Oxygen is connected with nutritional biochemistry at the mitochondrial level, accepting electrons to form water in the electron transport chain.

“so there is oxygen intimately connected with our nutritional biochemistry at the level of the mitochondria but let's just start i think most of the listeners will be aware of the difference between the sympathetic and the parasitic nervous system because my audience is super sharp and savvy but let's just go over that as a review so what are we doing why do we care about this why would we want to modify our breath like what is the big deal how is our nervous system going to change and let's talk a little bit about these two kind of sides of the coin of the nervous system or the autonomic nervous system yeah i mean fundamentally speaking you know the easiest place to start for for anybody and what we really do we we we teach from a first principle standpoint it's really like hey what's like let's lay this down what's the difference between nose and mouth breathing you've got two or two anatomical structures that can bring air in and out what's the difference between those two and it turns out the mouth is directly involved with sympathetic activity so the moment i begin to talk after you're done talking i i am now there are physiological things that are actually occurring as a result of me breathing through my mouth right and one of those is a higher arousal or more sympathetic activity now in today's day and age we live in a world maybe not you down in costa rica right now but um we live in a world that is highly driven for more and success as a means of doing more right making more money doing more all of this [ __ ] that we've created that we think is how life should run what we gave up a long time ago was what animals did not in the wild and they are very in tune with their nervous system where we are not we have moved into kind of this mid-range stage of sympathetic activity most of our day and we think that that's the okay place to function i did um i've been there for quite like i've done all of this stuff i don't speak about anything i've never participated in or had an experience with um but but if you take for instance like a like when you usually tell a story of like i'll give another story so you take an animal that's lost it's heard right like consider it gazelle lost the herd that animal ain't sleeping that night that animal is on full alert for quite some time right until it finds its hurt what happens when it finds its down shifts immediately it's able to sleep it's able to partake in regular life it poops it eats it goes back to its stuff we do not right we our environment isn't really something that's unstable but we create a very unstable place within that drive to do more and i really think the drive to do more based on the work that i've real that we're really deep in right now the busy mentality is the biggest cover-up for not dealing with what people are really needing to understand about themselves they don't want to see the reality of who they are or deal with the reasons why they might be anxious why they might be unhappy and the things that they're actually motivated”