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The Ice Bucket Challenge Lowers Your Heart Rate

The mammalian diving reflex is a quirk of evolution that means a shock of ice water does the unexpected: it lowers your heart rate. I demonstrate using not a bucket, but a bathtub. This was probably a bad idea.

English
  • Originally Aired August 24, 2014
  • Runtime 2 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created July 30, 2023 by
    josh42
  • Modified July 30, 2023 by
    josh42