Dr. Melissa Ilardo

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, usually in like lab protocols, we do it at about 10 degrees Celsius or 50 degrees Fahrenheit, so quite a bit colder.

Yeah, usually in like lab protocols, we do it at about 10 degrees Celsius or 50 degrees Fahrenheit, so quite a bit colder. For how long? Well, depends on how long you can hold your breath.

Yeah, usually in like lab protocols, we do it at about 10 degrees Celsius or 50 degrees Fahrenheit, so quite a bit colder. For how long? Well, depends on how long you can hold your breath.

Yeah, usually in like lab protocols, we do it at about 10 degrees Celsius or 50 degrees Fahrenheit, so quite a bit colder. For how long? Well, depends on how long you can hold your breath.

For how long?

Well, depends on how long you can hold your breath.

Oh, right.

Yeah, so the extent to which like how long the contraction actually takes, I think we have room to learn more about that. But one thing that's slightly different from what you're talking about is that after you stop holding your breath, your spleen takes – that oxygen back essentially. So it refills with red blood cells and that oxygen is no, that extra boost is no longer in circulation.

Yeah, so the extent to which like how long the contraction actually takes, I think we have room to learn more about that. But one thing that's slightly different from what you're talking about is that after you stop holding your breath, your spleen takes – that oxygen back essentially. So it refills with red blood cells and that oxygen is no, that extra boost is no longer in circulation.

Yeah, so the extent to which like how long the contraction actually takes, I think we have room to learn more about that.

Yeah, so the extent to which like how long the contraction actually takes, I think we have room to learn more about that. But one thing that's slightly different from what you're talking about is that after you stop holding your breath, your spleen takes – that oxygen back essentially. So it refills with red blood cells and that oxygen is no, that extra boost is no longer in circulation.

But one thing that's slightly different from what you're talking about is that after you stop holding your breath, your spleen takes –

that oxygen back essentially.

So it refills with red blood cells and that oxygen is no, that extra boost is no longer in circulation.

That's right. Only when you need it the most.

That's right. Only when you need it the most.