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performance by athletes. To learn more about the Easy Breath-Hold (or Control Pause), watch the video at www.advancedbuteyko.com/videos#ebh 10
4. The <strong>Buteyko</strong> Effect: Breathe Less to Get More Oxygen Most people do believe that better breathing can lead to bringing more oxygen to your cells. Most people believe that if you breathe more, you’ll get more oxygen, and that if you breathe less, you’ll get less oxygen. The process by which the body brings oxygen from the lungs to cells is however more complicated than most people would think, and it’s a bit counter-intuitive as well, so most people misunderstand how it actually takes place. The real story is that for most people in most situations, if they want to deliver more oxygen to their cells, they need to learn how to breathe less. The key point to understand is that CO2 makes it easier for oxygen to be released from the blood by haemoglobin. Haemoglobin has a chemical bond with oxygen molecules and the strength of this bond is determined by the CO2 content of the blood. More CO2 in the blood lowers the strength of this bond between oxygen and haemoglobin. So if there’s more CO2 in the blood, the haemoglobin will release more oxygen to be used by cells. Oxygen supply to the cells is not just dependent on how much oxygen we breathe in, but also on how much CO2 we breathe out. If we breathe out too much CO2, the CO2 content of our blood becomes dangerously low, inhibiting efficient oxygen distribution. Overbreathing causes the blood to be scrubbed clean of CO2, which negatively impacts the oxygen supply to your cells. Most people have the perception that oxygen is good (like God) while CO2 is evil (like the devil). But when we look at how our blood brings oxygen from the lungs to cells, it becomes clear that oxygen needs CO2 to help it be released from the blood in sufficient quantity. Oxygen and CO2 are really team players who work best in each others presence. The scientific formula that describes how CO2 causes haemoglobin to release 11
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