NEED FOR SPEED FOR THAT ADRENALINE RUSH - CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Above video:  My elder son at the Las Vegas track.  Check out how easily 007's Aston Martin is overtaken.

LAS VEGAS EXOTIC MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOR  THE ADRENALINE JUNKIE-  CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

My elder son flies off on week ends to Las Vegas to race at the Las Vegas race tracks.

Usually he prefers the amazing Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 , and the Nissan GT-R , both raging beasts on the race track . On the straights both give 145 MPH.  One mile is 1.61 kilometres.

Wanna see what a beast the  Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 can be?  

The Aventador is pure bull-inspired awesomeness. 

Its 700 HP, V12 and F1-inspired carbon fiber monocoque provide vicious acceleration, sublime steering, and gives incredible handling pleasure. 

Its unmatched visual presence is the cynosure of all eyes..

Check out the video below .

Soccer player Christiano Ronaldo owns one which cost 600, 000 US dollars.  At Las Vegas you pay 499 USD to take 5 laps in 4 minutes .

The money is well spent , as it gives an incredible adrenaline rush, which last for hours.  This a  natural drug boost--, NO external chemicals are involved.   

Later when you go to the casino to pay the roulette, the Craps or Black Jack, you feel like ze king.

No bungee jump can come near this adrenaline rush

Last week end he tried out the Ferrari 458 Italia.  The car steers like a baby coupled with advanced E-Diff and F1-Trac traction control systems.  You can steer the Ferrari 458 Italia with one hand ,  which is impossible on the brutal Lamborghini Aventador.

The sporty Ferrari Italia accelerates to 100 km/ hr in just 3.4 seconds.    It has small aeroelastic winglets generate downforce .  The front grille features deformable winglets that lower at high speeds, in order to offer reduced drag and increased downforce.

Few weeks ago ar Suzuka, the 350,000 Dollar Ferrari 458 Italia was traveling at speeds in excess of 150mph when the tires lost grip around a turn, slamming the car driven by Shigeru Terajima , head-first into a safety barrier.  

The car, however, was picked off the track with shovels and a backhoe, as the super car basically disintegrated .

Check out the video yourself .

Till today nobody has figured out how the trouble free Ferrari Italia crashed.  Let me tell you this has happened due to an overheated engine freeze .

At Las Vegas you get the unique opportunity to drive and race with others -- Ferraris,  Lamborghinis,  Aston Martins,  Porsches, McLarens,  Audis,  Mercedes and Nissans on a proper race track...

They provide everything, the  supercars, racetrack, instructors, insurance and helmets.  

Every car has its signature feel.

You get to feel the brute power of  hundreds of horsepower at your fingertips , the astonishing G-Force pressure on a curve , the whiplash from a high-speed gear change, the smell and squeal of burning rubber and hear the scream of a marvelous high RPM engine.

The professional race driver sitting with you gives you a re-assuring feeling. He makes sure that you are safe in overtaking situations . He helps you to squeeze out more from the unique experience. 

The Exotics racing experience is anyday more thrilling then the Vegas roller coasters , the gambling casinos and the girly entertainment shows.

Here is a guaranteed adrenaline rush as opposed to the risks and stress of gambling.  How else can you ever get behind the wheel of a rare and super expensive  car?

  --in your dreams?  

Have you not been thrilled as a small boy playing with such supercar plastic toys ?

They help you to position the car in the right place on the track to set it up correctly for upcoming turns— it  aint at all about nag nag nag back seat driving.

While you race faaaast there is an exciting, pleasurable effect produced when the adrenal glands dump a large dose of adrenaline into the bloodstream.  The adrenaline rush usually occurs when the body senses danger, the "Fight or Flight" moment. 

Your heart rate increases, pleasure-giving endorphins are released by the pituitary gland and your breathing rate ramps up.  The result of all this extra oxygen, energy and hormones is the adrenaline high, a euphoric feeling that can last for hours.

Beats bungee jumping, wave surfing, rock climbing and even bull fighting – 

-- or even mindless tomato throwing or pretending to run before drugged bulls as one Bollywood movie with Katrina Kaif and Hritik Roshan was trying to scam us into.

You need severe lack of imagination to derive any joy out of throwing tomatoes like retarded dorks.  

Rather you need to be a prick of the first order. 

Adrenaline is a hormone and a neurotransmitter.. It regulates heart rate, blood vessel and air passage diameters, and metabolic shifts.

Adrenaline (epinephrine) is  released is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system.

The adrenal glands are found directly above the kidneys in the human body, and are roughly 3 inches in length. Along with norepinephrine and dopamine, it is a catecholamine, which is a group of hormones released in response to stress. These three hormones react with various body tissues, preparing the body to react physically to the stress causing situation.

When a person encounters a potentially dangerous situation, like seeing a cobra with read up hood in your bed room , the hypothalamus in the brain signals the adrenal glands to release adrenaline and other hormones directly into the bloodstream.  

The body's systems react to these hormones within seconds, giving the person a nearly instant physical boost.  Strength and speed both increase, while the body's ability to feel pain decreases.  This hormonal surge is ze  "adrenaline rush.".  This hormone causes heightened awareness and increased respiration.

When there is stress but no actual danger, a person can be left feeling restless and irritable. This is partly because adrenaline causes the body to release glucose, raising blood sugar, and giving the body energy that has no outlet.  High levels of adrenaline in the blood can lead to insomnia and jittery nerves, and are often an indicator of chronic stress.

I used to be Captain of fast container ships. Once the ship reaches the English Channel, the Captain cannot sleep.  There is heavy traffic , dense fog or bad weather.  Those days , in the early eighties there was no GPS and the radars were useless.

Then there are long river passages with very short distance between the sea ports like London, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Bremen, Rotterdam.  

The port stay is a few hours and I need to take my wife out for a shore leave jaunt too.  Sometimes for three full days the Captain cannot sleep at all.  

I have noticed that fatigue is only on the first day. The remaining two days I am alert. 

Then finally when the ship comes out of the English Channel and plunges into the Atlantic enroute New York, the Captain must indeed sleep.  

But he cannot sleep as his body is supercharged with CORTISOL, even after taking some alcohol.

You just toss and turn in bed. 

The stress system relies on two key hormones: adrenaline and cortisol.  

Cortisol is a steroid hormone,  produced by the adrenal glands.  During the stress response, massive levels of cortisol are released by the adrenal glands to provide us with more energy.

Too much cortisol can suppress the immune system, suppress pain, increase blood pressure and sugar, decrease libido, loss of muscle mass ,  trigger insulin resistance, increase sugar and carbohydrate cravings   and contribute to obesity ( fat deposits on the belly ) and IMPAIR SLEEP.

Adrenaline works in the short term, while cortisol has large momentum and works in the long term.  Just as your levels of adrenaline start coming down, so rises the amount of cortisol flowing through your veins.  

Moreover, cortisol has a much larger momentum than adrenaline, which means that even though it builds up slowly, it also takes a long time to go back to normal.  

And should you constantly be engaging in activities which require adrenaline, so will your levels of cortisol slowly increase.

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When a a threat is perceived, a signal is sent to the brain. The brain then sends nerve impulses to the adrenal gland in the kidneys.  When the nerve signal reaches the adrenal gland, chromaffin cells, in the medulla of the adrenal gland, release epinephrine.

Epinephrine then enters the bloodstream. It is thus carried around the body to cells in various locations, where it initiates several responses.

Despite initiating several different responses, epinephrine’s effects have a collective purpose – to provide INSTANT energy so that the major muscles of the body can respond to the perceived threat.

An adrenaline rush has given mothers the super human strength to lift cars from over their dead children.

In school I used to get kicked on my shins while playing soccer. Till the game is over it does NOT pain. For once the adrenaline wears off, you'll be able to feel the pain .

At the same time it is a paradox that your vision to your touch, your senses will be dramatically heightened when you are undergoing an adrenaline rush.  Because everything happens so fast during an adrenaline rush, your breathing and your heart rate will jump suddenly. 

Your blood pressure will also go up, and you may even start to sweat to prevent your muscles from getting overworked during an adrenaline rush. 

Nutrients are released to sustain muscular activity and blood flow is regulated away from less important organs to the muscles to prepare for a fight. The body keeps up this preparation until it no longer feels threatened.  

An initial rush of adrenaline makes you feel empowered, like you can conquer the world.  The decrease in adrenaline afterwards is known as the adrenaline crash, and this can make you feel anxious or even negative. Those who suffer from depression have been found to experience an extremely drastic drop in adrenaline. After a marriage celebration you can usually see everybody pooped .

Caffeine is the most widely used drug in the world. Most  morning  coffee drinkers don't realize it, but their morning cups of coffee set their bodies up for a rollercoaster day of highs and lows, only to bottom out at the point of exhaustion.  

Just a few hours after consumption, when the artificial high dies down, many people may reach for more coffee or something sugary to get another lift, leading to daily fluctuations in energy and alertness, and possibly to eventual chronic adrenal exhaustion.  

The excessive caffeine consumption has simply pushed your adrenal glands so much that they've burned out.  Caffeine affects your body just like any drug. You start taking it slowly, but as your body develops a tolerance to it, you need more and more to feel the same effects. 

Caffeine increases the stimulating neurohormone, noradrenaline, and reduces the calming neurotransmitter, serotonin. Caffeine also stimulates the production of norepinephrine, another stress hormone that acts directly on the brain and nervous system. Caffeine works by making an ass out of a hormone that tells the adrenal glands to crank out more adrenaline. 

Like caffeine  nicotine too overstimulate the adrenal glands. Caffeine can have a detrimental effect on blood sugar. When caffeine is ingested, the nervous system is stimulated. Adrenaline is released and, in turn, the liver begins to emit stored blood sugar. Insulin is then released, and blood sugar drops below normal—a common seizure trigger for people with epilepsy.  

Caffeine also constricts  blood vessels in the brain.  Caffiene stimulates the release of stored sugar from the liver—same thing what coca cola does. Avoid caffeine -- it increases the stress hormones and adrenaline, which causes a spike in blood sugar.  These quick-fix solutions to lagging energy and poor mood fuel your fatigue and depression and aggravate food craving. 

Caffeinism usually combines physical addiction with a wide range of debilitating effects, most notably anxiety, irritability, mood swings, sleep disturbance, depression, and fatigue. Caffeine does not provide energy—only chemical stimulation. The perceived "energy" comes from the body's struggle to adapt to increased blood levels of stress hormones.  

Caffeine is the Trojan horse.  

It looks like a gift but instead delivers adrenal stress, low blood sugar, mood and energy swings, fatigue, depression, malnutrition, and disturbed sleep. 

Caffeine depletes the body of B vitamins, which you need for proper brain and nervous system functioning and for converting food to energy. with caffeine, we don't provide the glands anything to make that hormone out of—we just cry "emergency" and force them to figure it out, one way or another. So the body reaches down into its reserves and makes more hormone because it thinks it is the right thing to do. 

Caffeine forces your glands to secrete when they don't have much left to give, and they have to keep digging deeper and deeper, making you more and more tired over time. Caffeine is clearly addictive.

Although Starbucks notes that the caffeine levels of these drinks may vary, they are listed on the Starbucks website as:

Short - 180 mg

Tall - 260 mg

Grande - 330 mg

Venti - 415 mg

Experts consider 200-300 mg of caffeine a day to be a moderate amount for adults. But consuming as little as 100 mg of caffeine a day can lead a person to become "dependent" on caffeine.

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Grace and peace!

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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