Interesting - there are some healing practices where the body is whacked
with a bundle of bamboo twigs to stimulate the body systems. -=mark=-
steve wrote:
> I was wondering the other day while watching some people ruing through
> brush and trees on the show ManTracker, if there was any benefit to
> being whacked by a lot of bushes and small tree branches. Perhaps an
> immune stimulating effect? Running through the thick and thin of things
> while chasing food or being chased might have produced this effect
> regularly.
>
> I've always assumed that modern man has higher iron levels since Paleo
> man probably lost a lot more blood from cuts, scrapes, parasites,
> hunting injuries, etc so that giving blood might be a good thing since
> it would lower iron levels (higher iron helps infectious bacteria to
> reproduced) and force replacement of blood cells with more youthful
> ones. Stimulating the skin from hunting/running might be something we
> adapted too also benefit from.
>