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I've found the same. And thinking it through, I can't come up with a mechanism for how a few more CO2 molecules bopping around in a sea of nitrogen and oxygen changes anything about how my lungs exchange the CO2 in my body with air around me. These counts are ppm, nothing!



If there's twice as much CO2 in the air, twice as much CO2 goes from the air into your blood.


CO2 enters the blood in the body, it comes out of the lungs. If you breath too hard you loose too much CO2 and your blood pH will go up. That’s why you breathe into a bag when hyper ventilating, to keep that precious CO2 in.




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