{"id":1161,"date":"2019-08-12T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2019-09-04T13:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:37:56","slug":"why-do-we-yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/why-do-we-yawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Yawn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People say lack of oxygen, because you&#8217;re tired, and some even say it&#8217;s contagious. So, what&#8217;s up with yawning?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Causes of yawning, even if you\u2019re not tired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most scientifically backed theory about why we yawn is brain temperature regulation. A 2014 study published in Physiology &amp; Behaviour looked at the yawning habits of 120 people and found that yawning occurred less during the winter. If the brain\u2019s temperature gets too far outside of the norm, inhaling air can help cool it down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You yawn when you\u2019re\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>tired<\/strong> &#8211; because\u00a0 your brain is slowing down, causing its temperature to drop<br \/>\n<strong>bored <\/strong>&#8211; because\u00a0your brain isn\u2019t feeling stimulated and starts to slow down causing a temperature drop<br \/>\n<strong>seeing someone else yawn <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0when you\u2019re in the same environment as them, you\u2019re exposed to the same temperature<\/p>\n<p>You may also find yourself yawning more if you get migraines. During a migraine, your blood clots in your brain. Yawning helps to cool your brain down from that clotting. Another reason you may yawn is because the body wants to wake itself up. The motion helps stretch the lungs and their tissues, and it allows the body to flex its muscles and joints. It may also force blood toward your face and brain to increase alertness.<\/p>\n<p>The link below shows yawning is very much contagious, and even in some cases, watching videos of other people yawning can even trigger it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/pin\/230387337172832289\/\">https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/pin\/230387337172832289\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Even though the photo is to stop vomiting, it should also make you yawn!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People say lack of oxygen, because you&#8217;re tired, and some even say it&#8217;s contagious. So, what&#8217;s up with yawning? Causes of yawning, even if you\u2019re not tired The most scientifically backed theory about why we yawn is brain temperature regulation. A 2014 study published in Physiology &amp; Behaviour looked at the yawning habits of 120&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,13],"tags":[224,311,223,231,122,265,18],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mysteries","category-science-space","tag-education","tag-ehy-do-we","tag-health","tag-human-body","tag-humans","tag-mysteries","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}