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Why Carbon Dioxide Is So GOOD For You, How You Should *Really* Breathe, The New Science Of CO2 Therapy & More With Anders Olsson

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Carbon dioxide therapy has become a highly debated and often misunderstood topic.

Is elevated CO2 beneficial, or could it pose risks? What exactly are the advantages of CO2 therapy, and how might it impact your health?

In this episode, you’ll get to explore the transformative power of breathing with breathwork expert Anders Olsson. From the benefits of food-grade CO2 cylinders to advanced breathing techniques that can boost both mental and physical well-being, Anders shares invaluable insights. As the author of Conscious Breathing: Discover The Power Of Your Breath and creator of tools like the Relaxator and CarboHaler, he guides you through the profound impact breathwork has on emotions and stress management. You’ll uncover the fascinating relationship between CO2 and oxygen delivery, the role of nitric oxide in respiratory health, and how specific breathing patterns can dramatically reduce stress and elevate overall health. Plus, you’ll gain practical advice and discover cutting-edge research to enhance your daily breathwork practice.

Anders Olsson is a breath coach, author, keynote speaker, inventor, and founder of the Conscious Breathing Institute. Anders joins me on the podcast to bring clarity to the benefits, potential concerns, and safe applications of CO₂ therapy. After living most of his life with a high inner stress and a racing mind, Anders was fortunate enough to come across tools that have helped him relax and find his inner calm. The most powerful of these tools has undoubtedly been to change his breathing habits, which made Anders decide to become the world’s most prominent expert in breathing.

That was 15 years ago, and since then, he has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to achieve better health and an improved quality of life. Anders is the author of the best-selling book Conscious Breathing: Discover The Power of Your Breath and the co-inventor of the Relaxator, Sleep Tape, CarboHaler, and BodyStream CO2 Bath.

He is considered an authority on CO2 therapy and coaches high-level executives and elite athletes. In 2018, Anders facilitated and participated in a groundbreaking three-week breathing study at Stanford, highlighted in James Nestor's book Breath.

Tune in and breathe easy as we unpack the science and art of effective breathing to help you reduce stress, boost energy, and enhance your overall well-being.

Full show notes: BenGreenfieldLife.com/CO2podcast

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0:00.0

My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life podcast,

0:04.4

nitric oxide is produced in our nose, right? And when we use our nose, the air we inhale

0:10.6

will be spiked with nitric oxide. And that's really important gas, because it's antiviral,

0:16.7

antibacterial, antifungal. And it's surprising that during the pandemic, I didn't hear anyone talk about nasal breathing.

0:26.3

Already in 2005, there was a study showing that nitric oxide, which is produced in our nose

0:33.1

in large quantities and which then kills virus and bacteria that we inhale by inhibiting the replication

0:41.2

cycle.

0:42.0

In this study in 2005, when you see the pictures in the study, untreated SARS-Coronavirus can

0:48.8

divide like crazy, but when it's exposed to nitric oxide, there is almost none left.

0:55.8

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