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You can swallow even while hanging upside down

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Gravity has absolutely nothing to do with how your meals reach your stomach. Your digestive tract uses powerful, rhythmic muscular waves called peristalsis to forcefully crush and push food downward in a highly synchronized sequence. It is such a violent, unstoppable mechanism that you could comfortably eat a sandwich while hanging completely upside down.

You can swallow even while hanging upside down
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