I regularly take very warm showers and end them when the hot water runs out. The notion of intentionally allowing cold water to cover my body is frightening, and will take time to achieve, but I strongly feel this is part of the next evolution of my form. As I have read about hot flushes, and just from how I experience them, the solution is almost hypothermia. I have almost entirely ended such extremely unpleasant experiences with dropping the temperature of my surroundings to the point that I actually feel uncomfortable, actually. But, it has been a reliable solution to a rapidly hot feeling to force my body to be suddenly cold. It not only fixes the current symptoms, but keeps the problem solved for days.
This is not scientific, but I think the secret to why I was thin all my life is the type of fat I had, and recently when I gained weight (which easily, almost instantly came off) it was white fat, then my "stubborn" belly fat remained and it was like a battle with my body trying to keep me healthy, but that meant not being shaped in the desirable hourglass look. But, when in my early 30's I was diagnosed with diabetes and extremely! High blood sugar (after my second 4 hour glucose test). I was sent to a nutrionist who just looked at me and told me that although my blood sugar was excessively high, my body was designed to run that way and just by looking at me (very skinny) she could sign papers to the effect that I was not suffering from diabetes. So, the IF lowers my blood sugar, I use cinnamon to balance/regularize it...again, not scientific, just seems like the receptors in my blood cling to the cinnamon acting as if it was sugar so,sort of tricking my body into thinking that it has the energy it needs stored in my blood, but surprise! I think this was a main reason I got so sick the other night when I pushed a bit too hard, and I NEEDED sleep and some candy. I settled for juice and a nap, and was ok.
So, I have the high blood sugar under control, but should I? Debatable. So, naturally a body uses fat, and it quickly used my white fat, but once I reached the adipose fat, it slowed, and I do not have research, just think that might be one reason for the intense flushes of heat. Though, some can be explained to do with insulin, I could find no good explanation of what is actually triggering this. Because it happens at menopause, it us assumed that it has to do with an estrogen deficiency, but that does not seem to work for my thinking. I looked into cures that reliably worked and mostly it is a matter of eating "cool" foods. So, I am looking to Scottish Showers to remedy my two lasting issues of loosing those stubborn fat pockets and ending the heat flushes that I believe the brown fat causes. My only concern is that perhaps my "belly" is by design as is my high blood sugar, and becoming like everyone else might make their diets work, but, might mean I would be loosing my strength and ability to survive on little to no food for extended periods of time.
Eh, I am going to do it cause it is my way of asserting dominance. I will be taking my body out for a type of test drive. Besides, I do not surely know that I am messing with the right balances, I only suspect it..and multiple times I have had scientific explanations of what was and what would be, only to find they were wrong. At those points, my hunches ended up being correct... I did not die, and I told my doctors that I would not. I only have a hunch that these Scottish Showers are what I need, and if I have learned anything it is to go with my gut (pun not intended).
