stackyFACTSRight below your lungs sits a massive, dome-shaped sheet of muscle that constantly drops and rises like a tireless piston. This internal parachute creates a total physical vacuum that forces your chest to draw in fresh air. You literally cannot inhale without this hidden plunger doing all the actual lifting.
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