The Benefits of Having Body Hair as A Human

Warmth

"...the hair found on the head serves as primary sources of heat insulation and cooling (when sweat evaporates from soaked hair) as well as protection from ultra-violet radiation exposure.

...the hair on the human body does help to keep the internal temperature regulated.

When the body is too cold, the arrector pili muscles found attached to hair follicles stand up, causing the hair in these follicles to do the same. These hairs then form a heat-trapping layer above the epidermis. This process is formally called piloerection, derived from the Latin words 'pilus' ('hair') and 'erectio' ('stiffening'), but is more commonly known as 'having goose bumps' in humans.[9]

The opposite actions occur when the body is too warm; the arrector muscles make the hair lie flat on the skin which allows heat to leave."

Protection

"Human hair may not compete with the painful spines of the porcupine, but much of the hair on the human body is suited to protect it. This natural armor cannot directly protect humans from potential predators, but it does help to keep the sense organs, such as the eyes, working properly."

Touch sense

"Movements of hair shafts are detected by nerve receptors within the skin and by hair follicle receptors through displacement and vibration of hair shafts. Hairs can sense movements of air as well as touch by physical objects and are especially sensitive to the presence of insects. Some hairs, such as eyelashes, are especially sensitive to the presence of potentially harmful matter.[10][11][12]"

Eyebrows and eyelashes

Eyelashes and eyebrows help to protect the eyes from dust, dirt, and sweat



"The eyebrows provide some protection to the eyes from dirt, sweat, and rain. More importantly, they play a key role in non-verbal communication.[13]

The eyelash grows at the edges of the eyelid and protects the eye from dirt. The eyelash is to humans, camels, horses, ostriches etc., what whiskers are to cats; they are used to sense when dirt, dust, or any other potentially harmful object is too close to the eye.[14] The eye reflexively closes as a result of this sensation."

~Wikipedia.org

Misconceptions

• Many falsehoods surround body hair. Countless attempts have been made at reducing body hair, although very few of them actually work. Shaving body hair will not make it change colors or grow in thicker. Shaving it blunts the ends of the hair, making it appear darker but not actually changing its structure. Plucking hair does not make it grow in faster. Plucking body hair actually damages and scars the follicle, which can lead to permanent hair loss in the area. Bleaching body hair won't permanently lighten it. Your body hair will always remain the same color, although repeated bleaching can damage the hair.
  
  

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Benefits

• Body hair actually can be beneficial. Body hair can help protect against the elements. Wind, rain and sun can be deflected by a thin covering of body hair, helping a person to maintain comfort. Body hair acts as an insulator, holding in scents. Scents are a vital part of human interaction and holding those smells close to the body is important. Body hair can also help protect against the elements.
  
  

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By embracing your own own natural hair and taking care of it, instead of fighting it you could live a much healthier and and possibely more comfortable life.~

 

That's why I'm growing my hair out as long as it will grow, beard to.~

Also, I've always wondered what we would all look like if we never suppressed or fought our natural body functions.~

 

Congratulations?

 

like we do now, but with shit running down our legs?

 

Regardless some hair raising adventures we could probably do without.

 

You never know the wonders of something, if you've never had it.~

 

I meant not to fight it, by not holding off relieving yourself for a couple of days.~ Not fighting your body, but guiding it's functions like your secretions to the toilet instead of holding them in and combing your hair instead of shaving it.~

 

The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long



United Truth Seekers
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:32 CDT





© Black Elk


This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War .

Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Vietnam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view.

In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a VA Medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Vietnam.

Sally said, "I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our apartment on Doctor's Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative middle of the road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. What is more, the VA Medical center let him do it, and other very conservative men in the staff followed his example.

As I read the documents, I learned why. It seems that during the Vietnam War special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. Before being approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts in tracking and survival.

With the usual enticements, the well proven smooth phrases used to enroll new recruits, some of these Indian trackers were then enlisted. Once enlisted, an amazing thing happened. Whatever talents and skills they had possessed on the reservation seemed to mysteriously disappear, as recruit after recruit failed to perform as expected in the field.

Serious causalities and failures of performance led the government to contract expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistently that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer 'sense' the enemy, they could no longer access a 'sixth sense', their 'intuition' no longer was reliable, they couldn't 'read' subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

So the testing institute recruited more Indian trackers, let them keep their long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests.

Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores.

Here is a Typical Test:

The recruit is sleeping out in the woods. An armed 'enemy' approaches the sleeping man. The long haired man is awakened out of his sleep by a strong sense of danger and gets away long before the enemy is close, long before any sounds from the approaching enemy are audible.

In another version of this test the long haired man senses an approach and somehow intuits that the enemy will perform a physical attack. He follows his 'sixth sense' and stays still, pretending to be sleeping, but quickly grabs the attacker and 'kills' him as the attacker reaches down to strangle him.

This same man, after having passed these and other tests, then received a military haircut and consistently failed these tests, and many other tests that he had previously passed.

So the document recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from military haircuts. In fact, it required that trackers keep their hair long."

Comment:

The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up with more discoveries about the amazing abilities of man and animal to survive. Each part of the body has highly sensitive work to perform for the survival and well being of the body as a whole.The body has a reason for every part of itself.

Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved 'feelers' or 'antennae' that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.

Not only does hair in people, including facial hair in men, provide an information highway reaching the brain, hair also emits energy, the electromagnetic energy emitted by the brain into the outer environment. This has been seen in Kirlian photography when a person is photographed with long hair and then rephotographed after the hair is cut.

When hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment are greatly hampered. This results in numbing-out .

Cutting of hair is a contributing factor to unawareness of environmental distress in local ecosystems. It is also a contributing factor to insensitivity in relationships of all kinds. It contributes to sexual frustration.

Conclusion:

In searching for solutions for the distress in our world, it may be time for us to consider that many of our most basic assumptions about reality are in error. It may be that a major part of the solution is looking at us in the face each morning when we see ourselves in the mirror.

The story of Sampson and Delilah in the Bible has a lot of encoded truth to tell us. When Delilah cut Sampson's hair, the once undefeatable Sampson was defeated.

Reported by C. Young

Comment: SOTT can't confirm this story or the research it suggests took place, however, we have wondered on many occasions, what is the use of hair and why so many legends refer to hair as being a source of strength, from Samson, to Nazarenes, to the Long Haired Franks.

 

I purpose that the reason we grow our hair upon our heads and faces so long as Humans is because we lack enough fur on the rest of our bodies to maintain warmth, the hair from our heads and faces is supposed to cover those parts at least partially.~ ^_^

 

you should probably mention your hair obsession to the psychiatrist next time you visit

 

Among other things. He's got a real hangup on a lack of body hair being correlated to children, too. So clearly there's some defect going on there.

 

Thanks for the funny comment!~ ^_^

 

As a Human though who does grow hair naturally, I find our 'civilized' Human society rejection of their naturally long growing fur from their heads and faces to be psychologically interesting.~

 

But I digress, there are many benefits of embracing your natural hair.~