The Effects of Carbon Monoxide on Hemoglobin

Carbon monoxide is toxic to us when we inhale it because of the effect that it has on hemoglobin and it has no smell, no taste. You have to kind of understand how you can be poisoned by carbon monoxide to kind of avoid it basically. What is a hemoglobin? So a hemoglobin is a protein within your red blood cells and its role is to carry oxygen throughout the body and also to release the oxygen in the areas of the body that needed. How does it know where to take the oxygen to? When there's a higher level of carbon dioxide in the blood, it's because there's high metabolism in the area. As carbon dioxide levels go up,