I’m doing emergency rescue for work and learnt that inhaling a few times at below 10% oxengenated air will leave you pretty much immobile, but I can hold my breath for at least a minute, so shouldn’t I be able to go without 02 for a similar amount of time? Sorry if this is smoothbrained, I tried googling it and couldn’t find an answer for this specifically.
In: Biology
Because the sensation of needing to take a breath is not because your body wants oxygen, but because your body has to get rid of the CO2.
When you breath low oxygen air, your body doesn’t realize it is suffocating, and your blood oxygen level slowly drops, and you basically get high and loopy, then you pass out and die. The whole time, you never realize you are dying.
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