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   Kaycee to Nick Argall   
   Re: Drinking water / moving / resume dre   
   05 Oct 04 00:37:40   
   
   From: KC@none.invalid   
      
   Nick Argall wrote:   
      
   > "lallous"  wrote in message   
   > news:2rvoioF1flp74U1@uni-berlin.de...   
      
   >>3)If you drink some water then sleep, would that affect the state you're   
   >   
   > in?   
   >   
   > Yes.  Adding water to your body will dilute the body's salts for about three   
   > hours, which is the time it takes the kidney to process the water out again.   
   > Intuitively, reduced salt concentrations in extra-cellular fluid would slow   
   > down neural activity, but I'm not aware of any research to confirm or deny   
   > this.   
      
   The body is pretty good at maintaining homeostasis, especially in the   
   brain. I feel that in order to actually affect your neural functions   
   markedly you'd have to drink quite a lot of water - enough to wake you   
   up soon to go to the bathroom .(   
      
      
   Cheers, KC   
      
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