Okay, welcome. My name is Devine. This is episode 425 of the Divine Intervention

Podcasts. In today's podcast now be contained in the Pominary Pathophysiology

series and this is going to be series 13. So let's just jump

right into it. So the next thing I want to talk about here is just how carbon dioxide really moves around in the body, how those

carbon dioxide really move around in the body. We know that obviously carbon dioxide is produced in the tissues.

You know, after tissues go through metabolism, they produce a lot of CO2.

Now that CO2 can travel in certain ways.

Can travel in a few ways.

One, it can travel as dissolved carbon dioxide in the blood,

about 5% of the carbon dioxide as a

producer, the tissues, travels as dissolved carbon dioxide in the blood.

Now, the remaining CO2 gets into red blood cells, So the remaining 95% gets into red blood cells.

Now that CO2 that dwells in red blood cells generally has two feet.

So one feet is the carbon dioxide can bind up with water and then there's an

enzyme called carbonic and hydrase that will produce carbonic acid. Carbonic and hydrate produces carbonic acid and then that carbonic

acid is split because it's an equilibrium reaction it's split into hydrogen ions and bicarb. And some of that bicarb, there's a bicarb

chloride antipoder that exists on the surfaces of red blood cells. As bicarb leaves the cell in clap. the that's actually pretty high you know, that's something known as a chloride shift.

And if you really want to think about it, this carbonic and hydrate system is what largely

transports CO2 in the blood, right? That bicarb that's made inside that red blood cell is then

put into the bloodstream. That bicarb is actually really helpful as a very excellent

buffer in the bloodstream. So just don't forget this chloride shift that happens with

CO2 metabolism. Now another feat of carbon dioxide when it gets into a red blood

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