Timeline: What If You Stopped Breathing

For many people, it's safe to hold your breath for a minute or two. Doing so for too much longer can decrease oxygen flow to the brain, causing fainting, seizures and brain damage. In the heart, a lack of oxygen can cause abnormalities of rhythm and affect the pumping action of the heart. This timeline shows what happens if you stopped breathing until you're dead or until it's no longer possible to hold it. DISCLAIMER: This Timeline/Comparison is based on public data, surveys, public comments & discussions and approximate estimations that might be subjected to some degree of error. Subscribe to Infinite Comparison for more comparison/timeline videos. Icons: www.flaticon.com Sources: https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/raw/macokowuqi