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The gullet has circular rings of muscles in the walls and when you swallow a reflex talks place (PERISTALSIS)

where the muscle before and around the lump of food relax and the muscle behind contracts, squeezing the food along a bit so you get a wave of relaxation and contraction pushing the food down.

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