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Inflammation, Oxygen, CO2 and Breathing

Since the main thrust of this book is mastery of the three primary gases we need to look
at the inescapable relationship between oxygen and CO2. A lower than normal level of
carbon dioxide in the blood leads to difficulties in releasing oxygen from haemoglobin.
According to the Verigo-Bohr effect, a CO2 deficit caused by over-breathing leads to
oxygen starvation in the cells of the body. This state is known as hypoxia (oxygen
deficiency) and it negatively affects the nervous system.

The complicated world of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and tissue pH are important areas
because our body simply cannot fight disease if it’s pH is not properly balanced.
Consequently the oxygen-carrying capacity of our cells becomes compromised. It’s really
simple—higher pH conditions lead to higher O2 levels and this results in oxygen being
delivered where it is needed.

The key to oxygen is not more oxygen but more carbon dioxide, which is a nutritious gas,
not a poison. Doctors at the Department of Anaesthesia and Medical-Surgical Intensive
Care Unit, Toronto General Hospital in Ontario, Canada say that, “Accumulating clinical
and basic scientific evidence points to an active role for carbon dioxide in organ injury,
in which raised concentrations of carbon dioxide are protective and low concentrations
are injurious.”

Carbon dioxide executes uncountable functions in the human organism. Among them are:
repair of alveoli in lungs, stability of the nerve cells, regulation of pulse, normal
immunity, blood pressure maintenance, dilation of bronchi and bronchioles, regulation
of blood pH, sleep control, relaxation of muscle cells, release of O2 in capillaries (the
Bohr effect), weight monitoring and other essential functions.

Hemoglobin helps to transport hydrogen ions and carbon dioxide in addition to
transporting oxygen. However, transport by hemoglobin accounts for only about 14% of

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