December 27th, 2024
It’s 6:30 a.m., and as my husband says, “THIS is what I wake up to!”—a conversation about oxygen, of course. But there’s a reason why I can’t stop talking about it. Every supplement, every vitamin, every diet, and every exercise program…
December 27th, 2024
Reaching and maintaining a healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) within the range of 18.5 to 24.9 significantly reduces the risk of chronic diseases, including heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, respiratory issues, and certain cancers….
October 8th, 2024
Well, well, well. I’ve been AWOL for too long and what a day to come back! It’s NATIONAL OXYGEN AWARENESS DAY everybody! Know your blood oxygen saturation number. Go to your pharmacy and purchase a pulse oximeter – they’re not expensive. See…
November 7th, 2023
Blood alcohol is the alcohol that has not been metabolized by the stomach, pancreas and liver and which makes it to the bloodstream. When a driver is pulled over, his or her breathalyzer result will give the officer an indication of how much alcohol…
June 27th, 2023
Oxygen Orchard, Inc. is a very small company, now based in Wharton, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Over the last two decades, my husband, Lee, and I have had ups and downs, lurches and hurls. We came into this business of manufacturing almost by…
March 11th, 2023
It’s been a minute since I was here – quite a lot happening in Big Pitcher world. But I watched a rather lengthy video and would like to share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ioZDf5QO8 Dr. John Campbell has been instrumental in presenting…
July 27th, 2022
Twenty two years ago, when I began to research the physiological role of oxygen in the body, absorbed from oxygen-saturated drinking water, I coined the term “Chronic Oxygen Debt Syndrome”. The term, I thought, encapsulated the concept of an…
July 27th, 2022
I ran across a very interesting study undertaken by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, also in San Francisco. “The experiments involved restricting water in test mice and using…