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I look forward to seeing a lifehacking hyper-optimizer streamline this to a polished daily workflow... "I have a bucket of mud, in which I stick my hands for 1
by nxobject 23d ago
I look forward to seeing a lifehacking hyper-optimizer streamline this to a polished daily workflow...
"I have a bucket of mud, in which I stick my hands for 15 minutes every morning.
Every weekend, I inoculate at a 1:5:5 ratio with biologically active stream dirt (after petri-dishing to check for activity), and a mix of poor-quality soil cover, and some compost; I finish by adding a 10-10-10 balanced fertilizer.
Recently, I've been seeing if there are any additional benefits to smearing all over my arms; I'm conducting a 3 month/3 month comparison experiment, with a washout period in-between...
Don't forget to buy my exclusive eBook!"
- sdcfgy 23d agoThey'd be copying the greats! I have seen a distinct pattern of artists and photographers doing self portraits while rolling around in shit or mud.
- mft_ 23d agoThere’s a startup opportunity: a body cream with concentrates of beneficial microorganisms. “Pair it with our full spectrum sun lamp and you can have all the benefits of playing outside from the comfort of your standing desk”.
- ceejayoz 23d agoFDA: “You’ve got E. coli in here.” “Yes.”
- electric_mayhem 23d agoYou folks are having fun with the idea, but, well, in 2026 there’s absolutely a viable market for this.
- doubled112 23d agoI thought sun exposure was bad. Or is it good again? Was it good all along? Do I need to wear sunscreen in front of my desk too now? Will the body cream include it? Too many questions. I'm going outside.
- JTbane 23d agoI have some beef with the sunscreen people, mostly because of 3 things: - Skin cancer is by far the least deadly type of cancer and nearly always just requires some low-risk skin removal. - Getting a light tan feels amazing. Your whole body feels warmer. - Vitamin D.
- p_j_w 23d agoSkin cancer may be less deadly than other types of cancer, but it is still far more deadly than not having cancer. Rattlesnake bites in the US have a lower mortality rate than skin cancer, are you gonna go trying to handle rattlesnakes without protection or safety measures?
- magicpin 23d agoMaybe if handling rattlesnakes regularly was associated with improved mental and physical health, the way regular sun exposure is.
- Marha01 23d ago> Getting a light tan feels amazing. Your whole body feels warmer. You know what feels even better? Not getting skin cancer. > Vitamin D Easily obtained from supplements.
- mft_ 22d agoOne could also add positive mental health effects, and benefits of morning sunlight for maintaining a healthy circadian rhythm. Sure, you can always come back that you can take anti-depressants, and try to use some sort of sun-mimicking light, but then we're really going to extremes to avoid the sun altogether. So is exposure to the sun, at the right times, in moderation, with appropriate but not extreme protection okay?
- Marha01 22d ago> So is exposure to the sun, at the right times, in moderation, with appropriate but not extreme protection okay? Depends on your personal risk tolerance. For majority of people, probably yes: the benefits (especially the mental ones) would outweight the small risks.
- bigfishrunning 23d agoand now i'm bummed out
- jareklupinski 23d ago"sign up now and get free peptides your macrocolony needs to immunemogg those bacteria!"
- mettamage 23d agoSo if I sign up for like 6 months, could I get 25% off?
- tomkarho 23d agoI'm sure the comments will be full of detractors scoffing at this claiming that all one needs is not to wash their hands. Or just go outside to handle that mud. With luck you might come across the king of Briton.
- anygivnthursday 23d agoYou forgot the app! You can connect our app to your smart dirt bucket so you can track that the correct composition of bacteria reaches your hands at all time! Collect points by completing challenges and watch a few ads for premium guides!
- stevekemp 23d agoI made the mistake of looking at /r/sauna on Reddit once or twice recently, and there was a lot of people doing very similar things. "I take my preworkout, do my exercise, then I sit for 12 minutes at 90 degrees in sauna, before three minutes in the cold plunge-pool at 8 degrees, before going to sauna again for 19 minutes and I finish with a seven minute warm shower". Just the thought of looking at a watch in a sauna, and timing things minute by minute sounded exhausting. I assume going to sauna takes an hour, it might be I leave it on for a couple of hours, but beyond that the minutes inside/outside are a mystery and I like it like that. Same story with being outdoors in a cabin/cottage. I might dig up some plants, or move the hammock around, but whether I get (literally) dirty is just down to whatever random things I've done that day!
- KptMarchewa 23d agoDo you mean you literally sit in the sauna for hour?
- piva00 23d agoI don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour. Just this summer I was at a cottage by Vänern (the largest lake in Sweden), the sauna was built right at the lake with a pier setup for jumping into it, we had a party going late into the night where you constantly moved from the sauna into the lake, out of the lake, have chats, a beer, into the sauna again, rinse and repeat for some 8-10 hours. I have no idea exactly how long I was in the sauna but it was definitely more than a couple of hours in the whole affair :)
- KptMarchewa 23d ago>I don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour. Yes, I definitely do agree with that. I too love what you're describing - we have some of that in Poland too :) However, I was not sure if we're talking about it - or some American version I know only from various memes - where people are coming in with phones and in shoes.
- fxwin 23d ago> "I have a bucket of mud, in which I stick my hands for 15 minutes every morning. Not quite but close enough :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWzWwx8T3nE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWzWwx8T3nE
- thelastgallon 23d agoCelebrities and influencers will be selling their own brand of mud, with their own special flavor!
- traviswingo 23d agoReminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/4ZK8Z8hulFg?is=HpS4BWeDbVRsnBPI https://youtu.be/4ZK8Z8hulFg?is=HpS4BWeDbVRsnBPI
- howunfortunate 23d agoThere's something very sad about all these people spending so much energy on crazy intensive n of 1 experiments. If we could only get them to collaborate, we could get some real knowledge out of it!
- dd8601fn 23d agoI blame Mythbusters! Kidding… I love them.
- howunfortunate 23d agoN of 1 is actually pretty decent for physics type stuff, which is mostly what they do. For medicine and nutrition...not so much.
- CGMthrowaway 23d agoWe have this already: "touch grass" for the normies and "grounding" (standing barefoot on the earth) for the more hacker inclined
- keybored 23d agoHoly heck, ain’t this the truth. Really it’s the logical conclusion of living your whole life by studies-show. Studies show that friends are good for you. That’s why I have friends. Studies show that laughing is good for you. That’s why I indulge in merry company. Studies show that dirt is good for you. That’s why I go off the beaten asphalt.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 23d agoStudies show that researchers are the last ones to learn what everyone already knew. That happens too.
- fragmede 21d agoIt's more like researchers got paid to do something they love to prove, scientifically, something they believed, happens to be true.
- jgrahamc 23d agoI parodied this sort of thinking via my alter-ego, Brad Bradstone [1], in a post called "My Treadwater Desk" (https://web.archive.org/web/20190802085907/http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/2014/07/my-treadwater-desk.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190802085907/http://doublestea...). --- My Treadwater Desk If you're the CEO of company, like me, you do a lot of sitting and talking. And all the evidence points to sitting being a disaster health-wise. As a father it's my responsibility to take care of my health over the long term so that my kids, Dagwood and Spaniel, have their father around for a long time. Sure, they don't see much of me because I'm building Yellow Yellow, but I want to be there when we can all enjoy the fruits of my labors. So, I looked into the current fads running through Silicon Valley. NoSitting has displaced NoSQL as the current buzzword and there are two current solutions: standing up and walking. At Yellow Yellow we like to blaze our own trail and in NoSitting we're no exception. But rather than standing up all day (which kills your legs and leads to varicose veins---a major problem if you plan on spending your retirement years in the Caribbean on the beach) or walking on a treadmill (which causes wear and tear on your ankles, knees and hips) I've come up with a far better solution. The Treadwater Desk. In our basement we had a disused well from back before our brownstone had municipal water. It didn't take much to fill the well with water and a bit of carpentry later and I had my laptop and an Apple Magic Mouse (wrapped in Saran wrap). Now my day starts by changing into a suit (in this case a wet suit) and plunging into the chilly waters of my treadwater desk. That blast of icy water is better than any espresso from the Daily Grind and really gets me in the mood for work. Also, the vasoconstriction of most of my body means more blood for my brain to keep Yellow Yellow running. Then it's treading water while Skyping with my team. I've found that using Siri I can dictate emails without a problem and the Magic Mouse is working well. And let's face it, we all came from the sea originally and so treading water is natural for us all. It's also aerobic and far easier on the joints than walking. It's also a full body workout. Rather than just working on my legs I get every muscle moving. And the health benefits of that are well known. It's also a metaphor for what it's like to be a startup CEO: I'm literally keeping my head above water all day long and if I don't keep making an effort I (and Yellow Yellow) would go under. Finally, I'm planning to add Epsom salts to the water to increase buoyancy and help keep my skin in tip top condition. [1] The inventor of double stealth mode (the public doesn't know what we're building and neither do we). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
- indoordin0saur 23d agoThere should be a remake of American Psycho where he's a tech VC and has this sort of biohacking routine.
- Tylast 23d agoYou beat me to it: https://youtu.be/RjKNbfA64EE?si=dhk2K17kMndcTXT_&t=34 https://youtu.be/RjKNbfA64EE?si=dhk2K17kMndcTXT_&t=34
- EddieLomax 23d agoLucky for you, you can buy a subscription to DirtPlus™, which has the proper ratio of Earthzymes™ to organic material to make sure you get your hands properly dirty, instead of just dirty.
- harshalizee 23d agoMud/Clay baths are a real thing in fancy spas
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 23d agoFollowed by HN readers asking for it in supplement/pill form.
- NichoPaolucci 23d agoI find this amusing. We know that light has an impact on the body - so they make/sell lamps that emit light similar to sunlight, red light therapy, circadian smart bulbs... Washing in the river used to be normal + good for the body - we do cold plunges now. Probiotic supplements exist, we used to get those for free. We're gamifying nature. Not saying it's a bad thing, just amusing to me that it used to be our entire lives and we're using technology to get it into our lives in smaller amounts.
- 627467 23d agoGTD, lifehacking, quantified self... all coolness of the 2000s biting us hard now