Emergency Tip When Your Energy Level Is At 1% Other Secret Facts

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00:00 There are days when we feel tired and energy drained even after a good night's sleep.

00:05 Fatigue and apathy may have a wide variety of reasons that differ for all people.

00:10 Even a small solar storm 93 million miles away from the Earth can make your neurons work weaker.

00:17 Studies have revealed that solar storms are so massive that they can desynchronize our biological clock and cause excessive sleepiness and laziness.

00:27 That's because electromagnetic activity generated by the disturbance of the sun influences the pineal glands in our brains.

00:36 Although this gland is very tiny, it plays the role of a big boss in your endocrine system.

00:42 The pineal gland regulates many vital functions in the human body.

00:46 One of its key responsibilities is to collect information about the exterior lighting and release melatonin.

00:53 This hormone helps us relax and go to sleep.

00:56 Abnormal electromagnetic activities cause excessive production of melatonin, which can result in fatigue and sleepiness even in the middle of the day.

01:07 But don't rush to put on a handmade tinfoil hat.

01:10 Luckily, we have some universal tips that you can try at home to reboot your energy levels.

01:16 No worries, you don't have to buy any expensive special equipment.

01:19 All you need is your own body and two minutes of your precious time.

01:24 Place all fingers of both your hands together, except for your thumbs.

01:29 Check whether the second joints of each finger are aligned up.

01:32 Apply gentle pressure by squeezing the fingers together once you put the joint over the joint and bone on bone.

01:40 Don't stop using force and keep pressing for one minute.

01:43 At some point, you may feel changes in your sinuses, which are the hollow spaces behind your eyes, cheekbones, and in your forehead.

01:52 You may feel a gradual release of pressure in this area, and your nose may even begin to leak.

01:59 If you try this exercise with someone else, you'll probably notice that the symptoms are different for different people.

02:06 After one minute, release your fingers and relax your arms completely.

02:11 Well, can you feel any changes in your body?

02:14 Some of you may hear a slight ringing sound in the ears, experience dripping from the Eustachian tubes, or think that the area around your cheekbones and forehead became lighter.

02:25 You can use this trick any time during the day when you feel the need to recharge your battery and restore your inner peace.

02:31 You can exercise even in the middle of a school test, first date with your crush, or during a stressful business meeting.

02:39 No one's going to know. It'll be our secret.

02:42 This refreshing effect appears thanks to our wise and complicated anatomy.

02:48 Reflexology works so well because the nervous system in your hands is directly interconnected with your head, brain, and sinuses.

02:56 Hands are rich in particular pressure points that can be very helpful when you need an emergency tool to release pain and reboot your brain.

03:05 When you simulate one of these reflexology points, neurotransmitters in your brain inevitably react.

03:12 It means that you can trick your brain and make it tell the body to feel good and enthusiastic.

03:18 And it's absolutely free, if you know the right button, of course.

03:22 So let's dive into the world of superpowers hidden in your hands and explore some of the major points.

03:29 But if you're currently pregnant, be careful and get your doctor's approval before working with these points.

03:35 Reflexology might stimulate blood pressure changes in your body and cause an unnecessary hormonal response.

03:42 One of the points is located over here on your anterior forearm.

03:47 Its name is niguan, or pericardium 6 because it's part of the so-called pericardium channel that stretches inside the arm from the armpit area up to the middle finger.

03:57 You can find the niguan point between the tendons by measuring four fingers below your wrist.

04:03 If you can't see the area between the tendons clearly, clench your fist.

04:07 Tension in your arm will make the tendons more obvious.

04:11 Now, open your fist, relax the hand and massage this depression once the point is detected.

04:18 Apply gentle pressure for four to five seconds.

04:22 Do this exercise equally on both hands and see if you feel any difference.

04:28 You can also massage the entire area afterwards to relax the arm if necessary.

04:33 During this exercise, you should start feeling relaxation that can spread all through the inside of the arm and across into the inside of the chest.

04:42 If you don't feel any difference, don't get upset and just try again later.

04:47 Acupuncture masters work with this point to help people feel more energized and focused, ease an upset stomach and headaches and help release discomfort in the arms and chest.

04:58 Some say it's also good for reducing anxiety and travel sickness.

05:03 Acupressure works by balancing the body's energy flows.

05:07 These techniques work better when you're completely relaxed.

05:10 If you're performing this exercise on someone else, you may want to ask them to lie down and let them relax completely.

05:18 There's another magical pressure point nearby called Zhong Zhu.

05:22 It can help ease neck tension, temporal headaches and shoulder and upper back pain.

05:28 This point is usually pretty easy to detect.

05:31 It's located behind the knuckles in the groove shaped by the tendons of the ring and little fingers.

05:38 Apply firm pressure to this depression for 4 to 5 seconds.

05:42 You should feel pleasant flows of relaxation in the arms and cervical spine.

05:48 Here's another magical button that is very helpful when experiencing anxiety or headache.

05:54 Find this pressure point in the webbing between your thumb and index finger.

05:58 Use your index finger and thumb to apply firm pressure to the webbing between your other hand's thumb and index finger.

06:06 Slowly and gently massage the point for 4 to 5 seconds and then change hands.

06:12 If you still feel drained after stimulating all the mentioned pressure points, it's time to look around.

06:18 Chances are that the weather is to blame for your fatigue.

06:22 If you're in a warm car outdoors on a sweltering day or in a hot classroom, it's pretty natural to feel tired and sleepy.

06:30 Although we know that heat makes us tired, not many know why exactly.

06:35 First of all, when it's hot, your body begins to send fluid and blood to the surface of your body to cool down.

06:42 This process spends some of your body's resources, which can leave you feeling tired.

06:47 Secondly, keep in mind that dehydration always causes sleepiness and fatigue.

06:52 When it's hot, your body quickly loses salt and fluid in the form of sweat.

06:57 Sometimes it's not the heat that makes you feel drained, but rather water misbalance that happens as a result.

07:03 So drinking sufficient water is crucial if you want to feel energized during the day.

07:08 And if you prefer stimulating your brain with coffee, remember that caffeinated drinks may act like a diuretic,

07:15 which means that they can cause slight dehydration within your body.

07:19 Therefore, it's recommended to be careful with consuming too much coffee and drink still water to replenish the natural balance.

07:27 Speaking of temperatures, studies have revealed that too cold or too hot a workplace can make it difficult for office workers to focus on their daily duties.

07:38 In one of the surveys, 22% of workers complained that too hot a workspace negatively affected their concentration,

07:45 and another 11% of polled people said that too cold a workplace made it hard to work.

07:51 Those temperature preferences may vary depending on a person's metabolic rates and physiological habits.

07:59 Helsinki University of Technology and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researched and discovered the highest productivity temperature.

08:08 It's about 72 degrees Fahrenheit.

08:11 Meanwhile, if the temperature rises higher to around 74 degrees Fahrenheit, the overall enthusiasm at the workplace begins to fall.

08:20 So, if you're not satisfied with your workplace temperature, it makes sense to dress in layers or move to a conference room where you can adjust the air conditioner as you like.

08:30 Perhaps it will help you boost work productivity.

08:33 And if not, remember the magical reflexology tricks we discussed earlier.

08:38 That's it for today.

08:40 So, hey, if you pacified your curiosity, then give the video a like and share it with your friends.

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08:50 The cornea is the only part of your body with living cells that doesn't have blood vessels.

08:55 It gets nutrients and oxygen directly from the tear fluid on the outside,

09:00 and the thick watery substance you have between the cornea on the inside,

09:05 and also from the nerve fibers connected to the cornea.

09:08 That's why contact lenses used to be a potential issue.

09:12 The older ones were reducing oxygen supply, since the cornea mostly gets oxygen from the outside.

09:19 This problem was solved, or at least reduced, when silicone hydrogel lenses came to the market.

09:25 Some other parts of your body with no blood vessels are your nails, hair, outer skin layers, and tooth enamel.

09:33 Did you notice your sweat sometimes smells of onions after your workout?

09:38 You have nothing to worry about.

09:40 There are two types of sweat glands in your skin.

09:43 The first kind of glands are located on certain areas of your body, like the groin region and the armpits.

09:50 They produce a specific oily fluid, which is a response to certain emotional experiences.

09:56 Another type of sweat gland is way more common.

10:00 They are distributed all over your body, and are responsible for the specific sweat you get after the workout.

10:06 The sweat cools your body down as it evaporates from your skin.

10:10 It's 99% water, so it's practically odorless.

10:14 Well, at least when it first leaves the pores and comes to the surface of your skin.

10:19 But there are many types of bacteria on the human skin,

10:23 and they feed on the nutrients in that sweat, together with skin flakes.

10:27 One of the byproducts of this is specific chemicals, and their smell can sometimes strongly remind you of onion.

10:34 You may have noticed you produce more saliva when you go for a run,

10:39 especially if it's a short jog in cold weather.

10:42 But if you're running a marathon, and it's a nice warm day outside, you'll produce less saliva.

10:49 It's your body trying to offset the drying effect, since you breathe through your mouth way more.

10:55 But your body becomes more dehydrated over longer periods,

11:00 which is why it's trying to conserve water by reducing saliva production.

11:05 Every training you do, no matter how intensive it is, also makes you secrete more of a specific type of protein.

11:12 It makes the saliva more viscous and sticky, which is why you may feel like your mouth is dry way more after your workout.

11:21 Humans see the world 15 seconds out of date, which means your brain constantly keeps you a little bit in the past.

11:30 This way, it helps you stabilize your vision of the world around you.

11:34 Your eyes receive a huge amount of visual information.

11:38 Yep, literally millions of colors, shapes, and ever-changing motion, wherever you turn.

11:44 It's not an easy task for your brain to process all that.

11:47 The visual world alters all the time because of changes in viewpoint, light, and the rest of the outer factors.

11:54 Your visual input changes because you need to blink.

11:58 Plus, your head, eyes, and your entire body are always in some sort of motion.

12:04 Your brain has to establish a mechanism that can create illusory stability.

12:09 It automatically smooths your visual input.

12:12 It doesn't analyze every little visual snapshot. It's like a time machine.

12:17 You actually perceive an average of things you saw in the past 15 seconds at any given moment.

12:24 The brain pulls together objects so they appear more similar to each other.

12:29 That's why it tricks you into believing you're in stable surroundings.

12:32 If your brain kept you updated in real time, the world would feel like a very, very chaotic place,

12:39 with constant changes in movement, light, and shadow, which would probably feel like you were hallucinating all the time.

12:47 Your bones are really strong, but your teeth, which we also consider as part of the skeletal system, are even stronger.

12:55 That's because of the enamel, the hard outer layer of your tooth.

13:00 The enamel keeps the tissue and the delicate nerves inside your teeth safe.

13:05 You're basically burning calories while you're thinking.

13:09 When you rest and don't engage in any particular activity, except for the basics,

13:13 which includes digesting, breathing, and keeping yourself warm,

13:18 it's the stage where your brain uses up to 20 to 25% of the total energy of your body.

13:24 That means your body will burn around 350 to 450 calories per day while pretty much doing nothing.

13:32 We're not the only ones in the animal kingdom with such a mechanism.

13:36 Some small mammals like the minuscule pygmy marmoset and the tiny tree shrew

13:42 devote the same percentage of their total body energy to their brain.

13:46 Most of the energy the brain burns is to help its cells, the neurons, to communicate with each other.

13:52 They do it via chemical signals the brain transmits across synapses, those special cell structures.

13:59 So the brain directs a lot of energy towards synapses in order to make them work.

14:05 Your brain never really rests.

14:08 Even when you're sleeping, certain parts are active.

14:11 So your brain needs its fuel to work, and you're basically burning calories in your sleep.

14:17 The more demanding mental tasks you take throughout the day, the more calories you burn.

14:23 So if you skip today's workout, solve some Sudoku!

14:28 Do you like to rush with your ice cream?

14:30 Sometimes it pays off, but if you do it often, you must know the feeling of brain freeze pretty well.

14:37 It's a pretty intense and uncomfortable feeling that comes from the front or sides of your head

14:43 right after you drink or eat something cold, such as a slushy drink, ice cream, or an ice pop.

14:50 Some people even go through a similar sensation whenever they're exposed to cold air.

14:55 Scientists are still not sure exactly why this happens, but one of the theories is

15:00 the cold substance stimulates a cluster of nerves located at the back of the palate.

15:05 Another theory says the blood vessels in the roof of the mouth and sinuses quickly constrict

15:11 because the temperature in your mouth drops before they dilate again.

15:15 Brain freeze is not something dangerous that you should be seriously worried about.

15:20 And no, hanging over the table, groaning, or clasping your head in your hands won't help much.

15:27 Some people like to sleep a lot. Hey, guilty as charged!

15:32 But some have a certain condition called familiar natural short sleepers,

15:37 which means they're kind of immune to sleep deprivation.

15:40 About 1% of our population has it. They can fall short on sleep and feel pretty good about it.

15:47 They're fine with sleeping for 6 hours per night.

15:50 This amount would wreck the majority of people after a couple of nights.

15:55 The human eye normally has three cones.

15:58 That means we can recognize approximately a million different shades in the green, red, and blue spectrums of colors.

16:05 But there are some people with a rare condition, so-called tetrachromats, that have four cones in their eyes.

16:12 This allows them to see ultraviolet shades, which means they can distinguish 100 million distinct colors.

16:20 Did you know your skeleton is all wet? I mean, your entire body mostly consists of water, up to 60%.

16:27 That fluid is not only in your organs, muscles, and skin. It's in your skeleton, too.

16:33 Your bone mass is almost one-third water.

16:37 There's this amazing hidden network a human body holds inside.

16:41 Blood vessels are really small, but if you could line them all up, you'd get something huge.

16:46 Your entire body boasts a network of 60,000 miles of blood vessels.

16:52 One of the ways to keep your network healthy is by eating right.

16:56 Have you ever wondered why our distant relatives, the primates, are so much stronger than us?

17:02 In many ways, our bodies are very similar.

17:05 Look at the chimp's muscle structure, for example. But our closest primate relatives are approximately 1.35 times stronger than us.

17:14 The human body developed more slow-twitch muscle fibers compared to the rest of the primates.

17:20 This type of muscle fiber is a less powerful one, but it lets us endure more than other primates,

17:26 and do things like foraging and hunting, activities that helped our distant ancestors to survive.

17:32 That's also the reason why we can run a marathon. A monkey could never do it.

17:37 But we'd still lose in a strength competition.

17:41 Laughter is contagious. It's not just a metaphor.

17:45 Researchers have found that strong emotions can make the brain activity of different people sink.

17:51 Laughter is something science usually links with social creatures.

17:55 People are almost 30 times more likely to laugh when in some social situations.

18:00 Hanging out with their friends or people they feel relaxed with.

18:04 One of the theories says that you're probably going to join when you see your friend laughing because humans are empathetic beings.

18:11 Your brain will release endorphins when you're laughing.

18:14 These are special chemicals that make you feel safe and at ease.

18:18 So, we're not sure why exactly our laughter is contagious, but it feels really good, so...

18:28 Join us on the Bright Side of life and laugh away!

18:31 That's it for today! So, hey, if you pacified your curiosity, then give the video a like and share it with your friends.

18:40 Or if you want more, just click on these videos and stay on the Bright Side!

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