Please remember to spread the word about this :(
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Look at what it did to the Linux kernel too.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Ssshhh. It made it better
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Statistically speaking, for humans, breathing oxygen does eventually have a 100% fatality rate.
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Have you heard about the dangers of dihydrogenoxide?
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You're pretty much right about everything. Oxygen (especially as free radicals) is damaging to pretty much all your tissues, so your body moves it around in little bodyguard proteins (hemoglobin). These each contain 4 small iron molecules as part of the much bigger structure and doesn't rust or function like iron in any way. The iron is mostly used for electrons (and also damages your body if it's not inside the hemoglobin and causes more aging)
Carbon monoxide has a higher affinity for hemoglobin than oxygen, so it sticks to your blood cells and makes them useless for hours. Super dangerous.
Point being "oxidative stress" is bad for you and a major cause of aging that your body tries to fight. If your body doesn't fix this well, you age faster. If it repairs damage too well, you're more prone to cancer. Just wear and tear of using your body.
So to the original question of can this process be stopped... Absolutely! Hold your breath - the oxygen will stop coursing through your body and you will stop aging. Just ten minutes is enough to end aging indefinitely! Then you have to worry about other problems like body decomposition, but the oxidative stress will be cured!
Carbon monoxide, not dioxide.
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Did you see what oxygen did to the Hindenburg? I'm not going to let that happen to me. Say no to big oxygen!
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To sum up - because I taught this to a kid yesterday - for a period, basically all life photosynthesized and oxygen was toxic to most living things. There were large growths of photosynthetic Cyanobacteria that pumped the air full of oxygen. Living things at the time (like, bacteria and microbes, nowhere near vertebrates) couldn’t handle all the O2 and died.
Iron had been taking in most of the oxygen, but it got all rusted up. There’s beautiful geological evidence of this.
This pic sexy as fuck:
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Did you see what oxygen did to the Hindenburg? I'm not going to let that happen to me. Say no to big oxygen!
Have you ever seen asbestos catch fire? Me neither. So it's your choice what you'd prefer breathing in.
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That's why I chainsmoke constantly, I have to protect my lungs from oxidation.
you train your legs and arms and back, but when i train my lungs im told smoking isnt allowed in the restaurant
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Lol obviously. Thanks!
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I've currently been reducing my oxygen intake. My wife keeps telling me it's impossible and my doc says I'll supposedly die, but they're just hating on my progress.
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I've currently been reducing my oxygen intake. My wife keeps telling me it's impossible and my doc says I'll supposedly die, but they're just hating on my progress.
I got my oxygen intake down to single digits! My family wasn’t supportive however and got me a new pair of lungs, haters
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On the topic, as oxidation is a pretty prevalent negative side effect of living, our body has multiple mechanisms to deal with it, no? So my question is: where do the "antioxidants" that we can eat come into the picture here? Are they like preventing oxidation from even occurring, or are they like the shields that our cells use to protect themselves from oxidative stress, or what have you?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Oxidation is the loss of electrons, whereas reduction is the gain of electrons. The mnemonic is OIL RIG: Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain.
Oxygen is highly electronegative (second only to fluorine), meaning that it will strongly attract electrons. So, oxygen is good at oxidizing things. It's good at stealing their electrons. (When the oxygen takes the electron, the oxygen becomes reduced!)
The reason that oxygen is so important in your body for respiration is because of its high electronegativity. It is used as the final electron acceptor in a chain of chemical reactions that are used to convert high energy molecules that you've eaten into different high energy molecules that your body can use.
Think of the analogy of a staircase and a ball. The ball is an electron and the stairs are energy states of different molecules along the metabolic pathway. As the ball goes down the stairs, the electron loses energy (which is usually converted to ATP or NADH). At the bottom of the stairs is oxygen, once the electron gets there, it doesn't have anymore potential energy to lose, unless maybe you have some fluorine around. The final, reduced state of oxygen in this pathway is carbon dioxide. It's no longer useful for respiration and thankfully can just be exhaled. How convenient!
An oxygen missing an electron (an oxygen radical) is highly reactive. This is not good. It'll just steal an electron from whatever molecule is nearby. That may be DNA or any other molecule that it's in your best interest to keep intact. Antioxidants are helpful as electron donors, neutralizing radicals before they do damage.
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Great now I'm gonna stop breathing.
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Look at what it did to the Linux kernel too.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Ssshhh. It made it better
:::OOTL? 🥺
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Antioxidants exist.
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OOTL? 🥺
Rust programming language
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Rust programming language
Oh, but of course! Please excuse my old brain, and thank you.
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Imagine what it can do to software
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Have you ever seen asbestos catch fire? Me neither. So it's your choice what you'd prefer breathing in.
Delicious fluorine for me please
