What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

by Scott Carney

די הרבה

The body that you have isn’t too different from an ant colony. Long before animals ever appeared on earth, in a time when life comprised mostly single-celled organisms, microscopic bean-shaped bacteria called mitochondria flourished in the wild.

That’s just our inner space. What happens when we think about the body in terms of its preprogrammed responses to the world? In most cases, the strategies that our bodies used to adapt to stress are completely outside of our conscious control. You don’t have to think about sweating when you’re working out. Your body just does it.

ביודעין

כל עוד

משימה

feats

baking

stashed

nearby

donned

sorts

or take an occasional hike in the nearby mountains. I weigh about 190 pounds and have no serious underlying medical conditions other than occasional autoimmune mouth ulcers that I’ve had since I was a child. In other words, I’m pretty ordinary.

excursions

manageable

but as the seasons gradually progress to fall and winter there will be snow, wind, and hopefully a liberal buffeting of frost.

Finally,

sneeze,

ocean

preprogrammed

stimulus.

sensation

sorts

complications.

urge

sensation

down into some dark primordial core inside every one of us.

When the mercury in the thermometer rockets upward,

period of time.

familiar one.

entertainment

shallow

skulls”

to...

c...

to...

s...

lumb...

endless

abyss

t...

depth

swell.

curl,

abort.

jubilant,

humbled.

dubbed

ushered

feats