30 ways your body works secretly against you
Why are you constantly thinking about what you do not want to think about
The human body is an impressive thing. Without any external indication, he knows how to shiver, sweat, breathe, chew, swallow, digest, cure, rest, circulate blood, formulate thoughts and, well, about one million other things. The human body, to put another way, is a collection of tiny calculations, accumulated over 50,000 years and struck in the biological supercomputer is today.
But sometimes, the human body is too advanced for its own good. Sometimes this internal code will force it to do things without you even realizing. And at other times, it will go so far to do the specific opposite of what you want. (Have you ever felt physically sick when you were sad? I tried to focus and inadvertently became more distracted?TastedColor? Yeah, that kind of thing.)
In this case, mitigate any concern that you could feel when these events come down, are the most common ways that your body is cheating on you and works against you - every day. And for more anatomy anomalies, check the50 secret messages your body tries to tell you.
1 Your eyes can make you hear things.
Your senses surprisingly interact, sometimes improving your experiences in the world. But other times, they can also mislead you. This is the case of the McGurk effect, in which to see something can lead you to hear the same audio differently. For example,in a study Where people have been played audio of the sentence, "he has your startup," they were more likely to hear "he will shoot" when he shows a video of a man pursuing a woman at the same time.
2 You can taste colors.
Just as the view misleads us from what we hear, it can do the same with what we have tasted. If something "look" like that will taste a particular way, we are more likely to taste it in this way. For example, a study of wine enthusiasts revealed that connoisseurs used very different terms to describe the flavor of a white wine and theexactly the same wine It was colorful red. And to learn more truths locked in your biology, check the15 things happening to your body when you do not sleep enough.
3 And the color can change the perception of temperature.
The color can also affect how we will undergo the temperature. For example, when subjects in an experiencehave been served the same drinks In different colored containers, they perceived the liquid in red and yellow containers as hot as the liquid in blue and green containers. Crazy, right?
4 Drive blind you.
By driving, we tend to silence images on our periphery, in a phenomenon called "blindness induced by the movement". It is supposed to grow up the brain attempt to discard the unimportant information, to concentrate, to say, from the road to the road rather than pedestrians on the sidewalk or to pass windows. The more time we look at an object in front of us, the more we will probably not be able to see objects in our peripheral vision. And if you are curious about where this phenomenon could strike most often, consult theThe busiest route in each state.
5 False appendages feel real.
It's weird, but we can actually forget where our real member went when he is hidden from the sight and a false put in his place. For example, inthis videoA woman is shown a false rubber hand next to her true, who was hidden. When both hands are affected at the same time, she thinks the false is his. In studies, the temperature of the hand will fall even when the brain "forgets" the truth.
6 And ghost membersto do to exist.
For those who have actually lost members, there is the strange phenomenon but better known to the syndrome of the ghost member, in which they still feel the pain, the pressure or other sensations in a part of the body that is no longer there .
7 Your feelings shape the world around you.
We would like to imagine that we consider the world through an objective lens and that we can trust what we see. But the researchers have found that, in fact, the way we feel tend to filter the way we interpret the world, which can be "pink glasses" or a "half empty glass" or based on d Other feelings of fear, surprise, or hunger. Psychologists call this "affect the heuristic"And it's a way our brains filter information to make decisions quickly, but can often neglect a lot of things that are right in front of our eyes. And for more hidden body messages, seeWhat happens to your body on an airplane.
8 When the background changes, you see objects at different sizes.
The same object may seem bigger or smaller depending on the context that surrounds it. (This message on your car mirrors is a daily example of that.) It was the discovery of the Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo, after whom this phenomenon, the illusion of Ponzo, is named. A classic example isthis one, In which the identical yellow line looks larger or smaller depending on where it is sitting with other geometric shapes.
9 Emotional pain can cause physical pain.
While Heartouse is mainly an emotional experience, our body feels it effectively. As Ethan Kross of the University of the Laboratory of Emotion and Auto-Control of the University of MichiganrevealThe Washington Post"A social rejection diverges the part of our brain that indicates the pain to say," Hey, it's a very serious situation, "as a physical pain, the consequences could be there." It's a physical answer that we Alert to avoid this kind of emotional pain.
10 Your brain thinks about what you do not want it to think.
The "theory of the ironic process" which deliberately tries to remove some thoughts makes us more likely to think. As the classic example goes, if we say not to think of a pink elephant or a white bear, that's what is in our mind.
11 In times of focus, your wander.
Similar to thinking about things we are trying to delete, try to focus tend to give rise to our wandering spirit. This is especially true when switching between different tasks, creating what is called "attention residues. "This condition has been described by Sophie Leroy, Business Assistant Professor at the University of Washington,ToTime This way: "Let's say I'm working on a project until you have a meeting. I may be at the meeting, but my brain always tries to find a closure on this project I worked, questions and ruminations about this Project interferes with my ability to focus. "
In addition, meditation practitioners know that it feels too good. When you want to focus, your mind wanders. When you let your mind err, it focuses. So frustrating!
12 The noise affects how your food tastes.
In another example of how one can not run another, the research found that sound can really change the way we eat tastes. For example, when the backgroundThe noise is high, It can be difficult for individuals to accurately determine how soft or salty foods are.
13 A diet can become a withdrawal.
Even when you convince yourself to hit a bad habit or try to adopt a good, sometimes your body has other ideas. It's more obvious that you cut a diet. You can cut high foods and heavy carbohydrates, only to feel anxious, unhappy and eager to eat the things you know is bad for you. Scientists have found that changing a low-fat diet in low fat inEffects similar as withdrawal of drugs In mice - a lesson that can also be applied to people. And if you need help to break a habit, learn the40 ways of science supported old habits.
14 Withdrawal of the drug.
This raises one of the growing paths that organs can deceive their owner-withdrawal of drugs. Although a person can be hurting cocaine, heroin or alcohol, the cut of their behavior is not just difficult because of their mental dependence on this subject, but how their reactive bodies He without her. Symptoms of flu to tremors to seizures, a body can react inextreme ways When the controlled substances that it is used to receive are cut - convincing its owner to continue doing things they know they should not.
15 Skip meals makes you eat more overall.
While some diesters think that skipping a meal would be an effective way to reduce calories, it has been found in fact the opposite effect, as your body convinces you that you are hungry and you need to eat even more than you would be regularly.A mouse study This compared those who have eaten food once a day and another group that continually eaten, found the first weight in the long run.
16 Cut carbohydrates can run fire.
While reducing carbohydrates (or cut completely) is a reliable way to lose weight in the short term, it can fire to the back as soon as all carbohydrates are brought back to your diet. When you cut them, your body will react with a drop in energy and low blood glucose, leading you to return carbohydrates to your diet and look at your body in package immediately on more books.
17 Diet Soda spares obesity.
Another cruel way that our body can thwart our diet efforts is the way it reacts to our drinking diet. While drinking drinks without calories would seem a healthy alternative to the usual sweet drinks, the consumption of diet-soda has really been linked to obesity. This can be because artificial sweetenerstrigger To wait for calories of the sweet and when it does not receive it, it looks for you in search of these calories elsewhere (raids the snack drawer or order a dessert you do not need).
18 Fatty food makes you gain weight.
As Diet Sodas, we can do our best to thwart our body with fat-free food, but it can find a way to make us eat anyway. The research found that topics that ate dairy products not or low in bold ended up eating more carbohydrates throughout the day as those who have eating whole dairy products.
19 Skip food puts you in a funk.
Try to change health habits can be aEmotionally exhausting experience. MIT researchers have found that carbohydrates do not only give body energy, but stimulate serotonin production, helping to explain why your body convinces you to order this additional chocolate cookie. When you do not hold a certain level of carbohydrates, you can end up in a rotten atmosphere.
20 It motivates you to cope with tasks without importance.
You may have a long list of items to do like "ask for a better job" or "be sure to move on to a new city" or "Write the great American novel", but in one way or another these Longer term goals are discarded by daily races and banal work tasks that are hardly the kinds of things you will see as things that imported into your life. This is due to a phenomenon called "emergency effect, "In which your brain gives priority to immediate satisfaction on long-term rewards, such as respect for a short-term deadline, in relation to the progression on a project without maturity.
21 It requires sugar when you do not need it.
When your glucose levels are low, the parts of your brain associated with a reward are active, which allows you to think about what food will be delicious, balanced by your prefrontal cortex, which tells you that eating a bunch of candies is a bad idea. Inobese studies,Even when hunger wore, brain reward centers remained active and convincing participants in the study they needed to continue eating food they really did not need.
22 Your fatty fighter cells sometimes abandon.
Part of the reason it is so difficult to lose weight once you have put on the books, it is because your own fatty combat cells are once you have reached a certain amount of weight. More specifically, the immune cells calledNatural naturally invariant T cells, who monitor the metabolic activity and helps prevent obesity does not increasewhen your weight increases. In other words, when you are at a healthy weight, your fatty combat cells help you stay there. But once you put the books, all bets are off. To thwart this, read on the100 motivational weight loss tips for the summer.
23 You are influenced by lures.
When we are presented with two choices and a third is added, this can affect our preference between the first two. For example, if you have a choice between a small and medium-sized drink, we may be able to select the small until a big drink gives all three sizes new context, which leads us to more often than does not select the average size. This is known as the "effect of the lure. "
24 You see details even if it does not exist.
Looking around a room, we can believe that everything is strongly concentrated, but in fact, what the eye takes is often blurred and our brain fills in the details. In a study,described byMedical dailyThe researchers have "watched the eyes of the participants with a camera capable of recording 1,000 images per second. As their eyes have made quick movements, called saccades, the researchers quickly changed objects in their field of vision. as These objects have changed, the participants were invited to describe them as they stood in their peripheral vision - they found that the descriptions were largely based on the previous notions of what they could be, as a model for the Object of our memory, confirming our brain mouth every time we look around the room. "
25 You react like an ostrich (metaphorical).
Our minds can lead us to respond to unpleasant or uncomfortable things in life by avoiding them completely or acting as if nothing is wrong. This avoidance of conflict, called "ostrich effect" because it involves burying our heads in the sand, can feel good in the short term, but create long-term damage as the risks we do not know realities.
26 Your body weight fluctuates by the day.
Although it's a good idea to keep an eye on your weight with occasional recording on a scale, anyone who is too regular to know how your weight can be misleading. You may seem to progress in weight loss efforts in the morning only to see your weight on a book of the evening. This is often explained with the changes that yourThe body excretes water And will be paid the next day, but it's easy to let our body convince us otherwise.
27 Relieve active your hunger.
Our noses have evolved over millennia to be extremely sensitive and sensitive to the smell of good food. But the search found a correlation between obesity and a strong sense of smell. As theThe author of the study said"One could speculate that for those who have a propensity to gain weight, their sense of smell higher for food-related odors could actually play a more active role in food consumption."
28 Your taste buds make you eat too much.
Not because the food has good taste, but because you can not taste it too. Although the Trop-Size tends to have stronger senses, research has actually found that they often have lower senses from their taste to eat more food to experience the same pleasure of tastes. It was the conclusion ofa studywhich gave obese and not obese children from different tastes to lick and identify, evaluate the amount of flavor from 0 to 20. The heavier children marked the flavor at an average of 12.6 years compared to non obese children , which have seen an average of 14 on the flavor scale.
29 You think you have more control than you.
The "control illusion"Is how our spirit overestimates the amount of influence we really have on a particular situation, whether it's not doing something different or imagining that we have had a greater impact on a result that we would not possibly have.
30 Do the opposite of what we said
For many, our minds respond to being aware of what to do, whether by a doctor with our best interest in the mind or boss that asks us to do things that we know are not worth it. It is a phenomenon called "reactance", in which the feeling that choices are removed leads to an almost subconscious rebellion and try to do what we are not supposed to be supposed to be able to prove that we have the freedom of choice. And for more fascinating stories about your body, learn the20 ways our bodies will be different in 100 years.
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