What causes that awful brain freeze you get when you drink a milkshake too fast?
According to Dr. Arthur L. Day, it's not actually your brain feeling the pain. Instead, when you taste something cold, it "overwhelms the area of the mouth where the taste is coming from; it refers pain to adjacent things" – which, in this case, include the nerves around the brain. As a result, you end up with the famous "ice cream headache."
I don't just get it from ice cream. I get it sometimes if it is hot out and I drink something cold. Guess it all works the same way, huh?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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