How to OXYGENATE your Body (Freediver’s PROVEN METHOD)
Does deep breathing "oxygenate" your body? And what does "oxygenation" actually mean? Can we even "oxygenate" the body? To understand this we should know about the Bohr-Effect and the relationship between O2 and Co2.
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How to OXYGENATE your Body (Freediver’s PROVEN METHOD)
00:00 intro
00:53 oxygen saturation
01:29 hyperventilation
02:57 Bohr-effect
04:56 How to breathe during exercise?
#deepbreathing #oxygen #BreathingExercises
💥💥What's up guys! did you know already about the Bohr-effect? And the relation between O2 and Co2? Let me know in the comments! I'm curious to know !!
Excellent. Thank you for this. I’ve been trying to tell my freedive friends about this for at least the last 3/4/5 years.
freedivers should be the first ones to know about the Bohr effect!
Hi, Gert! How are you doing? Gert, I should say you're a real deal with your breathholding exercises. Thing is that your exercises helped me recently complete CO2 table with eight breathholds, starting from 2 mi. rest time.
good to hear! 🙏
It´s amazing to see you have your mother´s teaching skills.
oh God hahaha 😁
Great explanation
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid !
thanks 🙏
Hi Gert, it would be great if you could make a video to explain how breathing pure oxygen increases breath holding so much?
that might be a good idea yes.. short answer : it increases po2 (partial pressure of oxygen).
Thank you for talking about SpO2 levels 95-100%.😊 Even ill patients have often normal SpO2 levels, unless they have respiratory condition, in which case between 88-92 per cent is acceptable.
yes, we all have 95-99% under normal circumstances. Situations where spo2 can be lower: when you have some kind of pulmonary disease, or when you're at high altitude.
Learnt about it on AIDA freediving course
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Great lesson leroy... Just silly question... In open water then would you recomend the use of snorkels? As they use the mouth?
theoretically better would be to use the nose with a nose snorkel, but for practical reasons we use a mouth snorkel. as far as I know nobody has invented a nose snorkel yet.
Thank you for video. Is this similar to buteyko technique
buteyko, or Oxygen Advantage, or just simply DON'T HYPERVENTILATE. Not everything we do needs a name of a doctor or a book 😁
Hi! What do you think of Wim Hof breathing techniques? It’s quite different from your teaching. Thank you 🙏
please watch my Playlist WIM HOF 🙏
Dear Gert First of thanks a lot the new info. When I do tidal berthing let's say for 2 minutes I always need to have a full breath 30 or 20 minutes before holding my breath... It's make me feel more comfortable!! Is that right or I've to start learning to hold without taking this full breath???
you mean 20 secs not minutes right? it's OK to take 1 or 2 bigger breaths right before taking the big final breath. no worries!
@@gertleroy yes you are right "seconds" what I wanted to say 😊. Thanks for the clarification you are awesome 💚💐
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Thanks Brother you are insane❤
thanks man. Was this something new for you, or did you know already about the Bohr-Effect ? I'm curious to know..
Another note, during Wim hof breathing there is a decrease in carbon dioxide concentration due to hyper-oxygenation. Then a section where there is no breathing. This reduces the urge for breathing (because the process for felling like you need to breathe is triggered by high CO2 concentration). Then when not breathing the persons is no longer taking in oxygen, but cells continue anaerobic respiration due to high O2. After the breath hold is finished the person has decreased the O2 saturation and begins to hyperventilate/oxygenate. So I’m essence this utilizes the same method you are talking about here, but the body is just induced into a higher O2 to CO2 ratio first. Let me know what you think!
No! there is no "hyper-oxygenation". You are right on the lowering of the Co2, but very wrong on the increase of "oxygenation". This is exactly what I explain in this video!
The “hyper oxygenation” is just a term implying the increased ratio of O2 to CO2. Because if CO2 decreased and O2 stayed the same, then the ratio is different. “Oxygenation” it’s just a layman’s term for this ratio disparity.
@@user-rp8yc9qn3m it seems people have their own opinions on how to fill in the definition of "oxygenation". That alone is already a problem. We should simply stop using that word.
@@gertleroy Fair enough! 😂
Thanks for this information. I am going through physical therapy. What do you recommend for building up your lung capacity? Also What do you think about James Nestor's advice to people.
lung capacity: thoracic stretching and cardio. James Nestor's book should be seen as a collection or anecdotal evidence and data taken out of context. Not as a scientific work.
Thanks for that. Where can I find examples of the thoracic stretching?
@@ronbarton7799 watch my Playlist STRETCHING FOR FREEDIVING
@@gertleroythanks.
I see there are a lot of strong feelings and opinions surrounding this topic and, I too am in the “don’t knock it ‘til you try it” camp regarding the WHM. With that said… is it possible, OP, that it is misguided to assume that vasoconstriction is always a bad thing? For instance, stimulant medications and even coffee are known to be vasoconstrictive. Yet, one is prescribed for ADD/ADHD and the other has plenty of studies pointing to myriad health benefits associated with the consumption of it. So maybe context, duration, control… matter? At the very least, doesn’t it seem fair to concede that observation of the vasoconstrictive factor alone may not be telling the whole story? Just a thought. Respect and peace to you.
I don't think this video is about vasoconstriction only. it's mainly about the Bohr effect which describes the relation between Co2 and how oxygen is delivered to the working muscles.
does carbon build up faster with full or empty lungs
on empty lungs hypoxia comes first. it's a hypoxic breathhold. On full lungs, hypercapnia comes first. It's a hypercapnic breathhold. now that being said, in empty lungs (which are never empty) you also have Co2 building up, and quite fast becauze your breathhold is so short.
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Not completely true … Climb Kilimanjaro before you come with such video’s … you’re continuously doing breathing to bring the oxygenation up. - For a lot of people a difference between 95% - 98% is a lot! - Your explanation is also limited to the CO2 levels and the Bohr effect … - You should have more an overview of the whole physiology … and not only “optimising the Bohr effect” - Intermittent hypoxia creates more red bloods cells … Every breath becomes more efficient … this is another way of bringing more “oxygens inside the body” becomes it becomes more energy efficient - You’re explanation of the CO2 levels and Bohr effect is right, but your conclusion that hyperventilationexercises combined with breath holding creating hypoxia cannot increase oxygenation is not true, because of the rise of Red blood cells … - There are people that have constant lower oxygen levels, for them these exercises are golden …
if you are at high altitude or if you're having a respiratory illness that keeps your spo2 lower than 95%, then hyperventilation can bring that up to normal ranges again 95-99% For all other people who have normal spo2 ranges hyperventilation will not make a difference. I explain in this video that a temporary increase from let's say 97% to 99% is negligible.
You clearly don’t understand the retention part of the Wim Hof Breathing … 😉 - People experience less and less tingling after doing the Wim Hof Breathing for a long time. That means CO2 tolerance has happened - Creating more red blood cells through the Wim Hof Breathing is a way of become more oxygen efficient. - Your view is limited to CO2 levels and the Bohr effect, but there is so much more to understand about the WHM breathing, so, no matter your achievements, you’re quite … simply … wrong … 🙏🏽✨
I don't think this video even mentions the name wim hof once.. (correct me if I'm wrong). But now that you do mention him.. hyperventilation does not create Co2 tolerance. It does the opposite. And if hyperventilation wouldnindeed create more red blood cells, ALL freedivers woukd be on it (for dry practice) and guess what, they're not. It is very difficult to increase long term red blood count through natural ways. Freedivers are literally devoting their lives to studying how to increase the red blood count, and high altitude training might temporarily increase RBC, but not long lasting. What does increase RBC is certain supplemts or "doping" like testosterone or EPO. The WHM does NOT increase RBC.
@@gertleroy- you clearly don’t understand man … sorry … try to talk about breathing outside of the free diving community 😉 - 1) Your video is in the Wim Hof playlist … 2) read before you answer … I didn’t say hyperventilation creates more red blood cells - I said hypoxia in the retention phase does. 2) During WHM breathing (because of low CO2 levels, people go into intermittent hypoxia … You clearly don’t know the physiological consequences of Hypoxia … yes, release of EPO is one of them … More red blood cells is better oxygenation of the cells. 3) You write “more red blood cells but not for a long time” … Red blood cells have a life span of 120 days 😉 (fact) 4) in another video, you explain that the tingling is a consequence of CO2 levels being low and because of the Bohr effect, right. which is true. In most people who practice the WHM breathing, the tingling disappears over time, while the CO2 levels are as low as before … This means : CO2 tolerance has increased … On another spectrum as CO2 tolerance training after breath holding. - Try to come out of your box 😉 - Once again- you are an expert in CO2 levels, Bohr effect, but the rest, you need to dig a little deeper. very good with breathing related to freediving … But a lot of other videos, you clearly lack deeper knowledge and you come to a lot of wrong conclusions and wrong advice … - All the best 😉 - I’m done watching your videos on WHM (playlist) / you clearly don’t know - and people who point this out are from a cult or are emotionally reactive 😅 - the fact that you yourself may be wrong on physiology because you only talk about CO2 levels, Bohr effect and only stick to that seems to be impossible, cause you studied CO2 levels and the Bohr effe t (which is common knowledge btw) - Waist of time and bad advice for your viewers … Plain and simple …
@@dominiquestulens if hypoxia is what you're going for (and i doubt you should unless there are very specific reasons for this) then there are other ways to go into hypoxia. You dont need to hyperventilate (heavily) to experience hypoxia on a breathhold. You could (of hypoxia woukd be your goal) engage in typical hypoxia training loke freedivers do (multiple submaximal breathholds, or exhale brearhholds (FRC like the WHM, or RV = residual vomume) but WITHOUT the prior hyperventilation. the wim hof breathhold is a hypoxic breathhold (if at least the hyperventilation was heavy enough) meaning low O2 comes before high Co2 thus the lack of bodily warning signs to abort the breathhold and thus the many blackouts on the WHM. That's why it comes with a disclaimer. ps. in freediving hypoxia training is for the advanced athletes who have built up enough Co2 tolerance alrwady over the years. the other 99% of the world population dienst need hypoxia training. they woukd be far better if wirh Co2 tolerance training, hence the many breath coaches in topsport teaching athletes now to hold the breath WITHOUT prior hyperventilation.
@@gertleroy- Haha, man, exactly what I mean. You have some serious blind spots. Rest of the world doesn’t need hypoxia training … - Just stick with the freediving. That very small percentage of people that freedive have something on your freedive video’s - “The rest of the people doesn’t need hypoxiatraining” 🤣 … This clearly proves you don’t know the advantages of hypoxiatraining … -> This is embarrassing for somebody who claims to know a lot … With every answer you give, you spread more desinformation and you don’t seem to be aware. - Waist of my time, waist of many peoples time … only they don’t know
@@dominiquestulens an emotional response with zero contribution to the topic. #wimhofcult