I’ve been interested (and somewhat involved) in a variety of activities and research into fitness and life extension for the past few years.
In that time, I’ve run across some seriously smart people trying really dumb things.
On the stupid-front, I just read a post from an individual who decided to try some cold water activities. Note, that after he does it, he says you shouldn’t. Then why…
But instead of doing a 5-minute cold treatment in a river in a shower or at the edge of a natural watercourse, this individual decided he’d go swimming out in the freezing water for a full twenty minutes against a strong current.
And then celebrated because his body went into shock, with bowel releases etc etc, the marks of full body temperature collapse.
In short, medically-speaking, it was a good try to kill himself.
There’s dumb and there’s just plain stupid. This was both.
For the uninitiated, cold water immersion has some very interesting and positive effects on human metabolism and telomere length.
But there’s cold and then there’s just plain stupid.
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Do you think this kind of thing is stupid or would you do it?