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Old September 5th, 2007
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Re: Dive reflex not always helpful?

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Originally Posted by efattah View Post
Here are two reasons:

1. Oxygen absorption through your skin
- Your skin absorbs a lot of oxygen, up to 8% of your body's requirement. Underwater this is not the case.

2. CO2 storage
- Under conditions of vasoconstriction & cold, your CO2 storage capacity is reduced. This requires you to modify your diet, training or breathe-up to compensate. If you use the same diet/training/breathe-up for wet static and dry static, then your wet static time will be less. This is the main reason that wet static is a totally different event than dry static, and requires its own training & optimization.
As i understood, by changing my diet I can increase my CO2 tolerance and therefore delay contactions,right?
What should I eat?
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