Sodium

•Recommended: 2400 mg per day – about 1 teaspoon
•Permeates the space between cells and with potassium on the inside of cells regulates cell
permeability, allowing for free passage of nutrients and waste
•Bathes cells in a ‘salty ocean’
•Is important to the healthy functioning and balance of the fluids in blood and lymph
•Critical to pH balance
•Necessary to the production of hydrochloric acid used in the stomach for digestion.
•Required for proper nerve functioning and muscle contraction
•If you have salt softened water at home you absorb calcium while bathing or showering,
brushing your teeth, drinking tap water, and even washing clothes
•During the refining of table salt (NaCl), natural sea salt or rock salt is stripped of more than
60 trace minerals and essential macro-nutrients. It is also heated at high temperatures that the
chemical structure of salt changes. It is chemically cleaned and bleached and treated with
anti-caking agents that prevent salt from mixing with water in the salt container. The anticaking
agents perform the same function in the human body so that refined salt does not
dissolve and combine with the water and fluids present in our system - it builds up in the
body and leaves deposits in organs and tissue, causing severe health problems. To make
matters worse, the anti-caking agents are made with aluminum, with the bad taste of the
aluminum being covered by refined sugar.
•If you need to use salt (sodium) with your meal, use unrefined sea salt or rock salt that
contain natural nutrients used by the body much more effectively than refined table salt.
•Processed foods are a major source of hidden refined sodium
•Food Sources: virtually everything we eat. So stay with natural foods like fruits and
vegetables.
Note: I did not supplement sodium as I was getting enough from my diet and was closely
watching all sodium consumption. The information above will help you limit over-abundance
of sodium in your system.

Calcium

•Recommended: 1200-1500 mg daily for ages 11-24 and 1000 mg daily for ages 25 and older
•Keeps bones strong and dense.
•Aids in fat loss and maintaining proper weight
•Helps regulate the heart beat
•Helps metabolize iron
•Alleviates insomnia
•Regulates cell permeability
•Critical to pH balance
•Blood clotting and fat digestion depend on calcium
•Nicotine, Cola, Alcohol, Caffeine, Refined Sugars, too much salt and eating excessive calories can deplete calcium levels.
•Sugar upsets calcium metabolism – so don’t buy calcium supplements sold as candy, such as caramel or chocolate flavors
•Excellent supplement forms are calcium citrate, calcium chelate and calcium gluconate.
•Homogenized and Pasteurized milk is NOT a good source of digestible, absorbable calcium.
•Food Sources: nuts (almonds), seaweeds, kelp, seeds (sesame seeds), tofu, broccoli, fruits, turnip greens, collard greens, dark green leafy vegetables and figs

Note: I did supplement calcium as I was not getting enough from my diet even though I had cut out all consumption of calcium depleting foods. I did not eat any animal or dairy products the first 30 days during my ‘cleansing cycle’. I took 600 mg calcium with 100 IU
Vitamin D. I now supplement my diet with 1 teaspoon of liquid angstrom calcium daily.

NUTRIENTS

Foods provide us with fats, carbohydrates, proteins, fiber, essential minerals and vitamins,
enzymes, antioxidants and so many other nutrients that science is still discovering. Fruits
and vegetables provide the greatest benefit to our bodies and the highest concentration of
healthy nutrients. The fresher the food, the better.
Everyone doesn’t need to become a vegetarian. I have no plans to completely give up fish,
chicken, turkey or beef. I have no plans to totally eliminate eggs or milk products from my
diet. These foods are good sources of some nutrients that are hard to find in abundance in
plant foods, especially calcium. I like them. I’ve grown up eating them. I think they are
provided by God, though I think we place too much of an emphasis on them in our diets. I
am advocating a diet rich in plant foods – fruits and vegetables in abundance. This entire
book is about what I did to reverse the diseases in my life and the background information of
why I did what I did. Nutrition is a part of that.

pH (potential of Hydrogen)

pH (potential of Hydrogen) is the measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution – for
purposes of this discussion I refer to the pH levels of our blood and cellular fluids. pH is
measured on a scale of 0 to 14. The lower the number the more acidic our body fluids and
the higher the number the more alkaline we are. A pH of 7.0 is neutral – neither acid or
alkaline

As an example, let’s look at a cola. It has a pH of about 2.0 – that is very acidic. Many
school students have probably performed the test in class where they dropped a nail in a can
of Coke. The nail is usually totally dissolved within 3 days. Cola is also useful in cleaning
stubborn stains & grease on clothes and in removing hard to clean toilet and sink stains. If
the acid in soda eats through a metal nail, imagine what it does to your body!
Our bodies are naturally slightly alkaline, with 7.3 to 7.5 being the optimum alkalinity for
healthy body functions. The pancreas regulates the pH balance in our bodies. This is the
same organ which regulates insulin production. The pancreas pulls potassium, sodium,
calcium and magnesium from our blood stream to balance pH when foods are digested. It
requires almost 750,000 times the effort to convert soda at an acid pH of 2.0 to an alkaline
pH of 7.5 than it does to convert a fruit or vegetable when digested from a pH of 7.0 to an
alkaline pH of 7.5. [Converting pH is exponential: to convert pH 2.0 to pH 3.0 takes a measure of 10. To
convert it to the next level of pH 4.0 it takes a measure of 100 (10 x 10). To the next pH of 5.0 it takes a
measure of 1,000 (10 x 10 x 10).]

If we do not have enough of the essential minerals - potassium, sodium, calcium and
magnesium – in our bloodstream from the foods and supplements we eat, the pancreas will
begin pulling these minerals from our vital organs, tissues and bones to neutralize the acid
and safely process it from through body. This can lead to severe and prolonged damage to
the pancreas, bones and muscle if we consume mainly acidic foods. In the back of the book
is a chart of alkalizing and acidifying foods. Take a look at how many acidic foods you
regularly consume. Can you see how by eating sugars, refined foods, excessive amounts of
meat, chips, drinking coffee and soda, etc. we have been taxing our pancreas to try to keep an
alkaline balance? Eventually the pancreas can’t keep up and we have an acidic build-up of
fluid in our bodies. This leads to all kinds of medical conditions as the acid eats at our
organs and tissues.

Mild acidosis can cause such problems as:
• Cardiovascular damage and hypertension
• Weight gain and obesity – acid blood causes the body to store the acid in fat. The
body actually creates fat to store the acid to protect itself.
• Diabetes and difficulty metabolizing sugar
• Bladder infections, kidney stones and other kidney conditions
• Immune deficiency disorders, susceptibility to disease, poor wound healing
• Cancerous cell mutations
• Calcium leaching from bones leading to osteoporosis and broken bones
• Muscle pain, muscle atrophy, poor response, lack of strength
• Fatigue, low energy, lack of drive
• Poor digestion, constipation and other bowel problems

Diseases are just warning signs that something is out of order.
Something is out of balance in your body. Probably the pH balance.
“The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they all come
from the same root cause...too much tissue acid waste in the body!”
Theodore A. Baroody, N.D., D.C., Ph.D.

Did you know that a virus or disease cannot thrive in living tissue? It is fact. Yet, we have
been taught for decades that germs and virus are responsible for all of our diseases. These
microbes exist in our bodies all the time and serve to remove cell waste from our systems, as
they thrive on decayed cellular matter. Sure, environmental issues can contribute to some
ailments, but most are treatable and curable by our life choices.
Louis Pasteur postured the theory years ago that each disease was caused by specific germs
or virus that entered our bodies. Since then, the medical establishment has accepted this
theory and tried to develop drugs to treat disease according to different infections. With this
theory, everyone would constantly be sick because of all the germs and bacteria in our
systems at any time. Drugs actually mask symptoms and are big dollars.
At about the same time Claude Bernard theorized that disease was caused by internal decay
which created favorable conditions for micro-organisms (germs), already in our bodies, to
thrive. The ideal environment would be one on an acidic scale. The germs are there all the
time, but do not affect many people because their internal body environment does not support
them.
Our bodies replace old cells as they deteriorate with new cells. In 7 years our bodies will
completely remake themselves. That is a lot of decayed material that our bodies must
eliminate. Germs normally eat this decayed material and it is flushed from our systems. An
acidic environment amplifies the problem, giving micro-organisms an environment to thrive
where decayed material is amplified. It isn’t the germ that causes the disease, but the
environment of the body. Acidosis in our bodies causes more cellular degeneration and
therefore more food for germs and bacteria.

If we continue to overeat, to eat acidic foods and to eat processed foods and snacks, toxins
begin to accumulate in our bodies. The acidic environment we create contributes to this toxic
accumulation as our pancreas strains to keep up. When your body becomes oversaturated
with toxins, a safety valve opens to release toxins, which may come out of any of the four
elimination channels of the body; 1) the skin; 2) the lungs and respiratory tract; 3) the bowels
& colon; and 4) the urinary tract. We call these attempts by the body to throw off toxic
build-up disease.

Disease is the outward sign of the body trying to heal itself. The body is trying
to eliminate toxic build-up of poisons by any means possible. It must protect
vital organs. Obesity is just another way the body protects itself from toxins.
When poison gets into your bloodstream, your body responds by doing whatever it can to get
it out of the body in the fastest way possible through any elimination channel available to
preserve the functioning of your system. Your body will use up every ounce of energy in its
effort to get this poison out. You might experience coughing, throwing up, fever, acne,
sweat, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, low energy, joint pains, inability to sleep, fatigue,
kidney problems, convulsions, burping, irritations, and many more symptoms.
Acidic pH allows germs to proliferate and the result is treated by the body as a poison. The
body is trying to heal itself, but we respond by taking highly acidic drugs intended to treat the
problem. We actually amplify the problem, rather than working with the body to help it heal.
Drugs don’t cure disease, they mask symptoms. When you understand the pH balance of the
body, you begin to understand what is happening in your body.
On his deathbed Pasteur said: “Bernard was right. The microbe is nothing. The terrain is
everything.” (Hume, Ed. Pasteur exposed: the false foundations of modern medicine. Australia: Bookreal,
1989)
Why hasn’t medicine conformed to this information? Money! There is more money in
keeping you on pharmaceuticals to treat symptoms rather than fixing the root problem.
Watch this humorous video to get an idea of what the pharmaceutical & food processing
conglomerates get us to believe so they can keep us thinking we need their harmful drugs and
the harmful foods they offer. I won’t get into conspiracy theories – there are plenty of books

to convince you of that – but think about why there is a simple cure, but no widespread
offering or teaching of the cure. They have controlled the medical schools and media for
years. Why do the 10 largest pharmaceutical companies make more profit than the rest of the
Fortune 500 combined? Why do the pharmaceutical companies only make donations to
medical colleges that teach drugs and none to so-called ‘drugless’ medical schools? Why are
pharmaceutical companies so intent against supplement companies and alternative
treatments? Why do the countries using the most ‘medicines’ have the most unhealthy
citizens? http://www.matttraverso.com/video/healt-ebook/fda-cartoon/fda-cartoon.html
You’ve heard the saying, “garbage in, garbage out.’ We put a lot of unhealthy foods into our
bodies’ systems. Marvelously created as they are, they struggle to process the garbage into
energy to sustain the body and to then flush the unhealthy by-products out.

Let’s look at a car for example. If you used a poor quality gas to fuel the engine it would
start to accumulate deposits. It will run great for a while. The car will use the gas to produce
the energy the car needs to turn the pistons to move the car. After a time the poor fuel
supplied will accumulate larger deposits, affecting how well the car burns the gas. Spark
plugs will have a harder time sparking because of the build-up of gunk. The pistons will
struggle to move as freely to move the car. It may take years. After a time you have to
perform some major work to keep the car even operating properly. The car has tried to
eliminate the by-products of the poor fuel since day one, but can’t discharge all of it through
the exhaust system and deposits formed inside the engine. The same is true of your body. If
you use poor quality fuel, your body does what it can to convert in into energy. Poor quality
fuel leaves too much bad by-product for the body to eliminate.

The body is basically a bio-electrical engine. It has a current charged through the
bloodstream. The blood carries the fuel from digestion to the cells where it is broken down
into energy so the body can operate. This charge operates at an acid-alkaline balance of 7.36
The pancreas is the organ that regulates the pH balance so that the system operates at optimal
performance. Each organ has a part in this operation. The heart pumps the blood throughout
the body so that fuel and oxygen are delivered to the cells and waste is taken away to the
lungs and the kidneys. The liver converts fuel into useable components. Every organ has a
part in this biological machine.

The body works very hard to keep your entire system at an optimal pH balance so that each
element can perform at its peak. If you do not consume enough alkaline producing calcium,
magnesium, potassium and sodium your body pulls the stored supplies from your tissues and
bones. Excess acid will be stored in fat to neutralize its damaging effects to the body. Your
body will actually create fat to store the acid. Osteoporosis is an affect of the body
leeching the bone of essential minerals. Excess fat is the body’s way of protecting itself from
acid brought about by an acidic body fluid balance caused by eating acidic foods and by
overeating. You wondered why you eat so little yet keep gaining weight? Here is your
answer.

There are many reasons besides the foods we eat that can adversely affect pH balance. These
reasons include negative emotions, thoughts, words and actions. Research shows that these
adverse feelings can be a major cause of high blood acidity. God sure had it right when He
told us that forgiveness, thoughts and actions and our very words will affect our well-being.
Did you know that studies show that those who pray daily, or who read the Bible daily, or
those who meditate regularly or even those who attend a church weekly have better blood pH
results? Unforgiveness, gossip, negative thoughts, negative feelings towards others,
belittling others, harmful words and hurtful actions affect our bodies negatively.
Lack of sleep, stress, not regularly exercising, shallow breathing, chemicals, radiation and
pollution are other factors which lead to acid pH levels within us and cause cellular
disturbances. Smoking, alcohol, vinegar, animal protein, many cooking oils, refined sugar,
processed foods and overly highly refined carbohydrates (flours, crackers, etc.) are other
causes of the breakdown at a cellular level that lead to acid pH.





The rule of thumb is: Eat more of what grows on trees and plants and much less of what has
to be processed in a manufacturing plant to make it edible. Fresh food is great but loses
vitamins on the way from the harvest to your table. Flash frozen contains more of the
vitamins of the pre-harvest food as the food is frozen soon after harvest. Even canned fruits
and vegetables contain lots of good vitamins, as long as they are packed in water, no added
sugar, with little or no sodium.


Nuts, seeds and avocadoes are good for you. Plant-based foods we have always considered
bad for you are full of natural omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids which protect the heart and
perform many functions in the body. That’s why we call them essential fatty acids.
Real foods are not only delicious; they provide all of the nutrients our bodies need to heal and
to allow you to live a healthy life to the fullest.
 

How Does Detoxifying Help With Fitness

Utilized for 100s of years by many cultures round the Earth - including Chinese medicine organizations - detoxification is about purifying and nurturing the body from the deep down. By ridding your body of toxins, then giving your body sound nutrients, detoxifying may assist in protecting you from disease and renew your ability to continue optimum health.
Simply, detoxification implies purifying the blood. It does this principally by getting rid of impurities from the blood in the liver, where toxins are processed for excretion. The body likewise does away with toxins through the kidneys, bowels, lungs, lymph and skin. When this scheme is compromised, impurities are not decently filtered out and each cell in the body is adversely impacted.
A detox plan may help the body's natural cleanup process by:
1) Giving the organs a rest with fasting;
2) Getting the liver to force toxins from the body;
3) Elevating elimination through the bowels, kidneys and skin;
4) Bettering circulation of the blood; and
5) Fueling the body with sound nutrients.
You ought to detox at least one time a year. A light detoxifying plan is generally safe; as a matter of fact, scientific fields of study show that a detox is beneficial for health. You ought to be heedful if you are a nursing mom, youngster, and patients with chronic degenerative diseases, cancer or TB. Confer with your healthcare practitioner if you've questions about whether detoxing is proper for you.

At the start, lighten your toxin load. Do away with intoxicants, coffee, smokes, sugars and saturated fats, all of which act as toxins in the system and are obstacles to the process. Minimize utilization of chemical-based home cleaners and personal healthcare products (cleaners, shampoos, deodorants and toothpastes), and replace with natural alternatives.
A different hindrance to healthiness is tenseness, which sets up your body to release stress endocrines into your system. While these endocrines may supply the "adrenaline rush" to pull ahead in a race or meet a deadline, in great amounts they create toxins and slow up detoxification enzymes in the liver. So it's a great idea to detoxify nerve-racking life situations along with detoxifying your body. Yoga and meditation are easy and effective ways to remedy stress by resetting your physical and mental responses to the inevitable tension life will bring.
There are a lot of detoxification programs, contingent on your personal needs. A lot of programs abide by a 7-day schedule as this calls for fasting on liquids for 2 days, accompanied by a carefully-planned 5 day dieting to let the digestive system rest. Supplements, herbs, work outs, and practices like dry-skin brushing and hydrotherapy are proposed to enhance circulation.
A three -seven day juice fast (consuming only fresh fruit and veggie juices and water) is also an effective way to expel toxins. Cleansing supplement packages are another choice, which typically contain fiber, vitamins, herbs and minerals. There are numerous dependable products on the market, with simple to follow directions. A routine of drinking only water one day every week is an ancient practice of numerous cultures.

After a detoxification program, you are able to cleanse your body every day through diet, supplements and life-style changes.
1. Consume plenty of fiber, including brown rice and organically farmed fresh fruits and veggies. Beetroots, radishes, artichoke plants, cabbage, broccoli, spirulina, chlorella, and seaweed are fantabulous detoxifying foods.
2. Cleanse and protect the liver by taking herbs like dandelion root, burdock and milk thistle, and consuming green tea.
3. Consume vitamin C, which helps the body bring forth glutathione, a liver compound that dispels toxins.
4. Consume at least two quarts of water every day.
5. Take a breath deeply to let oxygen circulate more completely through out your system.
6. Metamorphose stress by stressing favorable emotions.
7. Exercise hydrotherapy by taking a really warm shower for 5 minutes, letting the water run over your back. Follow up with cold water for thirty seconds. Do this 3 times, and then get to bed for a half-hour.
8. Perspire in a sauna so your body may do away with wastes through sweat.
9. Dry-brush your skin or attempt detoxifying patches or detox foot baths to take out toxins through your pores. Special brushes are available at natural products shops.
10. What is the most significant way to detoxify? Yoga or jump-roping are great. One hour every day. Likewise attempt qigong, a martial-arts based training system that includes workouts specifically for detoxifying or cleansing.
Make sure to consult with your physician before beginning any regime.

The Need for Supplements

America and many parts of the world are deficient in many of the essential nutrients for vibrant health. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many other degenerative diseases are taking a toll on the
health of millions around the world as they subscribe to the American diet. As the months and years pass, more strains and new diseases surface. Old diseases such as tuberculosis are making a comeback.
So many ill people cost billions of dollars in lost wages, sick time and production. Medical costs are skyrocketing.
With the lack of nutrients in our food grown from commercial farms where the soil has been depleted and the herbicides and pesticides and other treatments used to keep produce fresh and looking
good, everyone needs to supplement.
Here you'll find the essential supplements as is needed for the diabetic, from vitamins, minerals to valuable herbs and other foods to help you maintain health. Don't be easily swayed by media hype
that certain vitamins and minerals are unimportant or are projected as being harmful. Most “studies” that claim that some nutrients are ineffective or dangerous are often flawed. Most “studies” are funded by big pharmaceutical companies that would rather see you use drugs as the only solution to handling your disease. For example, some studies pose that vitamin-E does little good. What the studies don't point out is that the synthetic form of the vitamin doesn't help you. If all the reports that minerals are bad for you then you would expect the CEO's of the big pharmaceutical companies to survive on
burgers, fries and shales. And you know that's never going to happen! All vitamins and minerals are essential.

The Factors Leading to Diabetes

While diabetes is a blood sugar disorder, there are many factors that can lead to a diagnosis of diabetes. Some of them are:

The Psychological Aspect: Many diabetics experience depression and a feeling of hopelessness. A diagnosis of diabetes is akin to a sentence of death and can lead to depression. Grief and sorrow over
the loss of a loved one has an effect on blood sugar. Constant grief can lead to diabetes. The mind is a powerful mechanism and far from being separate from the body, it helps maintain health and can help to prevent disease or stem the onset of man diseases.
It's been shown that happy people get sick less. When you are happy, your brain secretes endorphins, the happy hormones. Being happy has been shown to improve the functioning of the body
and regulate blood glucose level. How you view your world can determine the state of your future health. You can take all the vitamins, minerals and herbs to help your condition, but if you are bitter, angry and resentful, little of it will help.

Our Toxic Environment: We live among toxins of every kind. Whether it's in the air we breathe, in our fluoridated water supply, or the pesticides in our food, our bodies build up toxins which are hard to remove. Prescription drugs are made up of chemicals and add to the toxic burden. Alcohol and tobacco add fuel to the fire. This makes us weaker and less able to cope with disease.

Malnutrition: Our bodies need certain nutrients in order to function properly. Since most of us are not getting enough essential nutrients in our diets, we are leaving ourselves vulnerable to diseases which
otherwise could be overcome.

Lack of Exercise: Exercise aerates the body and supplies the organs, tissue and blood with needed oxygen. Our cells become more resilient and are better able to accept glucose with the help of oxygen.
We are meant to be active. Most of us breathe shallow and take few deep breaths. A decent exercise program should be 30 minutes of any activity. Aerobics, walking, swimming, gardening can get the
heart pumping. It's one of the best ways to stay healthy. As you get older, you tend to exercise less.
Age onset diabetes strikes many over the age of 40.

Diet: The food we eat is killing us. We consume what is fast and convenient, food that lacks the essential nutrients and fiber we need to motor through an active day. Processed food lacks fiber and
leads to blood sugar spikes after meals, creates insulin resistance and makes us fat. Our highly refined food contains more fat, sugar, salt and additives and doesn't fill us up, so we eat more.

Supplements: It's forgotten in medical circles. Until the world can find a way to grow fresh produce and get it to your dinner table, supplements are a necessity. The lack of nutrition in our food supply
demands supplementation. We cannot function properly without adequate amounts of vitamins and essential minerals to help fight disease and stay healthy.

Immune Function: There's no question that our current lifestyle is compromising our health. In order to have a functioning immune systems to tackle the variety of viruses and bacteria out there, we need top performance. Today you don't need to be HIV positive to compromise your immune system. Most of us have already compromised our immune systems making it easy for viruses to take hold. Smoking, excessive use of drugs and antibiotics makes it easy to get sick. May viruses mutate and adapt to our medical onslaught so new super strains take hold. The next virus to come along to kill us won't be some new unheard of disease, but one we could easily have overcome had we let our immune system do what it does best, instead of interfering with its functioning. There are some 20 trillion immune cells in your body that are helping to kill bacteria, viruses, yeast and cancer cells. We have the arsenal to help maintain health, we don't have the patience to let the inner workings of the body do its job.

Organ deficiency: There's little you can do with an existing heart defect that's due to hereditary factors. As we age, our organs become less efficient. Free radicals have a better chance to do damage.
One way to help is through the use of vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements. As you get older, you'll need supplements to help you fight the damage. Diabetics age faster than others simply because
adequate amounts of basic nutrients are absent.

Chronic Infection: Infection in healthy individuals last a short while and disappear. Chronic infection is a sign that your body does not have the ability to rid itself completely of the infection. By pumping medications, you only mask, but don't get rid of the infection. So it returns again and again, better able to cope with the treatments you give it. The number one reason why people see their doctor is over the common cold. Sniffles and sneezes is something no one likes, but it is a sign that our bodies are purging something from our system. Rather than let our bodies handle it the way it was designed, we take a plethora of antihistamines, aspirins and drugs that do little to eliminate the virus. A chronic condition weakens your body and can lead to a diagnosis of diabetes.

Aging: No one gets any younger. By age 65 the average American has consumed 50 tons of food. With so many years of consuming highly processed food laced with chemical preservatives, aging occurs faster, and with it come the diseases of aging. Osteoporosis, Arthritis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cancer become the hallmarks of age. But the fact is, none of that has to happen. In some parts of the world people live to a hundred years and maintain their energy and zest. Disease is not inevitable as the the media would have you believe. The risk of developing diabetes doubles over the age of 40. We could live much healthier lives will into old age if we chose to take the necessary steps.

Oxygenation: Your body needs oxygen. A life in the big city breathing car exhaust and industrial pollutants only helps to starve our bodies and render it incapable of fighting disease. Our breathing is shallow. We breathe from the lungs. Proper breathing comes from the abdomen. You'll know if you are if your chest, rather than your abdomen, rises after you take a breath. Our red blood cells need oxygen and are heavily dependent on iron, copper, B-6, folate, B-12, proteins and zinc which cannot easily be  assimilated without oxygen. Smoking robs you of the oxygen your body requires.
Fact is that without oxygen, no one can survive more than a few minutes. Obviously, lack of the proper amounts of oxygen is going to shorten your life. Cofactors like CoQ-10 and B vitamins improve
the aerobic energy in cell mitochondria and oxygen plays a great part in getting it there. The good fatty acids in our diet help maintain the fluidity of cell membranes which are better able to absorb oxygen and glucose.

Injury: Injuries take a long time to heal if your health is  compromised. A long standing injury can lead to chronic infections and disease. New cell growth is blunted when there is not enough nutrients to help in the repair of the injury. If it takes too long for an injury to heal you are susceptible for diabetes after the injury takes too long to heal.