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Something You Should Know

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The Limits of Life

We are completely dependent on oxygen because our energy comes from taking the energy that's stored in sugars and combining with oxygen to liberate energy. We have your average cell contains about 2,000 mitochondria. And their job, among others, is to produce energy but they can't do it without oxygen. So that's why we consume about 2 thirds of a pint of oxygen a day. The hemoglobin distributes it throughout the body to all the cells within our body. That oxygen allows ourselves to create energy without it, we wouldn't be here. Isn't that amazing? That's how it works. It all kind of goes on under the radar. But there it is. Without that,

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