Ben Greenfield

Yeah, it's so true what you say down to the point where there's a certain carbon dioxide inhalation apparatus called a carbogen that they'll use in people who have high amounts of stress or depression because it appears that breathing in carbon dioxide or having naturally elevated levels of carbon dioxide is helpful for a wide range of mental functions and psychological states.

It's different.

She has a supplement, I think it's called Thyroid Fixer, that has it in there.

But if you're a woman and you run cold, you should get your thyroid values checked.

And if it's low, it appears out of all the different ways to fix it, that T2, which kind of flies under the radar and not a lot of people know about, is a really good way to naturally restore thyroid activity without having to take a medication.

and also induces a little bit of stress resilience.

Now, there's a law of diminishing returns.

Like a lot of people who eat a very acidic diet, way too many inflammatory foods, et cetera, or even just exercise and produce too much lactic acid from excessive hard exercise, they produce a lot of CO2, like too much CO2, and that can tend to cause a little bit of an acidic state in the body.

But at the same time, if you look at breathwork, most forms of breathwork, one of the reasons they work so well is you're getting high levels of CO2 and high levels of oxygen simultaneously and kind of dropping back and forth between them.

Yeah, it's so true what you say down to the point where there's a certain carbon dioxide inhalation apparatus called a carbogen that they'll use in people who have high amounts of stress or depression because it appears that breathing in carbon dioxide or having naturally elevated levels of carbon dioxide is helpful for a wide range of mental functions and psychological states.

But if you look at a Wim Hof protocol or pranayama breathwork,

or any of these popular forms of excitatory breath work, in many cases, you're retaining CO2 and oxygen simultaneously, and the high amounts of CO2 can actually help with the oxygen delivery to your tissue, so you almost reach this hyper-oxygenated state.

and also induces a little bit of stress resilience.

Now there's a law of diminishing returns, like a lot of people who eat a very acidic diet, way too many inflammatory foods, et cetera, or even just exercise and produce too much lactic acid from excessive hard exercise, they produce a lot of CO2, like too much CO2, and that can tend to cause a little bit of an acidic state in the body.

There's a lot of breathwork apps out there that can assist with this.

Two of my favorites.

There's one called other ship.

It's fantastic.

It's got like two minute sessions, five minute sessions, all the way to like super deep, like holotropic depth.

But at the same time, if you look at breathwork, most forms of breathwork, one of the reasons they work so well is you're getting high levels of CO2 and high levels of oxygen simultaneously and kind of dropping back and forth between them.