Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-22 | Page 14 | Dr. Fishbein's Health Talks

Dr Fishbein's Fishbein s Health Talks By DR BR MORRIS ORRIS FISHBEIN You may be able to exist without food from 30 to 40 days and without without with with- out water from five to seven days but jut you cant can't do without oxygen for even five minutes If It you are deprived of oxygen for tor even one minute you would be in a serious situation and if this should be exten extended ed only slightly you would become unconscious and life would end The margin of oxygen en reserve in your our body is so narrow that it is easily crossed and yet it is a margin between life and death Anything that Interrupts breathing breathings Is s a menace to life lUe Your whole breathing mechanism moreover isso is isso isso so complicated that various types of interruption are possible There is that portion of the brain which controls control the automatic character character character char char- acter of breathing there are the nerves In the spine to the muscles that hat arc are involved in breathing there are the passages through which the theair theair theair air flows and the lungs themselves Anything n that blocks the passages or that breaks the pathways s 's along which the stimulus to breathing moves may bring about death Therefore There tore lore our whole lives are arc spent in getting sufficient oxygen The period for tor which anyone can hold lold his breath without discomfort discomforts is s apparently limited to 45 seconds tf II however you prepare yourself for tor holding your our breath by breathing slowly and deeply for a certain length of ot time you ou may be able to do without without without with with- out breathing for anywhere from five to six minutes If in addition to that the air you br breathe thc 1 Is supplemented with extra oxygen you can extend the period without the motions of breathing to almost 15 minutes It has been pointed out that the sprint swimmers in recent Olympic games breathed oxygen before entering enter enter- entering In ing the races and had a considerable advantage because of that fact tact a When you exert effort you breathe more oxygen than when at rest At rest you breathe about one-fourth one quart of oxygen a minute While walking briskly you breathe about a quart a minute and during heavy work or violent ex exercise from one and one half to two quarts a minute The most oxygen that you can store up in your body is about three quarts Therefore the marathon runner in question is using up his hl oxygen about as fast as he can take it in However nature provides the body with factors of oC safety wety so that it is possible to run up an oxygen debt Trained athletes are arc able to run up this debt as high as 35 15 quarts of ox ox- These are the athletes who are so sowell sowell o owell well trained that they do not have to worry about getting gettin a R second wind since their oxygen is adequate before they star start Getting a second wind Li is the development development development de de- de- de o of enough oxygen rc reserve erve to carry carryon on activity without discomfort discomfort fort lort