Breathing In a Better Mood?

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Will inhaled gases be used to treat depressive disorders in the near future?

At first glance this seems ridiculous, especially since people without respiratory problems generally walk around with their blood oxygen saturations at 96-100% already. Just breathing higher concentrations of oxygen through a nasal cannula, like in a fancy, doesn’t saturate hemoglobin any further because it can’t. The hemoglobin is already full.

However, about 5-10% of oxygen in the blood isn’t bound to hemoglobin, and breathing enriched oxygen can increase this amount, called or partial oxygen pressure. You can increase oxygen perfusion in the brain with inspired oxygen by a small but appreciable amount, even in people with normal lung function., randomized 51 adults with mild or moderate depression to breathing 35% oxygen or 21% oxygen via nasal cannula for seven hours every night for a month at the vigorous rate of five liters a minute.

 

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