I would assume that all sorts of proteins would clear out of the brain in cases of prolonged oxygen depletion.
Who says high dose C02 means prolonged oxygen depletion?
Some ppm less perhaps
Inhaling high-dose CO2 clears Alzheimer's proteins from the brain
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Re: Inhaling high-dose CO2 clears Alzheimer's proteins from the brain
#12“Carbogen” has an interesting history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbogen It has some sort of mind altering effect, and in the early days of psychedelic psychotherapy it was used to determine whether someone would freak out under the influence of mind altering substances. https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/carbogen/carbogen.shtml
I understood why it's called "Carbogen" only after reading (on your provided Wikipedia page) about it being a mixture of "Carbo(n)" + "(Oxy)gen". This is an unfortunate naming habit, because logically "Carbogen" would rather mean "Carbon producer" or "Carbon generator".
Re: Inhaling high-dose CO2 clears Alzheimer's proteins from the brain
#13Also can stop ongoing epileptic attacks it seems. The secondary risk of suffocation makes it impractical in any case.
A more sophisticated version of breathing in a bag to stop anxiety attacks. It seems that more CO2 than normal resets our system and put us on calm mode to save oxygen.
If the mechanism is that the CO2 tells the body to get rid of some chemical substance by the blood, I wonder if all this things could have a similar trigger in form of some toxic, or if the origin is alive and it needs some oxygen supply.