“Deplorable” Barney “the Listless Vessel”

Just a guy who's an avid Birder and Angler, that likes to travel, enjoy nature and party with friends.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British physiologist named Brett Gooden published a paper in 1994 that quietly proved every human walking around on this planet has an emergency reset button hidden in the skin of their face, and almost nobody knows how to use it.

His name is mostly forgotten outside diving medicine. The paper is called "Mechanism of the Human Diving Response," and the body of research it kicked off has been replicated by neuroscientists, cardiologists, and physiologists in labs across the world for the last thirty years.

The mechanism it described is the single fastest way to lower a human heart rate that has ever been documented.

The discovery actually began long before Gooden formalized it. Physiologists had noticed for decades that seals, whales, dolphins, and otters could slow their heart rates dramatically the moment their faces touched water, allowing them to dive for long periods without running out of oxygen.

The question Gooden helped answer was whether the same reflex existed in humans, and what exactly triggered it.

The answer turned out to be a network of nerves almost nobody outside neurology had paid attention to.

The trigeminal nerve is one of the largest nerves in your head, and it covers the entire surface of your face, especially the area around your eyes, nose, forehead, and mouth. When cold water touches that skin, the trigeminal nerve fires a signal straight into the brainstem, which then routes a command through the vagus nerve directly to the heart.

The vagus nerve is the master switch of your parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part of the body responsible for calm, recovery, and the slowing of the heart.

The entire signal chain takes about a second to complete. Cold water hits the face. Trigeminal nerve fires. Vagus nerve responds. The heart slows.

Human heart rate has been documented to drop anywhere from 5 to over 50 percent during this response, depending on the temperature of the water, how much of the face is covered, and how strongly the person is holding their breath.

In infants the response is so powerful that it has been implicated in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, because the same reflex that protects a baby underwater can be triggered accidentally by bedding pressed against the face during sleep.

The reflex is called the mammalian dive reflex, and the broader nerve circuit it sits inside is called the trigeminocardiac reflex.

Researchers who study it now consider it the single most powerful autonomic reflex in the human body, which means it is faster and stronger than almost any other automatic response your nervous system is capable of producing.

The detail Gooden zeroed in on is the part that should matter most to anyone who has ever had a panic attack, a racing heart at 3am, or a moment of overwhelming anxiety they could not breathe their way out of.

Two ingredients trigger the response. The water has to be cold, ideally under about 15 degrees Celsius, and it has to touch the area around the forehead, eyes, and nose. The skin of the cheeks and chin alone is not enough.

The receptors that fire the reflex are concentrated in the upper face, which is exactly the part of a seal that hits the water first when it dives. Evolution kept that wiring intact in humans even though we stopped diving for our food a long time ago.

This is why splashing cold water on your face during a moment of panic actually works. It is not psychological. It is not a placebo. You are activating a neurological circuit that has been sitting in your body since before your species walked upright, and the circuit does exactly what it was built to do.

A psychiatrist at Harvard named Marsha Linehan eventually wrote this exact protocol into a dialectical behavior therapy technique she called the cold water dive, which she taught to patients in acute emotional crisis. The instruction was simple.

Fill a bowl with cold water and ice. Hold your breath. Submerge your face from the forehead down to the chin for thirty seconds. Within the first ten seconds, the heart begins to slow. By the time the face comes out of the water, the body has shifted out of fight-or-flight and into the parasympathetic state that makes thinking clearly possible again.

Emergency room physicians have used the same trick to reset abnormal heart rhythms in patients with certain types of tachycardia for decades. They call it the diving reflex maneuver.

A bag of ice water held against the face for fifteen to thirty seconds can convert a runaway heart rhythm back to normal without a single drug being administered.

Same nerve. Same reflex. Same biology your ancestors used to hunt for fish underwater two hundred thousand years ago.

The strangest part of all of this is how few people know it exists. The cold plunge industry has built itself into a billion-dollar movement based on full-body cold exposure, ice baths, and dramatic protocols that require expensive equipment and serious commitment.

But the fastest, most underrated nervous system reset available to a human being requires a sink, a few seconds, and the upper half of your face.

Your nervous system has an emergency brake. You were born holding the handle.

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

Where is the UK government outrage in THIS?!?!🚨👇🏼

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

If it were the other way around, Senator, Democrats would have this imp in the dock and they’d be building the gallows in the courtyard.

Why is it Republicans don’t actually ever do anything when in power? Seriously.

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

Anyone notice they revealed the race of the Edinburgh attacker and we still dont know who threw a 3 yo child into an alligator pit…..just that they set him free into the public again.

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Why does this type of news never get airtime?

Blacks in Chicago hate Obama and his ugly ass building 😂🤣

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Putt him in prison for 5 years

[The Nasty Italian🍷🇺🇸 🇮🇹 @sayitnspinit]

You dumb fucking liberals are so fucking stupid! You vote for Democrats & their policies then you move to States like Florida & Texas because you can't afford to live under the policies you voted for-then you're dumb enough to vote for a Democrat again so they can implement the same policies you ran away from! Liberals are without a doubt the dumbest mother fuckers on earth!

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

ARREST ANTHONY FAUCI!

If you believe you should get involved and you should, please REPOST this.

I am tired of waiting for "someone" to hold FAUCI accountable!

We The People can all file a complaint against his license. It’s fast, it’s free and all complaints must be investigated.

Please read this short missive below and please consider reposting.

Thank you @DNIGabbard

[Islam Invasion 🚨 @IslamInvasion]

Church fighting back with the church bells!

They’re intentionally disrespecting us and arranging their prayers in front of our churches; yet, we must fight back and teach them a lesson!

Be too tolerant, and we will lose!

[“Deplorable” Barney “the Listless Vessel” @barneystoneage]

@DavidJHarrisJr It's against the Laws on the books idiot. That makes them criminals and according to the Laws, they are to be deported. Don't like the existing Laws, then legally change them, you don't get to just ignore them.

[“Deplorable” Barney “the Listless Vessel” @barneystoneage]

@anvilguy @trumplicans2024 Emergency break? Never seen one actually. And since the mid 60's and grew up on standard.

[“Deplorable” Barney “the Listless Vessel” @barneystoneage]

@anvilguy @trumplicans2024 standard trans with a hi and low beam button. Is it a stick or 3 on a tree?

[Jack @jackunheard]

Senate Leader John Thune is facing heavy backlash after saying the SAVE America Act is “done.”

Good. As he should.

[Glockford Files @GlockfordFiles]

If Anthony Fauci doesn’t face justice for his well documented crimes, then we have the judicial system of a banana republic.

Justice must be served!

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

Imagine if the media investigated the Covid origins and the rampant fraud across America as much as they are investigating algae in the Reflecting Pool.

[“Deplorable” Barney “the Listless Vessel” @barneystoneage]

@AntiWokeMemes No, their beliefs are contrary to the basic ideals of the country.

[“Deplorable” Barney “the Listless Vessel” @barneystoneage]

@Itx_judith Never going to that concrete garbage can. He's a traitor that should receive due punishment for that.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

I look forward to a NICE agent putting handcuffs on Ilhan Omar and taking her straight to the airport for deportation.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨 Elon Musk just said the quiet part out loud

“People call this fake? Look at Ilhan Omar. She was literally voted into power by a large group of people from Somalia living in Minnesota. That’s REALLY far from Somalia.”

This isn’t representation. It’s demographic capture.

We are not turning America into a communist hellhole.

SEND HER BACK.

[Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV]

Yep. Cecelia has been totally objective going back to her days at ABC before she went to (and was eventually fired from) 60 Minutes.

Look at the look of utter disdain she has here without the sound on.

Then listen to the question and hear how ridiculous her objection is today.