Hacking the body: fight brain-freeze and more

Men’s Health has a sheet of 18 tricks to teach your body. Nice little hacks and work-arounds for everyday problems. Our favorite? How to combat brain-freeze. Yes, we are susceptible to this horror. And, living in the middle of Hell, we are inclined to drinking very cold drinks to cool off. And, because we are children, we drink them too fast. But there is hope.

13. Too much Chipwich too fast will freeze the brains of lesser men. As for you, press your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering [area] as much as you can. “Since the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, your body thinks your brain is freezing, too,” says Abo. “In compensating, it overheats, causing an ice-cream headache.” The more pressure you apply to the roof of your mouth, the faster your headache will subside.

Hot diggity! Now, when combatting the “warmest winter on record (yet again” with Slurpees galore, we shall not be mocked as our eyes tear up, and we rest our heads in our hands until the world comes back into focus.