What happens when you hold your breath goes far beyond that quick dizzy spell. From plummeting oxygen levels to unexpected ...

But others do it the hard way and hold their breath to dive, before coming up to the surface for air — and then repeat this ...

NICHOLAS Culpeper (1616–1654),1 the arch herbalist of the seventeenth century, probably wrote the earliest word on breath-holding spells:There is a disease ... in Children from Anger or Grief ...