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Thirsty People Feel More Pain
Bifurcati writes "Being thirsty makes you more sensitive to pain, according to a recent study. By simultaneously doing brain scans, new areas of the brain were activated when both pain and thirst were present, apparently making the pain more "painful" - perhaps a survival method so that pain is prioritized over thirst. They'd like to do more research, but ethical issues make it tough - even these subjects had to spend three hours being poked and prodded!"
I am currently reading Your Body's Many Cries for Water and it has been very eye-opening about body chemistry, and covers the subject with medical and scientific rigour. I highly recommend it to people for whom conventional medicine is at best 'managing' and not reversing their health issues. Particularly compelling in that book is Dr Batmanghelidj's thorough scientific explanation on how 'diet' sodas actually substantially contribute to weight gain.
The immediately curious can access his library of scientific papers (in PDF format).
you had me at #!
I believe they call those masochists.
Will somebody please mod the parent comment down? I don't think I have to do much more than quote from one of the "Doctor's" papers:
From "AIDS: More Convincingly A Metabolic Disorder:"
Although the total attention of AIDS research is directed toward its predicted viral etiology, the intestinal stress and tissue cortisone release factor inducd physiology of the body, over a long period of time, and dependent on the mode and frequency of homosexual practice, can possibly be the precipitating cause of this condition. It is proposed that in homosexuals, AIDS is an intestinal stress induced metabolic disorder and, opiod peptides being markers of stress to the regulatory systems of the body, excessive use of opiates can possibly cause an indirect promotion of stress physiology that can bring about the associated immune system inhibition and disturbance"
Translated: Gay people get AIDS because they have too much anal sex.
This "doctor" is entirely incredible, possibly homophobic, and a quack in the most negative sense of the word. No creedence whatsoever should be given to anything that he's written.
There's a couple possibilities for why this helped: 1)Taking the hand off the mouse and keyboard to grab the glass to drink rests your wrists and allows for a different movement: one of the biggest suggestions for CT sufferers is to take short breaks and exercise your wrists a little. Also the resultant trips to the bathroom give another break from typing (hopefully not exercising his wrists there, though.)
2)Could have a medical condition: diabetes and some liver and kidney disorders can cause polydipsia and associated polyuria: a desire to drink a LOT of water, and then of course the resultant urination. Someone who does not drink this large amount of water could potentially be not flushing out certain toxins or other chemicals.
3)Placebo(tm): the drug against which all others are tested.
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
TFA mentions that while minor dehydration exacerbates pain, extreme dehydration dulls it.
Staying properly hydrated also helps address the root cause of the injury, by promoting flexibility of the connective tissue, and allowing the fascia to function properly.
Carl Sagan taught us: But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
well, Columbus turned out to be wrong, didn't he? Lucky he stumbled into America or he'd have died for it
being vague is almost as cool as doing that other thing...