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nxobject 4 hours ago [-]
I look forward to seeing a lifehacking hyper-optimizer streamline this to a polished daily workflow...
"I have a bucket of mud, in which I stick my hands for 15 minutes every morning.
Every weekend, I inoculate at a 1:5:5 ratio with biologically active stream dirt (after petri-dishing to check for activity), and a mix of poor-quality soil cover, and some compost; I finish by adding a 10-10-10 balanced fertilizer.
Recently, I've been seeing if there are any additional benefits to smearing all over my arms; I'm conducting a 3 month/3 month comparison experiment, with a washout period in-between...
Don't forget to buy my exclusive eBook!"
stevekemp 3 hours ago [-]
I made the mistake of looking at /r/sauna on Reddit once or twice recently, and there was a lot of people doing very similar things.
"I take my preworkout, do my exercise, then I sit for 12 minutes at 90 degrees in sauna, before three minutes in the cold plunge-pool at 8 degrees, before going to sauna again for 19 minutes and I finish with a seven minute warm shower".
Just the thought of looking at a watch in a sauna, and timing things minute by minute sounded exhausting.
I assume going to sauna takes an hour, it might be I leave it on for a couple of hours, but beyond that the minutes inside/outside are a mystery and I like it like that. Same story with being outdoors in a cabin/cottage. I might dig up some plants, or move the hammock around, but whether I get (literally) dirty is just down to whatever random things I've done that day!
I said "was" because 2010 was, in fact, the last edition of the event:
> On 7 August 2010, two competitors were removed from the sauna and brought to the hospital in critical condition after six minutes of 110 °C (230 °F) heat
piva00 2 hours ago [-]
I don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour.
Just this summer I was at a cottage by Vänern (the largest lake in Sweden), the sauna was built right at the lake with a pier setup for jumping into it, we had a party going late into the night where you constantly moved from the sauna into the lake, out of the lake, have chats, a beer, into the sauna again, rinse and repeat for some 8-10 hours. I have no idea exactly how long I was in the sauna but it was definitely more than a couple of hours in the whole affair :)
KptMarchewa 54 minutes ago [-]
>I don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour.
Yes, I definitely do agree with that. I too love what you're describing - we have some of that in Poland too :)
However, I was not sure if we're talking about it - or some American version I know only from various memes - where people are coming in with phones and in shoes.
grufkork 52 minutes ago [-]
If you ever basta in winter, try bringing ice into the sauna. Smearing yourself with ice while in the heat is really nice :)
tecleandor 2 hours ago [-]
> I assume going to sauna takes an hour, [...] but beyond that the minutes inside/outside are a mystery...
I understand that as the general act of getting up, starting the sauna, going for your clothes change, resting a couple times, going to the kitchen for water, shower, switch off, kitchen again, whatever... you've filled an hour of your time.
KptMarchewa 53 minutes ago [-]
That interpretation does make sense. Just heating the sauna can take even longer.
anygivnthursday 3 hours ago [-]
You forgot the app! You can connect our app to your smart dirt bucket so you can track that the correct composition of bacteria reaches your hands at all time! Collect points by completing challenges and watch a few ads for premium guides!
mft_ 3 hours ago [-]
There’s a startup opportunity: a body cream with concentrates of beneficial microorganisms.
“Pair it with our full spectrum sun lamp and you can have all the benefits of playing outside from the comfort of your standing desk”.
ceejayoz 3 hours ago [-]
FDA: “You’ve got E. coli in here.”
“Yes.”
doubled112 2 hours ago [-]
I thought sun exposure was bad. Or is it good again? Was it good all along?
Do I need to wear sunscreen in front of my desk too now? Will the body cream include it?
Too many questions. I'm going outside.
JTbane 25 minutes ago [-]
I have some beef with the sunscreen people, mostly because of 3 things:
- Skin cancer is by far the least deadly type of cancer and nearly always just requires some low-risk skin removal.
- Getting a light tan feels amazing. Your whole body feels warmer.
- Vitamin D.
p_j_w 5 minutes ago [-]
Skin cancer may be less deadly than other types of cancer, but it is still far more deadly than not having cancer. Rattlesnake bites in the US have a lower mortality rate than skin cancer, are you gonna go trying to handle rattlesnakes without protection or safety measures?
bigfishrunning 16 minutes ago [-]
and now i'm bummed out
electric_mayhem 3 hours ago [-]
You folks are having fun with the idea, but, well, in 2026 there’s absolutely a viable market for this.
howunfortunate 51 minutes ago [-]
There's something very sad about all these people spending so much energy on crazy intensive n of 1 experiments.
If we could only get them to collaborate, we could get some real knowledge out of it!
tomkarho 3 hours ago [-]
I'm sure the comments will be full of detractors scoffing at this claiming that all one needs is not to wash their hands. Or just go outside to handle that mud. With luck you might come across the king of Briton.
Curious what people's thoughts here are on grounding as another benefit. Article talks about benefits of bacteria on the skin, but I'd say the other and maybe bigger benefit is discharge of electrical energy in our bodies to the ground. Which, can sounds weird depending. Some papers on the subject[0] talking about similar results as this article, almost implying that it's not the microbes, but grounding making the difference.
I also got a $30 "grounding mat" that you plug into the ground part of electrical socket, and I dunno, it feels amazing to have skin touching it. I put it in bed and literally slept the best I have in years in the last two night, by far. Comments online generally are snake oil, but many others are first person accounts saying that for whatever reason, the grounding mat worked for them. (I have theories that the people who it does nothing for are those who already have an outlet. Like a dog where you're in nature and on walks, and also a dog can do the discharge for you). Other comments online are stories of how when the mat is plugged to ground, their cats love sitting on it, but if unplugged, the mats are ignored. That seems like some study that would be interesting at animal shelter, seeing if animals can tell and prefer.
But anyway, wondering what others opinions on this topic are.
Note that all of the authors of this paper work for a company that sells this snake oil.
This entire idea of charging or discharging your body for some physiological effect is fundamentally flawed. It is indeed true that touching the ground will change your electrical potential to that of the ground, however that's as far as it goes, the rest is just nonsensical.
Let's start with the very first part of that, specifically changing your electrical potential to match the ground. The problem with this is that the ground is 0V because we define it as 0V, not because of any sort of fundamental property. Between two points on the Earth you can see hundreds of kilovolts. So the obvious question is why should the electrical potential of a particular piece of soil where your grounding rod is installed be physiologically preferable to whatever potential your body happened to be at before?
Now lets go on to the next part of what these scam artists usually claim. That is that the Earth's electrons enter your body and do good things of some description. When you touch the ground some small charge does enter or leave your body, however that stops nearly instantly when the potentials equalise[1]. How is the Earth meant to to keep putting electrons into your body if there's no voltage? That's just simply not how electricity works.
As an aside, note that I said enter or leave. A positive static charge and a negative static charge can both easily build up in your body. Therefore any claims that specify that electrons enter your body (or leave you body) is immediately nonsensical because it could go either way.
I'll leave it to someone else to explain all the nonsensical biological claims that follow on from the already fundamentally wrong electrical side since that's not my area. I will however note that none of these sponsored papers actually show and measurable biological effect, they all just hand-wave about redox reactions.
[1]: Yes, you're coupled to mains wiring and other changing fields that are around, however that's getting too far into the weeds for a short comment. If the claim made by the snake oil salesmen was that a current going through your body is good then they'd also suggest wrapping yourself in an electrical cord to maximise the effect, or just taping batteries to your skin.
RankingMember 36 minutes ago [-]
This study had no control group and they didn't check for a placebo effect. Pretty big red flags.
mdrzn 50 minutes ago [-]
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Tepix 3 hours ago [-]
> Those using the microbially-diverse soil saw an increase in the diversity of bacteria on their skin, and on the number of anti-inflammatory cytokines in their blood – while the other group didn't.
That's really remarkable.
PowerElectronix 2 hours ago [-]
Yeah, getting the immune system to tone down the responses is probably the best one can do for oneself health.
Our body didn't get the memo that for the last 200 years water and food are clean now and bacteria is fought with antibiotics.
Getting the immune system to not freak out at everything it detects via just touching grass is the best news I've read today.
CrzyLngPwd 1 hours ago [-]
Not just your hands.
Walking barefoot, over all manner of surfaces, feels good, increases your connection to your surroundings, and slows you down.
I've done it lots, both in the countryside and in the city. You have to watch out for spiky plants and fox shit in the country, and in the city you soon learn which surface textures require more care :-)
"Where would I find enough leather to cover the entire surface of the earth? But with leather soles beneath my feet, it's as if the whole world has been covered." - Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist monk
jacobrast 42 minutes ago [-]
Did you know that walking barefoot in the Southern US was how most people contracted hookworm? At is height an estimated 40% of the population in certain regions had the parasite which was know to cause a "mental haze". Some historians attribute the disease (again, contracted by walking barefoot outdoors) to have caused the stereotype of the "lazy slow southerner" [1].
Do you feel walking barefoot is worth the risk of catching this and other potentially hazardous diseases?
You can get most of the benefits of walking barefoot without the hookworm by wearing a good pair of barefoot shoes. I personally love my Xero Prios. If you want the full experience at the expense of looking like a freak, you can get those Vibram Five Fingers toe shoes.
kuerbel 4 minutes ago [-]
One could wear barefoot shoes. Not that they are exactly the same as walking barefoot. They are still shoes! But a good compromise.
criddell 34 minutes ago [-]
But also, hookworm infections are known to suppress allergies and asthma, help inflammatory bowl disease, and improve insulin resistance in people with type 2 diabetes.
Markoff 49 minutes ago [-]
I think I can live without my connection to asphalt, concrete, dirt, broken glass and literal shit while living in the city, which has nothing to do with nature.
spike021 19 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, where I live there's constantly shattered glass, other people's dog's poo they don't pick up, etc.
Last week I was walking my dog and he stepped on glass or something that gashed open part of his paw pad.
throwatdem12311 3 hours ago [-]
I heard the most ridiculous thing the other day:
That GenZ and Gen Alpha have started doing this thing they call “private podcasting”. Where they invite a friend over and discuss topics like one of those podcasts where dudes just talk about stuff…but they don’t record it or post it anywhere.
I was stunned. Is this generation really so socially starved by the attention parasites that human beings are starting to reinvent “hanging out” or “just having a conversation”.
It’s so ridiculous I just refuse to believe this is how they actually think and this has to be some kind of rage bait. I pray that it’s rage bait because if it isn’t we failed our children badly.
All that to say that I get similar vibes from the “grtting your hands dirty is actually good for you” thing. It just screams that entire generations of people have been stunted by helicopter parenting that this just seems like novel information. It seems we’ve completely abdicated our duty as parents and dumped our responsibility to educate our children onto profit seeking media companies. And that terrifies me.
matroxmemories 2 hours ago [-]
There is a certain style of trolling that isn’t as obvious to older people.
scottLobster 6 minutes ago [-]
Part of getting older is you leave the civilized bubble you were raised in and witness literal crazy.
I was walking down the bike path outside my apartment complex some years ago and a lady started a conversation, which started off normal but quickly turned to Reiki and after a few minutes she ignored every social hint to change the subject and just REALLY wanted to talk about energy pathways, life force and other woo-woo shit until I had to physically cut off the conversation by awkwardly walking away.
Also Steve Jobs died because he tried to cure his cancer with fucking fruit.
So yes, I have zero problem believing a minority of sheltered, internet-brained GenAlphas out there are doing "private podcasting". Statistically every adult has met at least one person who secretly enjoys eating literal shit.
bluGill 2 hours ago [-]
When you get older you've seen a lot of people who do things like that and are serious about it. Of course we haven't seen the podcast angle exactly but plenty of other things and it's common enough to make you cynical and so then you would fall for such jokes. assuming it is really joke which isn't clear
throwatdem12311 1 hours ago [-]
I mean it was so ridiculous that I do think it was trolling.
But more like…what if this is actually true.
d-us-vb 2 hours ago [-]
private podcasting is right up there with using ChatGPT in your head.
DangitBobby 1 hours ago [-]
There's absolutely no reason to assume that getting your hands dirty would be "good for you". Playing outside and getting dirty is fun and is arguably great for enrichment and character building, but I think it would come as a surprise to just about anyone that it has health benefits.
When I say "come as a surprise" I mean they would be unable to articulate the exact mechanisms behind the health benefits before being told what they are or that they exist. Liking a thing and presuming it must have health benefits aren't the same.
ip26 2 hours ago [-]
It sounds more like a joke or a lampoon of always-connected culture.
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dtn 2 hours ago [-]
It's a joke poking fun at podcast bros.
throwatdem12311 1 hours ago [-]
Yeah I definitely hope so lol
cindyllm 14 minutes ago [-]
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jareklupinski 3 hours ago [-]
after i switched to washing my hands with antibacterial soap (the orange kind they use in hospitals), i've gone from a bimonthly cold-analog disease to maybe being sick twice a year
disgruntledphd2 2 hours ago [-]
If you're getting colds that often (and you're not immuno-compromised) then it might be worth getting checked out.
I was getting sick constantly, and it turned out I had chronic sinusitis, and surgery made it much much better.
(Just friendly advice, I know nothing about your situation).
jareklupinski 2 hours ago [-]
doctors kept pitching tonsillectomy to me; i'm just hesitant of the knife :(
glad it was just poor hygiene :P
codersfocus 1 hours ago [-]
If you have tonsilitis / tonsil stones, that means you have a biofilm there and it’s a very common place for that to happen.
Regular mouthwash and even antibiotics won’t get rid of it, but a solution of vinegar, lemon juice and salt will.
The mechanism is somewhat dubious imho - why would dirt selectively have beneficial bacteria that other environments don’t? I could come up with some just-so stories about how more “virulent” (haha) bacteria are the only ones to conquer our more sterile world but it’s just a plausible tale.
I do subscribe to it myself but not out of evidence. It’s just vibes. Built my daughter a little dirt box with grass and edible herbs so when she would muck around at five to six months she could do it in there on the balcony of our San Francisco apartment and she enjoyed destroying the plants so at the worst she got some fun out of it.
__MatrixMan__ 1 hours ago [-]
Ecosystems have niches for aggressive behavior against participants that reduce diversity. It's why you find higher concentrations of Lyme disease in new housing developments than you do in the deep woods: it's the activation of a defense mechanism (in the Lyme disease case it has to do with there being a higher proportion of competent hosts for the pathogen: mice, but in general evolution has myriad ways if implementing this pattern).
If it's just you and one species of bacteria, you're closer to a circumstance that would call for the activation of such behavior than if diversity is high.
So it's not that the bacteria are intrinsically good or bad, but that the different circumstances call for calm or aggressive behavior, and all your friends going missing cues aggressiveness in species who have evolved by filling that niche in the past.
dav_Oz 1 hours ago [-]
To keep it simple:
For one it's just competition.
If you have regular contact to a diverse set of microorganisms chances are higher that they will keep each other populations in check. The dose makes the poison applies here too in some narrow sense.
Additionally (or even mainly) our immune system always on guard (me/not me) gets to play around with the obvious stuff and not be overwhelmed or be "bored" but constantly trained/tamed. We have evolved to have constant contact to a diverse set of microorganisms which modulate our immune system e.g. through toll-like receptors.
As an extreme case some people develop some natural immunity to the tetanus toxin through regular exposure to a extreme variety of microorganisms, obviously this isn't reliable nor a gamble remotely worth the risk.
Edit: don't know why OP gets downvoted it's a perfectly fine entrance question/bafflement to motivate some deeper digging into microbiology/immunology.
It’s not dirt, it’s soil. Soil is a living ecosystem.
arjie 1 hours ago [-]
So is my gut but if I smeared my insides on my body I would likely fall ill. Even pathogens form a living ecosystem.
Or, to put it a different way,
> Cars have windows and can go. Houses have windows and can’t go. So it’s not the windows that make the car go
mitxela 40 minutes ago [-]
Speak for yourself. I know this guy called Howl...
PKop 14 minutes ago [-]
Your insides are different from your outsides. Your skin has a different microbiome than your gut. Hyper cleanliness on your skin kills beneficial microbes that maintain an equilibrium when they're alive.
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goda90 2 hours ago [-]
I have gotten weird rashes on my hands after working in the garden, so maybe it's not all good all the time.
broose_goose 1 hours ago [-]
My partner is an estate gardener; early on in our relationship she came home with a green thumb. Apparently, the adage is about getting fungus under your nail beds and not keeping plants alive
chistev 4 hours ago [-]
Dirt is good to prevent you from getting sick easily.
mytailorisrich 2 hours ago [-]
My experience with gardening is that you also get bitten and stung all the time by a range of bugs and plants so you get resistance training, too ;) British false widow spiders have nothing on me at this point...
HNSheldonImpost 49 minutes ago [-]
Ohhhh... that's why Indian poop festivals?!
Arodex 3 hours ago [-]
... Wasn't there papers and articles showing getting in contact with soil was causing Parkinson's?
My point was more that articles like the one on the BBC (or the Guardian for that matter) just contradict themselves every year. I completely stopped reading those "pop science" takes that are only there for clicks.
(To its credit, the Guardian makes place for long form articles that go more in-depth on known knowns and known unknowns.)
Ledgermellow 2 hours ago [-]
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librasteve 3 hours ago [-]
yes, I’m so delighted by this quality content I want to up my licence fee
pydry 3 hours ago [-]
I remember having a conversation with somebody from the BBC about a study they commissioned once to ask license payers about how the license fee was spent.
the overwhelming response apparently was:
* we don't have particular concerns about how the license fee is spent.
* we mainly just want that money back
bananaflag 4 hours ago [-]
these are Imperial hands getting dirty
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SachaSOL 3 hours ago [-]
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asimovDev 3 hours ago [-]
wrong tab I assume, cause above this post on the frontpage is the LAN house post
throw93947309 4 hours ago [-]
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ectoloph 4 hours ago [-]
Kids benefit from being kids and rolling around in the grass.
In which cities are people favouring local parks over toilets?
Parasites can actually help with allergies. I am loosely aware of various attempts at treating allergies using parasites.
One of the approaches taken (under medical supervision) for kids with bad nut allergies is to gradually expose them to more of the allergen. Being able to survive a peanut or two without anaphylaxis is life-changing.
chownie 4 hours ago [-]
What do you think soil is made of? Where do you think it comes from?
throw93947309 4 hours ago [-]
Soil is made from dead plants and properly decomposed stuff, not fresh excrements that are classified as "toxic waste" by city code.
chownie 4 hours ago [-]
The slugs in your soil carry a parasite which can cause lifelong paralysis if it enters your body, a lot of the worms do too. Those decomposing leaves carry tetanus. Your perspective is not aligned with reality.
sajithdilshan 4 hours ago [-]
This is like the dumbest take ever, do you think people go and take a shit on the park in big European cities?
I live in Berlin and compared to most other European cities it’s a shit hole, but one thing I can tell you is the cleanliness and green nature of the public parks. Most of the time people actually care about the public parks (with exception of few)
However, one thing to worry about is the tick bites or any other insect bites, but that’s part of the nature
throw93947309 4 hours ago [-]
Where do you think ticks come from in a city park...?
sajithdilshan 1 hours ago [-]
Through animals of course
pestatije 2 hours ago [-]
In Spain dogs have taken over city parks, so pretty much the description is correct... nobody in their right mind lets their children play with the sand in parks in Spain
sajithdilshan 1 hours ago [-]
That is sad, so people don’t pick up after the dogs or are they stray dogs?
bcjdjsndon 4 hours ago [-]
I knew the germphobes would be all over this one.
> Children who play there willmdevelop all sorts of misterious allergies, skin rash conditions, asthma and so on!
No they won't you hysterical boob. Youre fear of germs is irrational. Get a grip
throw93947309 4 hours ago [-]
I am not poop lover, some city folks are poop lovers.
I wrote to go into nature, without poop. It has nothing to do with regular germs!
> Take them to real nature, where grass is not used as a toilet by city folks
Just becauee you follow basic hygiene, and cook your food, and shit into toilet (not street), does not make you "germofoob"
Leonard_of_Q 3 hours ago [-]
By your spelling of the word "germofoob" I get the impression that you're Dutch, am I correct? In that case I suspect that the "dozens of animals" you see "shitting on the same spot" are dogs in a small green area in a Dutch village or town. That is indeed not the spot to let your children play, fortunately the Netherlands does have plenty of "real nature" (or at least as real as anything can be in a man-made country) where they can play without being subjected to canine playdough.
bcjdjsndon 4 hours ago [-]
> it has nothing to do with regular germs!
You're severely misunderstanding how germs and infections work. But germphobes have the phobia as a response to stress, its never a logical position they take.
You're feelings rule your intellect on this one I'm afraid, that's a textbook definition of irrationally
throw93947309 4 hours ago [-]
Simlle question: i see dozens animals shitting on the same spot every day. Next day I see a child playing at that spot, should a say something? Is that an overreaction?
bcjdjsndon 1 hours ago [-]
Yes
throw93947309 37 minutes ago [-]
So is playing with turds healthy or not?
Or perhaps you are severely misunderstanding how city life works? Much bigger concetration of shit heads...
kakacik 4 hours ago [-]
> Just becauee you follow basic hygiene, and cook your food, and shit into toilet (not street), does not make you "germofoob"
Lol no but you are not rational my friend and definitely in germophobe group :) And no amount of exclamation marks will change that, in contrary.
I think you need to re-visit some basic science about bacteria, human immunity and general advices on how to raise children with regard to those topics. If you don't, you will harm your children in pretty bad ways
throw93947309 39 minutes ago [-]
Right, we see an animal making fresh turd every 10 minutes, there are fosilized turds every 3 meters, most bushes have toilet paper under them...
But i should let my kids play there. Because of newest fad on internet!
inexcf 4 hours ago [-]
Is there poop in nature?
Well, does a bear shit in the forest?
Retr0id 4 hours ago [-]
I hate to break it to you but wild animals poop too
throw93947309 4 hours ago [-]
I do not see deer shitting on the same spot, every ten minutes.
bcjdjsndon 1 hours ago [-]
Neither do dogs lol tell me the name and location of this park so we can verify this 6 times an hour dogshitfest
cindyllm 3 hours ago [-]
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throwawayjacob 4 hours ago [-]
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satnhak 3 hours ago [-]
And no one has dirtier hands than the BBC
delichon 2 hours ago [-]
Maybe there's a benefit to having diverse natural memetic microflora on your cognitive convolutions. Like it could innoculate you against aggressive viral ideological infection.
PowerElectronix 2 hours ago [-]
So much dumb stuff in your brain that you are just immune to propaganda as you can't take it seriously (it's just as dumb as the other stuff)
"I have a bucket of mud, in which I stick my hands for 15 minutes every morning.
Every weekend, I inoculate at a 1:5:5 ratio with biologically active stream dirt (after petri-dishing to check for activity), and a mix of poor-quality soil cover, and some compost; I finish by adding a 10-10-10 balanced fertilizer.
Recently, I've been seeing if there are any additional benefits to smearing all over my arms; I'm conducting a 3 month/3 month comparison experiment, with a washout period in-between...
Don't forget to buy my exclusive eBook!"
"I take my preworkout, do my exercise, then I sit for 12 minutes at 90 degrees in sauna, before three minutes in the cold plunge-pool at 8 degrees, before going to sauna again for 19 minutes and I finish with a seven minute warm shower".
Just the thought of looking at a watch in a sauna, and timing things minute by minute sounded exhausting.
I assume going to sauna takes an hour, it might be I leave it on for a couple of hours, but beyond that the minutes inside/outside are a mystery and I like it like that. Same story with being outdoors in a cabin/cottage. I might dig up some plants, or move the hammock around, but whether I get (literally) dirty is just down to whatever random things I've done that day!
The Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
I said "was" because 2010 was, in fact, the last edition of the event:
> On 7 August 2010, two competitors were removed from the sauna and brought to the hospital in critical condition after six minutes of 110 °C (230 °F) heat
Just this summer I was at a cottage by Vänern (the largest lake in Sweden), the sauna was built right at the lake with a pier setup for jumping into it, we had a party going late into the night where you constantly moved from the sauna into the lake, out of the lake, have chats, a beer, into the sauna again, rinse and repeat for some 8-10 hours. I have no idea exactly how long I was in the sauna but it was definitely more than a couple of hours in the whole affair :)
Yes, I definitely do agree with that. I too love what you're describing - we have some of that in Poland too :)
However, I was not sure if we're talking about it - or some American version I know only from various memes - where people are coming in with phones and in shoes.
I understand that as the general act of getting up, starting the sauna, going for your clothes change, resting a couple times, going to the kitchen for water, shower, switch off, kitchen again, whatever... you've filled an hour of your time.
“Pair it with our full spectrum sun lamp and you can have all the benefits of playing outside from the comfort of your standing desk”.
“Yes.”
Do I need to wear sunscreen in front of my desk too now? Will the body cream include it?
Too many questions. I'm going outside.
- Skin cancer is by far the least deadly type of cancer and nearly always just requires some low-risk skin removal.
- Getting a light tan feels amazing. Your whole body feels warmer.
- Vitamin D.
If we could only get them to collaborate, we could get some real knowledge out of it!
Not quite but close enough :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWzWwx8T3nE
I also got a $30 "grounding mat" that you plug into the ground part of electrical socket, and I dunno, it feels amazing to have skin touching it. I put it in bed and literally slept the best I have in years in the last two night, by far. Comments online generally are snake oil, but many others are first person accounts saying that for whatever reason, the grounding mat worked for them. (I have theories that the people who it does nothing for are those who already have an outlet. Like a dog where you're in nature and on walks, and also a dog can do the discharge for you). Other comments online are stories of how when the mat is plugged to ground, their cats love sitting on it, but if unplugged, the mats are ignored. That seems like some study that would be interesting at animal shelter, seeing if animals can tell and prefer.
But anyway, wondering what others opinions on this topic are.
[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/
This entire idea of charging or discharging your body for some physiological effect is fundamentally flawed. It is indeed true that touching the ground will change your electrical potential to that of the ground, however that's as far as it goes, the rest is just nonsensical.
Let's start with the very first part of that, specifically changing your electrical potential to match the ground. The problem with this is that the ground is 0V because we define it as 0V, not because of any sort of fundamental property. Between two points on the Earth you can see hundreds of kilovolts. So the obvious question is why should the electrical potential of a particular piece of soil where your grounding rod is installed be physiologically preferable to whatever potential your body happened to be at before?
Now lets go on to the next part of what these scam artists usually claim. That is that the Earth's electrons enter your body and do good things of some description. When you touch the ground some small charge does enter or leave your body, however that stops nearly instantly when the potentials equalise[1]. How is the Earth meant to to keep putting electrons into your body if there's no voltage? That's just simply not how electricity works.
As an aside, note that I said enter or leave. A positive static charge and a negative static charge can both easily build up in your body. Therefore any claims that specify that electrons enter your body (or leave you body) is immediately nonsensical because it could go either way.
I'll leave it to someone else to explain all the nonsensical biological claims that follow on from the already fundamentally wrong electrical side since that's not my area. I will however note that none of these sponsored papers actually show and measurable biological effect, they all just hand-wave about redox reactions.
[1]: Yes, you're coupled to mains wiring and other changing fields that are around, however that's getting too far into the weeds for a short comment. If the claim made by the snake oil salesmen was that a current going through your body is good then they'd also suggest wrapping yourself in an electrical cord to maximise the effect, or just taping batteries to your skin.
That's really remarkable.
Our body didn't get the memo that for the last 200 years water and food are clean now and bacteria is fought with antibiotics.
Getting the immune system to not freak out at everything it detects via just touching grass is the best news I've read today.
Walking barefoot, over all manner of surfaces, feels good, increases your connection to your surroundings, and slows you down.
I've done it lots, both in the countryside and in the city. You have to watch out for spiky plants and fox shit in the country, and in the city you soon learn which surface textures require more care :-)
"Where would I find enough leather to cover the entire surface of the earth? But with leather soles beneath my feet, it's as if the whole world has been covered." - Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist monk
Do you feel walking barefoot is worth the risk of catching this and other potentially hazardous diseases?
[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...
Last week I was walking my dog and he stepped on glass or something that gashed open part of his paw pad.
That GenZ and Gen Alpha have started doing this thing they call “private podcasting”. Where they invite a friend over and discuss topics like one of those podcasts where dudes just talk about stuff…but they don’t record it or post it anywhere.
I was stunned. Is this generation really so socially starved by the attention parasites that human beings are starting to reinvent “hanging out” or “just having a conversation”.
It’s so ridiculous I just refuse to believe this is how they actually think and this has to be some kind of rage bait. I pray that it’s rage bait because if it isn’t we failed our children badly.
All that to say that I get similar vibes from the “grtting your hands dirty is actually good for you” thing. It just screams that entire generations of people have been stunted by helicopter parenting that this just seems like novel information. It seems we’ve completely abdicated our duty as parents and dumped our responsibility to educate our children onto profit seeking media companies. And that terrifies me.
I was walking down the bike path outside my apartment complex some years ago and a lady started a conversation, which started off normal but quickly turned to Reiki and after a few minutes she ignored every social hint to change the subject and just REALLY wanted to talk about energy pathways, life force and other woo-woo shit until I had to physically cut off the conversation by awkwardly walking away.
Also Steve Jobs died because he tried to cure his cancer with fucking fruit.
So yes, I have zero problem believing a minority of sheltered, internet-brained GenAlphas out there are doing "private podcasting". Statistically every adult has met at least one person who secretly enjoys eating literal shit.
But more like…what if this is actually true.
When I say "come as a surprise" I mean they would be unable to articulate the exact mechanisms behind the health benefits before being told what they are or that they exist. Liking a thing and presuming it must have health benefits aren't the same.
I was getting sick constantly, and it turned out I had chronic sinusitis, and surgery made it much much better.
(Just friendly advice, I know nothing about your situation).
glad it was just poor hygiene :P
Regular mouthwash and even antibiotics won’t get rid of it, but a solution of vinegar, lemon juice and salt will.
https://youtu.be/0he8BCs8VD0
I do subscribe to it myself but not out of evidence. It’s just vibes. Built my daughter a little dirt box with grass and edible herbs so when she would muck around at five to six months she could do it in there on the balcony of our San Francisco apartment and she enjoyed destroying the plants so at the worst she got some fun out of it.
If it's just you and one species of bacteria, you're closer to a circumstance that would call for the activation of such behavior than if diversity is high.
So it's not that the bacteria are intrinsically good or bad, but that the different circumstances call for calm or aggressive behavior, and all your friends going missing cues aggressiveness in species who have evolved by filling that niche in the past.
For one it's just competition. If you have regular contact to a diverse set of microorganisms chances are higher that they will keep each other populations in check. The dose makes the poison applies here too in some narrow sense.
Additionally (or even mainly) our immune system always on guard (me/not me) gets to play around with the obvious stuff and not be overwhelmed or be "bored" but constantly trained/tamed. We have evolved to have constant contact to a diverse set of microorganisms which modulate our immune system e.g. through toll-like receptors.
As an extreme case some people develop some natural immunity to the tetanus toxin through regular exposure to a extreme variety of microorganisms, obviously this isn't reliable nor a gamble remotely worth the risk.
[0]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3980089/
[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6827147/
Edit: don't know why OP gets downvoted it's a perfectly fine entrance question/bafflement to motivate some deeper digging into microbiology/immunology.
Or, to put it a different way,
> Cars have windows and can go. Houses have windows and can’t go. So it’s not the windows that make the car go
Feeling some pâro, again:
https://youtu.be/w7l2hUp0CkQ
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/23/medicalscience.wo...
My point was more that articles like the one on the BBC (or the Guardian for that matter) just contradict themselves every year. I completely stopped reading those "pop science" takes that are only there for clicks.
(To its credit, the Guardian makes place for long form articles that go more in-depth on known knowns and known unknowns.)
the overwhelming response apparently was:
* we don't have particular concerns about how the license fee is spent.
* we mainly just want that money back
In which cities are people favouring local parks over toilets?
Parasites can actually help with allergies. I am loosely aware of various attempts at treating allergies using parasites.
One of the approaches taken (under medical supervision) for kids with bad nut allergies is to gradually expose them to more of the allergen. Being able to survive a peanut or two without anaphylaxis is life-changing.
I live in Berlin and compared to most other European cities it’s a shit hole, but one thing I can tell you is the cleanliness and green nature of the public parks. Most of the time people actually care about the public parks (with exception of few)
However, one thing to worry about is the tick bites or any other insect bites, but that’s part of the nature
> Children who play there willmdevelop all sorts of misterious allergies, skin rash conditions, asthma and so on!
No they won't you hysterical boob. Youre fear of germs is irrational. Get a grip
I wrote to go into nature, without poop. It has nothing to do with regular germs!
> Take them to real nature, where grass is not used as a toilet by city folks
Just becauee you follow basic hygiene, and cook your food, and shit into toilet (not street), does not make you "germofoob"
You're severely misunderstanding how germs and infections work. But germphobes have the phobia as a response to stress, its never a logical position they take.
You're feelings rule your intellect on this one I'm afraid, that's a textbook definition of irrationally
Or perhaps you are severely misunderstanding how city life works? Much bigger concetration of shit heads...
Lol no but you are not rational my friend and definitely in germophobe group :) And no amount of exclamation marks will change that, in contrary.
I think you need to re-visit some basic science about bacteria, human immunity and general advices on how to raise children with regard to those topics. If you don't, you will harm your children in pretty bad ways
But i should let my kids play there. Because of newest fad on internet!