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[ju @jdml95]

@spnmarathon Take care, one small step at a time 🫂

[ju @jdml95]

@LIGNEJ_SNCF bonsoir, il n'y a plus de train psl vers Herblay?

[ju @jdml95]

@jarpad , I think that science article may interest you . Reminded me of Walker scenes with Cordell

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British physiologist named Brett Gooden published a paper in 1994 that quietly proved every human walking around on this planet has an emergency reset button hidden in the skin of their face, and almost nobody knows how to use it.

His name is mostly forgotten outside diving medicine. The paper is called "Mechanism of the Human Diving Response," and the body of research it kicked off has been replicated by neuroscientists, cardiologists, and physiologists in labs across the world for the last thirty years.

The mechanism it described is the single fastest way to lower a human heart rate that has ever been documented.

The discovery actually began long before Gooden formalized it. Physiologists had noticed for decades that seals, whales, dolphins, and otters could slow their heart rates dramatically the moment their faces touched water, allowing them to dive for long periods without running out of oxygen.

The question Gooden helped answer was whether the same reflex existed in humans, and what exactly triggered it.

The answer turned out to be a network of nerves almost nobody outside neurology had paid attention to.

The trigeminal nerve is one of the largest nerves in your head, and it covers the entire surface of your face, especially the area around your eyes, nose, forehead, and mouth. When cold water touches that skin, the trigeminal nerve fires a signal straight into the brainstem, which then routes a command through the vagus nerve directly to the heart.

The vagus nerve is the master switch of your parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part of the body responsible for calm, recovery, and the slowing of the heart.

The entire signal chain takes about a second to complete. Cold water hits the face. Trigeminal nerve fires. Vagus nerve responds. The heart slows.

Human heart rate has been documented to drop anywhere from 5 to over 50 percent during this response, depending on the temperature of the water, how much of the face is covered, and how strongly the person is holding their breath.

In infants the response is so powerful that it has been implicated in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, because the same reflex that protects a baby underwater can be triggered accidentally by bedding pressed against the face during sleep.

The reflex is called the mammalian dive reflex, and the broader nerve circuit it sits inside is called the trigeminocardiac reflex.

Researchers who study it now consider it the single most powerful autonomic reflex in the human body, which means it is faster and stronger than almost any other automatic response your nervous system is capable of producing.

The detail Gooden zeroed in on is the part that should matter most to anyone who has ever had a panic attack, a racing heart at 3am, or a moment of overwhelming anxiety they could not breathe their way out of.

Two ingredients trigger the response. The water has to be cold, ideally under about 15 degrees Celsius, and it has to touch the area around the forehead, eyes, and nose. The skin of the cheeks and chin alone is not enough.

The receptors that fire the reflex are concentrated in the upper face, which is exactly the part of a seal that hits the water first when it dives. Evolution kept that wiring intact in humans even though we stopped diving for our food a long time ago.

This is why splashing cold water on your face during a moment of panic actually works. It is not psychological. It is not a placebo. You are activating a neurological circuit that has been sitting in your body since before your species walked upright, and the circuit does exactly what it was built to do.

A psychiatrist at Harvard named Marsha Linehan eventually wrote this exact protocol into a dialectical behavior therapy technique she called the cold water dive, which she taught to patients in acute emotional crisis. The instruction was simple.

Fill a bowl with cold water and ice. Hold your breath. Submerge your face from the forehead down to the chin for thirty seconds. Within the first ten seconds, the heart begins to slow. By the time the face comes out of the water, the body has shifted out of fight-or-flight and into the parasympathetic state that makes thinking clearly possible again.

Emergency room physicians have used the same trick to reset abnormal heart rhythms in patients with certain types of tachycardia for decades. They call it the diving reflex maneuver.

A bag of ice water held against the face for fifteen to thirty seconds can convert a runaway heart rhythm back to normal without a single drug being administered.

Same nerve. Same reflex. Same biology your ancestors used to hunt for fish underwater two hundred thousand years ago.

The strangest part of all of this is how few people know it exists. The cold plunge industry has built itself into a billion-dollar movement based on full-body cold exposure, ice baths, and dramatic protocols that require expensive equipment and serious commitment.

But the fastest, most underrated nervous system reset available to a human being requires a sink, a few seconds, and the upper half of your face.

Your nervous system has an emergency brake. You were born holding the handle.

[ju @jdml95]

@SPNqueenizy14 @jarpad @FangasmSPN @jensensswthrt @mishacollins @SuperWiki Hello, sending you love, you are not alone . What could you do a bit different today to make it a bit special? (Small steps). You got this!

[ju @jdml95]

@MonicaJo2325 @yas_nata Wheels are turning in there 😁

[ju @jdml95]

@Plusdetrains "Très galère" est faible par rapport à la situation de cette semaine. Ça a été pire que tout! C'est ingérable avec les impondérables de la vie perso et pro... Et quand on doit enchaîner le J et la L, c'est un parcours du combattant pour arriver à l'heure, quel que soit le sens.

[ju @jdml95]

@sammyswalker I love your photo ops. So happy for you you had these precious moments with Jared! Enjoy contemplating them 😁

[ju @jdml95]

@JarPad_Team @jarpad @SamSmithTweets Thank you!

[ju @jdml95]

@CrystalHope1979 @GenPadalecki , made me think of you as a beekeeper (interesting info in the comments too)

[ju @jdml95]

@AKFJFA @LullyslovesJ2 Kudos to you for not taking a pic, they both clearly expressed they don't like that 😉. Happy for you to have witnessed this moment

[ju @jdml95]

@Plusdetrains Expliquer c'est un minimum au bout de plusieurs semaines de galère, proposer une compensation financière pour service fortement dégradé, c'est ce que les usagers méritent

[ju @jdml95]

@AKFJFA Literally the heart of the show, the reason why I'll always come back to it (or rather never leave it 😁... Never ever )

[ju @jdml95]

@InMyLife_25 @jarpad All of the above! His full awesomeness 😁

[ju @jdml95]

@InMyLife_25 Both sides are so lucky: the one struggling because they know they have support and the one being there for them because they know they are deeply trusted. That is the most beautiful thing in friendship ❤️. I wish everyone had this.

[ju @jdml95]

@Uchihaprincess6 Happy you are healing! Same thought about the situation. Also Jared definitely didn't have the right angle to bear the weight anyway because of the chair on his right side. They both laughed, Jared's leg seemed fine when he got up. All is good 😊, they had fun

[ju @jdml95]

@rowwyaboat Well well well.... Influence in Rome has its own meaning with these two 🫣🤣

[ju @jdml95]

@TheirsSaysSlurs This is going to be real good! Can't wait!

[ju @jdml95]

@rowwyaboat So happy for you!

[ju @jdml95]

@MissKittyBSDC Merci infiniment!

[ju @jdml95]

@MissKittyBSDC Merci merci!