals, derived from recall of past experiences or from our mere imaginations and manifested as dreams, delusions and hallucinations, mistaken for reality or current happenings(because the signals are fast), variably by either the healthy or the deranged mind. We constantly tune in or synchronize our mind, to varying signals of the same frequencies, to experience the present, relish or dread the past or imagine the future. We cannot, therefore, do more than one of these at a time. We are forced to constantly swi...