![]() ![]() Summited Kilimanjaro, essentially in a bathing suit with shoes on, but otherwise pretty much shirtless in record time and did not need to acclimatize and also was able to bring groups of other people and enable them to do this. He’s the guy who hiked most of the way up Mount Everest in just a pair of shorts and boots, no shirt. If you haven’t heard off Wim Hof, he’s an interesting fellow. Sorry, Mike, to kind of front load with all this. There’s a lot here that we can kind of fumble into. ![]() Essentially if you take a freezer chest and fill it with water and put a pond filter inside of it and$ an ozone filter, you can make your own at home cryotherapy unit for $500 to $700, maybe $800, depending on the size of the chest that you get. Mike, I really have to give you a virtual pat on the back here. One of the things I picked up from Mike was a way to make cold exposure therapy more readily accessible. The guys in the playground aren’t shoving me around as much. Mike started doing my programming and really got me balanced out. I’ve discussed, I think it was the last time Mike was on the podcast, how I had some typical imbalances, mostly this underdevelopment of my posterior chain that was leading to some hip dysfunctions, knee pain. Mike has been on the show a few times and also does my personal programming. So definitely something I’m quite eager to explore here with Mike. I’ve been doing it, based on the recommendations of Mike Nelson, with this kind of home freezer chest set up. So cold exposure is a very, very interesting novel therapeutic. There’s also another case study that Carney cites in his book about someone with Crohn’s disease that was to the point of no medications, no cocktail of medications, was able to suppress Crohn’s and now is in full remission. So there is definitely an inflammatory immune application. He cites this debilitated, rheumatoid arthritis patient who had essentially failed out of all of the immunosuppressive drugs and through pretty intense breathwork and cold exposure is fully functional and on no medications from being somewhat crippled. In fact, much of this is anecdotal, at least from what I’ve seen, but Scott Carney wrote a book about Wim Hof, who pioneered cold exposure therapy, to some extent. I know most women seem to detest the cold, but there is some very interesting therapeutic potential of the cold. Women don’t shut off the podcast just yet. Nelson, and we are going to be talking about cold exposure therapy. So with that, we will now go to the discussion with Dr. In this program, he helps individuals determine what areas where we could hermetically stress someone such as diet, fasting, breath, work, cold exposure fit best into a personalized program for them. ![]() He has fact-checked much of the science and actually built this into a broader program. So we will go into this discussion now with Mike Nelson. I do about two to three minutes every morning in a 40-degree ice chest filled with water, and it is amazing. We also discuss some tips and techniques for how to get started yourself with cold exposure therapy. But we also want to be careful because some of these things are mechanisms and we discuss the effect size of some of these. There may also be cardiovascular benefits, potential benefits for activating brown adipose tissue and helping to metabolize body fats, and stress tolerance. Most relevant for our audience is this work of cold exposure also paired with some breathwork has shown the ability to help with immune-mediated conditions, specifically auto-immune conditions. If you’ve heard of him, he is the gentleman who has hiked up most of Mount Everest in just a pair of shorts and boots. This is something we discussed in the podcast years ago with Katie Bowman, but it’s resurfacing in terms of its potential importance, especially with the guru Wim Hof. Nelson on the benefits of cold exposure therapy. Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking to your doctor. The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease. To stay up-to-date on the latest topics as well as all of our prior episodes, please make sure to subscribe in your podcast player. Ruscio radio providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. ![]()
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