Hey proof listeners today is our last bonus episode well at least for now and we've loved

answering all of those great food questions that you sent to us some of them were so weird and we love them.

So today we're answering a great question and that is how do you avoid getting a brain freeze? So we wanted to

get to the bottom of this and here to talk about it a little bit more is our

producer Sarah Joyner. Hello.

Hey Sarah.

So are you an expert on Brain Freeze?

Not quite, but I do get them.

And I get them in very specific locations and I actually have a theory that like where you get a brain freeze might run in your family because my sister and me get it in the same place as my mom and my brother gets it in the same place as my dad but that's neither here

So you are a chronic victim of this insidious thing known as brain freeze. Yeah either that or I you know drink too many

milkshakes.

Well, the cool thing about brain freezes is that, you know, you don't feel the pain where it is, right?

You know, our mouths are cold, so why are we getting pain in our

forehead or behind our eyeball you know it's sort of an interesting concept deferred

pain and that's really what brain freeze is. I mean to be

completely fair the science is not super advanced on this yet but the running

theory is that we've got this cluster in the roof of our mouth of blood vessels and nerves.

And when they get cold, they kind of constrict and tighten,

and then when our mouth sort of re-warms itself after we swallow the cold thing

it'll sort of open back up again and the theory is is that that changing between

the squeezing and the relaxing of this cluster of nerves and vessels is what's causing

this pain, but it's deferring to somewhere else in your head.

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