Dr. Melissa Ilardo
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Mm-hmm.
Yeah, as far as I know, it's all unconscious.
Yeah, as far as I know, it's all unconscious. It's not something that they talk about. And, you know, most of them, you know, when I was explaining what the spleen was, it wasn't something that they had ever thought about or, you know, experienced any kind of sensation in the area where the spleen is found. Yeah, but who knows?
It's not something that they talk about.
And, you know, most of them, you know, when I was explaining what the spleen was, it wasn't something that they had ever thought about or, you know, experienced any kind of sensation in the area where the spleen is found.
Yeah, but who knows?
I mean, it's encapsulated in smooth muscle, I think, the spleen, and that's what controls that contraction.
I mean, it's encapsulated in smooth muscle, I think, the spleen, and that's what controls that contraction. So... Yeah, maybe there could be some way to consciously contract your spleen. We also, our spleens contract when we exercise to a lesser extent.
So...
Yeah, maybe there could be some way to consciously contract your spleen.
We also, our spleens contract when we exercise to a lesser extent.
And this is why like horses and apparently greyhounds, someone wrote to me after the study came out, have massive spleens, as do seals who do a lot of deep diving. But that makes a little more sense.
And this is why like horses and apparently greyhounds, someone wrote to me after the study came out, have massive spleens, as do seals who do a lot of deep diving.
But that makes a little more sense.
Yeah, it could be that. Yeah, it's something in the kind of breath holding aspect of extreme bouts of exercise is also contributing to that contraction.
Yeah, it could be that.
Yeah, it's something in the kind of breath holding aspect of extreme bouts of exercise is also contributing to that contraction.
Yeah, there's – it's stimulation of the vagal nerve that is in part triggering this response, which, you know, runs through your face. And so that's why the, you know, the facial immersion is crucial to triggering the response. But there is, I think, a component of if you're just holding your breath where that also kind of triggers it. So –
Yeah, there's – it's stimulation of the vagal nerve that is in part triggering this response, which, you know, runs through your face.
And so that's why the, you know, the facial immersion is crucial to triggering the response.
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