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How to Breathe Less to Do More with Patrick McKeown, King of Oxygen - #434

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

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Is There Something Going on With Your Minochondria?

There's definitely something going on with your minochondria. I thi they need some amount of oxygen. But a lot of people don't know this. It takes many breaths just to deplete the oxygen that already came out of my lungs, if you breathe the same air over and over. If we hold our breath or reduce our breathing, it's carbon dioxide that's generating that feeling, it's not oxygen. And what most people don't realize is that when oxygen transfers from the lungs into the blood, it's picked up by huma globin. Most oxygen is carried in the blood by humoglobin. In order refor to to be released from the red blood cells to

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