Dr. Kelly Starrett

So I want the women I work with to die seven times in a controlled death, right?

Like we're gonna jump rope and hold her breath and then put a little bit of that hypoxic load on.

And then later on we're in the pool doing something of consequence, it's a lot easier.

It may there, it could, it's more likely because it would probably, there's probably some systemic like blood flow restriction, like thing that happens, right?

Like if you can truly desaturate, but for the typical person who says, Hey, I want to run a 5k for example, or I'm doing a half marathon or something like that.

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they tend to over-breathe.

So they tend, as soon as it gets hard, mouth breathing opens, it's very shallow.

And it turns out they really can't access all the oxygen on the hemoglobin.

And this is, sorry everyone, this is a primer on physiology, but it's the CO2, high levels of CO2 that allow you to strip the oxygen off the hemoglobin.

And again, let me point at Butreyko, Oxygen Advantage, Brian McKinsey, all the people who've been talking about this forever, all the yogis.

But if we can get the brainstem to handle high circulating CO2s by practicing exposing that brainstem to these climbing CO2 levels, then we're able to tolerate higher workloads, strip more oxygen off and not quickly scrub,

breathe off that, and now we can actually get more work done because it's the CO2 that's triggering the breathing response, right?

And we don't sort of realize that that's very trainable and that we can suddenly really get a lot more work done and feel better and less stress in our bodies if we can handle those high CO2s.

But that's uncomfortable.

100%.

And then instead of saying, hey, let's lay down, we might do that.

You and I put our hands on each other's shoulders.

We take a breath in, we breath out, and then you and I wrestle a little bit.

And so suddenly now I'm thinking whoever breathes first loses.