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Human Zoo Counter-Measures & Breaking Breath-Hold Records with Erwan Le Corre

Curious Humans with Jonny Miller

CHAPTER

The Benefits of Breathing Training

Breathalyser is a technique for increasing CO2 tolerance. It can also increase your capacity to tolerate stress in other environments. When you hold your breath, CO2 accumulates and it irritates the nervous system. This increases blood acidosis or blood becoming nor acidic - that's what you want to breathe again. But when you expose by frequent breath folding, even though you will not even reach a hypoxic state, you will just reach an elevated level of CO2. That cannot be axial because you're holding your breath to it.

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