This book is a 600-page encyclopedia of oxygen therapies. I must admit that I was completely unfamiliar with the power of oxygen in relation to health and performance. I find it important to study and research wellness, especially with the state of our “Health Care System” or better yet our “Disease Care System”.

Why is this important to me? I ask you this question so as not to waste your time. I believe that without health you have nothing. Everything else can be achieved if you have your health. To that end, it makes sense to study it.

1. Symptoms vs. Root Cause: Have you ever considered cancer treatment? Millions of dollars a year are donated to cancer research and some of it is great, but more than 700,000 people will die from it in the United States. The treatment of cancer is to poison it (chemotherapy), burn it (radiation), and remove it (surgery). Have you ever thought about the root cause? Treatment eliminates the cancer as a symptom, but the root cause is usually not addressed.

2. Environmental Factors – Are you familiar with Doctor Oz? He has a daytime health TV show. One of his colleagues, Dr. Hyman, talks about the root causes of disease, such as heavy metal toxicity, mineral deficiencies, and acidity in the body. Food supply, pollution and stress are key factors that need to be reviewed in order to achieve true health and address the root causes of health problems.

Flood Your Body With Oxygen has a lot of information on the benefits of oxygen along with case studies. The book is too big to review in its entirety, so I’ll point out a few key factors.

1. Why oxygen? – The premise of oxygen therapy is so simple that it seems too easy to be true. Here it is: anaerobic disease cannot live in aerobic environments. In English, this means that fish can’t live out of water and we can’t live under water. Viruses, bacteria and other diseases that are born in water cannot live in oxygenated environments. Think of the environment as your lymphatic system and blood vapor. The brain runs on oxygen and glucose. You can survive without food for 30 days, drink water for 7 days, but go without oxygen for a few minutes and end up with severe brain damage and most likely death. Oxygen is the backbone of health and the environment does not provide enough of it. Oxygen therapies include 35% food-grade hydrogen peroxide, ozone, hyperbaric chambers, and supplemental oxygen.

2. PH Acid / Alkali – Anthony Robbins has done a lot of research on alkalinity in the body. The benefits are extraordinary. Example: in a very acidic body, cholesterol is formed to protect the walls of the arteries. One remedy for the symptoms is to take Lipitor and enrich the pharmaceutical companies. This does nothing to address the cause which is a highly acidic environment. Alkaline foods and oxygen therapies reduce acid.

3. Case Studies: Ed profiles hundreds of case studies of near-death HIV and cancer patients who used oxygen therapy and survived. You don’t have to be sick to do this. OxyWater is a drink that has tons of testimonials from athletes who use it to improve their oxygen intake and performance.

4. Politics and money – Taking care of the sick is big business. An investment of $800 million is needed to obtain FDA approval. How do companies do that when oxygen therapies like H2O2 can be used for 10 cents a day? How are these therapies patented when they are common knowledge and not patentable? Ed’s answer in his book is that you discredit these therapies and promote expensive medical therapies. Some of the commercials for prescription drugs are disgusting. You take Abilify to help with depression, but your head can explode and you can die, but take it anyway. It is absolutely ridiculous.

Before doing health book reviews, I like to try things out for myself. First I wanted to do the 35% hydrogen peroxide cleanse outlined in One Minute Cure (see website). I did this and my energy levels skyrocketed. I was able to write my first book with this extra energy because I felt the extra brain power from the oxygen. Now a couple of caveats, #1 this could be a placebo effect and #2 my first book may suck but I will continue to use these therapies because they make sense. I will report because every year I usually get a cold twice a year. Ed mentions that he hasn’t been sick in 15 years before oxygen therapies, he was often sick. I am very curious if this works and will let you know as I am only 90 days into this. Also, I was able to improve my alkaline PH reading with oxygen. Tony Robbins travels the world and sees millions of people every year and he doesn’t get sick either. He is a great supporter of alkaline blood. The key is to have a clean internal environment so that the disease cannot grow. I WILL LET YOU KNOW IF THESE SIMPLE CONCEPTS WORK FOR ME IN THE LONG TERM.

I hope you have found this brief summary useful. The key to any new idea is to work it into your daily routine until it becomes a habit. Habits are formed in as little as 21 days. One thing you can take away from this book is that water-born diseases cannot live in oxygen-rich environments. There are various research papers and this is a well known fact. I encourage you to be responsible for your own well-being and health because no one cares as much as you do. You can’t help others if you don’t have your health.