Chat0yant wrote:ok i think i got it and since explaining things helps solidify in ur brain, i'm gonna share the answer:
hyperventilation raises oxygen binding affinity (i.e. O likes to be w/ more O) because your body when you hyperventilate thinks it has plenty of oxygen because it's carbon dioxide being high that tells your body to breath not oxygen being low.
blood usually has about all the oxygen it can hold at any given time, so hyperventilating gets rid of all the carbon dioxide (which makes your body think it's fine) and concentrates all the O together in the blood (because it like to be w/ each other and nothing is telling it to move) so your body can't get the oxygen it has to the rest of the body let alone get more in.
this is why breathing more in hyperventilation actually makes a lot of people pass out.

any questions?
i have questions still...but that should get me through my test anyway...
That’s super interesting, thanks for sharing!