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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot Com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to ball your Mind.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. What

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Speaker 1: are we talking about today, Julie, Well, before we start

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Speaker 1: talking about some yoga, have something to say. What's that all?

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Speaker 1: I never can go that. I like how your own

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Speaker 1: has kind of like it has kind of a twang

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of like kind of sounds like a

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Speaker 1: Jonas Janis Joplin kind of an home Yeah, my mom, Ye,

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Speaker 1: I'm right, mom, Okay, yeah, yeah, that's we We are

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Speaker 1: going to be talking about yoga and and uh, not

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Speaker 1: just the explosion of yoga in the West, but um

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Speaker 1: about some of the things that have come to light

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Speaker 1: recently about the ben if it's yoga and I guess

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Speaker 1: sound of what you could say are risks, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's uh, we should we should point out here

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Speaker 1: and all of this that neither of us are experts

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Speaker 1: in yoga by any stretch of imagination. However, yoga is

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Speaker 1: a part of both of our lives. How long how

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Speaker 1: long have you been taking yoga and practicing? Um about

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Speaker 1: fifteen years now? Wow? Ye see, so you've you've really

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Speaker 1: been at it. I've My wife and I started taking

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Speaker 1: it two or three years ago, so we're still fairly

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Speaker 1: new to it. But it's really it's really become an

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Speaker 1: important part of our lives and an important part of

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Speaker 1: my life. I feel like it I've benefited from it

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Speaker 1: in that I'm in I feel like I'm in better

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Speaker 1: shape physically from it. I feel like it aids my relaxation. Um,

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Speaker 1: I can't count the number of times where I've gone

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Speaker 1: maybe not a full on huff, but you know, I'll

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Speaker 1: be a little stressed out at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to you know, at the end of

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday, I've been trying to get stuff wrapped up,

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Speaker 1: us specifically wrapped up often for this podcast, you know,

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Speaker 1: getting getting research under wraps. And then then I go

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Speaker 1: to yoga and I'm all kind of a bundle of

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Speaker 1: and that, and then I come out of it and

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Speaker 1: I'm just in a different state of mind. I'm much

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Speaker 1: more relaxed and and uh and focused state of mind. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing. About yoga. It is transformative,

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Speaker 1: so fully, particularly since the nineteen nineties, because people have

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Speaker 1: discovered that even if they're a casual user of yoga

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Speaker 1: so to speak, um, you know, and they do a

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Speaker 1: for for a space there, maybe even just for five minutes,

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Speaker 1: my body completely relaxed, and more importantly, my mind, uh

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Speaker 1: you know, followed in line and I had a bit

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Speaker 1: of a peaceful moment. And that is the secret behind yoga, right,

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Speaker 1: this this sort of tranquility that it promotes in our minds,

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Speaker 1: in our bodies. I keep coming back to our Centaur

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what kind of poses they would get into,

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Speaker 1: But you don't really see him doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: we pointed out the the the idea that modern humans

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Speaker 1: body connection as a rider on a horse. We are

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Speaker 1: And yoga, in my experience, really feels like um. It

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Speaker 1: So that's a union between the mind and the body.

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Speaker 1: Um so. And and that's what we will see played

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Speaker 1: In fact, we have an article on the Sunhouse stuff works.

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Speaker 1: book that all Right. So who funds research, specifically who

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Speaker 1: you're gonna go for straight aerobic weight loss. Yoga is not. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and if weight loss is your primary goal, then then

429
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: then then yoga should probably not be your primary weapon

430
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: in the five Yeah, let me throw some stats at this. UM.

431
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: American College of Sports Medicine recommends that exercise or straw

432
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:54,679
Speaker 1: on fifty of their maximum oxygen uptake reserve, and Texas

433
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: State University researchers UM who are trying to get to

434
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Speaker 1: the bottom of this, found that women walking briskly on

435
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: a treadmill use about forty five of their maximum reserves,

436
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: while women doing a yoga routine used justent of the reserves. Okay,

437
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: so that right there is is sort of giving you

438
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: the math of like, well, you're not probably going to

439
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: reach the amount of calories burned to really lose weight

440
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 1: during yoga. Another two thousand and five study, this one

441
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: by the University of Wisconsin, found that their half a

442
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 1: sessions of yoga were burning just one and forty four calories,

443
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: which is similar to a slow walk. Okay, but with

444
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: the benefit here that that UM that a lot of

445
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: people are getting is that they're losing weight because once

446
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 1: you begin to practice yoga, you sort of slowed down

447
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: in terms of your intentions and you're thinking and what

448
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 1: you're doing to your body and what you're putting into

449
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: your body. So a lot of people when they begin

450
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: practicing and broad talks about this, to have this awareness

451
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,479
Speaker 1: of Okay, I'm not just eating, uh, you know, stuffing

452
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff into the whole. I'm stepping it

453
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: into me. I'm building a new body out of this food.

454
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a gateway, uh, to a better mind,

455
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 1: body understanding. Right right, So you all of a sudden

456
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: you just say, oh about corn dog? Those ten corn dogs?

457
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,439
Speaker 1: Do I really need ten corn dogs? I don't think so.

458
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: Or you begin to fill up and you become aware

459
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: that do you no longer have these sensations of hunger

460
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: and you quit eating. And that is a huge benefit

461
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: of yogurt, because it does. It's gonna gonna stand weird.

462
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: But hanging out in a pose for five minutes and

463
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 1: feeling uncomfortable, We'll put you in a situation where you

464
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: become very intimate with the thoughts in your brain and

465
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: the sort of loops that go around in your head.

466
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: And it really is a mini meditation. Yeah, I mean

467
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: I will find myself, you know, you put myself one

468
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: of those poses and then I'll remember that I'm not

469
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: thinking about whatever was occupying my mind NonStop. Um, you

470
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: know previously. I mean, for example, UM, I recently had

471
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 1: a couple of wisdom teeth taken out, which um, and

472
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in my thirties, which means that it's a

473
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: lot more in ten. It's apparently this has been my

474
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: what I've gathered because when I when I did get

475
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: him taken out, all these people were like, oh yeah,

476
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: I had them taken out in high school. And it's great.

477
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,880
Speaker 1: You know, they you can take a few days off

478
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: and they ge some pain medication. It's no big deal.

479
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: And you know it's maybe it's not any big deal. Um,

480
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: you know when you're in you're fifteen or sixteen, Well,

481
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: when you're in your your thirties, it's it's it's awful,

482
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: and it's it's uh, it's this awful thing, this this

483
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: awful violation of your mouth that just sticks with you

484
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: for for for weeks to follow, and and so and

485
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: and so I'm constantly thinking about it. And then I

486
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: found that, you know, going to yoga, uh, you know,

487
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: I'll be in imposed like I'll be in um uh

488
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: pigeon pose or something you know, which, which I find

489
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: is a good one where you're you're you're all, you're

490
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: all tensed up, you're in this pose. It's yeah, yeah,

491
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 1: it's I wouldn't I don't want to describe it as uncomfortable,

492
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: but it is. You have to submit. Yeah, you're very

493
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: present in what your body is doing. And then I

494
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: would find myself just completely forgetting about what my mouth

495
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: was doing, you know, and uh, you know which I'm

496
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: not saying it allowed me to you know, erase pain

497
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: or something, but it made me forget about the thing

498
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: that I was constantly punching my brain in the face with. Well,

499
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: but then it's reducing your stress too, right, So I mean,

500
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: we know how the whole pain loop um and the

501
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: biofeedback works. So if you can interrupt that, which yoga

502
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 1: does a great job, then you can see the pain.

503
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 1: And a lot of people will say like, actually, there

504
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: are there are several different things. When you get in

505
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: that sort of flow, people will say that they have,

506
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: you know, this interruption of pain. And some of that

507
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: is music. Some people who have chronic pain UM, if

508
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: they perform music or sing um, they can they can

509
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: stop that cycle. Or yoga is another good example. Um,

510
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean what I'm saying weight loss aerobics,

511
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: that's probably not gonna be your path to to you know,

512
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: dropping twenty pounds instantly, but you know, a yoga regimen

513
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: is definitely going to help in the long term, just

514
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: in terms of you being able to get your head

515
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: around you know, how your body is working and what

516
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: you're doing to it. Yeah, I mean a lot of

517
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: its breathing to just becoming conscious of of everything you're

518
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: doing at a given moment. What are my limbs doing,

519
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 1: what is my breath doing? And again just becoming conscious

520
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: of body well and getting getting comfortable with discomfort. Right. Um.

521
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 1: Metabolism this is another thing um that comes up in

522
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: terms of weight loss or just overall fitness. UM. In

523
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: a two thousand and six study by physiologists Miasandra as Shaya,

524
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 1: she found that regular practitioners cut their basil metabolic rate

525
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: on average by This is excellent, right, This means that

526
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: you're becoming much more adept at managing stress. By gender,

527
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: it was an eight percent reduction for men in an

528
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: eighteen percent reduction for women. But this has led to

529
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: a reduction in basil metabolic rate that no longer now

530
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: requires as much food and calories to stoke metaboli. Uh,

531
00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: your metabolism. Right, So in other words, when metabolism drops

532
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: to these degrees, the body doesn't need t corn dogs, right,

533
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: And if you continue to eat those corn dogs with

534
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: reduced basil metabolic rate, you're going to gain weight. Ah,

535
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: this is the bummer part of it. Right. So if

536
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: you you get in the habit of yoga, but you

537
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: don't necessarily break the habits of eating that are yeah,

538
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 1: that are happening else Yeah, and now when when? And

539
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: I don't know the specifically specifics of this because broad

540
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: doesn't really go into this to saying to the degree

541
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: that these people were yogis like, you know, did they

542
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: practice three hours a day or you know, twice a week.

543
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: Did they have a certain certification with a certain style

544
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: of yoga which you get into whole hour of certification

545
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: that are required. Yeah. You know, if you're doing oshtanga

546
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: or something that's a little bit more rigorous than you're

547
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: probably your basil metabolic rate probably isn't going to drop

548
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: quite as slow. But the point is here is that

549
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: you know, you you know, they used to think that okay,

550
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: you could do yoga just as well as dogging, and

551
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: you get your heart rate up and you'd be able

552
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: to burn as many calories. But that's not happening here.

553
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: But that's still this is good news because we're gonna

554
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: talk about it in a little bit. But um, lowering

555
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: your metabolism is huge hate ability, and in fact, it

556
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: would really make sense, particularly if you were a yogi

557
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: um turn of the century who couldn't find a lot

558
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: of food, who was having to sort of batten down

559
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: the hatches of energy. To to have the skill to

560
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: to lower your metabolism would be great, right, Yeah, yeah,

561
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: I mean you could guess you do some means of

562
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: coping with with hunger, I mean real hunger and that

563
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: you know Western I need tin corn dogs hunger, but

564
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: legitimate hunger. Okay. Another claim that comes up is oxygen Like,

565
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: if you do this this routine, your body is going

566
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: to be flush with oxygen um. And certainly you you've

567
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: become you become conscious more conscious of your breathing, and

568
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: as you're you're getting your heart rate up, you are

569
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: breathing more. So you can under stand where this idea

570
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: comes from, right, But it turns out that no matter

571
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: how fast or flow. You breathe, you get generally the

572
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: same amount of oxygen into your body and into your brain. Okay,

573
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: so it doesn't really matter. Yoga does not it's not

574
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: going to change the amount of oxygen that you absorb.

575
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: What changes, and this is actually can have several different ramifications,

576
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: is the amount of carbon dioxide in your system that

577
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: all of that breathing. And so there's something like the

578
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: cabala body breath. This is called the breath of fire

579
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: skull shining. Wait, wait, is this the one where I inhale?

580
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, like you have that one? Sorry everybody,

581
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's how it gets. And basically what you're

582
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: doing is you're taking your your belly button and try

583
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: to you're forcing it against the back of your spine,

584
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: and you're breathing really fast and now for your nose.

585
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: But your stomach is like a rubber band. It keeps

586
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

587
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: And then I breathe that. Yeah, well that puts a

588
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: lot of carbon dioxide into your blood. That that feeling

589
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: like you're about to pass out. That's why it's not

590
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: necessarily it's I mean, it's not necessarily bad for you,

591
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: but of course. Um. You know, there's a whole list

592
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: of things that of the reasons why you probably shouldn't

593
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: practice it, like if you were pregnant. Um. But anyway,

594
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: that's sort of this idea of Okay, we're getting all

595
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: this oxygen. You're just replenishing your vile organs with oxygen.

596
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: That's not necessarily the case. Yeah, I mean you get

597
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: into situations with a lot of stuff in yoga where

598
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: you're you're putting your body in a position or you're

599
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: doing something with your breath where it allows you to

600
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: feel something that you don't normally feel, and an awareness

601
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: of your body that is not normally present. So it's

602
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: very easy then to layer some some fiction on top

603
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: of an experience and making into something it's not right.

604
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: And at the same time, though your body is undergoing

605
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: these these changes that are are affecting your mood. Um.

606
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about that in the benefits a little

607
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: bit more. Um. I mean there there's there's real manifest

608
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: station here. Now. I don't want to want I say fiction.

609
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to imply that putting a little a

610
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: layer of fiction or you know, or myth or whatever

611
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: on top of a sensation can't help you maybe understand

612
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: and empower you, uh to a sense. I don't want

613
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: to just completely discount idea serpents and chakras and what

614
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: have you. I think it's it's all, it's all valid. Well,

615
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,479
Speaker 1: that's the power of storytelling, right, we talked about that,

616
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: putting a little power of storytelling on top of this

617
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: weird pain that is going through my leg. You know. Um,

618
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: I think it's totally fine. Now. I think we should

619
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: take a break. Yeah, we probably should. Yeah, when we

620
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: come back, we will talk about some of the risks

621
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: and then some of these incredible rewards, including those Yeah,

622
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: well that pose, Well, we'll talk about a potential account

623
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: of you. All right, we're back. You can you can

624
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: go into child's pose now and uh and we'll venture

625
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: into the into the second half of them. No, no,

626
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: you you stay in pigeon. Okay. Alright, So William Jay

627
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:14,240
Speaker 1: broad rancor yoga community, and specifically because he talked about

628
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: some of the risks, um, when he is talking about

629
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,479
Speaker 1: the risk, he's talking mainly about the neck region. Yeah,

630
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: and it's important to note here too that like like

631
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: my yoga class, the many class I go to, uh,

632
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: my teacher is really great about stressing. Hey, don't overdo it,

633
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, come in, UM do what's comfortable for you.

634
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: Don't try to compete with yourself or with other people

635
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: in the class. Don't trying to impress anybody, and and

636
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: you know, be mindful of the risk. Not every class

637
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: is like this, and not every practitioner or potential practitioner

638
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: rather is going to be that mindful of all this.

639
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: You get me. I mean, that's that's how most of

640
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: these injuries happen. It seems like people come in and

641
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: they either get into a moment where I'm going to

642
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: try to impress this person or or I'm gonna do

643
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: what I feel like I should be doing and not

644
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: what my body is telling me to do. Yeah, and um,

645
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: you know William J. Brod does he he does bring

646
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: that up. He says, there's this sort of neophyte problem

647
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: to it, right, because if you don't really know how

648
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: to get out of the poses and how it affects

649
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: you yet, then you probably shouldn't try some that that

650
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: um are more extreme or UM put more extreme pressure

651
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: on your body. And UM, like I was telling you about,

652
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: I was in a class and I go to I

653
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: take close of the y m c A. So you

654
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: get people that will come in like forty five minutes

655
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: into a class and they'll be advised, Hey, it could

656
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: be dangerous if you start a yoga class forty five

657
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: minutes in and then you know this. I watch somebody,

658
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: like an overweight person in socks go up into wheel

659
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: and they did not snap in half and have to

660
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: be carried off to the hospital. This time you can. Yeah,

661
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: wheel is a backward bend and it's basically going up.

662
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: I think sure everybody is familiar with the image of

663
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: the ridge right where you're on your back and you

664
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: go up into bridge. This five earls can snap in

665
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: and out of this, no problem. Um, But it's it's

666
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: a it's really um. It's it takes a lot of

667
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: effort to get your body up in that position and

668
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: you're essentially your head is upside down, your neck is

669
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: crooked back quite a bit. And this is what Broad

670
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: is talking about. He's saying that these poses that really

671
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: bend your neck. You know, these ninety degree angles are

672
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: putting a lot of pressure on your cervical vertebrae. And

673
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 1: what a lot of people don't realize is that there

674
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: are vertebral arteries that are basically looping themselves within this

675
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: framework of vertebrae up in your neck. So it's like

676
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: sort of this intricate um snaking of these arteries. So

677
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: when you're bending your head back that much, you're putting

678
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of pressure e pressuring pressure. Um. And

679
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: so he's talking about in poses like headstand. I think

680
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: everybody's familiar with that, shoulders stand and which you swing

681
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: your your legs up over your head. Yeah, kind of

682
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: like the bicycle thing that you would do in elementary

683
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: school gym. Yeah, if you're in your back um wheel again.

684
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: And then something called plow and plow is that Actually

685
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: when I just said shoulder stand, I was just um

686
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: talking about plow um. When you're in shoulder chain, you

687
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: just swing your legs over. Oh yes, okay, yeah, so

688
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: they go over your head. So basically anything that puts

689
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: torque on the neck. So again these are not well

690
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: known arteries. And the problem here is that everybody is

691
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: structured differently. So your your the way that your arteries

692
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: loop in there and the way that your cervical vertebrae

693
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: are are going to be different from another person. In

694
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: other words, or some people don't have much room in there. Yeah,

695
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: and that's the thing. You go into a class like

696
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: this and people start going to a pose, it's it's

697
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: easy to fall into the thinking, oh, that's what our

698
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: bodies do, that's what my body should do. But everyone's

699
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: body is different. Sounds cliche, It is cliche, but it's true. Yeah,

700
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: he says, like, there's no m r I machine when

701
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: you go through the doors of yoga studios, so it's

702
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: not like you know exactly where you're the oddities might

703
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: be in your framework. Yeah, I mean, on a very

704
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 1: simple level, not everybody can touch their toes. Not everybody

705
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: should touch theirs, you know. And uh, when you get

706
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,399
Speaker 1: into much more um, when you when you get into

707
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: this neck region, when you get in the vertebrae, um,

708
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: you can have potentially devastating results from pushing things too far. Yeah.

709
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: In fact, what he's talking about is, Okay, let's say

710
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: you tork those arteries and then you tear them. Um,

711
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: you get some blood clots there, right, come on the post,

712
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: the clot sales up to your brain and you have

713
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: a stroke. That's the problem. Now he's saying that this

714
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: is very rare, so we shouldn't. Yeah, we shouldn't all

715
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: you know be uh, you know, like, oh, this is

716
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 1: gonna happen tomorrow. It is very rare. He's saying, you know,

717
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: something like three cases a year, and of those three

718
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 1: d cases, less than five result and death. Um. But

719
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: he is saying that it's something that people should be

720
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: aware of. Personally, I don't do a headstand or Childer's

721
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: stand or any of that anymore, and I haven't for

722
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: about five years now. UM. But he the problem here

723
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: is that, um, you know, case after case of someone

724
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: in their twenties and their thirties coming out of a

725
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: pose and then having a stroke anywhere from you know

726
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: then to thirty six hours later gives you this gray

727
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: area of well did that really cause the stroke? Because

728
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: you know, correlation is not causation, as we know. But

729
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: he is saying that the problem here is that we

730
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 1: don't have you know, medical Um science hasn't really said

731
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: let's study these strokes in yoga in earnest and try

732
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,879
Speaker 1: to figure out what's happening. But he's saying there's enough

733
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: cases of really healthy people practicing yoga who have had

734
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: strokes that we should stop and we should look at

735
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: the evidence here of how tenuous this artery is um

736
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: and how we should respect it a little bit more. Yeah,

737
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: I mean respect is respecting the body and respecting the

738
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: limitations and fragility of the body is important, because that's

739
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: another thing about coming into something like yoga if you

740
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: if you haven't, And yoga appeals to a wide number

741
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: of people, but it often appeals to people who have

742
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: not been all that physically active, who do not have

743
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: a lot of experience or any experience with sports or

744
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: athletic related injuries. I mean I was, I'm the same

745
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: way like prior to yoga, my main the main thing

746
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: I ever did with swimming, which is very low impact.

747
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: You know, I never injured myself swimming. Uh, maybe I

748
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: balked my head, you know on the concrete once or twice,

749
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: but that I can remember. But but for the most part,

750
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: you're not gonna strain something or be limping around after

751
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: you've done some laps. Uh. You going to yoga, it's

752
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: a different story. And if you don't have experience with

753
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: straining too hard and busting something, you're inevitably gonna end

754
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 1: up on that, you know, in that class where you

755
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: you do go a little too far and then for

756
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: the first time you're you learned what it's like to

757
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: to to to to suffer you know, sports or athletic injury. Okay,

758
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 1: so into that point, I'm gonna bring up bit Chrome

759
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: and I'm not picking on Bickram, and Broad is not

760
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: picking on Bickram either. He's just saying that when you

761
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,240
Speaker 1: heat a room to a hundred and four degrees hundred

762
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: and three degrees degrees um, what you're doing is not

763
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: only are you making everybody sweat um last night's dinner

764
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: out um, which always you know, culminates into a great

765
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: funk in the in the yoga room, um, but what

766
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: you're doing is is you're creating an environment in which

767
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: the joints, the muscles all get very loose, and all

768
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,439
Speaker 1: of a sudden you feel like, oh I can do

769
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,959
Speaker 1: all these incredible poses. I am gumby. But he's saying

770
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 1: that what happens is that you are pushing your body

771
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: to its outer limits. That in normal conditions, in a

772
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: normal conditioned room, um, with normal temperatures, your body would

773
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: be telling you, hey, this is too much, don't do this.

774
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: So he's saying that that is very injurious in a

775
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: sense because people are going beyond their odder limits. Like

776
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: my teacher always stresses that if you're you're you're in

777
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: a posed each should not hurt. You know, there's that

778
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: level of I am stretching, I am You know that

779
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm that that I'm engaging the muscles and

780
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,479
Speaker 1: I'm engaging my my bones. But I should not feel

781
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: like I am hurting my bones and my muscles, because

782
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: that is a clear sign you're pushing the boundaries and

783
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: you're just you. You know, you're potentially just a slight

784
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: tweak away from an injury. Yeah, this has when ligaments

785
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: and Carl nch get torn right and over and over again.

786
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: Too broad. His said that he's seen this um in

787
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: studies with with hot yoga. Um, you know, you you

788
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: run a risk of dislocations and springs. I mean it

789
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: just goes on and on. And I have taken hot yoga.

790
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: I've I have actually really enjoyed it once I got

791
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: over the fact that I felt like I was in

792
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:47,479
Speaker 1: a jungle trying to survive to my next breath. But um,

793
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: but I did understand, like, you know what, I need

794
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: to take it easy here because I do feel like

795
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: I could just pop up into wheel, you know, in

796
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: two seconds here, and what is that doing to my

797
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: body under these extreme circumstances. Um? Okay, so enough with

798
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: the downer stuff. Let's talk about telomeres and all these

799
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: really incredible things that yoga does. I mean, we're not

800
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: just talking about strength, right, because you're you're using your

801
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: own body weight to to increase your muscle mass right

802
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: when you're in these poses. Um, it's creating endurance, balanced flexibility. Um.

803
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: But also something called autonomic control. Okay, for starters, we

804
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 1: have blood pressure. We have seen in studies that yogis

805
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: are able to manipulate, um, control over their blood pressure, which,

806
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: as we all know, that's a that's a good thing.

807
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: I mean, and been able to want to say, manipulated

808
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: bring it down right, not not rocking it up. Well.

809
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: Hence the again this idea that you know, some yogis

810
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: are were supernatural, um and could do these superhuman strengths. Um.

811
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 1: But here's a here is actually a sort of superhuman thing. Um,

812
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: there's a mind over matter example. UM. Researchers show that yogis,

813
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: or at least one yogi in Broad's book, could create

814
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: a gap up to eleven degrees across this palm, a

815
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: gap in difference of times between his body in his palm. Um.

816
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: So this is why scientists have begun to take interest

817
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: in Yogi's because through the scientific lens, you can really

818
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: start to see parallels to animal hibernation. We've talked about

819
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: this like suspended animation. How can how can we harness

820
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: this mind body connection to manipulate our bodies to do

821
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: really things that they're not supposed to do or superhuman

822
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: things like this. Yeah, and so if I mean, if

823
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: you're you're able to adjust blood pressure, I mean we're

824
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: talking about improving cardiovasca health as as a whole. Uh,

825
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 1: and this can affect such factors as you know, um

826
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: it's high blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, um, and and

827
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: even you know, tinker with the proteins that involved in

828
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: blood clouding on a beneficial way. So so that's good.

829
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: And the other just really incredible thing that I found,

830
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: um in in Broad's book was this idea of telomeres

831
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: and extending them. Yeah, we've we've mentioned before telomeres and telomeres.

832
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: This gets down to these little um like DNA shoelaces

833
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: that kind eventually begin to unravel and as they unravel,

834
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: thus is the process of aging. Things start to go downhill.

835
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: Your body starts to suck and uh that's all she wrote. So, uh,

836
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: we we have seen that that yoga, of course reduces stress,

837
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: and then in reducing stress, one can actually reduce the

838
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: unraveling of those telomeres and the eventual suckage of said body. Yeah,

839
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: because it turns out that stress is one of the

840
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: things that erodes the tips of of UM DNA, right,

841
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: this is and this is what tel moras, the enzyme

842
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: can come in and deliver more genetic information and actually

843
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: extend those tips. So stuff like disease, um, you know,

844
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: chronic stress that's going to whittle away at our biological

845
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: clocks because that's really what telomeres are, these biological clocks

846
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: that are kicking. So if you can lump more material

847
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: and it extend these DNA tips, then this is a

848
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: sort of fountain of youth. And when I say this, UM,

849
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: I don't mean to say like, oh, you know, you

850
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: know indefinitely, if you just do yoga, we're all going

851
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Speaker 1: to live for the rest of our lives. Um. But

852
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: it does show that yoga can slow biological aging and

853
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Speaker 1: a Harvard physician and health superstar Dean Ornish. I'm sure

854
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: a lot of people have heard of him, looked at

855
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: twenty four men who took up his health regimen. The

856
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: subjects were aged fifty to eighty and did yoga for

857
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Speaker 1: an hour days, six days a week over three months,

858
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Speaker 1: and they had their tel Mara's levels. These ensign levels

859
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: taken before and after the study. And in addition to

860
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: the decline in the cholesterol, as you say, blood pressure,

861
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,479
Speaker 1: in general anxiety, it was found that the post yoga

862
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: subjects tell Moray's levels shot up by that to me

863
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: is wow, I mean, whoa, That's a reason to do

864
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: yoga right there. Yeah. And then there's also little something

865
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Speaker 1: called gabba, which is not not yogaba kaba, but the

866
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 1: neuro transmitter that is tied in with the heightened moods.

867
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Speaker 1: If you've ever been a supplement junkie, then you've probably

868
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: run across GAPA pills at your local health food store

869
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: and it's a low levels of GABBA have been linked

870
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: to depression and uh so Broad reported that scientists from

871
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and McLean

872
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 1: Psychiatric Hospital found that the brains of yoga practitioners showed

873
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: increases in GABBA levels um. And apparently it was more so. Uh,

874
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: it was more prevalent in more experienced yoga practitioners as well. Yeah, yeah,

875
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: it's something uh rise in the regular practitioners, and then

876
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: in newbies it was just rise. But that is still

877
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: a significant amount of gabba neurotransmitters hanging out in your brain. Yeah.

878
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: Less stress, I mean less stress is less stress, So

879
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: that's great, but less stress less less uh, decaying of

880
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 1: the Tell me here's longer life. It's all good. Yeah. Yeah.

881
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: And then here's one more thing to throw at you,

882
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 1: because I know, I feel like we're starting to sound

883
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 1: like a Ginzoo NiFe commercial, but here we have. It's

884
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: the immune system. Um. Also it benefits from yoga. The

885
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Speaker 1: vadgist nerve which runs from the brain stem to the

886
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Speaker 1: torso um. And by the way, that just has etymological

887
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: roots with vagabond, right, because it's a sort of vagabond

888
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: of your body, this this nerve. UM. We know that

889
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: the nerve central action is to regulate and slow the heart,

890
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: this nerve, but more recently we found out that also

891
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: regulates the immune system and it helps to fight inflammation,

892
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: and so there have been studies with people who suffer

893
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: from rheumatoid arthritis who have really found that poses that

894
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: flex their spine and stimulate the Vadgish nerve are finding

895
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: a lot of um, a lot of benefits to being

896
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: able to walk without pain and all these great things.

897
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: And of course it's nature's viagra. Yes, yeah, And we'll

898
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: we'll get into the the sexual benefits of yoga in

899
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Speaker 1: our additional podcast that we're doing this week on yoga,

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Speaker 1: which was titled Yoga Sex Magic, So tune into that

901
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: one if you want to hear more about it. But

902
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 1: but studies have shown that yoga does lead to improvements

903
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: in one's sex life. So yeah, we'll leave it at

904
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Speaker 1: that in your imagination. So we're gonna since we're going

905
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: a little longer, I'm gonna skip listener mail on this episode,

906
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,399
Speaker 1: but I do want I do think we should leave

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Speaker 1: everyone with with some encouragement, uh, some added encouragement for yoga. Um.

908
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 1: And we're both yoga advocates, so we're gonna advocate it here.

909
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say, if if yoga sounds at

910
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: all interesting, give it a try, and not just one

911
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: try give it a couple because the first time I

912
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: took yoga, I did not like it, and I do

913
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: not think I would have gone back had my wife

914
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: not been interested in trying get some were I mean,

915
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Speaker 1: it's just it's not necessarily gonna grab you that first time.

916
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Speaker 1: But but if you know, give it a chance, and

917
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: give various styles a chance. Like I said, maybe Black

918
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: Death yoga is you're there, are definital yoga is your thing. Yeah,

919
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: maybe diamon Dallas Page just yoga is your thing or

920
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: or you know, and it's all gateway. Maybe you get

921
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: a taste of it and then you find something that's

922
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: really more suited for what you want. But there's a

923
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: lot out there on the buffet. Yeah, and I know

924
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Speaker 1: that I love my studio because they cater to pretty

925
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: much everyone under the sun. So if you have some

926
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Speaker 1: physical limitations, there's cheer yoga, there's um yoga for depression

927
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Speaker 1: and anxiety relation yoga. There's there's yoga for veterans actually

928
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: as well in my studio, which is great, um Nato yoga.

929
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Speaker 1: There's post Nato yoga. There's you know, yoga for for

930
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 1: mothers in their their their their infants, so there's there's

931
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:54,720
Speaker 1: a wide variety of stuff out there. So yoga for magicians, Yeah, yeah, probably,

932
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna doubt anywhere at this point. Um, but yeah,

933
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Speaker 1: look around and you know, and if and if yoga

934
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: definitely isn't your thing, you know, find something some sort

935
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: of activity out there. Um. If nothing else, just try

936
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: to think a little bit bit about your breathing during

937
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: the daily life and see where it takes it. Let's

938
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Speaker 1: do it now, Okay, So where can you find us?

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Speaker 1: You can find us on Facebook where we are stuff

940
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: to Blow your Mind, and you can also find us

941
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: on Twitter where our handle is blow the Mind. And

942
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: you can also send us a line at blow the

943
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Speaker 1: Mind at discovery dot com for moral this and thousands

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