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“In fact, your retina is technically part of your brain, the only part of it which sits on the outside world, beyond the protection of the cranial vault. So you basically have two pieces of brain tissue that got purposely squeezed out during embryonic development and plopped inside two eye sockets.”

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“The issue is that most of us are chronic mouth breathers and this can dry out the mouth, leading to halitosis. It can also irritate your lungs as well as be a causative factor in sleep apnoea too.”

“Ultimately, death from a broken heart is rare but yes, you can have your heart broken and it can be fatal.”

“The sensation and perception of pain is actually a two-way street. The brain can receive ‘pain’ signals but also feed them back to those sensory nerves to tune up or tune down pain in line with how it wants to perceive it.”

Fascinating! Does explain why different people have differing ‘pain tolerances’