Andrew Huberman· PhD
Long exhale breathing to slow your heart rate.
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Long exhale breathing to slow your heart rate.
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So if you inhale, doesn't matter how long you inhale. I'll do it for a couple seconds [inhales quickly] and then exhale twice as long. [exhales slowly] Nose or mouth, doesn't matter, the entire time that you're exhaling, you're slowing your heart down.
When you exhale, you're effectively coming off the accelerator, or if you want to think about it differently, you're hitting the brake, you're slowing down your heart rate.