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Sharp Intake If Breath / Stretch

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Bazile | 12:15 Sun 20th Jan 2019 | Body & Soul
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1. You are sitting there doing whatever - you suddenly take a sharp intake of breath

2. You suddenly feel the need for a stretch

What is the reason for the above ?


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Is there a physiological reason ?
No idea.
Purely conjecture -
Perhaps the primeval region of the brain is prompting the body to do what's good for it - aka 'instinct'.
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sqad - what do you mean you have no idea - are you a physician or what ?
Bazile

"sqad - what do you mean you have no idea - are you a physician or what ?"

I'm a what....;-)
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What's one of them then ? :-)
Not one of "them", you can be sure of that ....;-)
I do that all the time. Bit like yawning I suppose.
As Tommy Cooper would have said, "Don't do it"
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Why do we yawn -is that also a mystery ?
In a way it's a mystery as there is no one particular reason.
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I'm talking about a physiological reason
Instinct?
Survival?
The body deciding that it needs oxygen and the muscles warmed up in case of sabre-toothed tiger attack?

Other predators are available.
//Why do we yawn then?//
Boredom for one
There was a guy, really tired all the time, worked in our local Indian takeaway.

Yawning Qasim they called him.

Deep.
is your glass empty ?
why do we yawn when someone else yawns?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41107399

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