The Underappreciated Role of Carbon Dioxide in Health – Interview With Georgi Dinkov

DavidPS

In this interview, repeat guest Georgi Dinkov reviews the role of carbon dioxide (CO2) in health. CO2 is typically thought of as nothing more than a harmful waste product of respiration, but it’s actually a driver of mitochondrial energy production, and it improves the delivery of oxygen into your cells.

CO2 is typically thought of as nothing more than a harmful waste product of respiration, but it’s actually a driver of mitochondrial energy production, and it improves the delivery of oxygen into your cells.

One of the simplest ways to optimize your CO2 is by breathing properly. Most people tend to over-breathe, which causes you to expel too much CO2. Proper breathing involves breathing less and breathing slower. Both of these allow CO2 to build up, and that appears to be part of why breathwork has such wide-ranging benefits.

To have sufficient CO2 production, you need healthy mitochondria because CO2 is produced exclusively in the Krebs cycle in the mitochondria. If you have mitochondrial dysfunction, if you're hypothyroid or have high levels of inflammation, then you will not be producing enough CO2.

When your CO2 is too low, your body reverts to an “emergency” vasodilator, nitric oxide (NO). Drawbacks of elevated NO include peroxynitrite species formation and pseudohypoxia. NO also damages the polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) in your cells, and inhibits energy production.

CO2 combats cancer development by lowering the pH of the cell, thereby allowing extra water to be excreted. This is the opposite of linoleic acid (LA) and estrogen, both of which suck water in and cause the cell to swell. Cellular swelling is a feature of cancer cells.

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Mauritio

Does Mercola use Georgia for advertising now ?

DavidPS

@Mauritio said in The Underappreciated Role of Carbon Dioxide in Health – Interview With Georgi Dinkov:

Does Mercola use Georgia for advertising now ?

Thanks for pointing out that Mercola includes a photo of Georgi on the image. I thought that Georgi's facial photo was just an indication the he is on the Mercola team. I do not recognize the other people from just their photo.

tea

@DavidPS Seems phishy if he did it without his permition.

Regina

@DavidPS Great interview.
Mercola is a lucky man to be receiving this pot o gold.

Jaffe

Does he actually let Georgi talk this time or is he using him as a soundboard like usual?

Ismail

@DavidPS the guy in the top left (glasses, ginger hair) is Dr Scott Sherr, he pushes products from Troscriptions and a big proponent of Methylene Blue.
Guy in the bottom left, looks familiar, can’t remember his name though.

Ismail

@Jaffe he keeps interrupting and breaking Georgi’s “flow” somewhat ‍️

DavidPS

@Ismail said in The Underappreciated Role of Carbon Dioxide in Health – Interview With Georgi Dinkov:

@DavidPS the guy in the top left (glasses, ginger hair) is Dr Scott Sherr, he pushes products from Troscriptions and a big proponent of Methylene Blue.
Guy in the bottom left, looks familiar, can’t remember his name though.

Thanks for identifying another face in the image.

DavidPS

@tea said in The Underappreciated Role of Carbon Dioxide in Health – Interview With Georgi Dinkov:

@DavidPS Seems phishy if he did it without his permition.

I suspect that he has Georgi's permission. Georgi can stop being interviewed if he does not like it. Mercola would not do that until he has pumped the well dry.

Regina

@Jaffe of course he interupts to correct Georgi and insert his dominance.

cs3000

@DavidPS part stood out at 50 mins about carboxylation as another need for co2 so proteins can activate / function
so more than effects on releasing oxygen from hemoglobin , also needed for many more proteins, enzymes and hormones like insulin being different in presence or absence of co2, ray on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQqMcnAkMKg#t=1m20s (other stuff sticks to them instead when not enough co2 around, lose function)
"everything in your body is different when its well saturated with co2, you cant suffer the side effects of diabetes for example if your proteins are well protected [by co2]" So a protective & activating molecule
Youtube Video

And oxygen use is more effective with co2
"In the heart when you increase the amount of carbon dioxide in your blood you increase the actual amount of oxygen in the heart, but more important than that it delivers it in the optimum way. It makes the oxygen go to the right places in the heart because it's having the same effect on the heart proteins that it has on the hemoglobin. And it retracts the electrons so the oxygen doesn't stick where it shouldn't. The electrons go directly to the oxygen down the electron transport chain and the electrons are prevented from deviating and getting off and attacking the polyunsaturated fats, which is what causes the bad oxidation that people take antioxidants for"

Ecstatic_Hamster

CO2 saved my life, quite literally. I would be dead now if not for Buteyko study and application. One of the reasons I began taking Dr. Peat seriously was his discussion of CO2 and his appreciation that it is not a waste product.

I do think that breathing exercises can become part of a lifestyle as opposed to using drugs or supplements to boost CO2, and that doing so has more dividends in health than any other intervention I can think of.

DavidPS

@cs3000 - Thanks for pointing out the importance of Ray Peat's thoughts.

DavidPS

@Ecstatic_Hamster - I have been playing with slowing my breathing in accordance with this video linked below.
30 Second Exercise to Build Up Your CO2 Tolerance | Part 1