today's fact for good health...

The title of this blog is a reminder necessary for keeping good health, is it not? In keeping with the spirit of that, I would like tell you another fact for a healthy life.

This is a Daphnia, aka waterflea. They are really tiny little buggers, this pic is under the scope.



Disgusting? Yes. I am fully aware. I have had to stare at them for a long time today.

I have learned about him and grown to love him as a close friend the past little while as I have studied about him in my biology lab-despite his see-through grossyness. My group (which is me and two other girls)was assigned to do an experiment with Daphnia (multiple daphnia, in fact our teacher has a whole fishbowl full of 'em). We chose to see what substances would affect their heartrate, since you can see their heartbeats really well under a microscope.

In water his heartbeat is about 200. In apple juice it's about 50. And here's where we get to the health part.

this is a popular energy beverage of today's society.



Tasting of lime sherbet and smarties, it is packed with b vitamins, guarine, taurine, and caffeine.

We chose a little daphnia that was swimming around like a champ, put him on the slide and put TWO DROPS of rockstar on him. Boom. Dead. Heart stopped. kicked the bucket. gonzo. done. Poor little fella. It was fatal.

But maybe he was just wimpy, so we got another little guy and put him on the slide.

He swam around for like two seconds aaaaaand... croak. on to the next life. Do you think there are Daphnia in the spirit world? If there are, welp, then they had a flood of em coming home today, cause they just couldn't handle the process. Sorry sorta...
It was cardiac arrest I'm pretty sure. yikes.

OK, MORAL: aka, health fact.

don't drink Rockstar. Its a killer. Imagine what it does to your poor innards. don't do it.