Exercise and Oxygen Inhalation: A New, Highly Effective Weight Loss Method Combining Aerobic Exercise and Oxygen Therapy

Currently, the newly emerging "exercise with oxygen therapy" both domestically and internationally is a method that combines exercise with oxygen inhalation. This method does not involve oxygen inhalation in a static state or excessive oxygen inhalation, but rather allows exercisers to inhale a specific amount of oxygen before, after, or during approximately one hour of daily exercise. This maximizes the body's ability to absorb and utilize oxygen, fully mobilizing the functions of the heart, lungs, and other organs, thereby achieving the goals of disease prevention and weight loss, while also making people more energetic. This method is simple and easy to implement, and is popular among fitness enthusiasts and obese individuals.

When performing exercise with oxygen therapy, for older or physically weaker obese patients, a moderate-to-fast walking pace is most suitable, with a walking speed of 115-120 steps per minute. The exercise intensity should be controlled to maintain a heart rate of 90-120 beats per minute. Simultaneously, active oxygen inhalation should be provided before, after, or during exercise, with an oxygen flow rate of 8-10 L/min, generally 1-2 times a day. For healthy individuals or older obese individuals who regularly exercise, the exercise methods can include walking, jogging, cycling, or exercises specifically designed to strengthen respiratory muscles, with an oxygen flow rate of 8-10 L/min.

So why does "exercise with oxygen therapy" lead to improved fitness and weight loss? Because "exercise with oxygen therapy" keeps the brain in an excited and active state, while also enhancing cardiopulmonary function, increasing the heart's blood output and oxygen carrying capacity by 20%-40% compared to normal. During exercise, more capillaries open up, and more blood flows to the muscles and skin, ensuring that the skin, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues absorb more oxygen. This keeps the skin, various organs, and the endocrine metabolic system functioning efficiently, thus achieving the goals of improved fitness and weight loss. These effects can be summarized as follows:

(1) Enhancing heart function, increasing the blood output during myocardial contraction, resulting in a slower but stronger heart rate, and simultaneously enhancing oxygen transport, allowing the heart to fully function as a blood pump. (2) The diffusion of oxygen in the blood is enhanced, and the arterial oxygen partial pressure of exercisers increases significantly, rising 8-10 times compared to when at rest. This promotes the rapid entry of oxygen into tissue cells, ensuring these cells receive sufficient oxygen supply, which plays a crucial role in promoting fat oxidation and decomposition, and is a key reason for achieving weight loss.

(3) It effectively adjusts blood circulation and the redistribution of blood oxygen, accelerates venous blood return, improves microcirculation, expands the number of open capillaries throughout the body, and promotes oxygen diffusion into tissue cells. It eliminates blood stasis and functional ischemia and hypoxia.

(4) It increases the number of red blood cells and hemoglobin, enhancing their oxygen-carrying capacity, and reducing the occurrence of anemia and hypoxia. Many obese patients are in a state of anemia and hypoxia, and oxygen therapy can prevent this.

(5) It can increase the efficiency of the respiratory system by about 30%-40%, increase oxygen uptake capacity by more than 8 times, and make breathing slower and deeper, which is very beneficial for consuming excess fat.