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["The two main gas components of respiration are oxygen and carbon
dioxide. Unfortunately, carbon dioxide has been misnamed as a waste gas
so we think of it as something to rid ourselves of. The truth is that we
need a certain amount of co2 to keep our body healthy. It makes logical
sense that this would be true, the body always has to have balance. At
the most basic level the co2 that our body produces is a by-product of
cellular respiration occurring in the mitochondria of our cells and
necessary for keeping our blood Ph normal. This in turn regulates the
release of oxygen from the hemoglobin in the red blood cells in order to
feed the rest of the cells of the body. There is not enough co2 in our
atmosphere to accomplish this, we must make our own and retain it for
proper respiratory functioning."]