Eat ice cream too fast and you get it. Slurp an Icee slurpee
too fast and you get it. Brain freeze, that is. Your sinuses pound, your eyes
hurt, your brain goes into convulsions.
And then, when your brain returns to its normal function, you
start to worry. The obvious question to ask is, “What did that do to my brain?
Is it permanently damaged?”
We may never find out for sure scientifically, as the
National Institutes of Health has not made any effort to fund research on the
matter. But some neurosurgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital did some
experimentation.
Although the brain’s temperature was dropped as low as 64°,
they found no harm done once they returned the brain to normal temperature
(around 98.6° as we all know).
So … bear with the pain. That tasty milk shake is worth it.
Every brain-chilling drop of it.
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