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How does your brain know when you've had enough to drink each time you take a sip of water?

Plus a Groundhog Day tragedy, how North America came to celebrate this wacky holiday, and what its

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I am a big fan of water. I drink it pretty much non-stop. I've even been involved in several different online water enthusiast communities, some for water in general, others for seltzer.

I feel like I'm pretty much always craving water, or always thirsty, anyhow. I'm not sure what that might say about me medically, but a new

study published today in the journal Nature at least explains what part of my body is telling me that I

have actually satiated my thirst, and it's not just the brain or the mouth. So previous research

has shown that there are a few checkpoints that happen in your body

that help your brain know when you've had enough to drink, of water for hydration purposes,

that is not like when you're intoxicated. So first, when the water gets in your mouth,

your brain gets a sort of refreshing feeling. According to Yukioka, one of the authors of the new study and an

expert in thirst. Oka says there's a checkpoint in the intestine that verifies that you've drunk

water, but that process takes a few minutes, so your brain wouldn't know to tell you to stop

drinking quickly enough if it waited for that signal. Water also gets absorbed in the bloodstream,

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