Dr. Martin Picard
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And then when you need to, you take a breath in, you can open your eyes.
If you can hold it longer, you do.
What did you feel?
Yes.
I think if you do that and the urgency, right?
The anxiety, the stress, or this, you know, it feels dangerous, right?
And I think to many people,
Dying by drowning or suffocation is one of the worst deaths.
So why is that?
What is that sense of urgency, of anxiety?
It's CO2 building up in your blood.
CO2 is the product that mitochondria release as they transform energy.
And then when CO2 builds up, it means oxygen is getting depleted.
If oxygen gets depleted, the electrons from the food you eat can no longer flow.
If there's no oxygen at the end in your mitochondria to accept the electrons flowing, you stop flowing.
So you, as a movement of energy, are at risk of ceasing to exist.
Not being able to breathe, being out of breath, is an existential threat to your energetic self.
Yes.
And that's because we are energy.
We are the flowing energy through the system.