15 SPECTACULAR TRICKS FOR YOUR BODY

1.) If you've got an itch in your throat, scratch
your ear. When the
nerves in the ear get stimulated, they create a
reflex in the throat
that causes a muscle spasm, which cures the
itch.

2.) Having trouble hearing someone at a party
or on the phone?
Use your right ear it's better at picking up rapid
speech. But, the left is better at picking up
music tones.

3.) If you need to relieve yourself BADLY, but
you're not anywhere
near a bathroom, fantasize about RELATIONS.
That preoccupies your brain and distracts it.

4.) Next time the doctor's going to give you an
injection, COUGH as
the needle is going in. The cough raises the
level of pressure in your
spinal canal, which limits the pain sensation as
it tries to travel to
your brain.

5.) Clear a stuffed nose or relieve sinus
pressure by pushing your
tongue against the roof of your mouth then
pressing a finger between
your eyebrows. Repeat that for 20 seconds it
causes the vomer bone
to rock, which loosens your congestion and
clears you up.

6.) If you ate a big meal and you're feeling full
as you go to sleep,
lay on your left side. That'll keep you from
suffering from acid reflux it keeps your stomach
lower than your esophagus, which will helps
keep stomach acid from sliding up your throat.

7.) You can stop a toothache by rubbing ice on
the back of your
hand, on the webbed area between your thumb
and index finger.
The nerve pathways there stimulate a part of
the brain that blocks
pain signals from your mouth.

8.) If you get all messed up on liquor, and the
room starts spinning, put your hand on
something stable. The reason: Alcohol dilutes
the blood in the part of your ear called the
cupula, which regulates balance. Putting your
hand on something stable gives your brain
another reference point, which will help make
the world stop spinning.

9.) Stop a nose bleed by putting some cotton
on your upper gums right behind the small dent
below your nose and press against it hard.
Most of the bleeding comes from the cartilage
wall that divides the nose, so pressing there
helps get it to stop.

10.) Nervous? Slow your heart rate down by
blowing on your thumb. The vagus nerve
controls your heart rate, and you can calm it
down by breathing.

11.) Need to breathe underwater for a while?
Instead of taking a huge breath,
HYPERVENTILATE before you go under, by
taking a bunch of short breaths. That'll trick
your brain into thinking it has more oxygen, and
buy you about 10 extra seconds.

12.) You can prevent BRAIN FREEZE by
pressing your tongue flat against the roof of
your mouth, covering as much surface area as
possible. Brain freeze happens because the
nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely
cold, so your brain thinks your whole body is
cold. It compensates by overheating which
causes your head to hurt. By warming up the
roof of your mouth, you'll chill your brain and
feel better.

13.) If your hand falls asleep, rock your head
from side to side. That'll wake your hand or
arm up in less than a minute. Your hand falls
asleep because of the nerves in your neck
compressing so loosening your neck is the cure.
If your foot falls asleep, that's governed by
nerves lower in the body, so you need to stand
up and walk around.

14.) This one totally USELESS, but a
nice trick. Have someone stick their arm out to
the side, straight, palm down. Press down on
his wrist with two fingers. He'll resist, and his
arm will stay horizontal. Then, have him put his
foot on a surface that's half an inch off the
ground, like a stack of magazines, and do the
trick again. Because his spine position is
thrown off, his arm will fall right to his side, no
matter how much he tries to resist.

15.) Got the hiccups? Press thumb and second
finger over your
eyebrows until the hiccups are over - usually, in a short while.