Hypoxia and Medicine

What makes the body maintain a healthy oxygen saturation levels?

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1. Not sure what you're going for here but I'll try. There is a certain balance in the body called homeostasis, this is the condition when everything is working just the way it should. This state is often confused with good health. But it really means just that your body with everything that is wrong with it is in a state of compensated balance. All systems have to work in harmony with all the rest so as to keep this homeostasis, Your heart has to pump the blood with the nutrients to every cell in your body so they can function properly. This includes oxygen that the cells need for their proper functioning whether that be producing energy, or secreting a hormone or supplying my brain with enough oxygen to write this. If for any reason the cells do not get enough oxygen, for whatever reason, (and there are many reasons) it doesn't allow them to function properly and that starts the "domino" effect. This eventually connects with the respiratory center and the aortic and carotid bodies causing you to breath either deeper and/ or faster to take in more oxygen or blow off more CO2. If that solves the problem all well and good. If not you need a trip to the doctor to put you back in balance. God bless.