Comments on: Freezing is one of our bodies’ oldest existential threats

By: ETat

ETat — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:14:28 +0000

Mike in Boston, I’m not Scandinavian, but I did the same for my 6-month-old son in our Ural-region city. I bundled him up, put him in a baby carriage, and wheeled him out to the balcony at –15°C. I read about it in a book on early-childhood immune training.

He would fall asleep immediately, and then I’d roll him back in in an hour (progressing up to two hours). He was warm inside but breathed fresh frosty air. HE did not sneeze once that whole first year of his life.

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:20:29 +0000

It is known that in the Falklands War the injured survival rate was higher due to cold weather.

By: Mike in Boston

Mike in Boston — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:01:56 +0000

See also the Scandinavian moms who bundle their babies up, put them in a baby carriage, and park them outside to acclimate to the winter cold while keeping watch through a window.

By: Nels

Nels — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:43:15 +0000

See Wim Hof and his trip up Mt Everest.

Yes, you can train for the cold.

By: Bruce Purcell

Bruce Purcell — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:13:43 +0000

In one of Alexis Gilliland's Rosinante trilogy books, a doctor implants brown fat in a woman and cures her chronic backaches.

By: Adar

Adar — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 15:00:03 +0000

U.S. Army officers during their career are normally expected to complete either jump school [parachuting] or as alternative winter warfare training. Such schools act as a filter mechanism to separate weak from strong. Winter warfare may seem a poor alternative to parachuting but perhaps not so.