Lol this is actually true to an extent. Oxidation causes several issues in human tissue, including exacerbating aging.
The reactions that provide the energy for the production of ATP (aka the bulk of all usable energy in every living cell) are oxidation reactions, but the reduction of the oxygen also produces trace amounts of peroxides, which then turn into free radicals that can cause cancer.
So as I tell my students, the number one carcinogen in the world is oxygen...
Thats why antioxidants are so good for us. Cancer is just your body getting rusty.
My dad had a lung condition and ended up with COVID. He was on high flow oxygen for a very long time in the ICU. Eventually it just ripped up his nose to the point where he got a massive nose bleed.
The doctor said it's an inevitablilty because oxygen is so harsh.
The nosebleed forced them to intubate and that was the last time I spoke to my dad.
A fucking nosebleed.
One of the ways radiation does damage is by breaking the water in your cells apart into O- and -OH ions.
People with constant exposure to oxygen will die. Nobody has ever survived long term contact with it.
Wait until you hear about dihydrogen monoxide...
100% of humans that are exposed to dihydrogen monoxide die.
No wonder, it's an industrial solvent after all!
Yep, that shit is super deadly when inhaled. 💀
It sounds silly, but oxygen toxicity is actually a thing:
But I've heard that rust improves your memory by a lot.
You should see what it does to your blood.
This post actually has some truth to it. Oxygen is tightly regulated in the body, because hyperoxia is a thing.
And remember those free radicals people were so scared of eons ago? Those are (amongst other things) oxygen ions, and too many are bad for you.
We're all constantly on fire because of it, just slowly
