Body hack #8

Stanch Blood with One Finger

Pinching your nose and leaning back is a great way to stop a nosebleed- if you don't mind choking on your own blood. A moe civil approach: put some cotton on your upper gums- just behind that small indent bellow your nose- and press againt it, hard. "Most bleeds come from the front of the septum, the cartilage wall that divides the nose," says Peter Desmarais, M.D., an ear, nose, and throat specialist at Entabeni Hospital, in Durban, South Africa, "Pressing here helps stop them".