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Fun fact, this is also where fat goes when your body burns it: Into the air.
by k__ 6y ago
Fun fact, this is also where fat goes when your body burns it: Into the air.
- 49531 6y agoA good demonstration of this by Ruben Meerman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE
- datavirtue 6y agoExcept the fat goes out of your body and the candle is going into your body.
- datavirtue 6y agoI saw a study showing correlation between cognitive impairment and sub-micron particles in the air. They used candles for the study but coal factories are the large scale concern.
- rurp 6y agoRelated to this, I've seen research showing that by the time a room feels stuffy there is enough CO2 to measurably affect cognitive performance. Now I'm much better about remembering to open a window when I'm coding and starting to drag.
- withinboredom 6y agoHighly recommend getting a cheap CO2 meter. We have a couple around the house. It’s amazing how fast a room fills with CO2 when cooking or having people over (pre-COVID). You can become more attuned to it — I have a pretty good idea what 800PPM feels like compared to 500PPM compared to 1000PPM. Weird party trick too.
- gubby 6y agoWhat do they feel like for you? I’ve had a CO2 sensor in my office for a long time, and don’t think I can tell the difference between 500 and 1500ppm.
- withinboredom 6y agoIt honestly doesn’t feel like anything. I just ask my body what the number is and it’s always within a hundred ppm. it feels like a guess, but like a guess when you’ve been counting cards so long you know roughly what the count is without consciously keeping track of it? If that makes sense. A couple of years ago, I started getting headaches. Everything in my noggin appeared normal, and one day I worked with the window open. No headache. So I got my first one, it wasn’t very expensive (€50-100 IIRC) and did some experiments. Sure enough, it would get up to 1800ppm in my tiny office and I’d get a headache. I’d say the biggest thing it seems to affect is coding. If I can keep it below 600ppm in my office, I can code all day and late into the evening without feeling too exhausted. At about 1k, I start to feel kinda sleepy and tired after awhile. My wife and kid had fun doing the observations and asking the questions during the experiment. Good times. We used it as a way to teach our son how to do experiments and ethics.
- dec0dedab0de 6y agoA quick search shows a ton of choices, Are there any models or brands you like, or dislike?
- withinboredom 6y agoI wasn’t too picky, I ended up with tfa dostmann‘s which seemed reasonable in price point vs accuracy.
- pertymcpert 6y agoDo you have a recommendation for one? I heard it's quite hard to get accurate ones without paying a lot.
- jpindar 6y agoYet another advantage of remote work! How many offices have windows you can open? (I used to work in one that did, because it was in an old mill building. It was great.)
- k__ 6y agoYou can breath in your burned fat too, if you wish.
- kiawe_fire 6y agoRelated study, which I found interesting, that confirms the weight you “lose” is excreted primarily through your breath: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287046#Tracking-the-atoms https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287046#Tracking-th...
- ihaveajob 6y agoWhat I find most interesting is that so many people, including those with supposed expert knowledge of physiology, get this totally wrong.
- zappo2938 6y agoOn the flip, that tree in your backyard isn't growing out of the ground outside of the moisture that falls from the sky -- if it did the ground would sink -- it is growing out of the air.
- renewiltord 6y agoI 'discovered' this as a teenager because my weight in the morning would be lower than my weight at night and I had done nothing but lie in bed comfy all night. There was only one place it could reasonably go - now that I wasn't wetting my bed that is.
- enriquto 6y agohow did you weigh yourself so precisely?
- glial 6y agoI suppose you could also lose weight via the moisture in your breath, or sweat of operation. But yes, it’s pretty cool.
- morsch 6y agoYou do lose weight via the moisture, typically around 200g if this article[1] is to be trusted (doesn't cite its sources). More if you are sweating heavily for one reason or another. Much bigger effect than calories burnt in the same duration. [1] https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/221338/straight-dope-do-you-really-sweat-one-liter-each-night/ https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/221338/straight-dope...
- brlcad 6y agoThe amount of mass exhaled as CO2 at night is nowhere near as much as the loss through perspiration and evaporation. Water loss happens pretty much constantly and is why one dies of dehydration after a couple days.
- api 6y agoYep! When you lose weight you slightly increase the mass of the atmosphere by roughly the amount you lost. Whatever doesn't go into the atmosphere goes into the toilet (mostly water).