Cold Plunge for Beginners: What You Need to Know: Full Transcript

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when I jumped into cold water for the first time I was dealing with depression what I recommend to anyone if they want to you know figure something out well go ahead and try it eat only plants for 30 days and see how you feel it's just scary because like the reason I'm bring that up is because this morning one of the parents also asked me like or didn't even ask me just commented and said my

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took a shower and it change it changed my life it really did I know people say that about everything but it truly it did it changed my life are you ready to revolutionize your health and reconnect to your Primal s welcome to the Primal shift podcast my goal with the primer shift podcast is to show you how to achieve Optimal Health and that includes the health of your body's largest organ your skin today's sponsor one skin has a

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income you know by doing so I mean that's really because that kind of you know reflects what I've been I mean I used to be in software sales not not in you know in the automotive industry but nonetheless it's it's kind of a hard cut going from you know Corporate America so to say to cold plunging all day and making money with it you know no you're not wrong it's a dream and it's a it's all it's

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years of my tenure there and I learned a ton my dad was probably he's he was like the only healthy person in his family so I adopted a lot of habits from him like we would be on vacation and instead of taking the Montreal or whatever we would walk you know instead of just sitting on the couch we would see who can do the most push-up so like we always were active he was always Super Active and I love that about him and I think that

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had the the original you know that white acrylic tub and it went to 39 right yep and and but I remember my very first ice bath uh at at the Dave asey biohacking conference a couple of years ago was in a Morosco right and that was there was ice on the bottom and you know I kind of remembered that feeling but I wasn't sure anymore is there a difference between 39 and 33 and for them you know longest I I

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I sometimes don't do it at night and in going that cold I thought maybe this was a bad idea right I'm going to do it every night I'm getting in that thing every single night and I you know funny enough I went into the sauna last night with my wife for 25 minutes and we were you know close to dying in there and I'm like well you know it's not terrible it took me half an hour to fall asleep which is way typically I'm out within 10

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a an adjustable temperature like a cold plunge that has you know a chiller as we both know but if anybody's watching and they're like okay David you said cold water therapy start with a cold shower jump on a cold River what's the next level is getting into a cold plunge because using ice you can't really determine the temperature and depending on where you live like me in Florida I was spending like $ 300 a

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that's a non-negotiable I think everybody needs access to it somehow some way and you know the funny thing is um I talked to I visited uh Morosco headquarters a couple of months ago and I talked to Thomas the uh the owner or the founder of Morosco Forge and he brought up a good argument because there are a lot of studies you know with heat exposure with sauna

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you said like even if they didn't in cold with a cold plunge everybody who is rinses off with a shower rinses off with a hose jumps into a lake gets the sweat off somehow and that theoretically or at the end of the day kind of cools the body down unnaturally because you're not just letting your body cool down like you would in a cold plunge by letting your body drip dry and heat up so you bring

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hybrid athlete training I I the for the workouts I'm I get bored I have ADHD so I I get really really bored I I can't do the same thing over and over again that's what I love about CrossFit is you never know like I don't like to read the workout before I show up and I'll use and this probably isn't good but I use chat GPT if I'm G to work out at home because I literally plug in there this is the equipment I have this

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um they have their entire life to work hard and and try to fight off all the crap that they're putting in their bodies now like me and you are from when we were younger exactly but um but yeah so 80% really clean animal-based organic foods grass-fed beef organ Meats I love organs when I can't eat them because they're hard to get here in Florida I take supplements organ supplements highly recommend organ supplements um

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don't put like I don't put chemicals on my body as much as possible I drink high quality water when I can which is most of the time I ground I'm always Barefoot but you know and I've made some changes to my lifestyle where I can feel and see in the mirror that like I'm trending backwards in a good way biologically and my wife is too so she gets to work with joy which is the female Division and she's younger than she's older than me

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or not it's working but I still think if you're like brand new if you just woke up this morning and say you know what my life [__] my health [__] I I need to do something um I think it's easier to just follow someone for a little bit who you trust or who resonates with you and then not just blindly follow them forever but kind of you know get your cues figure stuff out get like on a certain framework maybe like an animal based

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would it change the way I look and feel and if you can answer those questions and be honest with yourself and actually do the things then that's that I'm just a simple guy I I try to see what other people are doing that's working and just emulate that and then if I can do it better because we all have strengths we all have weaknesses we all have Mobility strengths and weaknesses some people can't do movements with a

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for my wife is because we have a I would argue a very comparable lifestyle right as far as we eat as far as we sleep as far as we exercise all of that but she's like you know I don't know what you're doing that you look like you do but it should not be possible you know and I'm like you know I'm sure there is some genetic Factor so that's maybe one thing I want to point out is there might be people who work out more who eat better

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that are really really strong are you know a little they're shorter they're under six foot like most of them there are some that are taller some exceptions but that's just not I just probably won't get to that level I didn't start lifting and and working out competitively seriously and taking my health seriously heck until about four years ago really really about three years ago and I um and I so I won't look

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mitigation wow I love that question and and I have I I love educating so we go the school my kids go to um me and my wife have became kind of like the non non-employed people who help people with their health every day I was just there this morning and and I had two parents ask me questions on how I see your kids working out with you how do I get my kids to work out my kid wants to gain some weight how do because he's super

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this is so weird how we do this like we live in these homes where we quickly shut the doors we leave the Windows shut we have the air conditioner just pumping the same air around we very rarely cycle our air and we wonder why we're always sick so in my house I'll open all of the windows at least three times a week turn the air conditioner off sometimes I'll just keep it on and just let you know air condition the

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sunlight and I'm like dude I actually get that it actually makes sense our ancestors used to do that and they didn't wear sunscreen how come they didn't get burned and they were running around killing animals in the middle of the day right so I stopped wearing sunscreen started getting Morning Sun started getting sunlight on my skin and this is my natural color now this is just what I look like and it's October

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their head around you know just doing that because I think everyone is so caught up in in all of the stuff that we do you know there are so many stressors so many so much noise that that distracts us you know social media and and whatnot people get anxious just by thinking about making better choices you know yeah it's true and that's obviously counterproductive um what's your take on intermittent

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ccle and I got little too much sleep so there's like that sweet spot and I think it's really important here's what I would suggest anybody to do if you can just buy some sort of very inexpensive but effective tracker and try it out for yourself because I think everyone needs to experiment with their own self because we all have different stress we all have different everything's different every part of us

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I'm not sure um I my gut feeling is that whatever you know you you pop whatever you uh you apply from an exogenous perspective is probably not worth doing chronically did I ever have you ever heard my story with testosterone no so pre me doing this pre me being in content Health and Wellness Recovery all this stuff I had always lived a somewhat active lifestyle like we talked about earlier always moving um

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sit down with this doctor and he prescribes me one cc of testosterone um twice a week is what he wanted me to take and as you know that's a a lot but my my levels were under 200 I don't I've shared this story so like I don't mind sharing this my levels were under 200 I was at the time like 33 years old um and I was kind of desperate and I was working out I was started trying to do some of the right things this was

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so I started I I never did the full prescription of what they wanted me to do and I um and then I eventually just kind of weaned myself off and just just stopped like just completely stopped and then I started working with BLS and I shared that story with them and they're like there's so many other things you could do you can take trt of course you can take and you you know what you might benefit from a very very small

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know get back and at the time I took HCG to kind of keep my own production going which is you know ridiculously expensive right um and despite that you know I'm like no you know what this is so not worth it you know there's there's got to be better ways of doing this and so I totally agree and I appreciate you sharing this yeah absolutely hopefully it's helpful to somebody out there you know I just I feel like some

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the shape I'm in the health I'm in it's easy to say you know that I would not ever do this if I wait you know 300 plus pounds maybe I would have a different view I don't know but if someone comes to me and say Hey you know I'm way overweight um exercising hurts I you know my knees whatever I I can't I would still argue that you know go swimming and go on a low carb you know ketogenic

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being made fun of for being overweight in school and stuff like that like there are so many other things you can do um and it's just like out of love it's like there are so many other things you can do and some of us some people watching this some people listening to this might might be you know at the the second half of their life and it is a little harder to get started when you're 200 pounds

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I do is wrong because their doctor said otherwise I would just encourage people to maybe go on Instagram and follow some profiles that are somewhat educational and share conflicting and controversial topics um that you don't agree with you know like I I think it's interesting when you follow somebody who is a straight up 100% vegan influencer and see what they have to say about people who eat meat and I think it's

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are health I mean I for the most part of my life I thought I was feeling good until I've started feeling good you know I'm like oh same here you know and and I think you need to make and that's why I think experimentation regardless of however you want to experiment you know go you know on a vegan diet and if you feel worse then maybe okay at least you felt that you you felt the Delta right do something else and you felt the

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might be you know doing something wrong like you know I did a lot of for three decades you know I did everything wrong I could be doing wrong and I'm sure I'm paying the consequences you know with like injuries and tweaks and you know all kind of things that I'm paying now for but at least I know that what I'm doing now you know is not perpetuating you know all of those issues I'm fixing hopefully most of that

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chubby actually a long time in my life and I used to say like it was just my genetics I used to say I'm just that's I'm just built Big I'm just a I'm a bigger guy and I am like I'm a larger I have larger you know I feel like I could put on more muscle if I really focused on it and I could do those things um I like the way I look and at the end of the day like I didn't like the way I looked not long ago I

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meant to be and called to be but this is a kid who had like in my eyes as someone who don't I didn't know anything about him don't know anything about his home life his habits his eating habits his anything about his health but he looked like he some at least took care of himself to some extent or his parents did and he had such an energy about him but he's fighting with depression if he's fighting with depression and he's

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you and I just wanted to say that I I feel like that's a story that I want to share with more people because like it changed my life it wasn't like getting into cold water and getting out of cold water didn't change my life because now I'm a content creator and this is my life this is my income and this is my livelihood it changed my life before I ever thought I would I was going to be a content

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our our content our delivery the products because here's the other thing too we have there's so many products there's so many how do you figure out what's the right one and um and I think more content creators that are sharing their honest experience and and reviews of products and how the products have maybe changed their lives or have worked for their lives because because we're we're all a little different so I love