I was sick and trying to understand why I couldn’t recover. Then one piece of research caught my eye: Circulatory swelling limits blood flow and creates hypoxia, oxygen starvation in our tissues.

This isn’t just a disease problem — it’s happening to everyone as we age, long before symptoms show up.

Then another finding hit me like a ton of bricks:

Hypoxia causes inflammation.

Inflammation causes more hypoxia.

And the parts of our cells that depend on oxygen the most — our mitochondria — are among the first to be damaged when hypoxia sets in, causing an energy deficit. The cycle worsens with age and illness.

That’s when it clicked. If I was going to break that loop, I had to restore oxygen delivery first.