There’s a recent Veritasium video on it. The water helps because of the Mammalian Dive Reflex. The guy he’s doing the video with says basically getting over that first instinct to breathe is the worst and then after that your body makes more adjustments and quits complaining as much.
There’s a recent Veritasium video on it. The water helps because of the Mammalian Dive Reflex. The guy he’s doing the video with says basically getting over that first instinct to breathe is the worst and then after that your body makes more adjustments and quits complaining as much.
Then it starts feeling good and that’s when you worry.