<story><title>Inventor May Have Cured Motion Sickness Without Drugs</title><url>https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/11/inventor-may-have-cured-motion-sickness-without-drugs-and-could-mean-lot-us-military/152960/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moate</author><text>This is bad science. This is not a real thing. Neither does running water nearby, or lighting a candle in the kitchen. None of this affects the root cause of your problem.&lt;p&gt;Onion tears are caused by 2 different chemicals held apart by the onion&amp;#x27;s cellular structure. Every time you cut an onion, the cells rupture and mix, aerosolization and making you cry when the acid gets into your eyes. A sharp knife (as mentioning in another comment) would help minimize the amount of cellular damage and therefor the gas produced. You can also wear goggles.&lt;p&gt;Everything else is bunk. From-A former professional chef and person particularly sensitive to onions. (I just learned to cut onions with my eyes closed)</text></item><item><author>magic_beans</author><text>Chewing gum also helps to minimize crying while cutting onions.</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I found that for myself and for a bunch of friends that chewing gum accomplished this.&lt;p&gt;Discovered this on a fairly bumpy flight, (gum is lousy for ear pressure imbalances but I carry it anyway). After that I began experimenting on others and it usually worked for them too.</text></item><item><author>jonshariat</author><text>Another article hiding the main information in a wall of text.&lt;p&gt;Here is the relevant information for those interested:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;Enter a young inventor named Samuel Owen, who has developed a prototype device called the OtoTech, from Otolith Labs. Worn on a headband behind the ear, it uses subtle vibrations to change the way the brain computes the fact that the body that it’s attached to is in motion. Early tests show it relieves motion sickness without the side effects of drugs, Owen said, though he admits the science is so young that it’s not clear just how.&lt;p&gt;The vibrations emanating from the OtoTech gently target two of the four fibers that carry data about body motion to the brain via a system of inner ear sensors called the vestibulocochlear nerve. “Two [of the four vestibulocochlear nerve fibers] go to the brain, two go to your reflexes,” Owen said. The trick is to affect the former and not the latter.&lt;p&gt;“The working hypothesis is that [the vibration] causes a chaotic and noninformative stimulus to go to the brain. Somewhere, probably the cerebellum, there’s a filtering mechanism that filters out noninformative sensed information. It’s the reason you don’t notice the shirt on your back right now,” he said.&lt;p&gt;In other words, while you remain consciously aware that you’re moving, the balance portion of your brain stops noticing the fact; the data has been drowned out in white noise from the device.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrumbledober</author><text>not EVERYTHING else is bunk. Running water nearby might not help but cutting your onions submerged in water would definitely help. Another one is just simple good ventilation. Set up a fan near you and the chemicals will be blown away instead of gradually increasing in concentration around your eyes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Inventor May Have Cured Motion Sickness Without Drugs</title><url>https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/11/inventor-may-have-cured-motion-sickness-without-drugs-and-could-mean-lot-us-military/152960/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moate</author><text>This is bad science. This is not a real thing. Neither does running water nearby, or lighting a candle in the kitchen. None of this affects the root cause of your problem.&lt;p&gt;Onion tears are caused by 2 different chemicals held apart by the onion&amp;#x27;s cellular structure. Every time you cut an onion, the cells rupture and mix, aerosolization and making you cry when the acid gets into your eyes. A sharp knife (as mentioning in another comment) would help minimize the amount of cellular damage and therefor the gas produced. You can also wear goggles.&lt;p&gt;Everything else is bunk. From-A former professional chef and person particularly sensitive to onions. (I just learned to cut onions with my eyes closed)</text></item><item><author>magic_beans</author><text>Chewing gum also helps to minimize crying while cutting onions.</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I found that for myself and for a bunch of friends that chewing gum accomplished this.&lt;p&gt;Discovered this on a fairly bumpy flight, (gum is lousy for ear pressure imbalances but I carry it anyway). After that I began experimenting on others and it usually worked for them too.</text></item><item><author>jonshariat</author><text>Another article hiding the main information in a wall of text.&lt;p&gt;Here is the relevant information for those interested:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;Enter a young inventor named Samuel Owen, who has developed a prototype device called the OtoTech, from Otolith Labs. Worn on a headband behind the ear, it uses subtle vibrations to change the way the brain computes the fact that the body that it’s attached to is in motion. Early tests show it relieves motion sickness without the side effects of drugs, Owen said, though he admits the science is so young that it’s not clear just how.&lt;p&gt;The vibrations emanating from the OtoTech gently target two of the four fibers that carry data about body motion to the brain via a system of inner ear sensors called the vestibulocochlear nerve. “Two [of the four vestibulocochlear nerve fibers] go to the brain, two go to your reflexes,” Owen said. The trick is to affect the former and not the latter.&lt;p&gt;“The working hypothesis is that [the vibration] causes a chaotic and noninformative stimulus to go to the brain. Somewhere, probably the cerebellum, there’s a filtering mechanism that filters out noninformative sensed information. It’s the reason you don’t notice the shirt on your back right now,” he said.&lt;p&gt;In other words, while you remain consciously aware that you’re moving, the balance portion of your brain stops noticing the fact; the data has been drowned out in white noise from the device.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notvplez</author><text>&amp;gt; You can also wear goggles.&lt;p&gt;Or even just contact lenses. At least for me it eliminates onion tears completely. I had been using them for at least a decade before I started to cook my own proper food, I&amp;#x27;ll never forget that one time I tried cutting up onions wearing my glasses instead...</text></comment>