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…
In: Biology
Digestion actually takes a good deal of energy to do. Net positive of course otherwise eating wouldn’t work at all.
When you exert yourself a lot the energy needed for digestion (basically blood flow and water) get diverted to muscles and sweat and such. The stomach basically then goes, welp. Can’t do anything with all this muck, out it goes.
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