Quick Method To Accumulate More CO2

[Fractality]

Pinch your nose and nod your head forwards and backwards quickly whilst holding your breath. Once you feel a strong urge to breathe, sit down with your spine totally straight - you are about to take your first breath.

After you release your nose, you are to resume normal breathing but ensure you keep your mouth closed. Resist the urge to take a huge gasp of air, instead, take a smaller inhale and then relax all of your muscles during exhalation.

When you hold your breath and perform repetitive physical movements, all the cells of your body, including the airways, lungs, and blood, accumulate more carbon dioxide [CO2]. CO2 is a powerful vasodilator of smooth muscle which lines the sinuses, bronchi and bronchioles (air passages). A vasodilator is a substance that causes smooth muscle to relax thus dilating the tubular passages it lines.

Upon the airways dilating there is quick relief from a blocked nose. Additional effects are due to the dilation of arteries and arterioles when arterial CO2 is increased. CO2 induced vasodilation improves blood and oxygen supply to your nose.

 

[cyclops]

Pinch your nose and nod your head forwards and backwards quickly whilst holding your breath

Why do you have to pinch your nose if you're holding your breath?

 

[managing]

Pinch your nose and nod your head forwards and backwards quickly whilst holding your breath. Once you feel a strong urge to breathe, sit down with your spine totally straight - you are about to take your first breath.

After you release your nose, you are to resume normal breathing but ensure you keep your mouth closed. Resist the urge to take a huge gasp of air, instead, take a smaller inhale and then relax all of your muscles during exhalation.

When you hold your breath and perform repetitive physical movements, all the cells of your body, including the airways, lungs, and blood, accumulate more carbon dioxide [CO2]. CO2 is a powerful vasodilator of smooth muscle which lines the sinuses, bronchi and bronchioles (air passages). A vasodilator is a substance that causes smooth muscle to relax thus dilating the tubular passages it lines.

Upon the airways dilating there is quick relief from a blocked nose. Additional effects are due to the dilation of arteries and arterioles when arterial CO2 is increased. CO2 induced vasodilation improves blood and oxygen supply to your nose.

Interesting. Thanks.

 

[firebreather]

Pinch your nose and nod your head forwards and backwards quickly whilst holding your breath. Once you feel a strong urge to breathe, sit down with your spine totally straight - you are about to take your first breath.

After you release your nose, you are to resume normal breathing but ensure you keep your mouth closed. Resist the urge to take a huge gasp of air, instead, take a smaller inhale and then relax all of your muscles during exhalation.

When you hold your breath and perform repetitive physical movements, all the cells of your body, including the airways, lungs, and blood, accumulate more carbon dioxide [CO2]. CO2 is a powerful vasodilator of smooth muscle which lines the sinuses, bronchi and bronchioles (air passages). A vasodilator is a substance that causes smooth muscle to relax thus dilating the tubular passages it lines.

Upon the airways dilating there is quick relief from a blocked nose. Additional effects are due to the dilation of arteries and arterioles when arterial CO2 is increased. CO2 induced vasodilation improves blood and oxygen supply to your nose.

Does it matter what part of the breath I do the hold on?

For instance will my CO2 levels rise more if I pinch my nose after the inhale or vice versa?

 

[MetabolicTrash]

The real question is, why do some of us have to go about making conscious efforts to breathe "normally" and what is then technically wrong with us in that regard?

I've looked around here and some point out too much serotonin/estrogen, vitamin deficiencies and so on as some causes. If we knew why some of us had to train ourselves to breathe right or "correctly" it might serve us well to know what leads one to create a habit of breathing "wrong" in the first place and try to solve it at the source than forever forcing yourself to "breathe correctly" when a correct breathing method should not require constant & conscious effort all of the time.

Could many things (some go together/all might be the issue):

1. Bad posture/craniofacial/airway issues?
2. Metabolic health overall?
3. High estrogen/serotonin/histamine/lactic acid/etc.?
4. Vitamin/mineral deficiencies/problems?
5. Underactive thyroid (could explain all 4 prior to this, and all 4 could lead to this assumption too)?