We have been discussing the therapeutic uses of gases that benefit your health for years. Our main focus is on oxygen delivered in various ways, primarily targeting its most biologically active form: ozone.
The benefits of ozone therapy would be greatly diminished without the influence of another key player: CO2.
Many of you may be surprised to hear that CO2 is just as important as oxygen/ozone in maintaining your health and it is one of the most effective longevity hacks available today. Few things compare, except for a low linoleic acid diet and addressing estrogen dominance.
Today, when so many people are stressed to the max, it’s not easy to optimize your CO2 levels through proper breathing and by avoiding hyperventilation or overbreathing. Chronic CO2 deficiency, often induced by stress-related over-breathing, is very common and inevitably contributes to premature death.
Simply put, life-promoting breathing involves breathing less and slower, which allows CO2 to build up in the system. The wide range of benefits of breathwork, which focuses on improving skewed daily breathing patterns, includes an increase in CO2 levels.
It is a well-known fact that in trauma or ICU units, CO2 is used to counter the premature delivery of oxygen to patients who have experienced shock or an ischemic attack. Introducing too much oxygen too quickly can trigger a massive inflammatory reaction (cytokine storm) if cells do not have sufficient CO2 to enable them to utilize the oxygen effectively.
Knowing and understanding this fact, does it really make sense — if your aim is to live as long and as healthily as possible — to intentionally deplete your cells of CO2 through hyperventilation and then flood your body with oxygen with that recovery breath?
Deficiency of CO2 could also set off seizures. In the past (100 years or so ago), doctors tested for seizure susceptibility by asking patients to hyperventilate for half a minute. It was a sign of insufficient CO2 levels if the seizure symptoms became visible.
Low CO2 caused by hyperventilation increases the pH of the blood, known as respiratory alkalosis. Respiratory alkalosis negatively affects all enzyme activity, the balance of electrolytes, and proper blood flow. Over the long term, it could theoretically contribute to cancer, as respiratory alkalosis increases intracellular water uptake (a characteristic of cancer). Another reason why respiratory alkalosis could contribute to cancer development is that it causes the overproduction of several inflammatory mediators (including one more cancer characteristic: lactate) due to the raised pH of the cells.
So, from the above, you can see that if you want to improve your health, learn to breathe properly: slowly and gently. It is not easy if the faulty breathing pattern is gained for years. The higher the CO2 concentration is maintained (within the biologically normal CO2 concentration range), the greater the likelihood that the breathing will support your health and performance.
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