The Rogue Wolf said:
Blow_Pop said:
If I don't shower daily, you can tell by how unwashed my hair looks(and I mean daily by a 24 hour period of time). My hair gets oily quick. And my face is excessively oily causing me to break out in zits and blackheads especially during the summer months.
I'm the same way. If my skin and hair were any more oily I'd be fending off wildcatters from Exxon-Mobil.
Actually, this may have something to do with shampoo being bad for your hair. A while back I remember a lot of people making a big deal about no longer using shampoo because they had just found out that it is bad for your hair. I haven't actually looked into this since I heard about it, so I don't know if it's just one of those lifestyle fads spearheaded by people who don't really know or understand the science on this stuff or if it is actually legit.
Supposedly, shampoo strips your hair of most of its natural oil, oils that protect your hair and keep it strong. Your hair tries to overcompensate for this lack of oils, but the shampoo acts as a barrier too. This means you need more shampoo than before to get rid of grease. When you stop bathing for a fair amount of time, your hair will just be piling on that pent up oil to make up for all the oil that was stripped away and, in addition, all the oil it couldn't release.
The reason we use shampoo is because soap is not as effective in alkaline water and actually caused its own problems to hair when used in this alkaline water. Mineral heavy water became a lot more common in civilized areas, so soap was out of the question. And, so, shampoo was introduced as something that would work well in either bathing situation. It was not realized at the time it would create new problems as a result of how it was made and what toxins are put into it. Just like the rest of this though, this is only hearsay. I'd look into it though and see if that has anything to do with it. Just make sure to do better research than the hearsay and the couple of Google searches I did, haha.
OT: Well, I was checked for scoliosis as a kid in middle school and it looked like I might have it just based on a physical examination. When my Mom and I followed up on this by getting actual scans and an examination by a medical professional it turned out I didn't. What school officials were feeling was a twisted vertebra, almost 180 degrees if memory serves. It's a very rare condition, I don't remember the name of it unfortunately, but it's not something that's going to cause damage to my back over time.
I do have back problems however, though it is mostly related to excessive bad posture and lack of the TYPE of physical exercise that will kind of force posture alignment and back strengthening. I was a runner in high school, but, as far as I know, it doesn't naturally help your back problems. You have to train for form versus other types of physical exercise that are not possible to do without proper posture, so you will be more intuitively forced into it in the latter. All 4 years I continued to run in a way that wasn't helping my back though my form wasn't so bad that it had a negative effect, probably just a net or slight positive effect...or at least I like to think that. My back problems aren't too bad though and I do back exercises and put cushioners on chairs and couches sometimes. I just need to exercise my back more often.
On the plus side, if I get put into a situation, in which I have to mention something different/cool/strange/unusual about myself and I can't think of anything I can always default to the twisted vertebra I got going on. So, it always comes in handy in situations like this.