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The Chainy Stroke Respiration Stokes

This is called a chainy strokes respiration stokes. It's caused by receptors in the heart and brain stem being too sluggish to respond to Different amounts of oxygen and co2. And those receptors can't pick up on it in time. So it's it doesn't know how to tell you to breathe basically.

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