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Dr. Jack Feldman: Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance

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The Surface Area of the Lungs

The bigger surface area, the more oxygen that can pass through. It's entirely a passive process. There's no magic about making oxygen go in. How do you get to pack a large surface area in a small chest? When you start out with one tube, which is the trake, the trake expands. Now you have two tubes, then you have four tubes, and it keeps branching. At some point at the end of those branches, you put a little bit of a little sphere, which is in alvelus,. That determines what the surface area is going to bre b.

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