Nick Becker
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did a study on two different types of tears, where they collected two different types of tears and they studied what was in them.
So one type of tears was when you cut an onion and they collect those tears from when you cut an onion.
Well, turns out those types of tears are composed of 98% water.
So pretty much mostly water.
That is coming out.
You're secreting water.
And a little bit of stinging sensation too.
It's trying to get it out of your eyeballs.
And then they studied, of course, the tears of sadness.
So real tears, I would argue, because crying over onions, not a real tear.
But tears of sadness.
And they had a look at what was in those tears.
And so it turns out they're composed of a few different things.
Stress hormones was one.
Pain-killing hormones was another.