I thought they digestive system is separated from the chest by the ailmentary canal and diaphragm
How does gas from intestines reach chest to cause pain near the heart?
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In addition to the other comment there’s two specific things:
One, really just an expansion on this, is that you’re lungs are mostly supposed to expand *down* not out. People who breathe I ly by expanding the rub cage are using a fraction of the actual lung capacity, it’s mostly supposed to be the diaphragm which presses down into the same space as your digestive system, so if that’s bloated it could easily cause issues there.
However to more specifically answer the question of pain near the heart…it doesn’t, technically. But the nerve that runs from your guts up your spine, joins up with the nerve from your heart (/that area) so pain in one literally gets its wires crossed with the other and you feel it as if it was your heart.
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