An involuntary reflex. When a person holds his or her breath and manages to continue holding it, eventually the individual will lose consciousness due to the lack of oxygen being supplied to the brain. At this point in time, the person can no longer continue to force the body to suffocate itself, and the body will then begin to breathe again while the person is unconscious.
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Actually, it's not the lack of oxygen, it's the build up of carbon dioxide that triggers the autonomic nervous system to force you to breathe.
yes that person is definitly special
normal people take breaths because of a decrease in their pH. if you hold your breath your co2 levels increase and that triggers your pH to go down, which makes you take a breath.
Yes, I've seen it done in the 50m male's free, almost all the swimmers didn't take a breath.
Not being able to take a deep breath is not always considered shortness of breath. If you are exerting yourself, where you need more air but can't take a deep breath, you would have a shortness of breath.
The Breath You Take was created on 2010-07-12.
The noun breath is a countable noun; take a breath, take two breaths.
Your breath. Take a dump.
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Every Breath You Take was created in 1982-12.
Take My Breath Away was created on 1986-06-15.
Casually give them a mint gum or candy and if they refuse say please take it...
One can learn more about breath holding on various various websites like FourHourWorkWeek. One could take swimming classes and ask tips and tricks for breath holding in there.