Josh Clark
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So that's all good in my opinion.
No, that's definitely the way to go.
He's very nosy, so he found out.
I had to finally just stop lying.
And one of the things we mentioned was the sneezing center, which is this โ up until not too many years ago, a theoretical part of the brain that โ
causes us to sneeze that coordinates this involuntary response.
Because you're not like, your brain's not consciously saying like, okay, now diaphragm, expel the air.
Like this is all, like we said, involuntary.
That'd be great if you had to say that every time you wanted to sneeze.
So it makes sense that there would be a region that was responsible for this.
Because we've already, we'd already seen it in cats.
Don't ask how we know where it is in cats, but in cats it's in the medulla.
And so it was hypothesized that it was in the lateral medulla in humans too.
And finally, I think around 2005, there was basically incontrovertible evidence that came in the form of this fisherman, I believe he might have been Spanish, who had this sneezing fit one day of like about 20 really violent sneezes in a few minutes.
And then all of a sudden, he stopped sneezing and couldn't walk right.