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The one bodily function you can't skip, pause, or outsource.

means The act of drawing air into the lungs, the half of breathing that fills you back up.

from From Latin inhalare, 'to breathe in' — built from the prefix in- ('into') plus halare ('to breathe'). The same halare root, often strengthened to halitus ('breath'), also gave English 'exhale' and, less flatteringly, 'halitosis.' The word passed into English in the 1600s via scientific and medical Latin, part of a wave of anatomical terms coined to sound precise rather than poetic.

average rate
12 to 20 breaths per minute, unconsciously
lung surface
roughly the size of a tennis court
diaphragm job
drops down to create a vacuum pull
oxygen delivery
blood cells cross lungs in under a second
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