I'm listening to hosts talking about difficulties of cold adaptation.
Turns out, one of the best anti-freezes is KI = Potassium Iodide definitely helps to simply ignore or endure a lot more cold, especially above the amount of 80 to 250mg:
- wake every morning to cold in your room [unheated for the night], so after you wash, better arrange to _have_to_come_ into the cold room clothed only in your skin and have to put on deodorant there - while experiencing the cold air on your skin -, have_to reach for your 'ice cold' clothes and put them on so you have_to feel the 'ice-coldness' on your skin from the freezing cloth. Make a 'Jesus / Caesar On the Cross' pose for a couple of minutes and feel your body heat up the clothes on your skin. This everyday morning exercise is remotely similar to Jack Cruse's Ice-Jacket technique. Upside: You will need no coffee or will have zero problems of remaining sleepy and will need no time for 'waking up'.
- swishing really cold water in the mouth previously caused bursts of pain, now there is no pain and my [body] skin has noticeable increased tolerance to cold water.
- fasted jogging & sprinting in cold weather, then later in snow with good minus temperatures, where your lungs get a cold-shock with each breath. If its cold and windy, get a T-shirt, put the neck opening on your face so its above your brows and pull the other side to your chin [or slightly under]. Adjust to have the short sleeves at the side like your new 'elephant ears'. Grab these sleeves and bind them behind your head once [at base of skull] so it sits firm. The shirt should cover your entire head, sans your face, with double layers of cloth above your ears. You can let the sleeve slide above your chin, below your mouth so your out-breaths during running produce a nice warmth buffer around your mouth and keep your teeth warm. This way you won't feel the cold wind, especially out in the country-side, where there are no houses blocking the wind! On top of this put on your winter cap designated for running. Double the shirt-layer, when you wish to run in strong cold winds.
You won't get the cold or the flu if having reached the conditioning to being able to take 50mg of Lugols + 80 to 250mg of KI on fasted [16-24 hrs] empty stomach and also with being capable of fasted sprinting = your body has enhanced metabolism, able to getting rid of the toxins freed-up by iodine super fast! Couple this with intermittent fasting and running errands in the city on empty stomach [added stress] and you will switch into Keto in no time with minimum suffering.
- have a good wash with cold water every morning no longer produces "Jesus, I can't have cold water touch my 'warm parts' of the skin!"
- Grounding = standing barefooted in snow on the green grass for 10 minutes or until your toes go numb. Wash your feet with cold water, you won't feel much. Leaves a good looking green footprint on the snowy-grass. Like if a Yeti was there. :) My soles nicely come to life once inside the house. "Go numb"-time depends on temperatures of course. You can play ball barefoot in the snow on a grassy yard for a couple of minutes. You'll still be able to support your body-weight on your soles with some balancing, once your toe-muscles go unresponsive.
- If the snow is only a couple of inches deep, sweep it in lighter clothing, maybe in one of your old summer running shoes, that maybe has holes at the top [not at the side] from stretching. On KI you'll notice the cold doesn't bother you anymore and getting inside feels always nicely hot.
- I noticed my gas radiator is now frequently running on 1-2 instead of the Pre-Iodine 4-5 setting for extended hours. Proof of increased cold-endurance from KI.
Inside I always wrap myself in this blanket:
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Plus wear a short old leather winter coat and caps inside, while working on the computer. This method allows low temperatures just so my fingers are not going numb / freezing, so I can work and not feel the cold because of extra layers of cold protection.
Sounds a bit extreme, but works wonders in reality. All these are really just mild cold-adaptation habits, not counting the somewhat increased amounts of Lugols+KI.
Bathing in an icy cold pool in winter, or playing soccer in -15°C in summer-shirts, like the Ice Man does, and meditating in shorts on the snow and ice ARE the hard-core methods..
