Andrew Huberman· PhD
you can perceive an increase in your blood osmolality of 1% as the sensation of thirst
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you can perceive an increase in your blood osmolality of 1% as the sensation of thirst
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he took these goats and he just started um infusing small amounts of salt into various places in their brain reasoning that if there was an Osmos sensor sorry to I was wild I mean I I wasn't chuckling at ingest like it like I you know I feel for the goats I I feel for everyone involved in that experiment but what a wild experiment just to put salt directly into the brain concentrated saline solution yeah good and he found this tiny region in and around the hypothalamus that if you um if you infuse salt in this region the goats will they'll drink like eight liters of water in five minutes just crazy right