Sighing, Yawning or Gasping… Many Cries for Oxygen

Are Your symptoms due to an oxygen deficiency?

If you look or feel like a fish out of water, gasping, sighing or yawning your body is screaming for air.  Oxygen is the most critical element needed by our bodies.  You can fast for weeks or even go days without water.  After about 2-3 minutes of an oxygen shortage, the hypoxia could begin to take a permanent toll.

Oxygen is Most Needed By the Brain

Once there is oxygen deprivation to the brain it will cause mental fatigue and sluggishness.  This can lower IQ and general cognition, not to mention its negative impact to memory.  At its most extreme it could cause both syncope (fainting) or even seizures.  Perhaps this is why there have been so many studies on neurological disease or impairment and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.  Hypoxia has been and still is being studied as a primary cause or contributing factor in Autism.  Recent PubMed Articles on Hypoxia & Autism & references to research cited above.

Oxygen in the blood is critical to carry much needed nutrients to the brain.  Nutrition most needed by the brain are amino acids (proteins fully broken down to their smallest form), essential fatty-acids or EFAs, and B vitamins, calcium, magnesium, good organic bio-available iron & zinc are the important ones that come to mind.  Also, iodine, molybdenum and selenium to help detoxify the brain.  Plus digestion in general relies on both oxygen and trace minerals.

Classic Oxygen Deficiency Symptoms

• Muscle Fatigue & Weakness (Heavy Leg Syndrome)
• Mental Fatigue, Sleepy or Mental Sluggishness
• Muscle Aches & Pains
• Poor Circulation
• Wild Mood Swings, Irritability, Irrational Behavior
• Poor Digestion & Assimilation
• Bacterial Infections Yeast or Fungal Over growths or Chronic / Constant Cold or Flu
• Breathing Problems and Wheezing
• Impaired Detoxification & Metabolic Disorders
• Frequent or Involuntary Gasping, Sighing, and Yawning

Sounds like just about everyone you know right?  Research has shown that we live in environment with a shrinking oxygen level.  This may be contributed to climatic or industrial changes and pollution.  Drilling in the polar ice has found air bubbles that contained 38-50% oxygen.  However, the air of today contains only on average of 20% oxygen, in an ever increasing toxic and polluted environment.

But isn’t there a way to just get more air?!  Frequently in consults I speak about proper breathing or frequent breathing exercises being FREE.  It it is amazing how many people just won’t do it.  They know they “should” but they just don’t.  Another example of that being exercising, which will also help bring oxygen in naturally.  But that is another thing they just don’t want to do.  Or won’t do consistently enough for it to make a lasting impact on their health.

Oxygen’s Role in Cancer Treatment or Prevention

Dr. Otto Warburg the 1931 Nobel Prize Winner and renowned Biochemist spoke of the vital role oxygen plays in the development in cancer with his comment; “The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the normal oxygen respiration of body cells by an anaerobic (without oxygen) cell respiration.  Royal Rife also studied the role of an anaerobic environment.  He grew cancer cells from microbes that fed on salted pork in an anaerobic environment.  Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is being studied extensively as a potential cancer treatment with promising applications warranting additional studies.

What is Oxygen Supplementation?

Many clients aren’t even aware that there is such a thing as an oxygen supplement.  What is even more surprising is that many don’t even have dissolved oxygen in them  - So what is that about?  Oxygen supplementation works by chemically breaking the hydrogen & oxygen bonds in water and the body to free them up at the cellular level.  This makes the hydrogen and oxygen in the water dramatically more bio-available.  Research has found that cells can live indefinitely as long as they are cleansed regularly and in clean extra-cellular fluid.  It stands to reason then that the 6 trillion cells in your body would appreciate the same treatment.

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Are Your Genes Making You Fat Too?

My GeneWize Weight Loss Story…

My unusual weight loss story began with getting a GeneLink Healthy Aging Assessment.  I started taking my GeneWize custom formula known as the DNA guided LifeMap Nutritional Supplement a couple weeks before Halloween.  It is a plant-based, multi that is rich in whole foods, antioxidants, extracts and phytonutrients.  Most of those last few unwanted pounds began to fall off.

I first decided to evaluate the system to see if it was something I wanted to add to my practice.  Sure, I knew it sounded like the most revolutionary thing to hit the clinical nutrition industry since - Well never!  But, would I actually notice a significant difference?  I never dreamed that it would allow me to start shedding those last stubborn pounds I had desperately tried everything to lose.  So begins the unusual story surrounding how I lost 13 pounds and 2 dress sizes over Halloween and the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Was My Weight-loss Failure in my Genes?

Some of the issues noted in my DNA screening were…  Most notably, a severe impairment to my ability to detoxify.  This had already begun to manifest itself in numerous health concerns such as severe preeclampsia during pregnancy and multiple environmental sensitivities with chronic infections.

This genetic flaw very well could have been passed down to my daughter.  Like many other kids she regressed into Autism at about 2 years old.  Could these genetic predispositions have played a part?

The FREE Video Reveals Science Behind What the Nutritional Genetic Assessment Uncovered

Supporting My Genetic Flaws Through Nutrition

What the body takes in as nutrition it first tries to use.  If it can’t, it will lose it as waste.  When it can’t rid the waste either because the eliminative pathways are congested or an impaired ability to detoxify, it will have no choice but to store it.  Water-soluble toxins like acids will get stored in watery tissues and fat-soluble toxins like heavy metals will get stored in fatty tissues.  This is why children are so sensitive to heavy metals.  If the body doesn’t have enough watery or fatty tissues, it will make these to protect against toxicity.

Also, noted is impairment in my ability to metabolize and assimilate fats.  This will take a toll on the liver and add to toxicity and overall fat.

Lastly seen was the challenge to regulate pH.  This is expressed through a weakened calcium absorption noted in the Vitamin D-Receptor.  Numerous studies are proving how important calcium is for digestive health and more recently to maintain a healthy weight.  The Dairy industry has even implemented the “Milk your diet slogan”.

However, I think the biggest reason for my quick and significant loss came about through the added support to…  This gene…  Aldosterone is responsible for electrolyte balance and recycling and water regulation.  This would also greatly effect my ability to regulate water.  Most of the weight I couldn’t shed was sheer water weight.

Based on my genetics flaws one might expect to have difficulties with pH regulation, hormonal imbalances, extreme toxicity and oxidative stress, and impaired calcium absorption which I have had all of these in spite of a healthy diet and years of detoxification efforts.

Also, it is important to note that people with some of my challenges would expect to become even more toxic and even feel bad after strenuous exercise.   I feel better after being on the LifeMap nutrition & have made more progress in weight loss and detoxifying in the last couple months than I had in the last couple years without it.

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Repairing DNA Flaws Through Nutrition?

DNA Customized Nutrition is Not Only a Reality But Affordable!

Research probing into the human genome have made huge progress.  It is beginning to uncover the mysteries of how disease can have both genetic and environmental factors.  A couple such diseases that instantly come to my mind are Autism, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.

UC-Berkley researchers didn’t know how soon they were going to be proved correct when they excitedly exclaimed!

Genomes may lead to personalized vitamin supplement, 6/02/08

You see they didn’t know that the research team at GeneWize Life Sciences® were only a couple months away from their revolutionary product launch.  What once seemed like a Sci-Fi pipe dream has quickly become a reality.

The LifeMap Nutrition System® test 12 key genes that intensely impact your health.  These genes regulate such things as detoxification, oxidative stress, neurological, immunological, cardiovascular, bone, and vision health.  Then they support these flaws in your DNA with a custom formulated supplement.  According to this research, additional nutritional support can drastically reduce your risk of the development of disease.

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Penn study finds link between Parkinson’s disease genes and manganese poisoning

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Contact: Karen Kreeger
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

IMAGE: The Yeast PARK9 protein (Ypk9) is localized to the vacuole membrane. Shown are yeast cells expressing Ypk9 fused to the green fluorescent protein.
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PHILADELPHIA A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson’s disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Gitler and colleagues found a genetic interaction between two Parkinson’s disease genes (alpha-synuclein and PARK9) and determined that the PARK9 protein can protect cells from manganese poisoning, which is an environmental risk factor for a Parkinson’s disease-like syndrome. The findings appear online this week in Nature Genetics.

Manganism, or manganese poisoning, is prevalent in such occupations as mining, welding, and steel manufacturing. It is caused by exposure to excessive levels of the metal manganese, which attacks the central nervous system, producing motor and dementia symptoms that resemble Parkinson’s disease.

In Parkinson’s patients, the alpha-synuclein protein normally found in the brain misfolds, forming clumps. Yeast cells, the model system in which Gitler studies disease proteins, also form clumps and die when this protein is expressed at high levels. These are the same yeast cells that bakers and brewers use to make bread, beer, and wine.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gitler and colleagues started looking for genes that could prevent the cell death caused by mis-folded alpha-synuclein in yeast. Eventually they found a few genes to test in animal models and some were able to protect neurons from the toxic effects of alpha-synuclein. “One of the genes that we found was a previously uncharacterized yeast gene called YOR291W. No one knew what it did back in 2006,” he recalls.

IMAGE: Yeast PARK9 gene (YPK9) helps protect cells from manganese toxicity. Yeast cells missing the YPK9 gene (ypk9) grow normally under standard conditions (- Mn2+) but are much more   sensitive to…

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In the meantime, researchers in Europe published studies about a family that had an early-onset form of a type of Parkinson’s disease caused by mutations in the PARK9 gene. “When I read about this study, I wondered what the closest yeast gene was to the human PARK9 gene and it turned out to be YOR291W,” explains Gitler. “It was one of the genes that could rescue alpha-synuclein toxicity from our yeast screen. That was the big Eureka! and completely unexpected. It suggested that Parkinson’s disease genes could interact with each other in previously unexpected ways.”

Because of its similarity to the human PARK9 gene, Gitler and colleagues renamed the yeast gene to YPK9 (which stands for Yeast PARK9). Researchers at Purdue University and The University of Alabama teamed up with Gitler and his colleagues to show that the PARK9 gene could also protect neurons from alpha-synuclein’s toxic effects.

Next, the team set out to find the function of YPK9. Study co-first author, postdoctoral fellow Alessandra Chesi, PhD, discovered that YPK9 encodes a metal transporter protein. “Its sequence looks like other proteins that we know transport metals,” says Chesi.

She deleted the YPK9 gene from yeast and the cells were fine. Then she exposed YPK9-deficient yeast cells to an excess of different metals — zinc, copper, manganese, iron, etc. — to determine which metal it might transport. Of all the metals Chesi tested, she found that in the presence of manganese, the YPK9-deficient yeast did not grow as well. They were hypersensitive to manganese.

“This was astonishing, because it was known for years that welders and miners that inhale manganese get a Parkinson’s-like disease called manganese poisoning,” says Chesi. “The specific neurons that are lost in the miners are from the globus pallidus, a brain motor center. The European parkinsonism patients with the PARK9 mutation also lose neurons in this region.”

Gitler then found that the protein made by YPK9, the yeast gene equivalent of PARK9, is localized to the vacuole membrane in the yeast cell. Vacuoles are inner cell components that wall off toxic substances for later disposal. “Our hypothesis is that the vacuole, a bag in the cell that captures toxins, is sitting there and taking in manganese and sequestering it for detoxification, keeping it away from other cell organelles,” explains Gitler. “But, having a mutation in the PARK9 gene causes problems for this process in yeast and possibly in humans”.

“It’s an interesting story that we’ve discovered in yeast and it will be important to see if it holds up in people. What’s new is the connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson’s. How does PARK9 protect against alpha-synuclein toxicity and how does PARK9 help prevent manganese poisoning? This is what we will be investigating next.”

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This work was funded in part by a National Institute of Health Director’s New Innovator Award.

Gitler is an inventor on patents and patent applications that have been licensed to FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, a company that investigates drugs to treat protein-folding diseases.

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