I have heard of sailing curing disease. Any comments?
 

Chichester was reported to have terminal cancel before his solo round
the world. There are new devices to micro=crystaline salt for
therapuetics. There's the - ion thing. Exercise etc et. What kind of
experiences have you had re cruising and health?

Didnt Nelson say "Salt water washes away tears and distance cures a
broken heart"?

"wblakesx" wrote in
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Chichester was reported to have terminal cancel before his solo round
the world. There are new devices to micro=crystaline salt for
therapuetics. There's the - ion thing. Exercise etc et. What kind of
experiences have you had re cruising and health?


Any swells bigger'n 12' cures depression. No drugs are needed! Adrenaline
cures a lot of piddly diseases. Panic attacks, of course, are
excluded...(c;

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.

Ahoy There Matey:
One fact that contributes to cruising sailors being generally healthy
is that they're doing what they love=less stress. Of course 12' waves
certainly do raise stressg, but it's got a real cause and doesn't
last.......though it seems like it will at the time. By comparison,
the low-level/chronic stress of a job/co-worker/boss you don't like
weakens the whole immune system.

Then too, there's the exercise factor. It's not a 26 mile marathon,
but rather small constant amounts of exercise. I've almost never met
an overweight sailor. (Can't claim the same for
powerboaterssnicker.)
Allan (7 years living aboard, now in medical field.)

"LEnfantduVent" wrote in
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I've almost never met
an overweight sailor.

I know a lot of overweight sailors....me included. It's work, sailing, but
not that much work, like construction. Sitting in the cockpit, watching
the autopilot or windvane, swilling beer doesn't do much for the midriff.

Most sailors on our dock get more exercise walking the half mile down the
long docks than they do all day sailing. K-dockers walk a mile just to get
to the marina showers.

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.

I like that about 12' waves and depression! I'd lik to hear mosre on
sailing and depression. I've often thought about sailing as a cure for
drug dependence, combined with the underlying self esteem, anger, and
depression. But it might take a small supply of illegal substances to
make it work,
The constant mild use of muscles... like tai chi... but further there
is the uses of the nervous system and it's reflexive effect on the
brain.
How about flu? bronchitis? asthma?

"wblakesx" wrote in
oups.com:

I'd lik to hear mosre on
sailing and depression.

Depression sets in when you're 90 miles S of Charleston in the Gulfstreamer
Race up from Daytona Beach and the damned wind goes DEAD FLAT for hours and
hours, the sea looks like a 2 acre lake and there isn't enough wind to blow
your nose, to speak nothing of a genoa or spinnaker....

6 or 7 hours of that and being forced to drop out because some of the crew
insists on going to work on Monday morning is very depressing, indeed....

And just a couple of hours before the GPS was reading 13 knots over ground
in the Stream just haulin' ass in a nice blow!......in a heavy ketch
cruiser, yet!

We even had plenty of food and booze....I wasn't depressed. I was too
tired and slept...(c; If the race ended on Wednesday, so be it! With our
great handicap, we might have won on Wednesday...hee hee.

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.