Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

Is that doing something similar as the breath work or is there something independent?

Because you mentioned the trunk.

Can you give me an example?

So it's like preparing the nervous system.

Oh, I love that.

What if you become a little dizzy when you're doing this breath work?

Is that a sign of anything or is that normal?

Is the response to the slight hypoxic event

kind of like an adaptation where you're, you're kind of depriving the tissue of a little bit of oxygen.

And therefore it's like, Oh, I got to like make things move faster and better so that that doesn't happen again.

So these seven sort of slightly hypoxic events really are just the breath work that you're doing before your competition.

I wonder, I used to be a surfer.

I no longer am able to call myself that.

I mean, I still know how to surf.

But, you know, even back in the days when I used to actually go surfing like every day, like I was still terrified every time I'd paddle up, particularly in like, you know, with the big swell.

And I'm wondering if, and now it's even worse, like if I go out like a couple times a year and it's like, it's like, oh my gosh, it's just terrible.

Even though I'm so fit, I mean, I'm not so fit, I just- You're fit, you're very fit.

I'm fit, yeah.

But it's still like paddling is hard and holding my breath and getting bombarded by the waves.

I'm wondering if doing some kind of breath work-