Carbon dioxide against lack of oxygen!
I like controversial topics, paradoxical situations where things seem clear at first glance, but in reality everything is the opposite. Everyone knows that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a waste gas from burning fats, proteins or carbohydrates. So it needs to be removed from the body properly and as quickly as possible and replaced with oxygen, right? Wrong. We need it for a very important barter. We need CO2 to buy oxygen from red blood cells, our tissues need it. If we don't have CO2, we don't get oxygen, molecule for molecule. Only CO2 will force hemoglobin to release oxygen. This simple rule has far-reaching consequences for our body. The level and production of carbon dioxide affects the availability of oxygen, and its deficiency will cause (pseudo)hypoxia, an apparent lack of oxygen, even when there will be enough oxygen in the blood. The problem is that the formation of CO2 in the TCA cycle is a separate chemical event independent of oxidation. If the TCA cycle is slowed or sto