Inducing respiratory alkalosis through breathing techniques can cause mitochondria to burn energy for heat and ATP production, leading to fat burning.

“So you end up burning fat like you said, and that this is all really cool because I was, for one, changing the pH of the blood, I was a little skeptical of that until I actually read the study and how, you know, carbon dioxide in the blood can do that. I think there's a term for it like "respiratory alkalosis" or something like that.”