10 Body Tricks You Didn't Know You Can Do! |
These 10 body tricks and 'cheats'
will help you reduce pain, reduce discomfort, avoid headaches and
burning sensations, and just ease a bunch of physical issues we need to
deal with every day! |
1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.
You can try clearing your throat, but
that won't make that tickle feeling pass. Here's a better way of
dealing with tickels in your throat: "When the nerves in the ear are
activated, it creates a reflex-life reaction in the throat that can
cause a muscle twitch", says Dr. Scott Shefer, head of the ear, nose and
throat ward at a New Jeresy Hospital. "These twitches ease the tickling
sensation." You heard it - Just scratch your ear!
2. Super Hearing?
If you happen to meet an old friend
at a noisy place and you start chatting, it's better to turn the right
ear towards the person, as it is better at tracking active talkin,
according to researchers from the University of California medical
school. On the other hand, if you're trying to identify which song is
playing, it's better to use the left ear. This is because the different
hemispheres of the brain are better at different things.
3. Can sexual thoughts be used as a tool?
When you really need to pee and
can't, says Dr. Lary Lipsholtz, think about sex. Thinking about sex
occupies your mind and body and will stop you from feeling the
discomfort of having to pee.
4. Reduce Temporary Pain
German researches found that coughing
while getting an injection diminishes the pain. According to the head
researcher of this experiment, the cough caused a temporary increse of
pressure inside the chest and spine, which depresses the pain conductors
of the spinal cord. In other words, coughing reduces the amount of pain
signals your brain gets, and so you feel less pain.
5. Clearing a stuffed nose
Put aside your pills and drops. An
easier, faster and cheaper way to relieve that pressure on your sinuses,
is to push the tongue against the roof of your mouth, and then flicking
a finger in the area between your eyebrows. As weird as that may seem,
this motion causes the bone of the nose, connected through the nasal
passageways to the mouth, to rock back and forth. This movement releases
the stuffing in your throat, and after about 20 seconds, you'll feel
your sinuses start to cleanse.
6. Fighting the fire in your stomach without water
Are you worried the chicken wings
you're eating now will burn you at night? "Sleep on your left side" Says
Dr. Anthony, professor of gastroenterology. Research has shown that
people who sleep on their left side suffer less from acidic stomachs.
The esophagus and the stomach are tied in an angle. When you lay on your
right side, the stomach is higher than the esphague, which lets the
acid in the stomach go up to the throat. When you lay on your left side,
the stomach is lower, so gravity works for you.
7. Cure your toothache without opening your mouth
Rub ice on the back of your hand, on
the area between your thumb and your index finger. Research conducted in
Canada found that this technique reduces your toothache by about 50%.
The neural pathway that is at the center of that V awakens an area in the brain tha tblocks the pain from the face.
8. Erasing burn marks
When you burn your fingers on the
stove, instead of using ice - clean the skin and apply light pressure
using the soft part of the fingers of the unburned hand. "The ice will
elevate your pain faster," Says Dr. Destefano, "But this natural method
returns the skin that burnt to a normal temperature, so the risk of
blisters is reduced."
9. Unfreeze your brain
Did you drink something too cold, too fast, and now you feel as if your brain
froze? You may get a headache later
on, or you can take your tongue and stick it to the roof of your mouth.
Since the nerves at the roof of your mouth suddenly froze, your body
thinks your brain is freezing, as compensation, it overheats, which
causes a strong headache. The stronger you push your tongue against the
roof of your mouth, the faster the headache will pass.
10. Return your heart to normal beating
Are you trying to relax a stampedeing
heart? Blow on your thumb! "The errant nerve that regulates heart beat
can be controlled by breathing," Says Ben Abu, an emergecy medicine
specialist. This is a way to return the heart to normal beating.
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mardi 15 octobre 2013
10 Body Tricks You Didn't Know You Can Do!
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