Sebastian Junger
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And it sort of hoards the blood in your chest
Your abdomen, your chest, and your brain around your heart, right?
You know, those things go, you're dead.
So it collects the blood around there and keeps it there through muscular tension, right?
And you don't know you're doing this.
But what happens is your blood pressure goes back up and suddenly you're sort of back in the world, right?
And I was no longer going in and out of consciousness.
I was suddenly I could see again.
The ambulance guys get there and they're like, how are you doing?
I'm like, well, you know, belly pain, but I don't want to be a complainer here.
I'm feeling a little better, you know, maybe blah, blah, blah.
My wife, and this is why there's a famous statistic, married men live longer.
My wife is like, you know what?
Because they were going to leave me.
They were like, oh, it's a hot day.
You're probably just dehydrated.