The Oxygen Breakthrough: 30 Days to an Illness-Free Life [Mass Market Paperback]

Sheldon Saul Hendler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1990

From the proper diet needed to increase the flow of oxygen to correct breathing techniques to decreasing stress to combating colds, allergies and fatigue, The Oxygen Breakthrough is a total approach to total health.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Hendler, a researcher and private physician, adopts a fresh, optimistic approach to debilitating and degenerative diseases, from the nonspecific Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) to chronic asthma and AIDS. His "breakthrough" focuses on a central but oft-forgotten fitness mechanism: proper breathing. Fatigue and immunosuppression, he points out, are often caused and always aggravated by poor oxygenation, both through the lungs ("outer breathing") and through the cell membranes ("inner breathing"). A few sensible breathing exercises will help readers understand and correct their outer breathing; frank, sensible discussions of diet and vitamins address microscopic oxygenation. But while Hendler provides valuable anecdotal advice on breathing, eating, exercising and managing stress, his enthusiasm for medical progress leads him astray when he introduces readers to lab tests and experimental drugs properly utilized (as he sometimes notes) only by professionals. Much of the book summarizes parts of Hendler's Complete Guide to Anti-Aging Nutrients . Illustrations not seen by PW .
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Hendler, a California internist, claims that the breathing techniques illustrated in this book can control and reverse the effects of asthma, allergies, PMS, viral diseases such as AIDS and the common cold, as well as a host of other afflictions. He says he has used these exercises to restore the vitality of critically ill patients when other therapies had failed. He claims that his exercises, when used in conjunction with a low-fat diet supplemented with vitamins, minerals, herbs, and amino acids, will increase membrane fluidity, and one's health will be enhanced. While this may appeal to some health faddists, Hendler does not support his claims with any footnotes, and he includes a scant, inadequate bibliography. Not recommended.
- Robert Schmid, L.R.C., Univ. of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical Sch., North Chicago
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 273 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (June 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671702254
• ISBN-13: 978-0671702250
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,809,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Increase Your Supply Of Oxygen, December 10, 2007

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Richard F. Duncan (San Francisco, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Oxygen Breakthrough: 30 Days to an Illness-Free Life (Hardcover)

2007. I have just finished this 1989 book. This is the best explanation I have read about "WHY AND HOW" we should breathe. His push to get more Oxygen into the system is convincing. The results he claims to get in his research and private practice are, in my opinion, amazing. I started my program before ending the book. I think I am getting some improvements in just a few days. I will need to get more experience before I can say it really delivers what he promises.

The fact that this 1989 Hendler used book is selling for $6 instead of .01 cent seems to tell me something. Hendler's other books have good reviews. (I am surprise that there are no reviews on this book.) I think this is one of the best health books I have read and I am going to search for Hendler's more recent publications.

Richard Duncan

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oxygen is Life, March 17, 2008

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Luigi Di Serio (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Oxygen Breakthrough: 30 Days to an Illness-Free Life (Hardcover)

Straight-forward, no beating around medical or political bushes here. This gives simple and insightful steps on how to improve your breathing and obtain more precious, clean, oxygen, the single most important thing that keeps us alive. This is a must for anyone serious about improving their health. Not only is the book well presented the information and excercises will lead to major benefits. Pick yourself up a used copy or look for a copy in the library, it really will be a breath of fresh air.