{"id":26475,"date":"2019-12-27T21:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26475"},"modified":"2019-12-27T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:32:23","slug":"ring-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/ring-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Your Clothes to Ring In New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/botrock.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some like to ring in the New Year with a special kind of ringing&#8211;as in squeezing the water out of your drenched clothes from that ocean, lake or swimming pool dip. Many call it Polar Plunge, but no matter what name it goes by, it&#8217;s an adrenaline rush. Polar swim junkies often don&#8217;t know or care that this hormone (also called epinephrine,) is a crucial part of the body&#8217;s fight-or-flight response. Produced in the medulla in the adrenal glands as well as some of the central nervous system&#8217;s neurons, it is quickly released into the blood, sending impulses to organs. Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/health\/polar-plunge.html\"> tips for preparing for the rush.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Adrenaline&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Causes air passages to dilate to provide the muscles with the oxygen they need to either fight danger or flee.<\/li>\n<li>Triggers the blood vessels to contract to re-direct blood toward major muscle groups, including the heart and lungs.<\/li>\n<li>Decreases the body&#8217;s ability to feel pain.<\/li>\n<li>Causes a noticeable increase in strength and performance<\/li>\n<li>Causes heightened awareness in stressful times.<\/li>\n<li>Its effect can last for up to an hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-polar-plunges.html\">California Polar Plunges on Jan.1<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Avalon, Catalina Island<\/li>\n<li>Bakersfield<\/li>\n<li>Cayucos<\/li>\n<li>Huntington Beach<\/li>\n<li>Redding<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Union Square Ice Rink Polar Skate<\/li>\n<li>San Pedro<\/li>\n<li>Venice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some like to ring in the New Year with a special kind of ringing&#8211;as in squeezing the water out of your drenched clothes from that ocean, lake or swimming pool dip. Many call it Polar Plunge, but no matter what name it goes by, it&#8217;s an adrenaline rush. Polar swim junkies often don&#8217;t know or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26476,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26475\/revisions\/26476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}