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I've got hiccups which is incredibly annoying but it does mean that every 4 seconds or so I'm reminded to think about fish evolution which is pretty cool.

Please talk about fish evolution and how it relates to hiccups I am SO curious

Okay so the thing about hiccups is that you have them by default. There's a special region in the brain that suppresses hiccups. "Yes hiccups" is the default. "No hiccups" was an ad-hoc addition.

Why?! Why would your body want to hiccup by default? what purpose does that serve? Well, none, for you. But it was very, very important for your ancestors.

Hiccups are a fish reflex. They're a remnant of the convulsion that fish automatically perform to pull water over their gills. When this system was repurposed for lungs, we eventually evolved a workaround that tells the gill twitch not to fire any more. When this fails, boom. Hiccups.

It's just your fish nervous system trying to be a fucking fish again.

Is... Is that why I've had people telling me I just need to say "I am not a fish" out loud to cure my hiccups??

Also. I am so curious as to what other evolutionary workarounds we have that just?? Break sometimes??

Your entire body is a mountain of code built my many generations of coders who do not in fact know how to code and you don't want to know how much of it is random hacked-in gotos between functions that once did something very different, or how much is simply commented out entirely and just sitting there in your genome. Your ear bones used to be part of the support structure for gills. Your vocal cords are part of a valve that's supposed to close off your lungs when you go into water and it's just good enough to do that while also being shitty enough to relax and push air through because it turned out that being able to Breathe Noisy was also incredibly useful.

That's why drinking water stop hiccups? :O

You can stop hiccups by temporarily dramatically changing your blood chemistry. This is why most cures involve something that gives you a surge of adrenaline or carbon dioxide or something.

Here’s the cure the med-surg resident told me about the night I was filling in for somebody in the ER.

So what I'm reading is this body wants to be a mer.

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