FOR some people, leaping from a bridge harnessed by a rubber band around the ankles is their idea of a great day out.
One adrenaline junkie, New Zealand-based Mike Heard, clearly enjoys it, having made a whopping 430 jumps in a 24 hour period - smashing the previous Guinness World Records mark of 158 right out of the park.
Heard (pictured) started the record attempt on the Auckland Harbour Bridge at 7.15pm last Tue and completed 430 bungy jumps 24 hours later, apparently plummeting 18km in total.
However the long-term damage to his body could be life altering, with bungy jumping giving some people retinal haemorrhages, vertigo, inner-ear damage, concussion and even low-grade brain injuries.
FIND your happy place and you could cut stress levels by 85%, according to researchers at New York's Rutgers University.
They tested their hypothesis by making 134 volunteers dunk their hands in icy water for 14 seconds, with those who recalled happy memories apparently feeling calmer and more distracted.
The study was published last month in the Nature Human Behaviour journal, with authors concluding that "remembering the good times...can dampen the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis stress response".
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