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Re: Getting your hands dirty is good for you

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Post by 627467 »

nxobject wrote: post #18

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. Rec…

GTD, lifehacking, quantified self... all coolness of the 2000s biting us hard now

Re: Getting your hands dirty is good for you

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Post by dd8601fn »

whatthe12899 wrote: post #157
dd8601fn wrote: post #118

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The next fad… microdosing immunosuppressants? We could get in early. Nevermind. Just saw people are already doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy

Yeesh. That’s not even the one I saw from my edit.

> Rapamycin, an organ-transplant drug, has become popular after research found it could extend lifespans in other species. The longevity biohacker community uses rapamycin at substantially lower intermittent doses (3 to 8 mg once weekly), versus transplant doses (typically 2 to 5 mg daily).

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Post by red369 »

QuercusMax wrote: post #193
stronglikedan wrote: post #168

I finally feel justified! Not only do I get my hands dirty, but I also don't use soap unless water alone can't get them clean. Most of the time, our great universal solvent does a fine job without stripping my good bacteria.

I have read but not verified that washing with water is about as effective as with soap at removing bacteria from hands. Having soap on your hands forces you to get all the soap off, which requires touching more skin surface.

I also remember reading this - that unless there is oil and grease which requires soap to remove, then water alone is effective. At the time it seemed to me it was somewhere fairly reputable. From memory, the idea was that soap reduced the friction, and actually might lessen the effectiveness. I think it wasn't comparing best-practice handwashing with and without soap, but focused instead on the kind of handwashing that people actually do.

Hard to find anything on it now, and I understand soap was particularly effective against SARS-CoV-2 compared to water alone (can I just call it the COVID-19 virus?) so it looks like the idea is mostly gone now.

Re: Getting your hands dirty is good for you

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

nomadpenguin wrote: post #110
jacobrast wrote: post #95

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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 o…

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.

One could simply use ballet shoes, instead of that overpriced stuff. They come in different styles, colors, materials, are foldable(ususally), and can be considered disposable.

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Post by stevekemp »

notaigenerated wrote: post #134
stevekemp wrote: post #43

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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…

If it's 90 degrees Celcius, I don't think you could sit there for an hour. If it's 90 american degrees, what kind of sauna is that?

I have a dodgy thermometer on the wall, and I tend to enter the sauna when it shows 80, by the time I leave it's usually been showing 90 for half the time. Celcius.

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Post by stevekemp »

KptMarchewa wrote: post #49
stevekemp wrote: post #43

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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…

Do you mean you literally sit in the sauna for hour?

Generally I assume "sauna" will take an hour, or ninety minutes, but the process is pretty much:

1. Have a shower.

2. Sit in the sauna, and throw water on the stones. Stay there for 5-15 minutes, drinking a beer and sometimes listening to music. Depends on the mood what kind of duration I enjoy, and what kind of music I have. If alone music is nice, if with a friend or two then we have silence and conversation instead.

3. Come out and sit on the balcony, to have a little break.

4. If I still feel like it go back to step one, and have a quick shower before going back. Otherwise have a longer shower, and check that the heater is going to shut down soon.

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Post by pestatije »

sajithdilshan wrote: post #83
pestatije wrote: post #47

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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

That is sad, so people don’t pick up after the dogs or are they stray dogs?

theyll pick the shit, they might pour some water from a bottle where the dog peed... but the main problem is the sheer amount of dogs in cities, people are just non-committal on having babies and instead keep a dog or two

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Post by naishoya »

cnity wrote: post #191
naishoya wrote: post #152

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weird huh, in neither system does 90 degrees make for a useful sauna. that's either lukewarm, or cooking temp.

90C is a normal sauna temperature. It's on the hot side, but normal.

Right you are. It's little a bit warm for my personal taste, but sure, for a 10 to 15 minute session, ok. It was late, and I was thinking more of the 90F as not even as hot as normal outdoors for many parts of the globe.

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Post by krageon »

malfist wrote: post #194
Brian_K_White wrote: post #185

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Just because you call something a parasite doesn't make it bad for you. It might be bad, or good, or some of both, or depend on other factors at different times. If you count cells and genes instead of mass, every human hosts more non-human life than human. Call them parasites and delete them and die.

Calling a symbiot a parasite does not make it a parasite.

Given that you know these terms you must be aware we have invented different words for organisms that have mixed effects (positive and negative) on the host organism. Parasite, commensalist and symbiote. If you don't want folks who know these words to argue with you you should not use the wrong ones.

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Post by matsemann »

sejje wrote: post #122
stevekemp wrote: post #43

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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…

> Just the thought of looking at a watch in a sauna, and timing things minute by minute sounded exhausting. "Hey , set a timer for 12 minutes" doesn't sound very exhausting.

If your smartwatch doesn't burn your wrist in the sauna, it's not hot enough ;)
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