Basically the title, why when you’re digesting a big meal do you have to focus on breathing?
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Not as many believe, breathing is an action generated in the diaphragm (your cute tummy), not in your mouth or in your nose. When you ingest a big quantity of food (or water) both your chest and your diaphragm experience an anormal, but not dangerous, pressure from the inside, all that food is pressuring your diaphragm so you have to force those muscles to get all the air your lungs need.
(Like, imagine if you are being crushed by someone, you are laying facing to the floor and someone sits on your back, is the same kind of pressure your chest is holding)
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