Who Controls Your Breathing · Lungs
Demand rises, and ventilation rises to meet it — immediately.
Start running and your breathing deepens almost instantly — before carbon dioxide has had any time to build up. Your body anticipates rather than waits.
There's more: demand rises, and ventilation rises to meet it — immediately. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.
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