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Up Your Oxygen Level

With this simple action.

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We spend much time working in buildings with sealed windows, in vehicles with closed windows and homes with closed windows. This reduces the amount of oxygen we get.

Limited oxygen translates to a lower oxygen saturation level in your blood.
Why does that matter?
Because it's connected to inflammatory pain.

Here's how low oxygen saturation in your blood effects you:

As the day wears on lower level of oxygen saturation causes a drop in energy. For a pickup, you eat something sweet, have coffee, or have a smoke.

That sugar spike leads to an imbalance of gut bacteria which leads to leaky gut and inflammation.

The inflammation then settles in the areas of the body that have had injury.

If the injury is in your musculoskeletal system, you will feel pain in your joint(s) or back.

If you've had a brain injury, you'll have cognitive problems - trouble remembering, brain fog, confusion.

If your vascular system has weakness, you'll experience poor circulation and possibly high blood pressure, or other cardiovascular effects.

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Our dogs know the value of fresh air! Follow their lead:

Open your car windows, the windows in your home, breathe in the fresh air and up your oxygen saturation level.

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