200: Hot & Cold Therapy for Yoga Students
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 28 April 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
If you want to start an argument among yoga students, just mention the phrase "hot yoga." Love it or hate it, Hot Yoga has spread across the globe faster than any other style—and there are solid health benefits that few people are aware of. As a yin to the yang that is Hot Yoga, cold therapy and cryotherapy are now the new new thing with ice baths and freezer chambers all over social media.
But is heat really good for you? And what about cold? And why?
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, Lucas dives into some of the latest
research about the benefits and risks associated with heat and cold
therapy for yoga students.
MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: both heat and cold therapy can be dangerous and
even fatal. This is meant for informational purposes only and
should not be considered medical advice. Never practice heat or
cold therapy alone, and ideally practice under expert
supervisions.
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What You'll Learn:
- Why sweating does release toxins
- How heat can help build muscle
- How heat and increase growth hormone
- How heat can improve sugar metabolism
- How cold can trigger norepinephrine
- Why cold is not always a smart choice
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Are black beans a good source of protein?
Links & References from the Show:
- Nickel, Copper, Zinc, and Lead
- Arsenic & Lead
- Phthalates (DEHP and MEHP) [1] [2]
- Reduced heart attack risk (23%-48%) – 2300 Finnish men
- Increased anti-oxidant system of the body
- Improved Lipid Profile (lowers LDL and triglycerides)[1][2]
- Increased Endurance Performance (red blood cells and plasma up)
- Human Growth Hormone 100-500% increase
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| 0:59.3 | I just got back from a trip to Iceland. I was teaching a workshop there and as you probably know Iceland is the land of fire and ice. They have lots and lots literally hundreds of |
| 1:05.7 | thermal springs and really cold water. So I went swimming in two degree |
| 1:10.2 | water and I went into very two degree Celsius water and very warm thermal |
| 1:15.2 | springs as well as high as 40 degrees Celsius. I also did a sweat lodge and jumped |
| 1:20.2 | in the sea and a whole bunch of other things and this kind of rekindled my interest in hot and cold therapy. Had some interesting |
| 1:26.2 | conversations with people and I've been messing around with heat and cold for |
| 1:30.2 | many many years and I think there's a lot of misconceptions about how and when and why to use |
| 1:35.6 | heat and cold so I thought we'd dedicate a show just to that so here we go hot and cold |
| 1:41.5 | therapy 101. |
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