: Why do we puke when we over exert ourselves during exercise?

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Why do we puke or throw up when we over exert ourselves physically?
It seemed like a daily occurrence during football practices in HS and glorified by trainers who work their clients to the point of puking…

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Any trainers who work their clients to the point of puking arent good trainers (at least if they do it regularly, it happening one time because “man that was a really hard work out” is alright, but happening every day isn’t great).

But to answer the question, it’s because your body is doing one or two things:

Saying “oh shit, are we like running away from a predator or fighting for our lives? We need to dump this extra weight, food in our stomach isn’t worth anything if we’re dead”

Or saying “oh jeez why doesn’t my body feel good? Was it something we ate? Is it something that was poisoness? We should get that out of our stomach”

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