A brief excerpt from a YouTube conversation (recorded Sept 20, 2023) where Ben Greenfield asks about factors associated with hypoxic states beyond prolonged sitting. The speakers cite anemic conditions and age-related sarcopenia/muscle loss as contributors to reduced oxygen-carrying capacity and metabolic decline.
Like you alluded to with the sitting is the new smoking. What type of other factors have you identified that seem to be pretty associated with people being in this hypoxic state?
Anemic conditions, age related sarcopenia that actually collapses the. The respiratory rate, the respiratory bones, muscle loss and muscle.
Inability to carry oxygen. Lack of muscle. Yes.
Okay. Lack of. I mean, muscle is our metabolic currency.
Yeah.
I mean, there's a direct correlation between early onset disease and even early onset death.
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