What happens when you suddenly

The idea is no problem but the truth is that there are quite a lot of influences when you "stop talking" for a while!

Communication is something we still do every day. But are you curious when you assume that one day, you wake up and suddenly don't want to talk anymore.

Time you do not "open the phone" not only in 1 day, 1 week . but 1 year. So what happens on our bodies if that day comes?

"Stop saying" - vocal cords have problems

We know that, when speaking, the brain will command the neck and vocal cords in the neck to function.

There is a structure in the neck that produces a sound called phantom. The middle part of the chamber that connects the 2 muscles can produce a sound called serenity. They line up closely and are like a rubber band, and the bigger the sound, the bigger the sound.

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The throat scanner tells you how the throat works when you make a short "aa ." sound.

The air makes the vocal cords emit shock. The shock caused the air in the chamber to vibrate and emit a throaty sound. High or low throat sound, rough or even sound due to the elasticity of serenity and breathing air of decision making.

If you do not speak for a long time, the vocal cords in your neck will not work much more stagnant, when you say the voice will feel hoarse. However, everything will return to normal if you repeat it in a short time later.

"Stop talking" - the brain changes

It sounds a bit irrelevant, but when you don't talk for a long time, your nerves must have a certain adaptation.

According to Bijan Pesaran, a brain specialist, the professor at NYU's Neuroscience Center said that using parts of the brain dedicated to speech would make them more responsive. Abusing them makes them weaker.

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If you do not use a body function, the part of the brain associated with this part will shrink.

On the other hand, if you don't use a bodily function, or completely don't use it - according to Pesaran - the areas of the brain associated with this part will increasingly narrow the areas of the brain associated with it.

This is different from the "brain shrinkage" that comes with old age. What Mr. Pesaran mentioned is that the number of neurons is available and is specific to the performance performance of a specific task in a department.

If you stop talking, the number of active neurons for that process will be smaller. Neurons that used to work for speech will work towards implementing another task.

For example, a person who is visually impaired, their auditory part becomes faster and more dominant than others.

However, Pesaran also stressed that the reorganization of nerves in this cessation will be less dramatic.

Because you stop talking, but you don't stop listening. The mechanical control areas that serve the speech can shrink but still partially serve other cognitive processes.

"Lock your mouth" - The facial muscles system remains the same

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Without saying, more or less facial muscles will not change.

Many people believe that, when you stop talking for a long time - 1 year - the face of your face will be changed a little due to not being mobilized every day.

But according to Katie Plattner, a speech-language pathologist in Los Angeles, the facial muscles of these people will not change much, namely they will not shrink. The reason is because not speaking, but the muscle part, especially the jaw muscles will still move, move while eating food, brushing teeth and expressing emotions. Therefore, much less facial muscles will have no change.