A brief transcript excerpt from a YouTube discussion (recorded Sep 20, 2023) in which two speakers identify factors other than prolonged sitting that contribute to hypoxia. They highlight anemic conditions, age-related sarcopenia and muscle loss (which reduce respiratory and metabolic capacity), and impaired oxygen-carrying ability.
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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