Why Oxygen is both the source of life and aging

🫁 The thing keeping you alive is also what's killing you.

Oxygen.

You need it to survive. Every cell in your body runs on it.

But every time your cells burn oxygen for energy, they produce toxic byproducts called reactive oxygen species — the most dangerous type of free radical.

These unstable molecules punch holes in your cell membranes, damage your DNA, and accelerate aging from the inside out.

Scientists have a name for this cycle:

Inflammaging.

Oxygen → free radicals → inflammation → oxidative stress → more inflammation → faster aging.

It's a loop. And it's running right now inside your body.

The good news? Your body has a built-in defense system designed to break this cycle. It's called superoxide dismutase (SOD) — and it's been doing this job for 2.5 billion years.

🎧 Episode 254 of the High Performance Longevity Podcast with François Vix breaks down:ㅤ

✅ Why oxygen is both the source of life and the source of aging
✅ What inflammaging is and how it accelerates decline
✅ How SOD breaks the oxidative stress loop at the enzymatic level

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