14. Cold Water Exposure for Fat Burning, Mood Boosts, and More | Ultimate Human Short with Gary Brecka

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka

Gary Brecka

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Get weekly tips from Gary Brecka on how to optimize your health and lifestyle routines - go to https://www.theultimatehuman.com/ For more info on Gary, please click here: https://linktr.ee/thegarybrecka BODY HEALTH - USE CODE ULTIMATE10 for 10% OFF YOUR ORDER https://bodyhealth.com/ultimate If you’ve listened to the podcast or followed Gary, you know cold therapy should be part of every biohackers toolbox. In this episode, Gary discusses the benefits of cold water therapy such as cold showers and ice baths. There are so many physical and mental health benefits of doing cold plunges. Exposing yourself to cold water for even 1-3 minutes a day can improve mood, increase brown fat activation for fat burning, and exercise the vascular system. Listen in as Gary breaks down the benefits, the science, and how beginners can start with cold showers, working up to ice baths and cold plunges for 3-6 minutes to gain these benefits in a safe way without overstressing the body. 00:45 Benefits of cold water immersion and how to start. 02:15 How cold water exposure affects the body's vascular system. 04:00 How to get the benefits of cold therapy on a budget. 05:30 Cold water therapy's benefits for fat loss, muscle recovery and overall health. FOLLOW Gary Brecka: @garybrecka The Ultimate Human: @ultimatehumanpod Subscribe on YouTube: @ultimatehumanpodcast Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not provide medical advice. It is not intended for diagnosing or treating any health condition. Always consult a licensed healthcare professional before making health or wellness decisions. Gary Brecka is the owner of Ultimate Human, LLC which operates The Ultimate Human podcast and promotes certain third-party products used by Gary Brecka in his personal health and wellness protocols and daily life and for which Ultimate Human LLC and / or Gary Brecka directly or indirectly holds an economic interest or receives compensation. Accordingly, statements made by Gary Brecka and others (including on The Ultimate Human podcast) may be considered promotional in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys I'm human biologist Gary Braca.
0:03.0	Welcome to the ultimate human.
0:07.0	Hey guys, I'm human biologist Garycka. Welcome to the Ultimate Human
0:14.5	Podcast. I try to do a couple of these short videos each week that give you
0:19.1	practical real life from longevity, anti-aging, biohacking, and everything that makes regular human beings,
0:35.2	ultimate human beings.
0:36.8	And I'm going to spend a few minutes just talking about cold water exposure, cold immersion,
0:42.2	ice baths, cold showers, and what have you, because there seems to be a lot of confusion
0:46.2	about what temperature, how long should I take the shower before exercise, should I do it after
0:51.6	exercise, should I cold bath, before I go to the gym, should I do
0:55.1	it after I go to the gym.
0:56.9	So in the next five or eight minutes, I'm going to try to distill the real science down to
1:01.1	a practical application you could put to work in your life as early
1:04.8	as tomorrow morning so you can start to harness some of the benefits of what we call
1:09.1	cold water immersion or cold water therapy.
1:11.2	So for those of you that don't have access to a cold
1:13.9	plunge, but you do have access to a shower, most of the cold water
1:18.4	immersion experts agree that starting at one minute of as cold a shower as you can take and working your way up to three minutes
1:26.9	is adequate to get the majority of the benefits from cold water exposure.
1:32.0	You know, there's a lot of science out there that indicates
1:35.7	that colder is not necessarily better. So if you're a newbie to cold water
1:41.2	exposure and you've never done a nice bath.
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