Who Controls Your Breathing · Lungs
You can override the system — but not defeat it.
Hold your breath and the pressure you feel building isn't your body running out of air. It's carbon dioxide accumulating, and your brainstem getting steadily more insistent about it.
There's more: you can override the system — but not defeat it. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.
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