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The Dangers of Over-Breathing with Dr. Peter Litchfield #259

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Is Carbon Dioxide Required in the Kidneys?

Carbon dioxide is required in the kidneys to return by carbonates to the blood. When you lose bi carbonat like you buffer sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, your buffer the acids that are created by eating proteins or laklamoslactic acid - otherwise it's not peed out. If you become anerobic and an exercise, you'll start to over ventilate,. dumping carbon dioxide slow down the effects of lactic acid. You're dumping more carbon dioxide than you would normally to try to slow that process from happening. And that's a reflex there. But you don't want to lose those bicarbonates. That long term effect of dumping

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