Holding your breath for 24 minutes? Doubt it. If your brain is deprived of oxygen for more than 2 minutes, you are in trouble. So where did the oxygen come from?
Holding your breath too long can have some side effects, including:
low heart rate from a lack of oxygenCO₂ buildup in your bloodstreamnitrogen narcosis, a dangerous buildup of nitrogen gases in your blood that can make you feel disoriented or inebriated (common among deep-sea divers)decompression sickness, which occurs when nitrogen in your blood forms bubbles in your bloodstream instead of clearing out of your blood when water pressure decreases (called “the bends” among divers)loss of consciousness, or blacking outpulmonary edema, when fluid builds up in the lungsalveolar hemorrhage, or bleeding in your lungslung injury that can lead to total lung collapsecomplete loss of blood flow to the heart, which can cause your heart to stop pumping (cardiac arrest)buildup of dangerous reactive oxygen species (ROS), which happens due to long periods of low oxygen then breathing oxygen back in at high levels, which can damage DNAbrain damage from a protein called S100B that breaks out from your bloodstream into your brain through the blood-brain barrier when your cells are damaged.
Holding your breath for 24 minutes? Doubt it. If your brain is deprived of oxygen for more than 2 minutes, you are in trouble. So where did the oxygen come from?
Holding your breath too long can have some side effects, including:
low heart rate from a lack of oxygenCO₂ buildup in your bloodstreamnitrogen narcosis, a dangerous buildup of nitrogen gases in your blood that can make you feel disoriented or inebriated (common among deep-sea divers)decompression sickness, which occurs when nitrogen in your blood forms bubbles in your bloodstream instead of clearing out of your blood when water pressure decreases (called “the bends” among divers)loss of consciousness, or blacking outpulmonary edema, when fluid builds up in the lungsalveolar hemorrhage, or bleeding in your lungslung injury that can lead to total lung collapsecomplete loss of blood flow to the heart, which can cause your heart to stop pumping (cardiac arrest)buildup of dangerous reactive oxygen species (ROS), which happens due to long periods of low oxygen then breathing oxygen back in at high levels, which can damage DNAbrain damage from a protein called S100B that breaks out from your bloodstream into your brain through the blood-brain barrier when your cells are damaged.