Josh Clark

And the way that that happens is basically from what I can tell through a system of nerves, olfactory nerve, ethmoidal nerve, which is a terrible word, and then your trigeminal nerve, which is basically responsible for most of the sensation in your face and your ability to bite and chew.

And when these nerves spring into action, they hit that message there.

or the sneezing center in your brain, and your sneezing center sends it back over this kind of same switchboard of nerves in your face.

And all this is happening in just, you know, a very short amount of time.

Yeah, I mean, like I said, the whole thing takes place in less than a second.

And it's got to reach, you know, in order for it to reach that sneeze center, it's got to be past a certain threshold of irritation, basically.

Right.

And once it does reach that irritable point, of which there's no going back, he's had too much to drink, everybody in the bar knows it, that's when it finally sends that impulse down.

through the head and neck to initiate that response that involves a lot of muscle groups.

When you sneeze, and especially with some people, it can be a pretty violent action for the body.

Yeah, like if you stop and take stock of what you're doing right then, you might find that you're hunched over.

One of your legs is in the air, like your knees kind of pulled up.

Your face is all scrunched up.

Your neck is tight.

There's a lot of muscles involved.

And the reason why is because you're taking in a bunch of air and then you're expelling a bunch of air with a lot of force to get that thing that won't leave out of your nose.

Yeah, like you can – and I've seen professional athletes that have been sidelined from sneezing.

If you've got a bad back or something, like it can really hurt.

Luckily, I don't have back problems, but occasionally I have.

And a sneeze can really tweak it to where you're like –