A highly unsuspected distinction

For the third time in 5 years Sandra* (not her real name) was brought to the emergency room for the same reason: Severe dehydration. The good news: Emergency doctors had no problem to put her on an infusion, observed her for 24 hours and sent her back home.

However, the BIG challenge: She could not get herself into the habit of drinking water on a regular basis, one sip at a time every 10 minutes. Finally it dawned on her that there must be deeper internal reasons to explore before she could make that life-saving shift to prevent the risk of brain damage or even death.

Slowly she opened her mind to learn more about the biology behind hydration: The brain and nervous system contain 90% water, muscles have only 70%. in case of any lack of water in the body, the brain is affected first. It either switches in panic mode with racing thoughts that call for immediate action or it shuts down completely and the person simply passes out.

Sandra* is very intelligent; so she considered her brain to be much more important than her body. Finally she realized that her brain just processes and edits information that comes from the outside through her senses and from all her organs on the inside. Biologically, her brain is a very precious organ but not to dictate the rest of the body what to do.

After these simple and profound insights she can embrace the new habit to drink hot or cold water on a regular basis with a feeling of gratitude for her biological universe that needs simple input all the time to thrive.

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