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water intake and immunity

F. Hayashi hayashi at u.washington.edu
Mon May 17 23:05:31 EST 1999


On Sat, 15 May 1999, fp wrote:

> is there a relationship between the two?
> 

None that I've heard of, but dehydration isn't good for anything.

The experiment would be:

cage of mice with adequate water
cage of mice with inadequate water

and a disease of your choice.

I bet that the dehydrated mice would do worse, but I doubt anyone will
feel like doing the experiment, since it would be hard to work out just
HOW the dehydration is reducing immunity....

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