This is hilarious and some of this can actually be true. I got it form here.
1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear!
When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Now, as an adult, you can still
appreciate a good bodybased
feat, but you’re more discriminating. Take that tickle in your
throat? it’s not worth gagging over. Here’s a better way to scratch your itch: “When the
nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle
spasm,” says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose, and throat specialty center
in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. “This spasm relieves the tickle.”
2. 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.
3. Overcome your most primal urge!
Need to pee? No bathroom nearby? Fantasize about Jessica Simpson. Thinking about
sex preoccupies your brain, so you won’t feel as much discomfort, says Larry Lipshultz,
M.D., chief of male reproductive medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. For best
results, try Simpson’s “These Boots Are Made for Walking” video.
4. Feel no pain!
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 painconducting
structures of the spinal cord.
5. Clear your stuffed nose!
Forget Sudafed. An easier, quicker, and cheaper way to relieve sinus pressure is by
alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between
your eyebrows with one finger. This causes the vomer bone, which runs through the nasal
passages to the mouth, to rock back and forth, says Lisa DeStefano, D.O., an assistant
professor at the Michigan State University college of osteopathic medicine. The motion
loosens congestion? after 20 seconds, you’ll feel your sinuses start to drain.
6. Fight fire without water!
Worried those wings will repeat on you tonight? “Sleep on your left side,” says Anthony A.
Starpoli, M.D., a New York City gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at
New York Medical College. Studies have shown that patients who sleep on their left sides
are less likely to suffer from acid reflux. The esophagus and stomach connect at an angle.
When you sleep on your right, the stomach is higher than the esophagus, allowing food
and stomach acid to slide up your throat. When you’re on your left, the stomach is lower
than the esophagus, so gravity’s in your favor.
7. Cure your toothache without opening your mouth!
Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the Vshaped
webbed area between your thumb
and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by
as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of
that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.
8. Make burns disappear!
When you accidentally singe your finger on the stove, clean the skin and apply light
pressure with the finger pads of your unmarred hand. Ice will relieve your pain more
quickly, Dr. DeStefano says, but since the natual method brings the burned skin back to a
normal temperature, the skin is less likely to blister.
9. Stop the world from spinning!
One too many drinks left you dizzy? Put your hand on something stable. The part of your
ear responsible for balance the
cupula floats
in a fluid of the same density as blood.
“As alcohol dilutes blood in the cupula, the cupula becomes less dense and rises,” says
Dr. Schaffer. This confuses your brain. The tactile input from a stable object gives the
brain a second opinion, and you feel more in balance. Because the nerves in the hand are
so sensitive, this works better than the conventional footonthefloor
wisdom.
10. Unstitch your side!
If you’re like most people, when you run, you exhale as your right foot hits the ground.
This puts downward pressure on your liver (which lives on your right side), which then
tugs at the diaphragm and creates a side stitch, according to The Doctors Book of Home
Remedies for Men. The fix: Exhale as your left foot strikes the ground.
11. Stanch blood with a single finger!
Pinching your nose and leaning back is a great way to stop a nosebleed if
you don’t
mind choking on your own O positive. A more civil approach: Put some cotton on your
upper gums just
behind that small dent below your nose and
press against it, hard.
“Most bleeds come from the front of the septum, the cartilage wall that divides the nose,”
says Peter Desmarais, M.D., an ear, nose, and throat specialist at Entabeni Hospital, in
Durban, South Africa. “Pressing here helps stop them.”
12. Make your heart stand still!
Trying to quell firstdate
jitters? Blow on your thumb. The vagus nerve, which governs
heart rate, can be controlled through breathing, says Ben Abo, an emergency medicalservices
specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. It’ll get your heart rate back to normal.
13. Thaw your brain!
Too much Chipwich too fast will freeze the brains of lesser men. As for you, press your
tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much as you can. “Since the
nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, your body thinks your brain is freezing,
too,” says Abo. “In compensating, it overheats, causing an icecream
headache.” The
more pressure you apply to the roof of your mouth, the faster your headache will subside.
14. Prevent nearsightedness!
Poor distance vision is rarely caused by genetics, says Anne Barber, O.D., an optometrist
in Tacoma, Washington. “It’s usually caused by nearpoint
stress.” In other words, staring
at your computer screen for too long. So flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours
during the day, close your eyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few
seconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time. Tightening and releasing
muscles such as the biceps and glutes can trick involuntary muscles like
the eyes into
relaxing as well.
15. Wake the dead!
If your hand falls asleep while you’re driving or sitting in an odd position, rock your head
from side to side. It’ll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute, says
Dr. DeStefano. A tingly hand or arm is often the result of compression in the bundle of
nerves in your neck? loosening your neck muscles releases the pressure. Compressed
nerves lower in the body govern the feet, so don’t let your sleeping dogs lie. Stand up and
walk around.
16. Impress your friends!
Next time you’re at a party, try this trick: Have a person hold one arm straight out to the
side, palm down, and instruct him to maintain this position. Then place two fingers on his
wrist and push down. He’ll resist. Now have him put one foot on a surface that’s a half inch
higher (a few magazines) and repeat. This time his arm will cave like the French. By
misaligning his hips, you’ve offset his spine, says Rachel Cosgrove, C.S.C.S., coowner
of
Results Fitness, in Santa Clarita, California. Your brain senses that the spine is vulnerable,
so it shuts down the body’s ability to resist.
17. Breathe underwater!
If you’re dying to retrieve that quarter from the bottom of the pool, take several short
breaths first essentially,
hyperventilate. When you’re underwater, it’s not a lack of
oxygen that makes you desperate for a breath? it’s the buildup of carbon dioxide, which
makes your blood acidic, which signals your brain that somethin’ ain’t right. “When you
hyperventilate, the influx of oxygen lowers blood acidity,” says Jonathan Armbruster,
Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at Auburn University. “This tricks your brain into
thinking it has more oxygen.” It’ll buy you up to 10 seconds.
18. Read minds!
Your own! “If you’re giving a speech the next day, review it before falling asleep,” says
Candi Heimgartner, an instructor of biological sciences at the University of Idaho. Since
most memory consolidation happens during sleep, anything you read right before bed is
more likely to be encoded as longterm
memory.
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