Men’s Health Magazine has 18 tricks to help your body on different situations. Things like what sort of stuff helps when you got burn, how to ease the pain during an injection and toothache, and how to wake yourself up. Those are little bit and pieces things that you can do in those situations and only involve a tidy effort. It is good to remember them:
- If your throat tickles, scratch your ear!
- Experience supersonic hearing!
- Overcome your most primal urge!
- Feel no pain!
- Clear your stuffed nose!
- Fight fire without water!
- Cure your toothache without opening your mouth!
- Make burns disappear!
- Stop the world from spinning!
- Unstitch your side!
- Stanch blood with a single finger!
- Make your heart stand still!
- Thaw your brain!
- Prevent near-sightedness!
- Wake the dead!
- Impress your friends!
- Breathe underwater!
- Read minds!
All of the tips are pretty interesting, but this is the best for me:
… Experience supersonic hearing! If you’re stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It’s better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you’re trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking up music tones.
I am going to find chance to find try this! Which hack do you like?
18 Tricks to Teach Your Body – [Men's Health]
“German researchers have discovered that coughing during an injection can lessen the pain of the needle stick. According to Taras Usichenko, author of a study on the phenomenon, the trick causes a sudden, temporary rise in pressure in the chest and spinal canal, inhibiting the pain-conducting structures of the spinal cord.”
Go ahead and cough, I’ll stay still and not worry about broken veins :D
Awesome tricks though, great link!
#5 is really effective — and a lot healthier than using Sudafed. I wish more doctors would offer this sort of tip.
Whereas, on the other hand, leaning in to anyone you’re trying to chat up will make them much less interested in you. If you can’t hear someone you fancy, you should encourage them to lean forward into your space.
Hack #17 can be dangerous or outright fatal if you do not know what you are doing. Freedivers and scuba divers refer to “hyperventilation blackouts” and “shallow water blackouts.” These are very real, and the article’s nonchalant tone and funny picture of someone diving for keys understates how you can lose your life doing this on your next beach vacation.
Hyperventilation before diving makes it easier to hold the breath for a longer time before the reflex makes the diver breath again. Its risks depend on that large amounts of carbon dioxide are weathered out of the blood keeping the oxygen pressure at a normal.
Normally the carbon dioxide pressure gives the first signals for the diver/person to start breathing again at an individual point. This occurs normally in good time before the oxygen pressure lowers to a level that makes the diver unconscious.
But with hyperventilating this signal comes too late: just after the point when the oxygen pressure has passed the level where the diver is conscious. The person looses consciousness without any warning and when the high carbon dioxide pressure starts the breathing reflex again there is great risk that the diver breathes in water instead of air. Only alert persons in the surrounding area can prevent the diver from drowning of “hyperventilation blackout”.
Another great risk that is directly linked to the pressure of the breathing gases, and is therefore greater as the diver reaches greater depths is called “shallow water blackout”. With increasing depths the oxygen pressure in the lungs will rise which leads to that the blood can take up more oxygen. With ascending to the surface the oxygen pressure lowers dramatically, and if the pressure in the lungs becomes lower than in the blood the oxygen will pass from the blood into the lungs instead.
Sudden unconsciousness can follow. At the same time the carbon dioxide pressure in the lungs sinks with ascending to the surface and carbon dioxide will pass from the blood to the lungs. A lower carbon dioxide pressure is registered in the blood and the breathing reflex weakens. This gives the diver a faked signal to be able to stay down for a much longer time just before unconsciousness occurs. The continuous development is the same as in hyperventilating blackout with inhaling of water and drowning.
The risk with “shallow water blackout” increases if the diver exhales slowly when diving or stops on the way up from maximal depth. The hyperventilating- and shallow water-risks increase together with real deep freediving and urges for great caution.
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