Wing Woo Gar
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Right.
Dry January
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Wing Woo Gar
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Ohhhhh. Ok I’m in.
Wing Woo Gar
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Teasing. You would say searing won’t seal in his juices?
Wing Woo Gar
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Explosive constipation? Sounds potentially lethal.
Wing Woo Gar
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I can remember seeing a kid using a bloated dead cow for a trampoline when I was little. A little gas would exit the cow on each jump and the kid would giggle every time. Morbid but innocent.
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If brai
Sounds like it needs to be either a t-shirt or a logo.
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Yeah but a really clever body, one that’s a graduate of ‘Oxbridge’ would stop you eating it in the first place. If it did the same thing with strychnine you’d be ‘brown bread’ (dead).
It damages your gut cells, destroying the tight junctions allowing fluid from your blood to flood you GI tract and cause diarrhoea!
Do you have many friends…🤔…or even found love?
That answers my last question.
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😄🤣😂😅🤣 🤢
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There’s a condition of the bowel which I always thought would be a great name for a metal ban - ‘Toxic Megacolon’
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I think dry january is a cover up for that people spent all their money on useless xmas presents and new year festivities, so the drinking budget is empty. Why else january? Why not dry february?
Another health advice for january is to condition your body to cold! I personally practice this and I wear short sleeves all winter as long as it's not colder than 14F/-10C or if I have to be outdoors for hours. Shocking your body may be dangerous though and add cardiovasular stress that may trigger something. But it's like bare knuckle training, start slowly. I also consider it a MA excercise, there is a difference between "feeling cold" and "getting cold". Feeling cold is just like pain, it's only in your head. Tense your muscles and resist. I've done this for years.
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www.medicalnewstoday.com
"A new study suggests that shivering and bouts of moderate exercise are equally capable of stimulating the conversion of energy-storing ‘white fat’ into energy-burning ‘brown fat’. This makes brown fat a potential therapeutic target against obesity and diabetes."
-- Evidence that shivering and exercise may convert white fat to brown | Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Another health advice for january is to condition your body to cold! I personally practice this and I wear short sleeves all winter as long as it's not colder than 14F/-10C or if I have to be outdoors for hours. Shocking your body may be dangerous though and add cardiovasular stress that may trigger something. But it's like bare knuckle training, start slowly. I also consider it a MA excercise, there is a difference between "feeling cold" and "getting cold". Feeling cold is just like pain, it's only in your head. Tense your muscles and resist. I've done this for years.
Cool Temperature Alters Human Fat and Metabolism
Men exposed to cool temperatures for a month had an increase in brown fat along with changes in metabolism. The finding hints at new approaches to conditions such as obesity and diabetes.
Winter fitness: Extra benefits you get running in colder weather
Experts say running in cold weather can provide extra health benefits due to your body's need to work harder to stay warm
www.medicalnewstoday.com
"A new study suggests that shivering and bouts of moderate exercise are equally capable of stimulating the conversion of energy-storing ‘white fat’ into energy-burning ‘brown fat’. This makes brown fat a potential therapeutic target against obesity and diabetes."
-- Evidence that shivering and exercise may convert white fat to brown | Garvan Institute of Medical Research
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Because people have overindulged over Christmas and their livers need a much needed rest.
And as a consequence of your cold habit, are you really fit and healthy?
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Your posts are usually poop so your goal has been fulfilled manyfold 😉😄My new mission in life is to see how many times I can turn the MT conversation into poop talk. My quest begins.
(I am just pulling your leg!)
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This probably correlates to their empty pockets
I don't overindulge over Christmans anymore. I did more so when I was a kid, and my grandmother got upset and gave us all guilt if we didn't eat ALL the food and candy she spent ALL day cooking 
To with some confidence infer such a causal link from a single datapoint is not possible of course.
The reason I do this originates long before I read about those interesting papers and for me it's all about mental conditioning. Don't let superficial things like pain, or cold make your loose focus. I feels like when enduring the cold stress, your blood circulation is boosting and it toughens you mentally. I've been doing this since long before I started Karate. When I started kyokushing I realized that the mental conditional part is right up my alley.
I curiously read the about the cardiovasular possible benefits later, the vasoconstriction that happens during cold stress is in a way thought to exercise the cardiovascular system. Even "normal excersise" is dangerous if you go from 0 to 100% and are untrained.
But that said, I am healthy but wouldnt call myself "really fit", I'm not a physical sports guy. Karate is the exception to that rule. I don't drink much alcohol, I can get beer or wine along with matching food at time, but nothing else. I don't enjoy buzz, and like you, I dislike the places there people hang out and just drink. I also admit that I have never in my life been "drunk". I just don't like to loose control.
(I should have clarified, what my train of association to drinking and cold stress was: 15 years ago I made a deep dive into brewing science(beer), but it wasn't so much for the beer as it was for the insights into cell biology and the dynamics of complex systems(unlike those studied in physics which is where i come from). A beer and wine fermentation means the cells grow and consume sugars under anaerobic conditions, and one if the "limiting factors" that cause premature fermentation is the quality of the cellmembrane. On each division compounds that require oxygne to make are depleted. But if the cells that you pitchin into the medium, are prepared under colde than normal conditions with oxygen, their cell membranes are "supercharged" with these critical compounds, ergosterol and usaturated fatty acids. The reason for this is that the cells respond with adapting the properties of the cellmembrane to survive the cold stress. It was interesting at the time)
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The evidence for the benefits of cold water immersion is scant. It’s good for mood probably because you‘re glad to get out of the cold water and the unpleasantness of it releases endorphins.This probably correlates to their empty pockets
To with some confidence infer such a causal link from a single datapoint is not possible of course.
When might this be useful? Pain is not a superficial stimulus but the most primal. The is ischemic pain produced by cold water immersion is profound.
Diastolic blood pressure increases as skin vessels constrict. If you have any (unknown) cardiac condition, this is not a good thing!
Forcing myself to do mental arithmetic/clean the drains/sort out my wardrobes does that too!😀
Mike Tipton is the cold water immersion expert in the U.K. at any rate.
I think cold water immersion is a bit of a (macho) health fad. It may have some seemingly positive effects, but these are swamped by being, say slightly overweight/poor sleep patterns/drinking alcohol/having an unvaried diet. Addressing any of these will be far more beneficial than swimming in the cold sea!
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This is interesting now.This probably correlates to their empty pockets
To with some confidence infer such a causal link from a single datapoint is not possible of course.
The reason I do this originates long before I read about those interesting papers and for me it's all about mental conditioning. Don't let superficial things like pain, or cold make your loose focus. I feels like when enduring the cold stress, your blood circulation is boosting and it toughens you mentally. I've been doing this since long before I started Karate. When I started kyokushing I realized that the mental conditional part is right up my alley.
I curiously read the about the cardiovasular possible benefits later, the vasoconstriction that happens during cold stress is in a way thought to exercise the cardiovascular system. Even "normal excersise" is dangerous if you go from 0 to 100% and are untrained.
But that said, I am healthy but wouldnt call myself "really fit", I'm not a physical sports guy. Karate is the exception to that rule. I don't drink much alcohol, I can get beer or wine along with matching food at time, but nothing else. I don't enjoy buzz, and like you, I dislike the places there people hang out and just drink. I also admit that I have never in my life been "drunk". I just don't like to loose control.
(I should have clarified, what my train of association to drinking and cold stress was: 15 years ago I made a deep dive into brewing science(beer), but it wasn't so much for the beer as it was for the insights into cell biology and the dynamics of complex systems(unlike those studied in physics which is where i come from). A beer and wine fermentation means the cells grow and consume sugars under anaerobic conditions, and one if the "limiting factors" that cause premature fermentation is the quality of the cellmembrane. On each division compounds that require oxygne to make are depleted. But if the cells that you pitchin into the medium, are prepared under colde than normal conditions with oxygen, their cell membranes are "supercharged" with these critical compounds, ergosterol and usaturated fatty acids. The reason for this is that the cells respond with adapting the properties of the cellmembrane to survive the cold stress. It was interesting at the time)
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I think the brain warns us rightfully, but often very early, so we give up too early (to save energy etc). In fighting getting hit is a bit painful, and may get you to loose focus and instead end up catching a more fatal attack. But a little bit of pain is not dangerous, so the idea is to not react to moderate pain.
For example, in kyokushin it is commong to NOT block the non-fatal attacks, you focus on avoding head kicks and similarly KO attackes. Getting punch in the chest is painful, but if you start blocking them to avoid the moderate pain, the risk of getting kicked in the head the second after is higher.
So part of fighting is to learn eat the "small stings", focus on the important things such as attacking and defending from fatal attacks.
We are also instructed that in a fight you rarely get one kick or one strike, but a flood of them. So avoiding getting hit is practically impossible (unless you back down or run away, but kyokushing spirit is - don't back down), so therefore the priority is to avoid fatal strikes and learn to eat the weak ones. Sure you will get sore the days after but not every day is combat.
Same mental training can apply to other things, the general case beeing to keep mental focus in despite of MODERATE disturbances, pain, cold etc. That your KNOW is annoying but not dangerous. But your evolved response still tells you it
s bad. So override the natural reactions, when going into "combat mode", without getting "angry" and go on just adrenaline.
Our instructors often says that when your body tells you tou stop, due to fatigue or pain, you have at least 50% more to give. Over course overriding the warning signals of your body, is only for special situations and the brain will instead decide. But I like to practive it whenever i can.
I don't practive cold water immersion or winter baths, that is a stronger shock than what I practice. Its not the shock itself that is good, its suppsedly the bodys adaptive response that makes the benefits. I am talking about getting ourdoors without winter clothing. This is not near as painful as I imagine jumping into the frozen sea. Cold water would also cool you down much faster than cold air (unless its very windy).
Fully agreed on this! nothing I said should be read as a reason for drinking.
Well, December is over. I get back to my regularly scheduled teetotaling.
