Heart health

Oxygen therapy increases the amount of oxygen sent to your body’s tissues. This helps reduce your heart’s workload. It can help you breathe easier and let you do more. above 8,200 feet can cause major physiologic effects, including decreased oxygen delivery to tissues, increased pulmonary vasoconstriction, and increased sympathetic nervous outflow.  At sea level, oxygen saturation hovers around 98 to 100 percent, but at 14,000 feet, the saturation levels drops to 80 percent due to oxygen-poor air, requiring the heart to increase cardiac output, requiring a 10 to 30 percent increase in heart rate to maintain appropriate oxygen delivery to tissues.   Hypoxia also results in the release of epinephrine within minutes to hours of initial exposure and the higher epinephrine levels impact cardiac output.  In short, oxygen at altitude is good for you.

Brain power

The brain uses about a fifth of your body’s total oxygen supply. Oxygen helps send nerve signals and messages throughout the body. When the brain doesn’t get enough oxygen, brain cells begin to die, and a condition known as cerebral hypoxia occurs.  Low oxygen can cause:

• Cognitive decline or memory loss.
• Personality changes.
• Poor judgment or inability to focus.
• Problems with balance, coordination or walking.
• Increased risk of stroke

Exercise better

Using oxygen therapy at night allows your body to get more oxygen into the bloodstream so that you may get a better night’s sleep. Your doctor may recommend you do a sleep study to determine whether supplemental oxygen at night is right for you.  Using oxygen can improve your VO2 max, which can help optimize sports performance and reduce recovery time following athletic activity. Bottom line, You’ll be a better athlete, and be able to exercise more and harder with an oxygen pressurized room.

Sleep better

Sleep.  Sleep.  Sleep.  As much as we like sleep, you may not be getting enough.  To make matters worse, everyone’s oxygen levels in the blood are lower during sleep.  Everyone’s. If your waking oxygen saturation is borderline (89-90), your o2 level may drop to levels that are damaging to your heart and brain.  Low nightly oxygen is the reason many are on CPAPs and supplemental oxygen.  Frankly anyone over 60 should look into some type of supplemental oxygen, because the damage may go unnoticed, until its too late.  Talk to your doctor today.

You can stay

Florida is great, but only if you choose to live there.  Not when you are forced to.  With o2rooms room oxygenation service, we can give you Florida at night, but you can wake up in Mountains to lead a full active life, not hampered by oxygen related health issues.