diaphragm

When you like the way you look, you hold yourself with more confidence, and that will change the way that your voice sounds because when your diaphragm is opened, you have a louder voice, you have more clarity, you don’t swallow your words the way that you would if you’re hiding.

That, in turn, causes them to “asphyxiate because their diaphragm has too much pressure on it.”

“I’d try to do that nasally Britney thing, but my mom couldn’t stand it,” Booth says, “so she laid me down on the floor and put books on my stomach and made me start using my diaphragm more.”

Scientists estimate that up to 80% of cancer patients suffer from the condition, where the body relentlessly eats away at itself until organs such as the heart and diaphragm stop working.

"You sing with your diaphragm. My diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing, it was killing me, you know?" the 74-year-old said in a recent interview on SiriusXM's E Street Radio with Jim Rotolo.