How to Increase Blood Oxygen Levels: Breathing Hack
Poor breathing can decrease oxygen levels and even change your body's pH. Learn a simple breathing technique that can increase blood oxygen levels.
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0:00 Introduction: How to increase your blood oxygen levels
1:30 The Bohr effect
2:52 Chronic hyperventilation
5:07 Breathing technique to increase oxygen levels
In this video, we’re going to talk about breathing. Deep breathing does not increase blood oxygen levels. In fact, it can cause dizziness, make you tired, and even make you pass out.
Your red blood cells will not release oxygen unless enough carbon dioxide (CO2) is present. This is known as the Bohr effect. This means that the amount of oxygen released from your blood into your cells is dependent upon CO2.
If you’re breathing a lot or hyperventilating, you’ll get too much oxygen and not enough CO2. Too much oxygen can be dangerous to the body. If you give a baby too much oxygen, it can cause blindness, an epileptic seizure, or a coma. Too much oxygen also causes oxidation.
People in a panicked state experience acute hyperventilation. Chronic hyperventilation, also known as carbon dioxide syndrome, is a lack of carbon dioxide that occurs when a person is consuming too much air. This is often triggered by stress.
Mouth-breathing can deplete CO2 and inhibit oxygen absorption at the cellular level. This can affect the heart and cause hypoxia, fatigue, insomnia, muscle twitching, and increased histamine.
To fix this problem, you need to train your body to breathe properly to get oxygen deep into the cells by doing the following:
1. Relax your breathing.
Take soft, gentle breaths through your diaphragm and stomach, not your upper chest. Breathe in slowly for 5 seconds and exhale for 5 seconds. Practice this before you sleep at night, while driving, or while watching TV.
This simple breathing technique can help your body get out of fight-or-flight mode. You can even use a free app to help you time your breathing!
2. Breathe through your nose.
Your nose cleans, humidifies, and filters the air before it enters your lungs. Nose breathing increases your oxygen by 20%!
3. Use nose strips.
Nose strips can help open your airways and sinuses while you sleep to help you breathe better.
4. Use mouth tape.
Mouth tape can help you breathe through your nose while you sleep. You can filter the air all night, get more oxygen, and sleep better. You won’t wake up with a dry mouth, and you’ll wake up feeling refreshed. Mouth tape might even stop your snoring!
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Thanks for watching! Try these tips to help improve your breathing and increase your blood oxygen levels. I’ll see you in the next video.
Another great breathing technique is called “R.S.A.” 👊 Almost 20 years ago, I learned about The Johari Window – Building Self Trust, Albert Ellis’s – Rational Self Analysis, etc. It was then that not only did I start making better health choices, but I also realized that a 6th grade education wasn’t bad at all! Special thanks to Ms. Anderson! ❤ Happy Saturday, everyone, and thanks again, Dr. Berg! 🙂
🤔 How does self trust relate to topic? Are we limited in health because we hate ourselves? And deprived of oxygen? Or just a a promotion for something?
Please respond…❤
I thought it was pepperoni pizza 🤣
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I thought about food too…😂.
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me either😅
with coke..😂
Reputable content to know inside our body
Thank you, Dr. Berg
The mouth tape thing is so trueee I have been doing it for months no more snoring!!!thank you dr berg for this amazing video❤❤
I’m sure most men wouldn’t mind their wife’s mouth taped most of the time
Can you share the Amazon link
Any tape will do. I use surgical tape.
Sharing Dr Berg notes on this interesting episode:
Deep breathing does not increase blood oxygen levels. In fact, it can cause dizziness, make you tired, and even make you pass out.
Your red blood cells will not release oxygen unless enough carbon dioxide (CO2) is present. This is known as the Bohr effect. This means that the amount of oxygen released from your blood into your cells is dependent upon CO2.
If you’re breathing a lot or hyperventilating, you’ll get too much oxygen and not enough CO2. Too much oxygen can be dangerous to the body. If you give a baby too much oxygen, it can cause blindness, an epileptic seizure, or a coma. Too much oxygen also causes oxidation.
People in a panicked state experience acute hyperventilation. Chronic hyperventilation, also known as carbon dioxide syndrome, is a lack of carbon dioxide that occurs when a person is consuming too much air. This is often triggered by stress.
Mouth-breathing can deplete CO2 and inhibit oxygen absorption at the cellular level. This can affect the heart and cause hypoxia, fatigue, insomnia, muscle twitching, and increased histamine.
To fix this problem, you need to train your body to breathe properly to get oxygen deep into the cells by doing the following:
➡1. Relax your breathing.
Take soft, gentle breaths through your diaphragm and stomach, not your upper chest. Breathe in slowly for 5 seconds and exhale for 5 seconds. Practice this before you sleep at night, while driving, or while watching TV.
This simple breathing technique can help your body get out of fight-or-flight mode. You can even use a free app to help you time your breathing!
➡2. Breathe through your nose.
Your nose cleans, humidifies, and filters the air before it enters your lungs. Nose breathing increases your oxygen by 20%!
➡3. Use nose strips.
Nose strips can help open your airways and sinuses while you sleep to help you breathe better.
➡4. Use mouth tape.
Mouth tape can help you breathe through your nose while you sleep. You can filter the air all night, get more oxygen, and sleep better. You won’t wake up with a dry mouth, and you’ll wake up feeling refreshed. Mouth tape might even stop your snoring!
Thank you Dr Berg!
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Cheers…… Whim Hoff has a breathing technique. Anyone know if his breathing technique is legit?
@@verballyabusiveclown6290I use the Wim Hoff breathing method every morning. During the breathing session I do breathe through my mouth, but generally I breathe through my nose. Breathe Along with Wim Hoff is the YouTube video I use.
Thanks, Fidel Castro! Appreciate very much🎉
@donnafoster5215 doesn’t this video contradict Whim Hoffs breathing though?
That’s what I’m confused about.
Thank u.
thank you dr
You are great dr. Berg for bringing up these healthy guidelines. May God bless you always. Thany you.
Very helpful information. I am learning a lot about breathing at this time due to some heart issues. I think we tend to take short, gasping breathes often during the day. A slowing down of our breath helps us relax. Thank you so much for helping here.
Thank you Dr Berg for sharing another amazing video. May God blessed you and your family!
Thank you so incredibly much doc
This came at an appropriate time. Found out my blood oxygen is one point below the minimum it’s supposed to be so hopefully this will help.
I’ve been nose-breathing for a year now thanks to your videos Dr. Berg. I’m on Search and Rescue and almost had to step back from being a grunt to taking on a leadership role due to my gout and what I thought was old age issues. Yesterday we had a training exercise and guess who wasn’t huffing and puffing doing a heavy patient-litter carryout?
So interesting! Learn something new from you everyday
You mentioned feeling light headed, seeing stars and feeling dizzy…I thought I was having a spiritual awakening😂. I keep hearing the term breath work. It’s all connected.
I may be biased, but you are the best.
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Amazing video, Dr Berg. Great explanation. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks for this insightful video, Dr Berg ❤😊
Thank you!
Need this now!