Quote from Guest on March 23, 2019, 1:38 am

Practicing Tibetan Dream Yoga (and more generally Tantra) I agree with you on "qi" etc. Also the point was to distinguish "internal heat" and physical heat so there is no misunderstanding but it is clear here now. Cold is a good teacher but so is Heat the point was to accept everything equally and be both heat and cold adapted.

 

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Dino

Quote from tim on March 23, 2019, 3:29 am

Quote from StarFire on March 22, 2019, 11:52 pm

Quote from tim on March 22, 2019, 8:29 pm

Effect of Low Environmental Temperature on the Metabolism of Vitamin A (Retinol) in the Rat

In addition, at least 20 times more retinoic acid was necessary to maintain growth and survival in the cold than at 25°.

https://academic.oup.com/jn/article-abstract/92/4/474/4778398?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Maybe cold showers do help VA toxicity?

Early explorers noticed many groups that were comfortable in the cold.

What if the VA in the rats were used up in exothermic reaction to fight the cold? Is it good or bad for VA depletion?

Liver VA was not depleted though.

Was the only study I could find that was relevant, I think VA was used up but not enough to deplete liver VA. More info needed.

I personally wouldn't use cold exposure to deplete VA anyway lol. It would be great though if it made one more resistant to the cold.

That was my comment about meridians etc, I wasn't signed in.

In TCM/Qigong theory, one should not expose oneself to cold or heat more than necessary, it depletes qi.

I think from a TCM perspective that excess VA causes liver stagnation and is both heating and dampening?

 

Quote from Judy on March 25, 2019, 4:17 pm

On the issue of hot or cold foods, Grant says to eat no hot foods, like chili or ginger. ("Hot foods" meaning hot as in spicy.) Since the RA burns tissues, it makes it worse.