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Old October 26th, 2006
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Hyperventilation good or bad

I have been reading in the last few weeks about hyperventilation. And something in the theory about it doesn’t make sense. According to most of the forms and the books I have read if you are hyperventilating your body is not building up more oxygen in the blood but it is just loosing all the CO2. The problem I found in this idea is very simple, in the blood the CO2 carear is the hemoglobin in the red blood cell. The hemoglobin release the CO2 in the lungs and bind itself whit oxygen. What is contradictive in the theory of hyperventilation is that by reducing the CO2 level in the blood we are not getting any extra oxygen. But every time when the hemoglobin release the CO2 in the lungs it binds again to oxygen. We all know that when somebody is hyperventilating he is breathing faster and deeper - he is moving more air throw the lungs and heart rate goes up so we have more blood running true the lungs. According to the simple logic the oxygen level in the total volume of the human blood will go up and the CO2 level will go done, because they use the same carrier in the blood – hemoglobin.
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