Why can’t we swallow rapidly?

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I can only swallow at a rate of like once every two seconds at the fastest… Why?

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Every time you swallow your epiglottis has to flip back to stop anything falling into your lungs and then flip back to allow you to breath. When someone says “it went down the wrong tube” they actually just swallowed to quickly and it landed on there epiglottis

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