Breathing is important for two main reasons: providing our body with oxygen and getting rid of waste products. Importance of oxygen: oxygen helps in the integrity of the brain, nerves, glands and other internal organs. The brain needs more oxygen than any other body part. Deficiency leads to mental retards and depression, and eventually vision and hearing decline. Deficiency in oxygen affects all body parts and one starts aging faster.

When the heart is denied oxygen the results are that are that one gets a heart attack. When then heart gets heart attack the brain gets stroke. Lack of oxygen leads to cancer as lack of oxygen makes normal body cells become cancer cells.

Getting rid of waste products: oxygen purifies the blood stream. A purified blood stream leads to vitality and rejuvenation. The most effective way to purify the blood stream is by having enough oxygen. Oxygen breaks down the unwanted products (toxins) in the body and giving the body more energy. Oxygen helps break down food and hence 99% of the body energy is from the air we breathe and not from the food we take as commonly thought. By cleaning the blood stream the whole body is rejuvenated.

Research has led to a discovery that the chemical basis of the energy production in the body is a chemical known as Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). The discovery also shows that if something tempers with the production of ATP, leads to lowered vitality, diseases and premature aging. Scientists have it that for the production of ATP then oxygen is of utmost importance.

This shows how not only breathing important but also healthy proper breathing counts more than any thing else. This leads to breathing of cleaner air to avoid the consequences of breathing in little amounts of oxygen hence poor health.