Oxygen: Creating a New Paradigm

This unique work from acclaimed author Dr. Paul Marino (Marino’s The ICU
Book, The Little ICU Book) challenges the traditional notion that the
human body thrives on oxygen, and that promoting tissue oxygenation is
necessary for promoting life. This concept fails to recognize that
oxygen is a destructive molecule that also damages the human body. 
Instead of welcoming oxygen, the human body limits exposure of the
tissues to oxygen, and employs an army of chemical antioxidants to
combat the damaging effects of oxygen.  This “oxygen protective” human
design represents a new paradigm for the relationship between oxygen and
human survival, and it has important implications for the excessive and
unregulated use of oxygen in clinical practice.

Dr. Marino’s
book includes the following  relevant features: Describes how oxygen and
its reactive derivatives can damage vital cell components, and how
oxygen plays a pivotal role in the damaging effects of inflammation,
radiation, and aging. Challenges the traditional notion that oxygen
delivery is the principal function of the cardiorespiratory system, and
that oxygen transport is the principal function of red blood cells and
hemoglobin.

Demonstrates how the tissues normally operate in
an oxygen-poor environment (which limits the risk of oxidative damage),
and how the body counteracts attempts to increase tissue oxygenation.
Describes the body’s use of protective antioxidants, and shows how
failure to maintain this antioxidant protection makes oxygen inhalation
an unrecognized source of harm. Reveals the lack of evidence that
cellular hypoxia is a final common pathway for cell death, and proposes
that oxygen itself is responsible for the death of aerobic organisms.


Proposes a new management strategy that is “oxygen-protective” rather
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