{"id":7517,"date":"2012-11-07T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T20:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/?p=7517"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T22:30:49","slug":"carbon-dioxide-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/carbon-dioxide-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Dioxide Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/comparison-carbon-dioxide-v-lactic-acid\/\">Comparison: Carbon Dioxide v. Lactic Acid<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/carbon-dioxide-as-an-antioxidant\/\">Carbon Dioxide as an Antioxidant<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/bohr-effect-and-cells-o2-levels-healthy-vs-sick-people\/\">Bohr Effect and Cells O2 Levels: Healthy vs. Sick People<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/comparison-oxidative-metabolism-v-glycolytic-metabolic\/\">Comparison: Oxidative Metabolism v. Glycolytic Metabolic<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/promoters-of-efficient-v-inefficient-metabolism\/\">Promoters of Efficient v. Inefficient Metabolism<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/altitude-sickness-therapeutic-effects-of-acetazolamide-and-carbon-dioxide\/\">Altitude Sickness: Therapeutic Effects of Acetazolamide and Carbon Dioxide<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/low-co2-in-hypothyroidism\/\">Low CO2 in Hypothyroidism<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/protective-altitude\/\">Protective Altitude<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/lactate-paradox-high-altitude-and-exercise\/\">Lactate Paradox: High Altitude and Exercise<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/protective-carbon-dioxide-exercise-and-performance\/\">Protective Carbon Dioxide, Exercise, and Performance<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/synergistic-effect-of-creatine-and-baking-soda-on-performance\/\">Synergistic Effect of Creatine and Baking Soda on Performance<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/ray-peat-phd-on-carbon-dioxide-longevity-and-regeneration\/\">Ray Peat, PhD on Carbon Dioxide, Longevity, and Regeneration<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/altitude-improves-t3-levels\/\">Altitude Improves T3 Levels<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/mitochondria-and-mortality\/\">Mitochondria &#038; Mortality<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/raypeat.com\/articles\/aging\/altitude-mortality.shtml\">Altitude and Mortality<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/raypeat.com\/articles\/articles\/lactate.shtml\">Lactate vs. CO2 in wounds, sickness, and aging; the other approach to cancer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/carbonic-anhydrase-inhibitors-and-cancer-therapy\/\">Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors as Cancer Therapy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on thumbnail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Picture-12-12-58-46.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Picture-12-12-58-46-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Picture 12 12-58-46\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-7528\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When respiration is suppressed, the cell&#8217;s production of carbon dioxide is suppressed. If we start with the best known example of carbon dioxide&#8217;s effect on a protein, the Haldane-Bohr effect on hemoglobin, we will have a model for visualizing what happens to organisms in an environment that is poor in carbon dioxide, but rich in vegetable-derived unsaturated fats. Carbon dioxide associates with protein in a variety of ways, but the best understood association is its reaction with an amino group, to form a carbamino group. In the presence of a large amount of carbon dioxide, the hemoglobin molecule changes its shape slightly, along with its electronic balance, in a way that favors the release of oxygen. The opposite happens in the presence of a high concentration of oxygen and a lower concentration of carbon dioxide.&#8221;<\/em> -Ray Peat, PhD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also see: Comparison: Carbon Dioxide v. Lactic Acid Carbon Dioxide as an Antioxidant Bohr Effect and Cells O2 Levels: Healthy vs. Sick People Comparison: Oxidative Metabolism v. Glycolytic Metabolic Promoters of Efficient v. Inefficient Metabolism Altitude Sickness: Therapeutic Effects of Acetazolamide and Carbon Dioxide Low CO2 in Hypothyroidism Protective Altitude Lactate Paradox: High Altitude and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1604,1454,1672,768,23,2063,547,548,483,2009,1671,770,397,396,166,1673,887,1157,363,453,421,496,1603],"class_list":["post-7517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aerobic-glycolysis","tag-altitude","tag-anaerobic-glycolysis","tag-bohr-effect","tag-cancer","tag-carbamino-group","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-co2","tag-energy","tag-haldane-bohr","tag-haldane-effect","tag-hemoglobin","tag-lactate","tag-lactic-acid","tag-metabolism","tag-pasteur-effect","tag-polyunsaturated-fats","tag-proteins","tag-pufa","tag-ray-peat","tag-respiration","tag-unsaturated-fats","tag-warburg-effect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7517"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10807,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions\/10807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}