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Understanding Physiological Principles

My Understanding of The Big Picture

As of May 2018, it has now been exactly 25 months that I have started this journey as an attempt to change my lifestyle for a healthier one. To make this wonderful journey possible, I used several different practices that I named starting points. I also like to refer to them as seeds for change, in order to express the idea of a small habit being able to grow over time into something that can make a huge difference in our lives. Call them starting points or seeds for change, I believe that all these practices I’ve been embracing, have ended up being extremely beneficial for me in order to grow into a healthier person. There is one in particular, I believe it to be a bit different and possibly the most important one. This one consists of understanding some of the most important the physiological principles of the human body.

Learning more about the physiological mechanisms of my body not only has been helping me to to be more knowledgeable on the subject, but more importantly, it has been a tremendous motivating factor to embrace and sustain my starting point practices. This knowledge has been helping me in understanding the role these practices play in the big picture of my body healing itself and becoming a healthier and better performing entity. In this post I am going to try to explain in my own words my understanding of how I believe the lymphatic system works.

The Cell

The human body is made of an extremely large number of cells. These cells have a number of needs in order to stay healthy and accomplish the work they need to to. They need to be nourished, and since they all fulfill a function and perform tasks, they produce waste. They are in a way a minuscule version of ourselves. Cells have membranes, and its through these membranes that the exchange with the outside environment is made possible. In order for the cell to be able to evacuate the produced waste, the outer environment of the cell needs to be more alkaline in pH than its inner environment. In other words, if the outer environment is more acidic, then it becomes very difficult for the cell to evacuate its waste material. Consequently, not being able to evacuate waste material could result in having all kinds of problems at the cell level first. From there, an entire group of cells, then a whole organ could be negatively impacted and this situation can turn into what is commonly called a disease in the modern western medical lexicon.Continue reading

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Hot and Cold Showers 101 – For A Better Monday Style

Hot and Cold Showers 101

Exposing my body to cold temperatures

Prior to starting the For A Better Monday adventure in April 2016,  finishing my daily showers with water at a lower temperature was already a habit of mine. If I had done some running that day, I would pass the coldest water I had access to on my arms and legs. In April 2016 I decided to start swimming in Lake Geneva. I will always remember my very first time. It was a beautiful sunny spring day at “Les Bains des Pâquis”, and the air temperature was in the 20 degrees Celsius. The water on the other hand was extremely cold. I remember it being around 7 or 8 degrees.

The place was packed with people sunbathing, but only a few people including myself dared to swim in the lake. Going into the water was a bit painful at first, but as I started to swim the enjoyment increased. I stayed for about 10 minutes in cold water. As I got out from the lake, I could feel a sensation of warmth all over my body. I dried up, and went to lay down under the sun. After a minute laying down, I was able to reach a sense of accomplishment as If I was able to get rid of if all the negative tension accumulated in my body. The combination of going into cold water and later laying down under the sun made me feel extremely relaxed.

After that day swimming in cold water became a sort of an addiction for me. Back then I held a membership to a gym nearby. This allowed me to get into the routine of working out three to four times a week, and after my workout go swim in the lake. I would do it pretty much in any weather condition. I was able to hold on to this ritual until my departure to Argentina in late January 2017. I would have never though that I’d be able to swim in lake Geneva during the fall and winter seasons. I never got sick, and this practice enhanced my life greatly during my last year spent in Geneva.

Hot and Cold Shower Rituals

In Buenos Aires unfortunately, I don’t have an easy access to cold water. Even tap water will eventually get kind of cold during the winter months, but nothing compared with the water temperatures in Switzerland. Although the temperature interval between hot and cold water are shorter here in Buenos Aires, this situation does not keep me from regularly doing hot and cold shower sessions.Continue reading