Re: [Paddlewise] Seasickness

From: Mark Sanders <marksanders_at_sandmarks.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:54:52 -0700
That is pretty interesting. I've never been seasick, but I'm going to 
keep this in mind just in case!

Mark

On 11/3/2010 7:26 AM, Jim wrote:
> Researchers from Imperial College London enlisted 26 volunteers to sit
> in a tilting, rocking flight simulator and coordinate their breathing in
> various ways with the motion. The tests lasted up to 30 minutes, or
> until subjects felt moderately sick. The natural tendency was for
> volunteers to inhale on every backward tilt, in rhythm with the rocking.
> But if the subjects exhaled on every backward tilt, they didn't get sick
> as quickly. They felt even better if they breathed slightly faster or
> slower than the cyclic heaving of the chair; using that technique, the
> time until onset of nausea was 50% longer than during normal breathing.
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