when we sneeze all our bodily functions stops including our heart . why?

Answer 1

Simply put, this is not true. You might not be able to breathe properly during a sneezing attack, but nothing *stops*, especially not your heart! There's just no link between autonomous systems' activity and sneezing.

'All our bodily functions'?? Breathing, gut movement, respiration, kidney function, heart , liver, immune system.. It's a playground myth.

Answer 2

In a word, no, your heart does not stop when you sneeze. From my
perspective, it is hard to even imagine what this would mean. A sneeze
itself is really a very brief event, occurring in a shorter time then a
heartbeat. Of course, there is the building up to the sneeze (the "ah" of
the "ah-choo"), but the heart certainly does not stop beating because of
this ah-ing. Check your pulse next time to prove this to yourself.

As I answer this question, I am trying to imagine just how the heart might
even "know" that you are sneezing.
The heart beats because a small part of
it called the SA node has a "pacemaker" activity. What this means is that
there is a type of electrical cycle going on that triggers beats roughly
once every second. Sneezing does not change this electrical cycle, so the
heart keeps beating.
Said a different way, the muscle of your heart is a
big mass of electrically active tissue, and this electrical activity will
not stop because of a sneeze, or anything else for that matter.

And yet, a sneeze is definitely a complex cardiovascular event. As you
"ah" and "choo", you significantly change the pressure inside your chest,
which in turn affects blood flow and thus the beating of the heart.
Taking a more historical/philosophical view of your question, the much more
likely explanation for why people say "God bless you" has to do with
religious beliefs and superstition. in earlier times
it was believed that when you sneezed you opened yourself, or your soul, to
the outside world. It was an unnatural and bizarre happening,
and clearly evil. there are variations on this
theme, but basically it was thought that your soul might escape, or demons
and evil spirits might get in.The blessing was to help ward off such badness.

Answer 3

Sneezing is your nostril’s involuntary reaction to a nasal inflammation. Traditions abound regarding sneezing, and various are rooted in cultural ideals relating to the ability of a sneeze. “God bless you,” as an occasion, might have originated with the thought your soul left your physique once you sneezed and that evil spirits might desire to circulate into till a blessing became bestowed upon you. Or, that your heart stopped momentarily throughout a sneeze, in reality killing you for an on the spot, so which you mandatory to be blessed.

Answer 4

They do? I'll check it out the next time I sneeze.

Answer 5

Are you sure all body functions stop?

Interesting question - maybe we have to put all of our efforts into staying upright.

Answer 6

Recessaclopa aestasia.