Jack L. Feldman

What am I talking about here? This is not breathwork.

This is a collection of specific neurons that were discovered by my friend and colleague Jack Feldman at, uh, UCLA, that lead to a slowing of heart rate in a good way.

Your...

Everyone's heard of the vagus nerve now.

What am I talking about here? This is not breathwork.

This is a collection of specific neurons that were discovered by my friend and colleague Jack Feldman at, uh, UCLA, that lead to a slowing of heart rate in a good way.

Your, everyone's heard of the vagus nerve now.

It's this nerve, nerves in the body, collects sensory information from the body, telling the brain what's going on in the body.

Or they did, there was a fourth condition where they did a double inhale, long exhale, repeat, the so-called physiological sigh.

So Jack Feldman at UCLA and some other folks in the thirty-- nineteen thirties had sh- observed that animals and people, when they're very relaxed, would do this kind of strange pattern of breathing where they would go [inhales, exhales] It's a double inhale, long exhale.

Jack's lab discovers there's a brain area called the parafacial nucleus, which is specifically there to generate this double inhale, exhale pattern in animals and in humans.

Wild.