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Why Cold Water On Your Face Slows Your Heart
Why Cold Water On Your Face Slows Your HeartSplash ice-cold water on your face while holding your breath and the pulse can drop instead of race. The episode walks through the three-part mammalian diving response—apnea, bradycardia, and peripheral squeeze—how clinicians use cold on the face as a vagal maneuver, why colder water tends to strengthen the effect in humans, and the open 2012 hypothes…
Duration: 6:47
- StatPearls — Diving Reflex
- Lake Forest Eukaryon — Water Temperature and Human Dive Heart Rate
- Shattock and Tipton 2012 — Autonomic Conflict in Cold Water
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- frontiersin.org
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