A low blood count pulse oximeter reading is cause
for concern. A normal pulse oximeter
reading does not tell us anything. The
study looks at the excess of carbon dioxide found in tissue of many people
before, during, and after exercise, and asks the question whether there is not
enough oxygen in the lungs and blood hemoglobin to eliminate excess carbon
dioxide. The use of supplemental oxygen
appears to be indicated even when the pulse oximeter gives an entirely normal
reading.
Consumer oxygen works to release excess carbon
dioxide trapped in tissue because the blood oxygen is not sufficient to do the
cleaning function one wished it would do.
With the aging of the population, many people do not exercise enough to
gather the waste carbon dioxide generated by muscles and tissue. With the dramatic increase in people who are
overweight and even obese, there is increased need for supplemental oxygen
availability at the sites where people exercise. Only modest amounts of supplemental oxygen
are needed to have an effect.
Recreational oxygen has been available for a while,
but only recently has there been a basic understanding of the value: eliminating excess carbon dioxide in the
body. Build-ups of carbon dioxide come
from the muscles. Recognition of the
ability of to get rid of this excess has been enough to validate the value of
supplemental oxygen.
Excess carbon dioxide is not good for people. It would not be excess if normal breathing or
even heavy breathing was able to rid the body of the build-up of carbon
dioxide, but any extra weight is enough to create excess in the tissues. The muscles and cells work all the time,
giving off carbon dioxide, and most people have an excess.
Exercise oxygen equipment is positioned to help
regular non-diseased people and athletes achieve performance recovery after
exercise. Supplemental oxygen permits
longer periods of exercise and supports faster return to exercise after a rest
interval. Supplemental oxygen along with
exercise appears to help with tissue repair by eliminating excess carbon
dioxide. For older people, supplemental
oxygen appears to help with fighting inflammation and improving mental
acuity: Supplemental oxygen is:
(1) dissolved in plasma, already 2% oxygen;
(2) bound to hemoglobin in red blood cells, as it
drops below 98% oxygen.
Breathing supplemental oxygen adds more oxygen to
the body even when the hemoglobin is already apparently saturated according to
pulse oximeter readings. If the oxygen
fully saturates the hemoglobin it increases the concentration of dissolved
oxygen in plasma, creating the ability to eliminate excess carbon dioxide.
Muscles and fat create excess carbon dioxide in
people with obesity, in elite athletes, in people who are aging. The value of exercise is that it helps the
blood pick up excess carbon dioxide that must be expelled from the body. Supplemental oxygen is useful in stimulating
this process even in the absence of disease.
Athletes and firemen use supplemental oxygen to eliminate excess carbon
dioxide. Soon ordinary people exercising
will use supplemental oxygen for this process as well. This will happen even in people who
apparently have hemoglobin sufficiently saturated with oxygen.
The value of supplemental oxygen is not to saturate
the hemoglobin more, it is already saturated in most cases, the value is to
stimulate release of excess carbon dioxide.
Exercise oxygen equipment is useful for improving
personal performance and endurance during workouts. It gives athletes competitive advantage in
sporting events. Supplemental oxygen is
not banned because the oxygen has significant health benefits that cannot
reasonably be taken away by sports governing bodies.
Prices of supplemental oxygen are expected to
plummet based on economies of scale as adoption and usage becomes
widespread. People could not get
affordable or have convenient access to consumer oxygen before, now there are
ways to make personal oxygen available in a convenient manner. AirSep offers its Focus device which weighs
1.7 pounds with a battery. Exercise with
oxygen therapy can increase exercise capacity and lead to performance
gains. Sports clubs are expected to
offer small stylish canisters of oxygen for $15 per month.
Performance gains make it easier to exercise, less
onerous to exercise. The value of daily
exercise has been proven in multiple studies, now we know why the exercise is
beneficial, it discards excess carbon dioxide that builds up in the muscles
when people are just sitting around or sleeping or if they are moving around
exercising.
OHS is a breathing disorder in obese people that
leads to a misrepresentation of pulse oximeter readings of blood oxygen
levels. When there is too much carbon
dioxide in the tissue, more carbon dioxide than can be cleaned even by fully
saturated blood oxygen levels, there is a difficulty with fully cleaning the
carbon dioxide from the cells. OHS is
interesting because obese people with normal blood oxygen saturation cannot expel
all the carbon dioxide from their cells.
The condition called hypoventilation during the day
is a condition of obesity that is possible to address with supplemental oxygen
even in the presence of fully oxygenated blood.
Obese people are not moving enough air in and out of the lungs to clear
the carbon dioxide from the body. The
problem exists to a lesser extent in people with less fat, people without any
lung disease, just overweight or obese.
This lack of oxygen can and does cause muscle
fatigue, cramping and poor performance.
Supplemental oxygen helps replenish what is deficient, enabling faster
aerobic recovery. Athletes achieve
better mental and muscle performance when they use supplemental oxygen after
strenuous activity.
Football players, basketball players, speed skaters,
and hockey players use oxygen to support performance when exhausted. Professional athletes use supplemental
oxygen. The reason is that during
strenuous physical activity the body exhales more carbon dioxide than it admits
oxygen.
When there is a buildup of excess carbon dioxide in
the body the supplemental oxygen is able to clear the carbon dioxide from
tissue. While the users can feel the
difference in the body of having waste eliminated, the clinicians are left to
look at the pulse oximeter readings. The
value attributed to supplemental oxygen by users is attributed to a placebo
effect by clinicians. It is apparent
from a review of the serious independent research on the value of supplemental
oxygen that the oxygen really is helpful to people, not just a pejorative placebo
effect. (Remember that a placebo is a
sugar pill and itself does have a real effect.)
Exercise oxygen equipment markets at $3.9 million in
2015 are anticipated to reach $2.8 billion dollars by 2022. Growth is a result of new competitors in the
market, demand for the smaller lighter technology by people exercising, and the
market need by for stationary devices at clubs and gyms even as portable
devices provide greater mobility support for bike riders, joggers, and older
people.
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