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Is it true that your heart rate naturally goes up when you breath in and goes down with you breath out...?

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Dr. Ira Friedlander answered

Specializes in Cardiac Electrophysiology

Yes this is true and: is mediated through the vagal nerve.

Answered 4/20/2016

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