How well can you tolerate carbon dioxide (CO2)?

Just because we don’t HAVE to think about breathing doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. It doesn’t mean our breathing depth, cadence, or method (nasal / oral) is optimal on autopilot, either.

Our breath is one of the most beautiful things about us as we can take it over at any point when we’re conscious and utilize it to tap into other areas in our body that we don’t otherwise have access to (like our heart rate and variability, blood pressure, mood, immune response, nitric oxide production, feeling of calm and well-being, levels of arousal and alertness, microbiome constituents, recovery time, sleep quality, hormone balance, jaw development, sinus health, etc. Check out this quick video to learn a new tool ... how to test and challenge your CO2 tolerance.

Pretty freaking amazing, if you ask me!

That video was up in my instagram stories a few weeks ago as a reply to a question I was asked. Thought it would be helpful to share it with you here as well, in case you missed it over there.

Training our diaphragm, ventilations, and respirations is such an important piece of the puzzle that is optimizing. For endurance and adventure, for mood stability, for cardiovascular health, for respiratory illnesses — for every facet of life — I want to breathe well. 😤💪🏼.

Do you plan on testing and tracking your CO2 tolerance over time as a marker of health?

XO,
Tara

P.S. How are you doing with those peach recipes from last week? Hope you're loving them! Today I wanted to continue the summer recipe party with some CHERRY favorites. Mmmmm. Feel free to let me know what you think of these. Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated. :-)