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Why Can You Hold Your Breath Longer After Hyperventilation?

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Why Can You Hold Your Breath Longer After Hyperventilation? In short, the reason you can hold your breath longer when you hyperventilate isn’t because of an increase in oxygen, but because of a decrease in CO2. Besides reducing the amount of CO2 in your system, hyperventilating actually reduces the amount of oxygen available to your

How Fast Does Gasesous Oxygen Travel?

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How Fast Does Gasesous Oxygen Travel? In the lungs, whilst oxygen is smaller than carbon dioxide, the difference in solubility means that carbon dioxide diffuses roughly 20 times faster than oxygen. How does oxygen travel through the air? Each air sac is surrounded by a network of fine blood vessels (capillaries). The oxygen in inhaled