Re: Hyperventilation good or bad
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Hyperventilating DOES store extra oxygen. But you can't necessarily USE that extra oxygen, because with low CO2, your blood becomes too alkaline. Hemoglobin, in an alkaline environment, doesn't want to release the oxygen bound to it.
Hypeventilating stores extra oxygen in the lungs and the venous blood. The arterial blood is not affected. In the lungs, you only get a few more percent O2, but the O2 saturation of the venous blood increases dramatically with hyperventilation. But, again, with excessive alkalinity from low CO2, the O2 will not be used. Blackout will occur while oxygen levels are still high.
With high CO2 you can withstand a much lower O2 level before a blackout.
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