Why Are We Yawning?

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Why and why are we yawning? Many people ask themselves this question. Yawning is a respiratory movement, most often involuntary, consisting of deep inspiration and vigorous exhalation

Yawning is a reflex response of the body, aimed at improving the supply of oxygen to the organs. It is believed to start to yawn when carbon dioxide accumulates in the blood.

Monotony serves as a signal for yawning. And to restore the efficiency of nerve cells, a protective mechanism is activated - yawning.

An adult person usually yawns before going to sleep or when from a sleepy state returns to the waking state.

We are educated and cultured people, and we will all find scientific justification, even yawning. Let them not think that we want to yawn from boredom, we just have oxygen starvation.

It was believed that yawning was caused by oxygen starvation in a stuffy room.

If you yawn - it does not mean that you did not get enough sleep. Neuropathologists at the New York Medical Center claim that we are yawning not to fall asleep. This they explain our desire to poke. Scientist Ronald Benninger believes that yawning can support the activity of a falling asleep brain.

Sometimes yawning comes before crucial moments in life, when it is necessary to mobilize vital forces.

Yawn is inherent not only to man. They say that even frogs yawn. Yawning is a reflection of the ancient instinct that existed in all animals.

Men and women yawn almost the same time, but not all men with a yawn cover their mouths with their hands. The yawn lasts about 6 seconds.

And the children begin to yawn in the womb, at the age of 11 weeks.

People, who are able to empathize, seeing a yawning person, also begin to yawn. Yawning is very contagious. Yawn for the company in 42-50% of cases, but this action is not amenable to children under four years old. Chimpanzees, as well as people, can yawn for the company.

Scientists say that yawning is useful. With yawning, the airways open wide, and the muscles relax. After that comes a pleasant state of loss of consciousness. Yawning helps to relieve stress, fatigue, mental stress, stimulates the brain.

German scientists have established that yawning activates blood circulation, clears the mind, supplies the brain and body cells with energy, and promotes the activity of the lacrimal glands. Dry eyes moisturize and feel much better. Relax muscles of the temples, face, neck, neck, shoulders, abdomen and diaphragm. The mood improves.

According to the Spanish doctors, yawning normalizes blood pressure, relieves tension in muscles and joints, and helps prevent heart attack and other heart diseases.

If yawning occurs in the room, then with this scourge you can fight. Get out into the open air. If you want to yawn in the street, stop for a couple of minutes and slowly make a swing by hand. Two or three breathing exercises will suffice. Often doing such training, you can generally get rid of yawning.

Lead an active and interesting lifestyle, and perhaps you'll start to yawn less and get into embarrassing situations because you do not have time to cover your mouth with your hand!

And if you can not cope with your reflex actions, then, all the same, try to yawn more cautiously, otherwise, you will not be able to dislocate the jaw for long.

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