Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

23,000 Mini Hugs_ The Magic of Breathing | The Breathwork Routine That Helped Break My Wife’s Trauma

21 May 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD, explaining how diaphragmatic breathing mechanically interacts with internal organs. The speaker highlights that the diaphragm sits over the liver, describing each breath as delivering '23,000 mini hugs' to the liver, and notes that major lymph nodes lie just beneath the diaphragm—connecting breathing mechanics to lymphatic and visceral effects.

The thing with breathing that's also interesting is that because of the impact, if we look at where our diaphragm is right underneath our lungs, our diaphragm sits nicely over top of our liver. So if I was an intelligent designer and creator, then that's exactly where I'd put the diaphragm and exactly where I put the liver, where it's going to get 23,000 mini hugs with each and every single breath that I take. Some of the biggest lymph nodes in our body are also right underneath the diaphragm.