{"id":234685,"date":"2020-05-14T14:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=234685"},"modified":"2020-05-15T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:44:15","slug":"hormesis-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/14\/hormesis-101\/","title":{"rendered":"HORMESIS 101"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That which threatens to destroy you only makes you stronger:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1180' height='664' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/YDwWF3ld?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, what is hormeis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The basic gist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A small dose of a toxin is a positive stimulant for strength and growth for human beings and biological life. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is this important?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your life goal is to maximize your strength and power, then we must harness hormesis to the max. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Intermittent fasting<\/li><li>Cold exposure (cold showers) and heat exposure (don&#8217;t live indoors all day at a steady 72 degrees)<\/li><li>Randomness in environment, external stimuli, etc. <\/li><li>Randomness in food, toxins, and things we consume. Bitter greens are &#8216;healthy&#8217; because they have mild doses of toxins which stimulate our bodily system. <\/li><li>Good black coffee and black tea and green tea&#8211; the caffeine is a small dose of a toxin which stimulates us. <\/li><li>Some mental trauma and bodily trauma and harm is good for us. 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If you don&#8217;t got infinite gains; what is this all worth for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1180' height='664' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/wAbeuCYq?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/physiology\/\">Physiology 101<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/14\/hormesis-101\/\">HORMESIS 101<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/12\/my-human-physiology-philosophy\/\">MY HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY PHILOSOPHY<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/physiology-and-artistic-productivity-tips-intermittent-fasting-meat-powerlifting-coffee\/\">Physiology and Artistic Productivity Tips: Intermittent Fasting, Meat, Powerlifting, Coffee<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That which threatens to destroy you only makes you stronger:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ERIC-KIM-covid-04-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1710&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234685"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234772,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234685\/revisions\/234772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}