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Does Yawning Cool Our Brains Down??

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TIL the reason we yawn might be to cool our brains down. Consider my mind blown, literally. 🤯🧠

If you yawned during this video, are you in a hot or cold environment?

Source: Massen JJ, Dusch K, Eldakar OT, Gallup AC. A thermal window for yawning in humans: yawning as a brain cooling mechanism. Physiol Behav. 2014 May 10;130:145-8. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.03.032. Epub 2014 Apr 12. PMID: 24721675.

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