Throat

The throat is the narrowest point in your body — and at the same time the most vital. Everything you need to live must pass through it. The air you breathe. The water you drink. The food that nourishes you. The words that want out. The blood that flows between heart and brain. The nerve impulses that connect head and body. A channel of just a few centimeters, through which your entire life pulses.

When this channel reacts — narrows, burns, scratches, hurts, tenses up, closes with a lump or a feeling of pressure — your body is telling you something fundamental: between what thinks up above in you, and what feels down below, something is no longer permeable. Between your head and your heart sits an obstacle that carries no medical name.