04-Evolution of Air Causes Chronic Diseases and Low Cells Oxygen due to Low Carbon Dioxide

Evolution of air on Earth (oxygen and carbon dioxide) is also a cause chronic diseases. Hyperventilation now leads to reduced oxygen transport to body cells. But this was not the case in the past.

How is it possible that a human being, one of the smartest creatures on Earth, can kill himself, and over 90% people die this way, due to overbreathing? Is it nature so silly to create us this way? In order to answer these questions, consider changes in air composition on Earth (carbon dioxide and oxygen).

Long ago, when there were no life on Earth, air has no oxygen (since oxygen is a highly reactive substance), while CO2 was a part of the volcanic gases. Geological studies suggest that carbon dioxide concentration was up to 10-12% or more. Thus, when the first organic substances and life forms appeared on Earth (from about 5 billion to 1.5 billion years ago), our atmosphere did not have any measurable amounts of oxygen.

Appearance of the first vertebrates (around 550 millions years ago) and the advance of prototypes of human lungs took place when air was made up of only about 1% oxygen, while having much higher percentage of carbon dioxide (Maina, 1998), likely over 7%.

Normal air today has many times more oxygen (about 20%) and only a fraction of the carbon dioxide (0.03%). However, our cells now still live in the air that existed hundred millions years ago. Dr. Buteyko wrote: "But the cells of animals and humans need about 7 % carbon dioxide and only 2% oxygen in the surrounding environment. This is the way how the cells live: cells of the heart, brain, and kidneys" (Buteyko; 1977).

Hence, most of the time, our lungs were developing and evolving in conditions when the carbon dioxide content was high (up to 7-10% during the first stages of development), with gradual decline, and low oxygen values (about 1% or less during the first stages of O2 evolution).

During these times, the process of control of breathing by the nerve system was also developed. Since this primitive air had very little oxygen, our evolutionary predecessors could get more oxygen in cells by breathing more air. Since any stressful situation, search for food, digestion, mating, playing, and any other activity required more oxygen, hyperventilation (over breathing) became the fundamental reflex or instinct. Only totally peaceful stress-free situations had low metabolic rate where heavy breathing would not give any advantages for survival.
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[lildee54]

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[MissPheonix1]

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[PurCitron]

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[MissPheonix1]

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