Andrew Huberman· PhD
If you were to exhale all your air and go under water, you would absolutely feel the need to come up sooner for a breath of air than had you a full tank, so to speak a full of lungs full of air.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If you were to exhale all your air and go under water, you would absolutely feel the need to come up sooner for a breath of air than had you a full tank, so to speak a full of lungs full of air.
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So you can try that right now, you can inhale [inhales] huge big thing of air. And hold, okay? Your desire to breathe will kick in later than were are you to exhale all your air and hold your breath.