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Cause of Brain Freeze Revealed
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| 22 Apr 2012
| Jennifer Welsh
Posted on 04/23/2012 4:04:02 AM PDT by shove_it
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But what about brain farts?
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posted on
04/23/2012 4:04:05 AM PDT
by
shove_it
To: shove_it
Why was good money spent on this stupid study?
What moron couldn’t put together the fact that a sinus headache and brain freeze have the same effect on a person?
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posted on
04/23/2012 4:35:54 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(End Obama's War On Freedom.)
To: BuffaloJack
To: BuffaloJack; shove_it
What moron couldnt put together the fact that a sinus headache and brain freeze have the same effect on a person?
Probably the same one who couldn't "put together the fact" that the article was about migraine, not sinus headaches?
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posted on
04/23/2012 4:50:21 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: shove_it
It is not news that increased blood flow to the brain causes migraines. An old time ‘remedy’ used to prevent or moderate migraines is putting your hands in warm water to divert the blood flow to your hands.
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posted on
04/23/2012 4:52:58 AM PDT
by
khelus
To: shove_it
They saw that increased blood flow to the brain through a blood vessel called the anterior cerebral artery, which is located in the middle of the brain behind the eyes. This increase in flow and resulting increase in size in this artery brought on the pain associated with brain freeze.
"Caffeine, because it blocks adenosine, has the opposite effects of adenosine. Caffeine constricts blood vessels in the head and neck, and increases the release of excitatory neurochemicals, so increases the rate of nerve firing. That's why caffeine is stimulating.
Caffeine has only one known mechanism of action at likely doses: occupation and blockade of adenosine receptors.
Whatever the cause of a given primary or secondary headache, if caffeine relieves that headache, it does so by blocking adenosine. That tells us something important about headaches relieved by caffeine: their causal mechanism involves adenosine binding to adenosine receptors.
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posted on
04/23/2012 4:53:13 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: shove_it
Ice cream headaches HURT! Where did they get the volunteer masochists for this study?
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posted on
04/23/2012 4:54:10 AM PDT
by
submarinerswife
(Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
To: shove_it
The Best Part about a Brain Freeze is how good your head feels AFTER the pain stops. But it don’t last long.
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posted on
04/23/2012 4:54:29 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: shove_it
I guess that explains why pressing your thumb against the roof of your mouth can stop a Brain Freeze!
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posted on
04/23/2012 4:55:29 AM PDT
by
MrTed
("...at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow...", will it be before or after one's death?)
To: khelus
An older and just as useless cure is leeches and blood-letting.
To: mikey_hates_everything
Funny you posted this. I applied numerous times over the past three years to do a study on “The Effect of Incandescent Light Mandatory Usage and the Incidence of Visual Acuity Diminishment From 2013 to 2050.” Nobody got back to me until the third time and I was told in vague terms ‘ Shut up, a..hole. We ain’t interested’. I only asked for $30,000,000. Figured I’d be dead before they asked for it back.
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posted on
04/23/2012 5:02:32 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(The predator class is upset because they are being shot.)
To: aruanan
Hey idiot, migraine, sinus headache and brain freeze are all physiologically the result of stimulation of the same nerve bundles. The study is stupid, because the authors should have done their homework and read the older studies from twenty years back, instead of re-inventing the wheel.
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posted on
04/23/2012 5:05:42 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(End Obama's War On Freedom.)
To: BuffaloJack
Pimping for research dollars. I wonder why this is even a story since we have known for some considerable time that brain freeze is caused by increased blood flow as the body tries to warm the area then the reduction of the flow as the precursor, cooling, diminishes.... the reason brain freeze actually happens after the cold is applied and not when it is applied.
To: BuffaloJack
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posted on
04/23/2012 5:15:49 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Shut up and drill.)
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To: shove_it
Prevent brain freeze, suck your slurpy slower.
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posted on
04/23/2012 5:26:11 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(The only thing straight, white, Christian males get is the blame for everything.)
To: Fresh Wind
He’s immune. You gotta have a brain.
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posted on
04/23/2012 5:27:31 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
04/23/2012 5:28:13 AM PDT
by
shove_it
(just undo it)
To: khelus
It is not news that increased blood flow to the brain causes migraines. An old time remedy used to prevent or moderate migraines is putting your hands in warm water to divert the blood flow to your hands.THis explains why teenage boys have very few migraines.
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posted on
04/23/2012 5:29:19 AM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: BuffaloJack
After having suffered migraines and sinus headaches most of my life, I know that they are not the same.
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posted on
04/23/2012 5:33:37 AM PDT
by
Ditter
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