Ideas for getting more CO2 into your everyday routine
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Hi all, i started peating about a year ago after a major health challenge and its been a big part of helping to understand how to recover.
More recently my mum has been recovering from cancer and i have been experimenting (trying out) some peaty ideas before i suggest them to my mum (shes a little reluctant so i want to roadtest them first)
Anyway, ive been starting to learn here about how carbon dioxide is so fundamentally therapeutic for cancer due to its ability to oxygenate the cells through the bohr effect.
I first experimented with a co2 bath. I still suffer from brain fog and palpitations, and was amazed the next morning to find them gone. They did eventually come back later that day, but i couldnt believe that two symptoms which i had persistantly for two years dipped for a few hours of relief! I realised this co2 bath really shifted something quite powerfully in the right direction. Excitedly, i told my mum to give it a try to which her response was, “if i get in that bath i wont be able to get out” i totally forgot she struggles enough getting out of a chair.
So my second attempt is to see if she’ll sit in a bin bag full of co2 filled with a fire extinguisher, but by this point mum is starting to think ive gone nuts and its a hard sell.
All of this got me thinking what is some easy everyday ways to increase your co2 without having to do much. I like @haidut hole in a bottle idea which i think my mum will do a bit of and taking a bit of baking soda.
I brought a co2 pollution monitor to experiment with and found if i do a 1hour drive with the cars air recirculation button on the co2 levels rose from 600ppm to 4200ppm! Plus because co2 is heavier than air, the monitor went even higher on the floor of the car (still within a safe range). So to make the most of it ive been doing my morning commute to work and then lying on the floor of the car for a 30min nap.
Has anyone else got any quick wins, hacks for raising co2 in there enviroment or body?
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Well, if you want to try supplements you could try those that are carbonic anhydrase inhibitors such as acetazolamide.
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Bag/Milk jug breathing. buteyko breathing. Sleeping in a blanket fort or with something over your head / sleeping cap.
Here is a segment that is very similar. Instead of doing a full bath sounds like he just fills bags around his legs and arms and even a swim cap on his head with CO2 and sleeps that way.
https://bioenergetic.life/clips/b5082?t=2333&c=50 -
Of course just living in or getting to higher elevation spots is the most ideal as well to continually be exposed to higher levels. Peats states that 2000m+ is ideal for this to have much effect though so may not be plausible. But if its a matter a life or death this could be helpful.
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Thanks @jamezb46 @Cearrson some new things to look into, I appreciate it! Id heard acetazolamide mentioned on dannyroddys podcast but hadnt realised it was connected to co2. With the shower cap on the head at night im guessing once on your head, you fill it with CO2 from a source?
The other thing I forgot to mention is diet, I personally have been trying to increase quality carbohydrates to increase the production of CO2. Trying to get my mum to give it a try!
Will check this other thread too, Thanks!
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@josh The easiest way is to breath carbogen, which is a 95/5 mix of oxygen and CO2. Carbogen is an old hack (a hack only because mainstream medicine disallows its use by trivializing it while exaggerating its dangers) dating a century back.
I've used a carbogen machine of an earlier version made by Carbogenetics.com. It has been very helpful in getting me to recover from sickness. Simply put, it is vital in getting the optimal metabolism restored that allows the body to heal itself from illness. Imho, it is the reason mainstream medicine bans it.
It cost $700 and worth spending on when compared to how much more we spend on useless supplements and keep taking them just because.
Breathing carbogen and sleeping in it like on oxygen as used in hospitals is safe. The worst that can happen is developing respiratory acidosis. But like anything, it helps not to be a dumb user. As using it correctly is not rocket science, and listening to AMA propaganda makes one dumber and sicker ( like the scam of CPAP respiratory therapy).
The only knock I have on the unit is Steve being controlled by shysters. He limits his machine to 30 minutes usage per use, to keep himself from patients suing him, for an unlikely fail which would likely be used by the establishment and the complicit Talmudist press to frame him like what they did to Chauvin using George Floyd.