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Speaker 2: I tell them at TAPS, who else would it be?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to you? Project? Doctor Mark Cohen is back for

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Speaker 2: that BT and I third fourth. Do you know how

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Speaker 2: many times you've been here?

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Speaker 1: Doc?

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Speaker 2: So few?

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Speaker 1: Therefore, Yeah, fun.

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Speaker 2: How's life?

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Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. I've been bouncing around the world and

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Speaker 1: doing good things since I've retired. I've never been busier.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I've built in New Zealands last week. I

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Speaker 1: mean Arizona next week. I me in Melbourne this week.

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Speaker 1: So what's this stuff?

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Speaker 2: What's the stuff that you're doing, what's got your attention

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Speaker 2: and what's got you excited?

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Speaker 1: What I'm really excited about is I'm channeling or rediscovering

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Speaker 1: medical practices that were really common a thousand years ago.

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Speaker 1: So a thousand years ago there was in the height

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Speaker 1: of medicine. And in those times in Persia, he was

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Speaker 1: doing contrast basing, so he was doing her mum firsteen

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Speaker 1: twelve hundred recipes for these oxymals. It was like that

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Speaker 1: it ancient future medicine because it stays. Yeah, it's old,

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Speaker 2: Did you say ancient future medicine?

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Speaker 1: Correct putting?

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Speaker 2: I think that's the title of my show. Thank you Now,

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Speaker 2: I don't have to think about that at the end.

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Speaker 2: How much stuff, doc, do you think that we have

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Speaker 2: unlearned or just forgotten? You know, it's like you're saying

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Speaker 1: the Recipe for Wellness, and it's super simple. It's bathing

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Speaker 2: So while I've got you here, I want to I'm

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Speaker 1: the first ever human clinical trial comparing infrared sauna with

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Speaker 1: traditional with exercise she was doing this with the Queensland

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Speaker 1: Institute of Sport. We had it all set up and

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Speaker 1: then their traditional sauna busted and then the pandemic hits.

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Speaker 1: So we ended up doing the study, but we didn't

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Speaker 1: use the traditional sauna, so we didn't We compared disordering

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Speaker 1: with exercise. We looked at detoxification and the effects on

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Speaker 1: the heart, but we didn't compare directly infrared with traditional sauna.

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Speaker 1: I had it both home. I'm pretty privileged. I yes,

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Speaker 1: I was given an infrared sauna about fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: which I still haven't. I built a traditional sauna, and

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Speaker 1: I prefer the traditional sauna because I love putting. I

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Speaker 1: love the steam. I loved able to loft the steam

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Speaker 1: around and wave it around. I love putting cold water

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Speaker 1: on my body when I'm in the sauna. Put squater

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Speaker 1: on your head or on your feet when you're really

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Speaker 1: hot is just super delightful, and you can't do that

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Speaker 1: the red sauna. But I think that the benefit it

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Speaker 1: really is from the stress and sweating and doing something

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Speaker 1: you don't really we want to do, or doing something

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Speaker 1: to the point where you're comfortably uncomfortable. MM. So, whether

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Speaker 1: it's an infrared fat or a hot bath or whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. If it's if it's hot enough to make

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Speaker 1: you sweat and turn on your physiological air conditioning. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: your panther willle bit, your heart beats harder. You know,

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Speaker 1: you sweat, you turn on your heat shop proteins and

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Speaker 1: all of those biochemical things that happen. That's the benefit.

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Speaker 1: So how do you get there, I think is less important.

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Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of variables around kind of

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Speaker 2: cold water immersion and ice bars and cold showers and

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Speaker 2: because you know, the temperature of the tap border in

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Speaker 2: Melbourne is probably different to Queensland, to work of course.

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Speaker 1: But pretty cold this morning. Yeah, this morning it was

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Speaker 1: like six six degrees out of the shower or something exactly.

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Speaker 2: So is there if somebody's thinking, you know what, I

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Speaker 2: want to introduce a little bit of cold water or

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Speaker 2: cold showers into my life? Is there a Is there

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Speaker 2: are kind of an optimal time one to three minutes

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Speaker 2: or something.

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Speaker 1: I credit a little song and dance for this xpression.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I told me you set me up.

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Speaker 1: So I did a lecture series about seven eight years

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Speaker 1: ago with Wim Half When I was I was talking

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Speaker 1: about the science of the wim Holf method, and all

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Speaker 1: the vow for males, all the full on by fighters

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Speaker 1: and martial artists were all getting into the ice bath.

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Speaker 1: And then I ran a retreat at wing Ghana, which

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Speaker 1: was a luxury hell to treat in Queensland, and they

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Speaker 1: were like autun seventy year old mostly females, who said,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to get into the cold water. We

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Speaker 1: don't we don't do cold And I was I sort

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Speaker 1: of worked out how can we make it appealing for them?

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Speaker 1: And I came up with little song and dance. I

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Speaker 1: call it the cold water Hokey pokey, so you can

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Speaker 1: do it home in the shower and and it makes

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Speaker 1: it really easy. But basically what you do you start

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Speaker 1: off with the hot shower, and everyone loves the hot shower,

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Speaker 1: and you get well, you get hot. Then at the

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Speaker 1: end of that you turn the heat up a little bit,

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Speaker 1: so a bit prickly hot and a bit flushed. And

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Speaker 1: then the hardest part of the whole thing, The hardest

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Speaker 1: part of any cold water immersion is the decision to

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Speaker 1: do it. It's jumping into the swimming pool or just

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Speaker 1: getting wet that's making that decision the hardest. If you

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Speaker 1: make the decision you're going to do it. So you

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Speaker 1: turn the hot water off and the cold water on,

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Speaker 1: but you just wet your left foot, right, it's okay,

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Speaker 1: you know you're hot, and your left foot. Then you

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Speaker 1: do your leg, and then you do your right foot.

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Speaker 1: In your leg, your left hands and arm and your

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Speaker 1: other hand and arm. And what that does. It pushes

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Speaker 1: the warm blood. It constricts the book blood vessels in

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Speaker 1: your arms and legs, and that pushes all this warm

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Speaker 1: blood into your core. So you're still feeling warm even

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Speaker 1: though your arms and legs are cold. Keep breathing calmly

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Speaker 1: and smile to yourself, because that's what it's all about,

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Speaker 1: breathing calmly and smiling to yourself, being comfortably uncomfortable. And

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Speaker 1: then you take a really big breath in and as

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Speaker 1: you as you're slowly breathing out, you put your left

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Speaker 1: side in, and normally, when you put best side in,

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Speaker 1: the water would hit your neck where the blood vessels

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Speaker 1: are close to the surface, and that causes you That

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Speaker 1: would normally cause you for gasp, and that's the cold

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Speaker 1: water hyper ventilation reaction. But if you're already breathing out slowly,

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Speaker 1: when you do that you don't, but you do feel

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Speaker 1: the cold, but it doesn't have that emotional shot to it.

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Speaker 1: So you just slowly breathing out. You put your left

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Speaker 1: side in and you're right side in and your front

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Speaker 1: side in, and you chain yourself around. Then keep calmly

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Speaker 1: and smile to yourself, because that's what it's all about.

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Speaker 1: And then you put your whole head in. If you

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Speaker 1: take a big breath as you're brething out, and you

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Speaker 1: put your whole head in, move your head around, stand still,

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Speaker 1: get a drenching, slowly turn yourself around, continue breathing, calmly,

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Speaker 1: smile to yourself. That's what it's all about. And then

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Speaker 1: you go poke you put the water on your groin,

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Speaker 1: water on your kidneys, oh hokey, pokey, put the water

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Speaker 1: on your armpits, and then all the places vessels come

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Speaker 1: close to the surface. And you'll find if you do

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Speaker 1: that that takes about one minute. You end up standing

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Speaker 1: under the cold shower quite comfortably. And at that point

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Speaker 1: you're breathing comfortably and you can turn it off and

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Speaker 1: get out and you'll feel tingly and alive. And you've

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Speaker 1: started to day singing and dancing and doing something that

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Speaker 1: you didn't want to do, which makes everything else that

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Speaker 1: you don't want to do, if there's that conversation or

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Speaker 1: that job or that mess you have to clean up,

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Speaker 1: you've already practiced that whellpower of just getting along with

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Speaker 1: it and doing it. So that's that's and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: cost any money. You don't need a membership, you don't

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Speaker 1: need special clothes, you have to do anything other than

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Speaker 1: cold shower, so that's that's super easy. Or you can

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Speaker 1: buy a twenty grand Icepa and like yourself with the

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Speaker 1: whole hot tub scene room my spa sorta situation. So

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Speaker 1: it's as I say, there's high endways to do it,

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Speaker 1: there's always a way you can do it quite inexpensively.

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Speaker 2: Well, definitely in Melbourne, Like I try to finish my

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Speaker 2: showers with about a minute of just no no hot

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Speaker 2: water at all. And when I first started, it's fucking horrible,

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Speaker 2: but it just gets, it gets more and more, like

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Speaker 2: you get used to it over time and you get

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Speaker 2: out and there's just a lights up my brain like

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Speaker 2: a Christmas tree. It's just it's a really good feeling.

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Speaker 2: And also I think, you know, I don't really do

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Speaker 2: it for this, but for me there's a real psychological

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Speaker 2: and emotional benefit as well as the physiological like I

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Speaker 2: feel great, I feel more energetic, but I also feel

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Speaker 2: clarity and I you know, I what in terms of

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Speaker 2: like treating mental health using these kinds of mechanisms and treatments,

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Speaker 2: you know, and like depression and anxiety and which is

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Speaker 2: pretty rampant mental health, you know, and rather than reaching

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Speaker 2: for an anti axiotic or an antis So there is.

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Speaker 1: Good research on that. But again the problem is there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of research on cold water swimming as

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Speaker 1: an antidepressant. Yeah, it's not an industry. No one's making

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Speaker 1: money out of it, so it's not really widely promoted,

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Speaker 1: whereas prozacs are multi billion dollars and drug And just

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Speaker 1: on that point, one of my PhD students is I'm

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Speaker 1: Lauren Burns. She was or she's graduated now. So Lauren Burns.

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Speaker 1: She won the gold medalp for taekwon do at the

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Speaker 1: Sydney Olympics and she's an absolute champion of a human

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Speaker 1: being but also a world champion athlete. And in her

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Speaker 1: PhD she interviewed people who are multiple world champions and

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Speaker 1: asked the how do you stay at the top of

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Speaker 1: your game, How do you how do you say the

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Speaker 1: best in the world in your sport over multiple years?

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Speaker 1: What do you do? What do you think? How do

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Speaker 1: you perform? You know, what do you how do you practice?

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Speaker 1: And she were published a few papers on that, and

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Speaker 1: you know, mindset was the biggest factor. Social connection came

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Speaker 1: up really strong, and they hadn't been widely talked about.

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Speaker 1: But one of the things we did was ice bathing.

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Speaker 1: And when we interviewed them, or when Lauren interviewed them,

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Speaker 1: they said that they started doing ice bathing for recovery,

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Speaker 1: but they kept on doing it for the mental health

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Speaker 1: benefits because when they when they were doing in the

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Speaker 1: ice part, they're just in the in the ice part,

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Speaker 1: that they're not thinking about the past and the future,

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Speaker 1: what their competition's doing, and just gave them mental discipline

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Speaker 1: and that clarity and that focus. So and that was

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Speaker 1: that hadn't been talked about widely before. And this was

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Speaker 1: there was one Lane Beachley, who was the surfing World champion.

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Speaker 1: She but she spent most of the time in cold

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Speaker 1: water anyway. But all of the other athletes she interviewed

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Speaker 1: who are multiple world champions, audio icepaving and I all

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Speaker 1: said it was for the mental health benefits, not to

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Speaker 1: the physical recovery and benefits.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we love Laurence. She was on here a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago. She's a gun and I think also

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Speaker 2: unis A did did some research looking at exercise as

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Speaker 2: a treatment for depression, which like really really really outperformed drugs.

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Speaker 1: So bottle it. It'd be the most successful drug ever. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What's what's something that if anything that you've you have

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Speaker 2: ever done a one ad on where you got something wrong,

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Speaker 2: or you were taught told train something that you later

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Speaker 2: on went that's bullshit, or or there's a much better way.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything that you've either done a one id

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Speaker 2: on or really had to unlearn something.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. I haven't haven't thought about that before.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot, a lot that I learned

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Speaker 1: in medicine that is now no longer true, even though

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Speaker 1: I was taught it thirty forty years ago when I

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Speaker 1: was studying medicine. I mean, all the discussion about brown fat,

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Speaker 1: we were taught, you know, there's no brown fat in

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Speaker 1: the in the adult body. It's only in babies and

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Speaker 1: hibernating animals. And that's that's been a one ady for

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Speaker 1: the medical community, not me personally, who are saying, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: brown and fats in everybody and you can develop it,

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Speaker 1: and that the process you've described earlier where you gradually

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Speaker 1: get used to the cold, that was a process that

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Speaker 1: everyone went through every year one hundred years ago before

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Speaker 1: we had central heating. That as the winter got gone on,

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Speaker 1: it got each dag a little bit colder, and you

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Speaker 1: built up your brown fat stores and the brown fat

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Speaker 1: actually makes heat and protects you from the cold. So

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Speaker 1: that's there's all a whole lot of research now about

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Speaker 1: brown fatter and people using it but improving brown fat

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Speaker 1: to lose weights because brown fat eats up white fatter

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Speaker 1: uses white fatter's fudel to generate heat. But I think

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Speaker 1: the benefit it's not so much for the weight loss,

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Speaker 1: it's for the metabolic benefits that you get. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's where the medical communities change. The other thing I

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Speaker 1: guess is the whole our whole attitude of bacteria. Again

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Speaker 1: forty years ago and I started medicine, the bacteria of

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Speaker 1: the enemy. You know, you needed antibiotics, and germs were bad.

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Speaker 1: You know, you want to disinfect into antibiotics and all

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Speaker 1: these things, and now we're realizing, hey, germs are actually

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Speaker 1: the best thing ever. They're actually supporting our health and

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Speaker 1: not just in our gus. One of the biggest revelations

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Speaker 1: I had just it was only three four years ago,

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Speaker 1: this was published talking about the skin micro bio that

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Speaker 1: when I when I started medicine, we were taught you

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Speaker 1: the service area your skin is one point eight square meters,

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Speaker 1: which is about the size of the single bed. If

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Speaker 1: I skinned you and lay your skin out, it's about

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Speaker 1: the size of a single bed. But then they realize

646
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: there's a thought yeah, and then they use that measurement

647
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Speaker 1: for measuring the size of burns and the proportion of

648
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: the body for different things. But then someone calculated, oh, well,

649
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: there's actually three million sweatlands on the body and all

650
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: these sabaceous glands every time that the skin dips down

651
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: and comes back up, and if you stretch that out,

652
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: it's thirty square meters. It's the size of a cat.

653
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Speaker 1: And all those little glands in the sweatlands and the

654
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Speaker 1: sabacious glands when the skip the skin dives down, that's

655
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Speaker 1: where the bacteria live. And those plans secrete oils that

656
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 1: support good bacteria and those oils protect you from protect

657
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 1: your skin from drying out, They protect your skin sun

658
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: from sun damage and in cancer and sunburn. They also

659
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: feed the good bacteria that protect you from infection. And

660
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: that's that was never talked about in the past. And

661
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: what I've realized is when you bathe in chlorine, you

662
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: oxidize those oils and you get rid of those those

663
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Speaker 1: good bacteria, and you actually make your skin more prone

664
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Speaker 1: to drying out, more prone to sun damage, more prone

665
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Speaker 1: to wrinkles and aging, and more prone to infection. Wow.

666
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Speaker 1: So that's yeah, And that's that's when you think about it.

667
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, chlorinees and oxidizer. It kills bacteria. If you

668
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: if you're washing your skin with that, it's kind of

669
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: stripped the natural oils off. But those are your protection.

670
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: So that was a revelation to me. And I've always

671
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: been really keen on water, you know, and I do

672
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: have a water filled company and I promote that, but

673
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: it was really these and the whole water industry is

674
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: a it's a whole nother rabbit hole because water is

675
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: so complicated. But one of the simplest things you can

676
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 1: do to change your health is just improved the quality

677
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Speaker 1: of your water.

678
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Speaker 2: So is that just by filtering? I mean, obviously water

679
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Speaker 2: that's sitting in a plastic bottle in a hot car,

680
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 2: that's just a try. Can you just explain to people

681
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 2: what salts are and what they.

682
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: Do and disruptives. So, Falet's are a type of plastic.

683
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: They're used in a whole lot of they're often us

684
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: in fragrance, so they make smells last longer in the air.

685
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,479
Speaker 1: And but microplastics in water is one of the biggest issues.

686
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Speaker 1: I think it was the University of New South Wales

687
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: did some research about four or five years ago and

688
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: they used to make it in Australia and pretty much

689
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 1: everyone in the western world eats a credit card of plastic.

690
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 2: The week, a week a week.

691
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: I thought that was I thought that was a year.

692
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: Look it up.

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Speaker 2: And that's because that's because plastic, among other things, there's

694
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Speaker 2: plastic in our water. And when we have a plastic

695
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 2: bottle filled with water, especially when it's sitting anywhere near sun,

696
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 2: it leaches plastic into the water. Right.

697
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Speaker 1: And the think about the companies that make in a

698
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Speaker 1: bottled water, They don't make the water, they make plastic

699
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: bottles water. But yeah, we need a credit cardo plastic week.

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Speaker 1: Most of that comes from our water. Yeah, I do

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Speaker 1: the microplastics everywhere. Now there's nanoplastics, which is the next level.

702
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: So you're talking about thal aides and endochrome disrupting chemicals

703
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: that hang out on the plastics, and a lot of

704
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: those chemicals are what we call abe sigents. They make

705
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: you a bet, they take your commodal system, and they

706
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: cause infertility, and their carcinogenics they cause cancers. So pretty

707
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: much all the diseases of the modern world you can

708
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: trace back to us polluting ourselves, which is tragic when

709
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: you think about it. But again, I'd rather than try

710
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: and fight pollution, I'd say, Okay, how do we clean

711
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: it up? And how do we live without that? So

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00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: you filtery of water, and there are ways to do that.

713
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: You can even if you don't have a water filter

714
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: at home. If you've got a hot bath, you can

715
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: turn on the bath really hot, put the fan on

716
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: and wait twenty minutes and the chlorine will evaporate out.

717
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: And I do that in hotels and stuff, and I'm traveling,

718
00:38:58,320 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: so there are ways to get rid of CHLORI out

719
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Speaker 1: of it a system, and when you do that your

720
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: skin changes, actually you feel better the surface. There's ONTs

721
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: of little things that you can do, but affecting your

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Speaker 1: water and obviously food as well, just plastic packaging and food,

723
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Speaker 1: so that the increase in endocrime disrupting chemicals, not just

724
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Speaker 1: stalates but also I mean pfasts. They were talking about

725
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Speaker 1: the perfluorinated compounds and the forever chemicals. There's made a

726
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: couple of minutes about it recently. It's just a global

727
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: disaster and there's no living organism on Earth that isn't

728
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Speaker 1: impacted by these chemicals. Down at the bottom of the

729
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: Mariana Trench, ten kilometers down at the bottom of the

730
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Speaker 1: ocean to the top of Mount Everest, they're found microplastics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Have you heard of a guy called David

732
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Speaker 2: Gillespie who wrote Sweet Poison?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I haven't. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So he's one of Australia's most prolific writers. Is

735
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Speaker 2: a lawyer, but is a researcher, he's an inventor. Is

736
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Speaker 2: a little bit like you, and that he's quirky. You're quirky,

737
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 2: you know you're quirky. But he's a fucking genius. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: he and I talk. We do an episode once a fortnite,

739
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Speaker 2: and he's dead against seed oils and daletes and endocrime disruptors,

740
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 2: and he talks a lot about it, talks a lot

741
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Speaker 2: about the dumb shit we do to our body basically.

742
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Speaker 2: But he was talking recently, we're talking him. He was

743
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Speaker 2: wheeling out these figures about the rapidly declining testosterone production

744
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 2: in men, you know, and what the average how much

745
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 2: testosterone I can't remember the numbers, but it's like, compared

746
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 2: to seventy or eighty years ago, it's crazily low.

747
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Speaker 1: And he was suggesting that boom counts had gone down

748
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Speaker 1: too dramatically.

749
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sperm count sorry, that's what I meant is plummeted.

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Speaker 2: And he was saying that within the next ten to

751
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Speaker 2: fifteen years that like a lot of like a fair

752
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: percentage of males won't be able to produce enough sperm

753
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Speaker 2: to get someone pregnant. Essentially, like fertility.

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Speaker 1: Look at infertility is an epidemic in the modern world. Yes,

755
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: that's the way. Ten fifteen years, a lot of couples

756
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: have infertility issues, are having a sistive fertility because the

757
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: normal system doesn't work anymore.

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00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's crazy. So in terms of moving forward,

759
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 2: if somebody wants to do like a little bit of

760
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 2: a stock take on their own life, you know, their

761
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 2: own lifestyle is there. And I know there's no three

762
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Speaker 2: step plan for anything, doc, But if somebody is listening

763
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,479
Speaker 2: to this and they're like, where do I start? Because

764
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 2: when we go, oh, well, there's food, and there's sleep,

765
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 2: and there's lifestyle, and there's stress and anxiety, and then

766
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 2: there's booze and there's you know, there's should we take

767
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 2: should I take a drug for this? Or should I

768
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 2: have a cold shower? Or if somebody wants to, for

769
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 2: want of a better term, start to renovate their life

770
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 2: or change their operating system, where might they start?

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00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: I think you need to start where it's easy, where

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00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 1: you enjoy it, so and start with something you can

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00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: actually keep going on. Ye, So, and it all starts

774
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: with the decision to do it so that that will power.

775
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: So like hot and cold shower, that's a great place

776
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: to start because you're exercising will power. You don't need

777
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: to buy any equipment, you know, you can just do it.

778
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: And that little cold water hockey pokey I talked about.

779
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: You can just start with the first you know, you

780
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,919
Speaker 1: can spend a week just on your arms and legs

781
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: and then work up to the second verse, and then

782
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: you can do the whole thing. So I think you

783
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: want to do baby steps. You want to do something

784
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: that's sustainable. You want to do something that's fun, because

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00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: otherwise you're not going to keep it up, you know,

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00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: whether it's going you're getting a gym membership or doing

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00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: you know, jogging every morning or something. Unless it's fun

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00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 1: for you, it's hard to keep up. And then one

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00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: of the really effective things I found is changing your

790
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,879
Speaker 1: flavor profile by having more bitters in your life. Right,

791
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: and if you have more bitter, this is a Chinese

792
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: medicine sort of knowledge. You reduce sweet cravings. Most people

793
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: get their business from coffee and chocolate. That's where they

794
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: get their polyphenols as well, actually occidents in our life.

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00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: But increasing your range of business, so having and please

796
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: do that in Europe, and having a pair of teeth

797
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: before dinner, you know, a digestive with business, prepare your

798
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: liver for digestion and opens up your palace so you

799
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: enjoy your food more. You tend to eat less. You

800
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: tend to enjoy your food more, you digest better. And

801
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: you don't get the big blood sugar spike and it

802
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 1: actually stops you craving sweets. So tweaking your flavor profile

803
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: is much easier than going on a diet for meaning

804
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 1: your body to enjoy good food. Never even sort of that.

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00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 2: So where are you off? Do you go on somewhere

806
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 2: next week? Where you go?

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00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: I'm going to Phoenix, Arizona, So I'm going for the

808
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: shore to stay to the longest day and it's forty

809
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: six degrees integrated there today. But I'm at an ice

810
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: bath conference. There's Morosco Forge, there's an ice bath company

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00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: that have blown up with Joe Rogan support and they're

812
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: bringing you a whole lot of a whole about a

813
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: dozen researchers on ice bath. They're a beta talk to

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00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: each other and plan a conference for next year. So

815
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: and they invited me to go. I said, yeah, why

816
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: might sounds like fun meet some good people.

817
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 2: How ironic? How ironic that you go into one of

818
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 2: the hottest places on earth for an ice bath conference?

819
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: Exactly, that's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: How do people how do people find you doc and

821
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 2: connect with you and follow you?

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00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm not super active on socials. I do have a

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00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: Facebook and LinkedIn profiles just Mark Mark with a sea

824
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: and I have a website Doctor Mark d M A

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Speaker 1: r C dot co. And I've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: poems and all my academic I've got one hundred academic

827
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: papers and books and products and stuff that they can

828
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: get from my website. But I do try and post

829
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: about my life on Facebook and LinkedIn just to keep

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00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: people up to date with what I'm doing. And I'm

831
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: really open to having people contact me and yeah, where

832
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: I can, I can provide some value.

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00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate you will say goodbye here, but once again, Enlightening,

834
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 2: thanks for coming to have a chat on you project.

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00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: Great. It's always great to chat with you. Pray we

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00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: do it again sometime. Thanks TOC