Hello, hello, hello. Hey everybody. What's up? It's your buddy Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. That's right. On today's show, it's a micro show. And we are talking about one of my favorite things on the planet, cold therapy. You probably saw that from the title of the show before you even press play. And what is cold therapy?

Why do I care?

And most importantly, why should you care?

I think it's reasonable to open with a little bit of a backstory.

So the first time I had experience with any cold therapy at all, I was a young athlete,

and I sprained my ankle.

And I was told by the sports medicine doctor to put ice on it because

ice would limit the inflammation. And when I'm limiting the inflammation or reducing the

inflammation, the swelling, that it may allow it to heal faster. Now, fast forward to me being a scholarship athlete at San Diego State, I went and played soccer.

The first year I got to San Diego State, we had a world-class training facility there,

sports psychologists, sports medicine doctors that were taking care of our team.

We were one of the top 10 teams in the country, D1.

And so there was a lot of attention paid to our health and a lot of research going on.

And when I got there the first year, when we were injured or just had a lot of, because

there's a ton of running in soccer, obviously. We got in the habit,

our team at the suggestion of our doctor, of icing from basically from the knees down. And so

after every practice or a couple times a week at least, we were icing. And fast forward five years,

I was at the five year college program because being an athlete.

And my last year there, we were taking full ice baths up to our neck.

And the research was moving so quickly and the health benefits that we were experiencing

on our team that the research was yielding was that, wow, it turns out cold is

actually very good for you.

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