10/30/2026
Take one slow breath through your nose. This is what just happened:
The air fills your lungs, and oxygen crosses into your blood, where hemoglobin carries it out to every tissue you have.
It reaches your cells, passes inside, and travels all the way to the inner membrane of your mitochondria. That’s the whole point of breathing. You’re delivering oxygen to your mitochondria.
Your body is always gathering electrons. The fat, protein and carbohydrates from your meals are taken apart until only electrons and protons remain, while sunlight on your skin and your bare feet on the ground add to the charge your cells carry.
Those electrons are passed along a chain of proteins in the mitochondrial membrane, and with every step they push protons across it, building the voltage your whole body runs on.
At the very end of that chain sits an enzyme called cytochrome c oxidase. It holds your oxygen in place, hands it four electrons and four protons, and makes water.
Your mitochondria make roughly a glass of this water every day, in the same place your energy is made.
That same enzyme is one of the main absorbers of red and near-infrared light in your body. The red light of sunrise reaches the exact place where your breath becomes water.
This is why the way you breathe matters to every cell you have. Why sunlight matters and why your environment matters.
When you breathe fast, breathe shallow, breathe through your mouth, or breathe inefficiently, hemoglobin then holds on to oxygen more tightly and releases less of it into your tissues.
Your blood can be full of oxygen while your cells are short of it.
Slow breathing, in and out through your nose with your diaphragm working keeps carbon dioxide where it should be, so oxygen lets go exactly where your mitochondria are waiting for it.
Inside The Cellular Cure School, you will find my breathing workshop as well as a step by step approach to restoring your mitochondria health!
Comment BREATHE and I’ll send you the link to join.
