SciShow: Why Is Being Underwater So Peaceful?

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Content of the Lesson: After nailing that sweet triple gainer into the pool you may have noticed something: being underwater is very peaceful, thanks to a reflex we share with all air-breathing vertebrates. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768097/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0883073811415269 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2005.00440.x https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-mammalian-diving-response-this-hack-for-calming-anxiety-actually-works-9044165 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/trigeminal-nerve https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538245/ https://www.theinertia.com/health/the-mammalian-diving-reflex-4-fascinating-things-happening-to-your-body-when-youre-in-water/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/breath-holding-dive-reflex-extends/ http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0315/ijsrp-p3918.pdf


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