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Where I can find information on: why lowering your body ytemperature drastically increases your chances of becoming ill. (scientific preferably).

Thankyou

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Originally posted by trawets113
Where I can find information on: why lowering your body ytemperature drastically increases your chances of becoming ill. (scientific preferably).

Thankyou
This only works if accompanied by a massive injection of peniscillin.

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Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
This only works if accompanied by a massive injection of peniscillin.
Recently they found that lowering your body temperature caused the blood vessels in you nose to constrict which resulted in viruses passing more easily into the blood stream resulting in a higher cahnce of becoming ill. I was just wondering if anyone knew where i could find more info on this.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Recently they found that lowering your body temperature caused the blood vessels in you nose to constrict which resulted in viruses passing more easily into the blood stream resulting in a higher cahnce of becoming ill. I was just wondering if anyone knew where i could find more info on this.
if you inject yourself with urine, it makes you very ill. but you do feel good for about half an hour

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Originally posted by rocketbob
if you inject yourself with urine, it makes you very ill. but you do feel good for about half an hour
I think it only makes you feel good.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Where I can find information on: why lowering your body ytemperature drastically increases your chances of becoming ill. (scientific preferably).

Thankyou
Because your body heat kills the bacteria inside of it. thats why we get fevers when we are sick.

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Originally posted by guitarguy1
Because your body heat kills the bacteria inside of it. thats why we get fevers when we are sick.
Wrong. trawets is nearly right. When you're chilled your blood vessels constrict and slow antibodies travelling through the body, and so your immune system suffers.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Wrong. trawets is nearly right. When you're chilled your blood vessels constrict and slow antibodies travelling through the body, and so your immune system suffers.

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You may be right also
but I know for a fact that Im right too.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Wrong. trawets is nearly right. When you're chilled your blood vessels constrict and slow antibodies travelling through the body, and so your immune system suffers.

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I'd have thought that's the badger - effective operating temperature of antibodies.

Google may help as usual?

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Originally posted by trawets113
Where I can find information on: why lowering your body ytemperature drastically increases your chances of becoming ill. (scientific preferably).

Thankyou
See, we now live in what's called, "The Information Age", but the problem is that we are constantly being bombarded by MISINFORMATION!

This 'correct' information could save your life...

http://www.mercola.com

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If you go swimming in the arctic ocean for ten minutes you would drastically increase your chances of falling ill - or dying of hypothermia, whichever comes first.

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
If you go swimming in the arctic ocean for ten minutes you would drastically increase your sucess at winning in chess - or love, whichever comes first.
Hmmmm....I choose chess 🙂

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Originally posted by guitarguy1
Because your body heat kills the bacteria inside of it. thats why we get fevers when we are sick.
According to my Immunology textbook:

The increase in body temperature [due to fever] inhibits the growth of a number of pathogens and appears to enhance the immune response to the pathogen.

I am having trouble finding anything about lowering body temperature though.

EDIT - the book does describe how the capillaries dilate when inflammation occurs, which helps bodily defense get out of the blood system because spaces between cells become larger(phagocytes, etc). I guess the idea is that the bloodstream is a highway for bodily defenses, which are analagous to fire fighters and police. If the firemen and cops can't get off the freeway, they can't deal with emergencies. Contrast this with what trawets said about viruses getting into the bloodstream easier when the body is cold. Not all viruses need to get into the bloodstream; many infect other cells that are not in the blood.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Where I can find information on: why lowering your body ytemperature drastically increases your chances of becoming ill. (scientific preferably).

Thankyou
in Russia they do that thing where they jump in the icy water and then sit in a sauna.repeat the cycle...have a feed and get drunk.it's meant to increase your chances of not becoming ill.

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Originally posted by windmill
in Russia they do that thing where they jump in the icy water and then sit in a sauna.repeat the cycle...have a feed and get drunk.it's meant to increase your chances of not becoming ill.
Dramatically so. You'll be dead.