Counterintuitive Bodily Responses, and Why They Happen

A sports scientist explains why our bodies seem to be working against us at times.  Counterintuitive Response #1: Vomiting and Diarrhea in Hot Weather So, vomiting and diarrhea are not a response to dehydration, but rather, a response to over-hydration + exercise-induced nausea. “Our bodies are plenty smart. We’re foolish for trying to make them do something unnecessary.”  In other words, user error.  Counterintuitive Response #2: Training-Induced Insomnia  So sleeplessness is your body’s way of indicating it’s blown past normal sleepiness, and is in survival mode, something you may not have realized. It’s a waving red flag. A precursor, Tucker said, to Force Quit: “At some point the body will begin to shut down or cut out the processes essential to life in an attempt to help us recover.”   Again, user error.  Counterintuitive Response #3: Inflammation  Tucker defends the physiological programming: “We have regulation of normal physiology, even for very stressful situations — prolonged exercise without fluid, acute or chronic injury, or very hard exercise that makes us hungry for sleep. But we kind of force things on ourselves — drinking more than needed, or training despite lack of sleep, or continuing to train despite injury and pain — and responses designed to help us instead cause problems. Our stupidity, ironically, turns the body’s ‘cleverness’ into a disadvantage.” https://www.podiumrunner.com/nutrition/health/counterintuitive-bodily-responses-and-why-they-happen/ #AND3RSON #HeartFailureSurvivor #EnduranceAthlete In March of 2020, I slipped on the illegally dumped cooking grease in front of John’s Burger and couldn’t walk for 6 weeks. This was my first injury since I started Endurance Training in 1979. Then in late April of 2020, I ended up in the hospital for the first time in my life. The diagnosis was Congestive Heart Failure.   This Vlog / Podcast documents my Sixth Decade of Endurance Training. The past Decade was about HOW FAR I could go.  This Decade will be about HOW FAST can I go post Congestive Heart Failure. https://linktr.ee/AND3RSON