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As somebody that exercises a lot (HIIT, cycling up hills, double black diamond skiing, tennis, lifting), I find longer stays in saunas/spas (>1h in "hot" overal

by bitL 10y ago

As somebody that exercises a lot (HIIT, cycling up hills, double black diamond skiing, tennis, lifting), I find longer stays in saunas/spas (>1h in "hot" overall, <15min/hot session, 1min/cold session) very beneficial as well, giving me a great feeling of well-being and clear mind, especially in winter (combined with D + Magnesium etc.), so I wouldn't be surprised if it had a positive long-term effect as well. I also look 15 years younger I am told, but that might be partially from being an electronic music composer ;-)

it_learnses 10y ago
what do you take magnesium for?
- bitL 10y ago
  My doc told me to always take magnesium if I take vitamin D. I've just found an article about why to do it: http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-and-vitamin-d.html http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-and-vitamin-d.ht... Seems like magnesium is needed to convert D to its active form.
  - m00dy 10y ago
    Are you sure it is not for post mdma effects ? :)
  - walshemj 10y ago
    Funny my nephrologist hasn't mentioned it I have kidney failure and take 4x250ng D 3 times a week,
    - passive 10y ago
      Fascinating. Maybe I'm misinterpreting your units, but I have no related health condition (other than living in Canada), and I take 3x1000 every day (in months with an R in them). Maybe you're somewhere particularly sunny?
      - walshemj 10y ago
        Stage 4/5 Kidney failure will do that unfortunately - it messes with your biochemistry.
    - DiabloD3 10y ago
      ng? as in nanograms? 1000 nanogram = 1 microgram (mcg), 40 IU = 1 mcg. I take 5000 IU a day, or 125 mcg.
  - jcranmer 10y ago
    That website smells hokum to me. The prominent ads for magnesium supplements on that page are disconcerting, as are several references to "Dr. So-and-So" with no links to anything even pretending to be peer-reviewed articles. (Actually the "About Me" page is pretty much a flashing red neon sign when you go to it). But even discounting that, the claim that magnesium is "used up" converting Vitamin D sounds, well, wrong. The closest thing I can find to a need to convert vitamin D into an "active form" is the conversion of cholecalciferol to calcidiol and thence calcitriol. The relevant enzymes all seem to be heme cofactors using iron in the heme, not magnesium. I also don't see any peer-reviewed articles looking at magnesium impacts on vitamin D uptake. There's a few old ones (~1991, with some even earlier) that suggest that vitamin D might affect magnesium intake. It might be that magnesium is associated with the vitamin D precursor enzymes, since magnesium is a fairly widespread inhibitor of certain enzymes (in particular, it looks like it impacts parathyroid hormone, which is also impacted by Ca²⁺ ions in the normal case of action for vitamin D). But if that's the case, it's not that magnesium is being "used up" by vitamin D but rather you need a certain amount of it in your bloodstream to keep your calcium metabolism working.
    - js2 10y ago
      If I'm reading https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/ https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/ correctly: Vitamin D is currently the only Essential Vitamin or Mineral which appears to have deficiency rates at a similar level to Magnesium, if not greater. The metabolism of Vitamin D inherently is linked to Magnesium. Magnesium levels in the brain can be negatively regulated by an excess of parathyroid hormone (PTH), where PTH causes release of calcium into the blood (being met with an increase of magnesium to retain homeostasis) possibly being a contributing factor to chronic depletion of magnesium concentration in neural tissue. As vitamin D reliably suppresses excess PTH, it may exert neural benefits secondary to preservation of Magnesium levels in the brain. A Vitamin D deficiency could lead to magnesium depletion (Vitamin D deficency allows excess PTH, releases calcium, depletes magnesium). So in fact, the opposite is the case right? At sufficient Vitamin D levels you shouldn't have to supplement magnesium, assuming no dietary deficiency of it. Right?
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semi-extrinsic 10y ago
TIL Americans call red slopes "black diamond" and black slopes "double black diamond". Dunno why, but it's just really funny to me as a Scandinavian. (By nature of my origin I obviously also enjoy the sauna.)
- bitL 10y ago
  Technically this depends on a resort - in Aspen or Squaw Valley a double black diamond is in the "insane" level category, much steeper/challenging than even the black FIS slope in Sölden. I remember the lift sign in Squaw Valley's Headwall/Palisades - "Experts only. No easy way down.", and it was like that. Maybe upper part of Hahnenkamm could be comparable ;-) Usually double black diamond corresponds to European free ride zones near steep ridges.
  - tricolon 10y ago
    Of course. Trail ratings in North America are relative to each resort. I've gone down blues in the west that are far more challenging than the double blacks at a few areas in New England.
goldenkey 10y ago
What does being an EDM composer have to do with looking young? Would be more inclined to associate it with MDMA and other drugs that would wear the body down.
- bitL 10y ago
  Look at Armin van Buuren, Darude, Jean Michel Jarre etc. For some reason there are many music producers/DJs in their 30s-60s that look way younger than they should ;-) I don't remember who was that but one DJ that was ~42 looked like 18 (non-asian) and everybody was freaking out (I'll try to find that pic somewhere). Maybe this type of music energy activates something in the brain, who knows?
- eon1 10y ago
  Kind of a nitpick, but electronic != EDM.
- mathgeek 10y ago
  I assumed that the meaning here was "people see the way I dress and assume I'm 15 years younger." I expect that anyone frequenting the EDM scene is dressing the part.
saiya-jin 10y ago
skiing a bit harder than beginners (be it black, Verbier's yellow, steep off-piste in dense forest and variable bad snowpack and so on) doesn't require that high level of strength/stamina nor is it very demanding beyond psychological 'fear' (of perceived dying/injuring). I do all of it, with ski touring/alpinism you get to places that make any steep slope in ski resort look easy and manageable. narrow couloirs with not much margin for error will fix these perceptions for good.

by bitL 10y ago

it_learnses 10y ago

what do you take magnesium for?

bitL 10y ago
My doc told me to always take magnesium if I take vitamin D. I've just found an article about why to do it: http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-and-vitamin-d.html http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-and-vitamin-d.ht... Seems like magnesium is needed to convert D to its active form.
- m00dy 10y ago
  Are you sure it is not for post mdma effects ? :)
- walshemj 10y ago
  Funny my nephrologist hasn't mentioned it I have kidney failure and take 4x250ng D 3 times a week,
  - passive 10y ago
    Fascinating. Maybe I'm misinterpreting your units, but I have no related health condition (other than living in Canada), and I take 3x1000 every day (in months with an R in them). Maybe you're somewhere particularly sunny?
    - walshemj 10y ago
      Stage 4/5 Kidney failure will do that unfortunately - it messes with your biochemistry.
  - DiabloD3 10y ago
    ng? as in nanograms? 1000 nanogram = 1 microgram (mcg), 40 IU = 1 mcg. I take 5000 IU a day, or 125 mcg.
- jcranmer 10y ago
  That website smells hokum to me. The prominent ads for magnesium supplements on that page are disconcerting, as are several references to "Dr. So-and-So" with no links to anything even pretending to be peer-reviewed articles. (Actually the "About Me" page is pretty much a flashing red neon sign when you go to it). But even discounting that, the claim that magnesium is "used up" converting Vitamin D sounds, well, wrong. The closest thing I can find to a need to convert vitamin D into an "active form" is the conversion of cholecalciferol to calcidiol and thence calcitriol. The relevant enzymes all seem to be heme cofactors using iron in the heme, not magnesium. I also don't see any peer-reviewed articles looking at magnesium impacts on vitamin D uptake. There's a few old ones (~1991, with some even earlier) that suggest that vitamin D might affect magnesium intake. It might be that magnesium is associated with the vitamin D precursor enzymes, since magnesium is a fairly widespread inhibitor of certain enzymes (in particular, it looks like it impacts parathyroid hormone, which is also impacted by Ca²⁺ ions in the normal case of action for vitamin D). But if that's the case, it's not that magnesium is being "used up" by vitamin D but rather you need a certain amount of it in your bloodstream to keep your calcium metabolism working.
  - js2 10y ago
    If I'm reading https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/ https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/ correctly: Vitamin D is currently the only Essential Vitamin or Mineral which appears to have deficiency rates at a similar level to Magnesium, if not greater. The metabolism of Vitamin D inherently is linked to Magnesium. Magnesium levels in the brain can be negatively regulated by an excess of parathyroid hormone (PTH), where PTH causes release of calcium into the blood (being met with an increase of magnesium to retain homeostasis) possibly being a contributing factor to chronic depletion of magnesium concentration in neural tissue. As vitamin D reliably suppresses excess PTH, it may exert neural benefits secondary to preservation of Magnesium levels in the brain. A Vitamin D deficiency could lead to magnesium depletion (Vitamin D deficency allows excess PTH, releases calcium, depletes magnesium). So in fact, the opposite is the case right? At sufficient Vitamin D levels you shouldn't have to supplement magnesium, assuming no dietary deficiency of it. Right?
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semi-extrinsic 10y ago

TIL Americans call red slopes "black diamond" and black slopes "double black diamond". Dunno why, but it's just really funny to me as a Scandinavian. (By nature of my origin I obviously also enjoy the sauna.)

bitL 10y ago
Technically this depends on a resort - in Aspen or Squaw Valley a double black diamond is in the "insane" level category, much steeper/challenging than even the black FIS slope in Sölden. I remember the lift sign in Squaw Valley's Headwall/Palisades - "Experts only. No easy way down.", and it was like that. Maybe upper part of Hahnenkamm could be comparable ;-) Usually double black diamond corresponds to European free ride zones near steep ridges.
- tricolon 10y ago
  Of course. Trail ratings in North America are relative to each resort. I've gone down blues in the west that are far more challenging than the double blacks at a few areas in New England.

goldenkey 10y ago

What does being an EDM composer have to do with looking young? Would be more inclined to associate it with MDMA and other drugs that would wear the body down.

bitL 10y ago
Look at Armin van Buuren, Darude, Jean Michel Jarre etc. For some reason there are many music producers/DJs in their 30s-60s that look way younger than they should ;-) I don't remember who was that but one DJ that was ~42 looked like 18 (non-asian) and everybody was freaking out (I'll try to find that pic somewhere). Maybe this type of music energy activates something in the brain, who knows?
eon1 10y ago
Kind of a nitpick, but electronic != EDM.
mathgeek 10y ago
I assumed that the meaning here was "people see the way I dress and assume I'm 15 years younger." I expect that anyone frequenting the EDM scene is dressing the part.

saiya-jin 10y ago

skiing a bit harder than beginners (be it black, Verbier's yellow, steep off-piste in dense forest and variable bad snowpack and so on) doesn't require that high level of strength/stamina nor is it very demanding beyond psychological 'fear' (of perceived dying/injuring). I do all of it, with ski touring/alpinism you get to places that make any steep slope in ski resort look easy and manageable. narrow couloirs with not much margin for error will fix these perceptions for good.