Thirsty People Feel More Pain
Scott over at Straight to the Bar wrote about a study stating that thirsty people feel more pain.
Going without a drink can make you more sensitive to pain, a study has found. Australian pain expert Dr Michael Farrell of the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne and team report their findings in today’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [...] The study participants had pressure applied to their thumbs to induce mild pain and were given saline injections to stimulate thirst.
Perhaps this is a subliminal message that causes me to drink so much water. Our bodies are mostly made up of water. It is important to maintain hydration levels, especially when working out.
The study points out that the opposite reaction is likely when severe dehydration sets in.
Previous studies in rats have shown that mild thirst makes the animals feel more pain but severe dehydration actually dulls pain
[...] Properly hydrate yourself: Being hydrated for a race starts a week ahead of time. There is a theory that thirsty people feel more pain. [...]
[...] My advice on hydration is always the same, because I always hydrate the same whether my goal race is a 5k, a marathon, or I am in my off season and just lifting some weights. I very rarely have more than a week or so off at any given point unless I am sick, and then I drink even more water in an effort to drown whatever has me down. [...]
[...] learned a new reason to keep myself well hydrated, since thirsty people feel more pain. I also included a recipe for cooking shark steaks after they went on sale in my local fish [...]