That’s pretty much it. Your hemoglobin decouples oxygen for CO2 in areas of high CO2 concentration. This is good when you’re circulating oxygen to muscles that need it. It’s bad when you’re dumping all your oxygen reserve to the atmosphere and instead making your blood more acidic.
Just curious wdym by lungs working in reverse where CO2 is what’s circulated and oxygen is the exhaled “waste”
That’s pretty much it. Your hemoglobin decouples oxygen for CO2 in areas of high CO2 concentration. This is good when you’re circulating oxygen to muscles that need it. It’s bad when you’re dumping all your oxygen reserve to the atmosphere and instead making your blood more acidic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%E2%80%93hemoglobin_dissociation_curve#Carbon_dioxide
Coupled with the low partial pressure of oxygen, you’d be going unconscious within seconds. But those seconds are… not pleasant.