Coping With the Oxygen Paradox

Coping With the Oxygen Paradox
Many cold symptoms are really our body firing up its oxidation response to fight off a pathogen. Africa Studio/Shutterstock
Conan Milner
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Oxygen is essential to our survival, and yet this toxic, mutagenic, and highly reactive gas also has the capacity to destroy us.

The destructive side of oxygen is called oxidation. Slow oxidation turns cut apples brown and hard metal brittle with rust. Rapid oxidation destroys things more quickly, in an exothermic chemical process of combustion, otherwise known as fire.
Conan Milner
Conan Milner
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Conan Milner is a health reporter for the Epoch Times. He graduated from Wayne State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and is a member of the American Herbalist Guild.
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