In breathwork, there’s holotropic breathing where people try to achieve LSD-like states by hyperventilating. While LSD-like states are beneficial for some cognitive tasks, they are not beneficial for most of the tasks we care about for daily productivity and probably detrimental for them.
ChatGPT suggests that low blood CO2 leads to respiratory alkalosis. Blood ph goes up. You get cerebral vasoconstriction, lower intracranial pressure. Hemoglobin binds to oxygen more strongly, leading to tissues getting less oxygen. There are some processes like the kidneys dumping bicarbonate to get the ph down again.
Besides that, you have CO2 receptors that get less activity which will reduce breathing rate and have a bunch of different physiologically effect on different tissue.
If I do this, I’m not buying the parts until I confirm nobody leaves a comment just demolishing the central thesis, I would probably wait until spring as opening my windows seems like a big important step to having low ambient CO2[7] but would be pretty miserable for me while there’s still snow outside.
In Sweden a common setup is called FTX, a balanced supply-and-exhaust system with heat recovery, that exchanges air with the outside without needing to open windows. Swedish regulation set a minimum outdoor-air flow roughly 0.35 L per second per square meter of floor area.
If you do care about reducing CO2 indoors, that kind of technology is likely what you want, maybe with an execution that above their government mandated minimums.
In breathwork, there’s holotropic breathing where people try to achieve LSD-like states by hyperventilating. While LSD-like states are beneficial for some cognitive tasks, they are not beneficial for most of the tasks we care about for daily productivity and probably detrimental for them.
ChatGPT suggests that low blood CO2 leads to respiratory alkalosis. Blood ph goes up. You get cerebral vasoconstriction, lower intracranial pressure. Hemoglobin binds to oxygen more strongly, leading to tissues getting less oxygen. There are some processes like the kidneys dumping bicarbonate to get the ph down again.
Besides that, you have CO2 receptors that get less activity which will reduce breathing rate and have a bunch of different physiologically effect on different tissue.
In Sweden a common setup is called FTX, a balanced supply-and-exhaust system with heat recovery, that exchanges air with the outside without needing to open windows. Swedish regulation set a minimum outdoor-air flow roughly 0.35 L per second per square meter of floor area.
If you do care about reducing CO2 indoors, that kind of technology is likely what you want, maybe with an execution that above their government mandated minimums.