Low oxygen levels in the human body
This simple fix will improve it – Do you feel exhausted every morning? Your physical and mental health could be the culprits.
Research published in The Journal of Physiology last month found that among the problems caused by a low amount of oxygen in the blood, that is, hypoxia, the most serious one is a reduction in the heart rate.
The study, published in the latest issue of The Journal of Physiology, established that hypoxia is responsible for more than three-fourths of a compromised heart, and other cardiovascular diseases.
Here’s what happens when you are oxygen-deficient:
Lack of oxygen can decrease the number of red blood cells and their capacity to carry oxygen to the tissues. In turn, this reduces your ability to carry oxygen, affecting breathing, endurance, and reaction time. This may also contribute to the symptoms of fatigue, which include weakness and fatigue and poor concentration, and general mental fatigue.
Other symptoms could be more severe and include pain in your leg, heart palpitations, swelling, abdominal pain, and difficulties with sleeping and concentrating.
If you struggle to get air into your lungs when you sit at your desk, ask a colleague to come over and do a regular breathing check. It's important to know what you can do to make breathing easier and more comfortable for yourself.
Why you need oxygen to maintain a healthy heart
The lungs and heart are two major organs that help us get oxygen into our bodies and do the essential work of carrying oxygen to the various tissues that need it.
One of the most important jobs of the heart is to push blood to the tissues, especially the body's smaller organs. Without oxygen, these organs cannot function.
The lungs are made up of two main parts, the left, and right lungs. The left lung is responsible for drawing in fresh air into the body through the mouth and nose and then sending it to the right side of the heart, where it is pumped out through the lungs. The right lung then does the same for the air that has come back out of the lungs. The right side of the heart has to pump out the air that the lungs do not need.
Without sufficient oxygen, the heart's muscles slow down, and this can lead to the heart getting stressed and enlarged. A reduced heart can also cause high blood pressure in the heart and arteries that feed the heart. Additionally, reduced heart can cause heart attacks, heart failure, and other heart-related problems.
What you can do to improve your overall health
When we are tired, our whole body is tired. While this can help us fall asleep faster and sleep better, it also means that we have less energy to go about the day.
When we are tired, we also tend to be less attentive, which means that the information in the signals we receive from the brain isn't getting processed as well. This can lead to an increased risk of accidents.
Taking time to rest and recover is essential to maintaining good physical health and recovery. Rest is vital to the recovery process and reduces the risk of future physical problems.
Here are some simple ways to take care of your overall health:
1. Get your vitamins
You must ensure you're getting enough vitamin D, calcium, and iron, as these are all essential nutrients for optimal health.
2. Reduce stress
Get more sleep and eat healthy foods that are high in vitamins and nutrients. Eat foods rich in zinc and magnesium, which help with energy and stress.
3. Look after your gut
Help your gut to be healthy by eating probiotic foods such as fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kefir, and kombucha. These foods are known to help boost good gut bacteria and reduce toxins and harmful bacteria in the body.
4. Ensure you sleep well
Your sleep is a crucial part of your health, as it helps boost your immune system, and prevents depression, fatigue, stress, and heart disease. Your sleep should last between eight and 10 hours a night.
The effects of lack of sleep on your heart, as well as a reduction in the flow of blood to your brain and other vital organs, have been well studied and many of the studies have shown that too little sleep is linked to an increased risk of heart disease and heart attacks.
In addition, it is well known that obesity is a risk factor for heart disease.
5. Walk more
When we walk we burn more calories than when we drive or sit. Walking for at least 15 minutes a day is the simplest and easiest way to stay healthy. Walking also lowers blood pressure, can prevent weight gain, and increases your energy levels.
The researchers developed a protocol that can reduce and even eliminate the consequences of hypoxia in the body.
This protocol will improve your cardiovascular health by increasing blood oxygen levels.
How does it work?
Losing tissue oxygen is essentially what happens when you exercise. That is when your heart contracts, while it pumps blood throughout the body. During this exercise, blood pumps through the blood vessels in your body at a normal rate.
But when you exercise at a high intensity for a long period, or if the body is already stressed, the blood flow rate can drop.
Hypoxic breathing – breathing without enough oxygen in the body – causes a decrease in blood flow and oxygen availability to the tissues. The lack of oxygenation causes your heart to contract more often, to pump blood around the body.
What you need to do:
The trick is to increase the oxygen levels in your body so that your heart can have more time to rest between contractions and the blood flow to the tissues can return to normal.
To do this, the researchers implemented the practice of hypertonic fluid therapy (or inducing a fluid shift).
First, the researchers decided to strengthen the heart’s contraction capacity by boosting the heart rate.
To do this, they increased their heart rate by 30 percent, while using a device called a ventricular assist device.
This allowed them to decrease the amount of time between contractions, thereby improving the oxygenation of the tissues.
Then, the researchers started hypertonic intravenous fluid therapy, which allowed them to fill the blood vessels with more oxygen and increase oxygen delivery to the tissues.
Finally, they took a blood sample before and after the procedure and measured the hemoglobin, which is the oxygen-carrying part of the hemoglobin molecule.
What they found:
The level of oxygen in the blood increased significantly.The scientists also found that the cardiac contractile rate increased, which is the capacity of the heart to contract.
They also found that the size of the blood vessels – which are the vessels in the heart that deliver oxygen to the tissues – was smaller, indicating the body’s ability to deliver more oxygen.
Further, they were able to show that the hemoglobin concentration was higher, which means the concentration of oxygen in the blood was higher.It is unclear whether a successful treatment for hypoxia will have the same impact on cardiac function. The researchers also concluded that it is not advisable to do a heart surgery procedure on people with heart disease.
However, doctors, physiotherapists, and exercise physiologists can use these protocols for developing protocols to improve heart function.
