Now, I've been very curious about why I feel so much better when I drink carbonated water

versus regular water. And I didn't know the answer until very recently. So I'm going to share

this with you as well as some other fascinating things related to CO2, carbon dioxide. So whether

you're drinking soda water, club water, seltzer water,

McCroy, or any type of carbonated water, this relates to CO2, because the way they carbonated

is by adding this gas CO2 into the water, which does make it slightly acidic because it turns

into carbonic acid, unless it's stored a little bit differently as these

bicarbonates in water. But regardless of that, when I drink carbonated water, I just feel more hydrated.

My digestion's better. And I just feel better. I feel more relaxed when I drink carbonated water.

So if you happen to see some other videos related to carbon dioxide,

I mentioned this one effect called the bore effect, B-O-H-R. That is a condition that relates to CO2.

In other words, for oxygen to be absorbed into your cells, into the tissues, it takes CO2, which is very counterintuitive. You would think,

logically, if you got more air, less CO2, you would have more oxygen, but that's not true.

It takes that CO2 to slightly adjust the pH and drop it a little bit and make it slightly more

acidic to allow the oxygen to be released.

This is why if you hyperventilate in a panic attack, you're getting too much O2 and not enough

CO2 and you can't breathe, right? And then you start breathing in a paper bag and you get more CO2

and now you can breathe. In fact, you can actually create a hypoxic state that is a state of

lowered oxygen by depriving the tissues of CO2, which is very interesting. Because normally you

would think hypoxia, low oxygen, means too much CO2, which can occur, but you can also create

that same situation with not enough CO2.

So CO2 is really essential in the homeostasis of oxygen absorption.

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