How to Increase Blood Oxygen Levels: Breathing Hack

Poor breathing can decrease oxygen levels and even change your body's pH. Learn a simple breathing technique that can increase blood oxygen levels.

0:00 Introduction: How to increase your blood oxygen levels
1:30 The Bohr effect
2:52 Chronic hyperventilation
5:07 Breathing technique to increase oxygen levels

In this video, we’re going to talk about breathing. Deep breathing does not increase blood oxygen levels. In fact, it can cause dizziness, make you tired, and even make you pass out.

Your red blood cells will not release oxygen unless enough carbon dioxide (CO2) is present. This is known as the Bohr effect. This means that the amount of oxygen released from your blood into your cells is dependent upon CO2.

If you’re breathing a lot or hyperventilating, you’ll get too much oxygen and not enough CO2. Too much oxygen can be dangerous to the body. If you give a baby too much oxygen, it can cause blindness, an epileptic seizure, or a coma. Too much oxygen also causes oxidation.

People in a panicked state experience acute hyperventilation. Chronic hyperventilation, also known as carbon dioxide syndrome, is a lack of carbon dioxide that occurs when a person is consuming too much air. This is often triggered by stress.

Mouth-breathing can deplete CO2 and inhibit oxygen absorption at the cellular level. This can affect the heart and cause hypoxia, fatigue, insomnia, muscle twitching, and increased histamine.

To fix this problem, you need to train your body to breathe properly to get oxygen deep into the cells by doing the following:

1. Relax your breathing.
Take soft, gentle breaths through your diaphragm and stomach, not your upper chest. Breathe in slowly for 5 seconds and exhale for 5 seconds. Practice this before you sleep at night, while driving, or while watching TV.

This simple breathing technique can help your body get out of fight-or-flight mode. You can even use a free app to help you time your breathing!

2. Breathe through your nose.
Your nose cleans, humidifies, and filters the air before it enters your lungs. Nose breathing increases your oxygen by 20%!

3. Use nose strips.
Nose strips can help open your airways and sinuses while you sleep to help you breathe better.

4. Use mouth tape.
Mouth tape can help you breathe through your nose while you sleep. You can filter the air all night, get more oxygen, and sleep better. You won’t wake up with a dry mouth, and you’ll wake up feeling refreshed. Mouth tape might even stop your snoring!

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Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

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Thanks for watching! Try these tips to help improve your breathing and increase your blood oxygen levels. I’ll see you in the next video.

[imlovely]

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[fidelcatsro]

Sharing Dr Berg notes on this interesting episode:

Deep breathing does not increase blood oxygen levels. In fact, it can cause dizziness, make you tired, and even make you pass out.

Your red blood cells will not release oxygen unless enough carbon dioxide (CO2) is present. This is known as the Bohr effect. This means that the amount of oxygen released from your blood into your cells is dependent upon CO2.

If you’re breathing a lot or hyperventilating, you’ll get too much oxygen and not enough CO2. Too much oxygen can be dangerous to the body. If you give a baby too much oxygen, it can cause blindness, an epileptic seizure, or a coma. Too much oxygen also causes oxidation.

People in a panicked state experience acute hyperventilation. Chronic hyperventilation, also known as carbon dioxide syndrome, is a lack of carbon dioxide that occurs when a person is consuming too much air. This is often triggered by stress.

Mouth-breathing can deplete CO2 and inhibit oxygen absorption at the cellular level. This can affect the heart and cause hypoxia, fatigue, insomnia, muscle twitching, and increased histamine.

To fix this problem, you need to train your body to breathe properly to get oxygen deep into the cells by doing the following:

➡1. Relax your breathing.
Take soft, gentle breaths through your diaphragm and stomach, not your upper chest. Breathe in slowly for 5 seconds and exhale for 5 seconds. Practice this before you sleep at night, while driving, or while watching TV.

This simple breathing technique can help your body get out of fight-or-flight mode. You can even use a free app to help you time your breathing!

➡2. Breathe through your nose.
Your nose cleans, humidifies, and filters the air before it enters your lungs. Nose breathing increases your oxygen by 20%!

➡3. Use nose strips.
Nose strips can help open your airways and sinuses while you sleep to help you breathe better.

➡4. Use mouth tape.
Mouth tape can help you breathe through your nose while you sleep. You can filter the air all night, get more oxygen, and sleep better. You won’t wake up with a dry mouth, and you’ll wake up feeling refreshed. Mouth tape might even stop your snoring!


Thank you Dr Berg!
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[imdjzfh]

I am 12 years old and I love your videos, i always had this breathing problem and people would tell me to breathe deeply but it never helped, this video was literally life changing, you are the best❤❤❤❤

[cherrayegullett]

This man is doing such a good thing for human kind. He’s changed my life, I pass it on to others, they pass it on and so on.
Of course those who don’t like what he’s doing will send others to attack his research. If others were not attacking you that’s when I would be worried! The more they come the more we are interested. 🙏

[aexurml]

Thats why breathing techniques like wim hof's and free divers hold their breaths for extended amounts of time after forcefully hyperventilating. Just hyperventilating without incorporating the breath hold is bad of course. The extended breathe hold creates the surplus of co2 needed for the bio mechanism to work. I am able to hold my breathe for upwards of 4mins after exercising cycles of these techniques. It has restored, improved, maintained my lung capacity from extensive smoking in my earlier years and instilled a much needed AWARENESS to know how to consciously breathe whenever im feeling tired, weak or anxiety.

[jdsjmqb]

I had "chronic" hyperventilation thing, it lasted for three and a half years and I almost deleted myself over it. It's no joke, and you're not taken seriously either and get ZERO help from doctors, they just say that you have anxiety or are crazy. Got depressed, stopped eating, had trouble sleeping, got into walking for long distances until I got so exhausted that I passed out. Losing the weight was probably what did it the most since I probably had sleep apnea (no more) and get proper sleep-ish now. But there is hope that you can get over it and you are NOT crazy. (whoever is reading this)

[Rocketscientist]

Only had to try the tape a couple of nights and then I could do it without … after DECADES of mouthbreathing during sleep 😣 what a difference. And boxbreathing exercises helps me all of the time: in 8-10 sec, hold 8-10 sec, out 8-10 sec, hold 8-10 sec. (Repeat 10 times, in thru the nose, out through the mouth) Your stress and nervous thoughts will disappear. Concentrate on counting and hold as long as you like.

[C.N.]

Another great breathing technique is called "R.S.A." 👊 Almost 20 years ago, I learned about The Johari Window - Building Self Trust, Albert Ellis's - Rational Self Analysis, etc. It was then that not only did I start making better health choices, but I also realized that a 6th grade education wasn't bad at all! Special thanks to Ms. Anderson! ❤ Happy Saturday, everyone, and thanks again, Dr. Berg! 🙂

[MassiveOverkill]

I've been nose-breathing for a year now thanks to your videos Dr. Berg. I'm on Search and Rescue and almost had to step back from being a grunt to taking on a leadership role due to my gout and what I thought was old age issues. Yesterday we had a training exercise and guess who wasn't huffing and puffing doing a heavy patient-litter carryout?

[gaitreeferguson]

You are great dr. Berg for bringing up these healthy guidelines. May God bless you always. Thany you.

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[kamilawolniewicz]

Thank you Dr. Berg. I've been talking about this for a long time. That our cells need carbon dioxide to receive oxygen (intercellular gas exchange in animals). I recently explained this to my husband but You explained it perfectly. Buteyko breathing method, this is an excellent method of learning how to breathe properly (Doctor Konstantyn Pawłowicz Butejko/ Buteyko the russian doctor born 27/01/1923 died 02/05/2003). 💕💕💕

[nahmia]

The mouth tape thing is so trueee I have been doing it for months no more snoring!!!thank you dr berg for this amazing video❤❤

[Tree-thingz]

You mentioned feeling light headed, seeing stars and feeling dizzy...I thought I was having a spiritual awakening😂. I keep hearing the term breath work. It's all connected.

[golfswingmagic]

I've had asthma all my life and developed a breathing program but not only helps with asthmatics, it helps people that hyperventilate 😎🤘💯🏆🇺🇲🙏🙏🙏

[samnin]

Thanks, I have thyroid issue low heart beat low oxygen, I just increase my oxygen blood from 94-95 to 98-99 with your breath technique by use stomach instead of lung. it's miracle for me.

[jujumulligan]

Very helpful information. I am learning a lot about breathing at this time due to some heart issues. I think we tend to take short, gasping breathes often during the day. A slowing down of our breath helps us relax. Thank you so much for helping here.

[jodinicholson]

I have histamine intolerance and when I hold my breathe for various reasons, even at times you don't realize you hold your breath like when doing something, like mopping or coughing...I have a histamine reaction. My histamine reaction comes in the form of feeling like I can't breathe. So I have to take a quarter of a Zyrtec for it to go away. Working on finding the root cause of this histamine issue. But I am happy to hear someone else talking about breathing and histamine reaction. I have never heard anyone else talk about it!

[OGD]

I’ve done this for years and it has changed my life.

[robinsnestradio]

Great information in this video! I look forward to always learning something when I watch Dr. Berg. Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend 🌄👍🏽