Carbon dioxide tolerance is the body’s ability to handle a temporary imbalance of CO2 and oxygen. The higher your tolerance is, the longer you’ll be able to hold your breath.
6 Benefits of CO2 Tolerance:
1) Helps reduce anxiety
2) Helps you run faster for longer
CO2 tolerance and running are a winning combination, since the former has been proven to be beneficial for endurance athletes. This is because the more CO2 they can tolerate, the slower their heart rates will remain. Running with a low tolerance causes the heart to beat quickly, which will lead to feeling winded faster. Being able to tolerate more carbon dioxide means that your heart will continue to beat slowly, allowing you to increase your pace for a longer period of time.
3) Helps you stay underwater when freediving
4) Helps manage symptoms of depression
5) Helps reduce inflammation
CO2 is also great at reducing inflammation throughout the body. Building a higher tolerance allows you to hold onto carbon dioxide for longer. This means that there’s more of it available to travel throughout your body and help relieve the inflammation.
6) Helps increase energy
Being able to tolerate CO2 can also help you produce more physical and mental energy. As you retain more CO2, it helps the mitochondria in your cells to multiply, which increases the amount of energy you have to burn off. This is great for anyone with an active lifestyle or who regularly needs to focus intensely on their work.
The article display many different breathwork practices one can choose from to improve CO2 intolerance.
I find this youtube channel to be a superb tool to achieve this:
https://www.youtube.com/@free-your-breath
There you will find guided practices ranging from beginner level to elite level, covering these different methods: box breathing, slow breathing, breath hold training, trapezoid breathing and triangle breathing.
Most practices take around 10-15min.
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CO2 Tolerance: Why It's Important + 9 Ways to Increase Yours