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Taste of Your Tears

  • Have you ever licked your tears?

    涙の味


    Actually, the taste of your tears slightly changes depending on your emotion.
    涙を舐めたことがありますか?

    When you are happy, impressed, or trying to deceive someone, your tears are similar to water and have little taste.
    実は、涙は感情によって味が若干変化します。

    On the other hand, when you are excited, angry, or frustrated, your tears will become salty.
    嬉しいときや感動したときの涙、あるいは嘘の涙は水に近く、あまり味がしません。

    The reason is because strong emotions make the sympathetic nerve dominant, and the sodium excretion of kidney is suppressed, then the sodium concentration of tears increases.
    それに対して怒ったときや悔しいときなど、興奮状態の涙は塩味になります。

    Therefore, you could check people’s emotions from the taste of their tears.
    これは、交感神経が優位になることで腎臓のナトリウム排泄が抑制され、涙のナトリウム濃度が上がるためです。

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