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When you breath, your lungs can go up and out a little, but mostly, your lungs go down. The breathing device is the diaphragm, a sheet of muscles going across your chest inside front to back. As the diaphragm 'bends' itself down, the lungs have to move with it and get bigger. When the lungs get bigger, they have no choice but to suck in more air through the mouth or nose.

When the diaphragm 'bends' or moves upward, air is pushed out of the lungs.

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