Basically the title, why when you’re digesting a big meal do you have to focus on breathing?
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It is literally a full stomach stops the lungs fully expanding.
As you inhale, as well as going out the way a bit, they expand down. This is because the diaphragm (a large thing muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen) contracts and lowers, making more space in the chest for the lungs to expand. The stomach is directly under the diaphragm and the spleen and liver are are on either side and the small intestine below, so if it’s full and can’t be squashed to make space, it has no space to move into to make enough space for a big, deep breath comfortably.
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