Being too hot can cut helpful thoughts & actions….

Today's post:  Tuesday, 7-18-2017

* Being too hot can cut helpful thoughts & actions

You can read the article with that information here:

http://www.journalofnaturallongevity.com/2017/07/06/heat-may-make-less-helpful/?utm_campaign=journalofnaturallongevity&utm_content=Journal+of+Natural+Longevity&utm_medium=email&utm_source=getresponse&utm_term=JNL_Newsletter_07%2F11%2F17

"We know from past research, and personal experience, that hot, muggy, uncomfortable weather can make us cranky and potentially unpleasant.

A new study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology demonstrates how the heat may make you less helpful.... "

*This can cause you problems at home and at work.  If you are in business, it can cut customer service quality and drive customers away.

When it’s hot in the summer it helps to know how to combat this!

And, now that more places are hot or hotter more often because of global warming, it is increasingly important to know how to combat this! 

*There are three ways to do so:

1.  You can make where you live or work far less hot even though it’s still hot outside.

Just the difference between 69 & 80, let alone over 80 or over 90, cuts the ability to give good customer service or volunteer help or give as much of it if you do.

*So, using enough A/C or heat proofing + fans & saving up the cooler temps at night with good insulation + good air conditioning to solve the external problem helps!

(Venting the heat buildup under the roof before it radiates into the living space; well designed window shades outside; heat-reflecting or heat insulating windows; and heat blocking curtains can keep the heat outside!  This saves having to pay money and energy to pump the heat outside.  You can cut that to zero or reduce it by over half!

Ceiling fans can enable you to feel OK up to 5 to 7 degrees more.  You may function best at 68 and OK at 72.  With ceiling fans you may be OK from 73 to even 79 degrees.

*Cooling just your bedroom also prevents an energy drop from poor & less sleep! 

Having your bedroom never get hotter than 68 with very light blankets if needed, can be like an extra half hour to more than an hour of sleep compared with over 80 and having to get up to change out of wet, sweaty clothes all night!

*Cooling your workplace WILL make you more productive, particularly if you need to concentrate to do knowledge work or sell or do customer service.  Heat proofing the space; ceiling fans; and reliable air conditioning all make this happen!

2.  You can do the things proven to reduce or cancel this effect inside your brain and body. (It’s not well known; but this is quite doable!)

If your underlying chronic inflammation is high, you are more likely to be irritable and be crabby with people. 

If it’s quite low, you may well be easy to live with and nice to people because you feel so much better.  So the more you know how to have your inflammation be low safely and do it, the easier it is to be easy to live with and be nice to people. 

For resisting heat, the difference between high chronic inflammation and very low can make as much as a ten degree difference in how much heat you can deal with and keep good spirits and good behavior.

Studies found that feeding jail inmates a breakfast with some kind of fish high in omega 3 oils or giving them omega 3 and DHA supplements made the inmates less irritable so much that it cut down on fights!  The inmates were unaware of how much feeling less irritable influenced their behavior.  But it worked anyway!

Since adding the other parts of a very low inflammation lifestyle have such incredible health benefits, doing it to help your personal heat proofing in hot weather is a great idea!

And, since soft drinks both regular and diet boost inflammation but people who don’t know to avoid them drink more of them in hot weather, that can make a big difference!

(High chronic inflammation besides making you more irritable also causes or helps cause Alzheimer’s disease, heart attacks and strokes, and many cancers!

In fact, one of the best ways to learn the basics of lowering your chronic information is to read the book, AntiCancer and follow its advice! 

Also using ginger or taking it as a supplement and only getting the vegetables and fruit it recommends in organic forms only will increase how well this protects your health and lowers your chronic inflammation.)

3.  You can practice good ways to be nice, easy to talk to, and, in business, to give good customer service -- enough that you can do them anyway even if you feel way too hot!

If you know how to ask the right questions and ask what would help and do so well enough you could almost do it in your sleep, you can make a habit of asking them so consistently, you can ask them even when the heat HAS made you irritable and you feel horrible.

And, once you do so, the reaction of the other people is so much better than not asking them, this will often solve the problem despite the heat!

*So, if you can minimize the heat and increase your ability to overcome the effects of the heat in these two ways, you can slash how much harm too much heat otherwise tends to cause you.