If someone said to me when I was young: “Nosebleed is caused by a chemical imbalance in your body .” I might have appreciated chemistry as a subject more. Instead, studying symbols and formulas bored me. Now that I’m at an age when the body starts breaking down, I realize it is all chemistry and I have to become my own chemist in order to keep myself healthy.
A cup of coffee a day seems a mild indulgence. But that cup of coffee proved detrimental when I started experiencing palpitations. Why did it turn on me at midlife? I stopped drinking coffee entirely but whenever I smelled the rich aroma my nose would twitch like a mouse’s.
Maybe it is stress, and stress causes the body to react chemically. Vacationing in Turkey recently, I had the espresso-like Turkish coffee and their “American” Nescafe almost every day. Palpitation was a thought in my mind but it never happened. What does it say about this body of fluid? Maybe it was the combination with the nargile (water pipe) that balanced my yin and yang!
