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You know that moment when everything's calm and quiet and then your whole body jolts like a toaster popping.
Yup, hiccups strike again.
Today's excellent question comes from Eleanor in Sydney who wants to know, why do we hiccup?
It all starts with a large flat muscle under your lungs called the diaphragm.
When it moves down, it makes space in your chest and you breathe in.
Then when it relaxes and moves back up, you breathe out.
A hiccup happens when the diaphragm suddenly twitches.
That makes you suck in air super fast and your vocal cords snap shut, producing that famous sound.
And what causes that twitch?
All sorts of things.
Eating too quickly, drinking fizzy drinks, laughing really hard, being startled or even a sudden temperature change.
A very sensitive nerve called the vagus nerve runs from your brain down to your belly.
And when it gets irritated, your diaphragm can spasm.
Fun fact, babies hiccup before they're even born.
Scientists think that it helps them practice the breathing movements that they're going to use after birth.
Our hiccups could just be a throwback to that.
And some researchers think that hiccups might be a leftover, ancient reflex from early animals who had to coordinate breathing and swallowing in different ways.
Get this, tadpoles, they're in the water, right?
They breathe with their gills.
And as they become frogs, they can move on to land and they switch to using their lungs to breathe air.
When they're little, they use a reflex that is super similar to a hiccup to push water across their gills instead of it going into their lungs.
Amazing.
So is there a cure?
People have tried everything.
Holding your breath, getting someone to scare you, eating a spoonful of sugar, hanging upside down drinking water while singing happy birthday simultaneously.
The truth is there is no guaranteed cure.
And yes, there is a Guinness World Record for the longest time hiccuping.
A man named Charles Osborne hiccuped for an exhausting 68 years.
Thankfully, that is extremely rare.
Most hiccups simply go away on their own after a few minutes or even a few hours, and doctors usually only worry if they last for more than two days.
Mostly, they're just annoying and a tiny bit mysterious.
They're a little muscle spasm with a noisy ending.
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