Body hack #1

Cure a Tickling Throat

 When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Now you can still appreciate a good body-based beat, esspecially if it serves as a health remedy. Take that tickling your throat: It's not worth gagging over. Here's a better way to scratch your itch: Scratch your ear.

"When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm," says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. "This spasm relieves the tickle."