Cold Plunge, Breathwork, and Breathe Degrees: Full Transcript

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benefited me with the different types of therapy I've been doing with you and that has changed my life um so let's get right into it you know I want to take I want you to take me through your journey with how you got to where you are today in regards to the cold plunging the breath work Wim Hof method stuff um let's just touch on it all mental health I want to see uh want to know how

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myself uh My ultimate passion life is surfing from an activity standpoint it's it's what I geek out on it's my favorite pastime by Far and Away uh but there's not always waves especially here in Southern California so I have to find some other kind of exercise and the X the only exercise that I found that I could tap into and use every single day whenever I wanted to the lowest threshold I have three kids I'm very

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could feel not myself out of sorts and predictably every single time I got past that first mile and then I finished the run I would come out the other side feeling me exactly the version of me that I always wanted to be and and it wouldn't just be short-lived it would last for the entire day it would even last into the next day um the other thing that really drove me

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uh the new science is really uh is is really a condition called exercise induced hypo frontality okay so exercise induced type of frontality hypofrontality is really your prefrontal cortex which is the evolved cognitive center of the brain that really has that contains millions of thoughts not just of today but yesterday yesterday 20 years from now 20 years ago right yeah and so it gets it

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Ultra and then after that Ultra I told myself immediately after that I'd never do another one then two weeks later I signed up for another one and then got to the place point where I was doing 100 mile races and and that's that's a different ball of wax and I'm not telling you that's for everybody uh I do it for different reasons I do the ultra running is is really more of a mental game for me it's it's really just

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a day but the reality is it was completely opposite I was elevated way up here I wasn't brought down low because I was busy the entire day so my brain was my brain needed time to calm down yeah what I didn't want to do is come home take a shower eat and sit and watch uh reruns of Gold Rush or Deadliest Catch for the next three hours those are my man soap operas and just and mush into it to be

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that and then going in and do the breath work and then uh being able to sleep like a baby uh by 10 o'clock you know and so uh I made a normal practice to the point where I bought a cold plunge and and then I obviously I have a hot tub at my house and started incorporating the breath work the cold plugs in the hot tub and and just realized what a profound impact it had on myself uh personally and realized

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this is a senior VP at Illumina this is a senior VP at Qualcomm these are people that are not the type of people that you would ever expect to do this kind of practice and have an impact they they're resistant to it right right and they're they're bawling and I'm going are you okay and they're going oh my God I feel amazing dude I don't know why I'm crying I just I really and so it was just a beautiful

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for me it was actually quite easy but everyone else was terrified they were you know people were shivering before they got in they panicked when they got in but then you know you had this sort of group sort of Dynamics almost like you're going in as a team and and everyone was there supporting everyone else and no one wanted to get out because all these other people were in

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they come how often they come how they manage the cold and they start talking and one says oh yeah after this I'm going surfing and the plumber says to the CEO I serve too and now all of a sudden they're surfing together and why can't the CEO and the plum review the best friends in our society we live in these ridiculous in these states where CEOs hang out with CEOs plumbers

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popping pills and taking stuff that have some very no consequences and so the mission of it is really to bring connectedness not just to your body to to also um to other people but also allow you to be able to understand that there are no limitations and that no one is better or worse than anybody else it's just a matter of the habits that you do superheroes are created not by what's

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that to be the case um but but I understand the Deep science of cold um I think in Singularity people are talking about cold uh cold has become the new hot right you're seeing now you know a lot of people whether it's the humans the Ronda Patrick's the you know there's celebrities and Ben greenfields and everyone's everyone on the moon's doing cold right Joe Rogan but

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the coldness the reason why people use it for anti-inflammatory when you get into the cold your circulatory system has this very uh fast response to the cold to protect itself and that response is you get this enormous amounts of vasoconstriction in your extremities and vasoconstriction is really your vascular system Narrows your arteries specifically become very small and and the reason why they become small

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reasons why people have pain is because of inflammation and inflammation for all intents and purposes is based on these circulatory systems so so you're you're really shunting and removing all that excess inflammation consider it like a giant fluid Advil okay so it's a very strong Advil so um so so that's the primary reason that people do cold and that's what they've been educated on why

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it is cold becomes and this is to your point on on anxiety and depression and these conditions that sort of uh plague our culture across the board I mean you you're going to find more people that feel anxious and depressed and you will that feel the opposite yes it and it's a western thing that's the ironic part about it it's it's a first world problem

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rebuilds itself your mind reboots okay so you need no stress when you're asleep but if no stress was good for you during the waking hours you could get out of bed and go sit on your couch all day and do nothing and get up and go yes oh my God I feel freaking so incredible this is amazing you'd want to sit on the couch all day I'm going to tell you it's never happened before right when you if you do

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lot of people a lot of athletes will appreciate this this is where athletes drop into the zone is meditation the zone is just active meditation because we're on a mission also to Rebrand this idea of what meditation actually is because there's not a doctor on the planet that will tell you that you shouldn't have a daily meditation or mindfulness practice it's

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comes in many different forms and that's what your body that's where your body wants to be most the time but unfortunately um and the thing by the way just so you know to validate uh this whole stress concept coming back to that if you don't believe that you like stress I'm calling every single one of the viewers out right now I'm calling them out you hear that guys

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actually shows that anything that you take anything you ingest that's alkaline will change your blood chemistry the only thing the only way we currently know that your body can become more alkaline and we do you want to be on the high high side of the spectrum and be on the higher side of alkalinity is breathing which is exercise and so oxygen happens to be this incredible magical molecule

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already made the choice to get in and what we do is we now know scientifically that you control your nervous system okay where you are in time and space by the way you're breathing so if you breathe really intensively you can jack your nervous system bring yourself up and bring you into this area this beautiful area of your nervous system that I like to call in the armesis that's exciting to light or you can slow

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stress and now your body is going to be stressed even though there's nothing threatening it conversely speaking if your body's all tight like this then your brain starts to think it should be stressed too so um really in essence the cold is this capacity to be able to stay super calm stay with those really slow long deep exhales and and then surrender to it let go

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freeze mode right what also goes up within the first minute or so is dopamine dopamine goes up 250 percent so when we take people to through the studio and you go into this this group coal plunge it's usually three minutes because you get a lot of the benefits the neural benefits within the first three minutes you get some anti-inflammatory benefits you get metabolism benefits there's a bunch of

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do what you're gonna do so think about your performance levels so this is this brain awareness thing right um so so the stress inoculation that anxiety that fear if you can I want you to think about a life living a life with very little to no fears what would you be what would you do what would your limits be so so that's why this becomes such a beautiful practice because every single

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through walls you come in upset angry you come in tired you feel fatigued sore out of sorts and you walk out and you feel that perfect version of yourself because again this chemical release that you actually physically get and it's natural well you don't need drugs you don't need alcohol and by the way the dopamine that 250 increase recreational drugs like cocaine increase your dopamine levels 220 percent

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understanding of how our bodies even work like I'm gonna put things into context here really quickly and I know I'm sorry I don't want to hijack you on this but um there's a guy that comes into into our studio he's a very famous neuroscientist um how about this Dr hubman looks up to this guy

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we laugh at you guys we estimate in the neuroscientist community that we know approximately. 001 of what's going on in the human brain we know. 001 percent on what's going on in the human brain these are the people that are the researchers these are the people that are studying this on a regular basis

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starting to understand is that we have to use it it's like that old classic car that you have sitting in your garage if you don't drive it and I have one by the way it's a 1965 Lincoln Continental it's beautiful it's absolutely gorgeous but I can tell you this that it runs like crap because the problem is it's beautiful but I never drive the damn thing because it's 90 feet long and and it's a pain in the ass

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physically mentally socially getting out there being yourself stop worrying what everyone else thinks don't be so arrogant they're not thinking about you do you okay and make yourself well because you are you hold really in essence The Chalice that contains your own health happiness and strength it's we're byproducts of what we do or don't do so if you don't do anything why are you expecting to get results

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well-being too and I'm all [__] locked in right now with you man it's been so fun it's it's helped me so much the reboot the reset of going to cold plunge and do the breath work the Wim Hof method has changed my life incredibly to where my energy is beautiful and people feel it when they're around you they want to be around healthy people you have to I feel like this is something big you

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I ask my family I don't I I do socially you know I'm around people all day long but what it what what what's what's happened because of my profession now this brief thing you know I'm around people all the time I'm never comfortable I'm never going this is my place this is what I love is teaching right what I love is educating but but in terms of me being this crazy social butterfly that's not true you never know

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intensive medical condition that's not what I'm saying I'm not telling you to get off drugs I'm just saying you you have to rethink Your Existence you have to rethink what it is that you're doing if you're not good at something then that's something you should do if you feel like um you're not gifted in a certain way then actually do the things don't stop doing the things you're good at and

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brown fat and what happens is if they become unswaddled they become cold this brown fat is brown because it's beige fat actually because it's rich in mitochondria mitochondria are the PowerHouse of your cell and so what they do the brown fat acts like a fur awareness so it actually metabolically starts heating your body up and it actually consumes white fat so people are going to be using coal plunges in

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the brand I I know the benefits of it and I uh it's it's hard to stop once you get me going so um yeah anyone well in conclusion I want to say this I want to tell you how much even inspired me too you know what you're doing is you're you're bettering people's lives and their health right that's what you're doing you're making a positive impact on people and that's what I want to do with my

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obviously a super cool protocol um with music right the music is really really super experiential it's not music that you would consider to be breath work based music would you agree with me on that yeah no it's it gets me it's like you want to like start like dancing getting jacked up it's it's kind of crazy right and so so it becomes almost like a uh the music itself follows the experience and it keeps you in in this

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real quick my first time it was a little it was a bit tough you know I wasn't used to it but now I'm at that point where I can talk to you and and distract myself which I love you right sure yeah all right baby you keep pushing thanks for making a difference in this world and uh I'll see you soon hey thank you for doing what you do man and stepping out of your comfort zone you're doing it I love it