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RealityVoid on July 30, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: My customized Wim Hof breathing method

I think a valsalva maneuver keeps intra-thoracic pressure high by closing up a bit lower the air pathways? At least that is how I do it, it feels like it it bottled up at about the place my larynx site.

Enginerrrd on Aug 4, 2022 [–]

I see, so we're talking open vs closed glottis?

That makes more sense to me. An Open glottis definitely is more stimulating to the vagus nerve if nothing else so they are different.

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