We want to share or remind you of a health hack which is of utmost importance as it can greatly contribute to your overall well-being. It is the often misunderstood CO2 gas, a gas that is considered toxic, yet crucial to the delivery of oxygen and relatively simple to administer in Recover U steam saunas.
Lack of oxygen (tissue hypoxia) is one of the main contributing factors to most diseases. The paradox of oxygen is that the higher the oxygen percentage carried by the hemoglobin in your blood, the less oxygen will be delivered to your tissues. The reason for this is that adequate levels of CO2 must be present in the body for oxygen to be released from hemoglobin and delivered to your cells. CO2 levels determine the release of oxygen bound to and carried by hemoglobin.
Simply put, oxygen cannot be delivered to the tissues without an adequate supply of carbon dioxide in your body. This interdependence of O2 and CO2 gases is known as the Bohr Effect.
You could have 99 to 100% oxygen saturation of the red blood cells, but without adequate amounts of CO2, that oxygen will not be delivered to the cells, leading to hypoxia (insufficient oxygen to support oxidative metabolism) in those areas.
Increasing the CO2 levels within your body by delivering it through the skin in a steam sauna will allow more oxygen to be used by your cells for aerobic respiration. This, in turn, produces more energy and more CO2 at the cellular level. Thus, supplemental CO2 increases the body’s production of energy.
