Dr. Mark Harper: Cold Water Swimming is a Remedy for Overall Body Health

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Cold water has elevated my life in many ways since that first polar plunge about a decade ago. Since then, I’ve experienced tremendous benefits- you’ve heard me on my soapbox, so I wanted to have the cold water swimming legend Dr. Mark Harper on this show to give us a scientific approach. We also get into his new book, Chill: The Cold Water Swim Cure.

Dr. Mark Harper, MD, Ph.D., is a consultant anesthetist at Sussex University Hospitals, UK, and Kristiansand, Norway. He is a leading expert in preventing hypothermia in surgical patients, the therapeutic uses of cold-water adaptation, and open-water swimming. Dr. Harper is also co-creator of Chill UK, a nonprofit body committed to providing cold water swimming courses to improve mental health. He is the director of Mental Health Swims and has been featured in the BBC documentary “The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs.”

In today’s episode,

The physiological benefits of cold water
How cold water swimming is therapeutic for depression, anxiety, stress, chronic pain, and other ailments.
The power of community and how to find your tribe
Lifestyle vs. medicine

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to the show. I have long been about cold water,
0:11.3	and you're probably sick of it. Right now, if you're just like, wait, I'm not a cold water person.
0:15.9	Chase is talking about cold water. I'm going to skip it. Don't do that, because to me, this is the best,
0:20.7	most interesting
0:22.0	aggregate of why it's beneficial, how it's not hard if you're at all remotely curious, why I
0:31.7	talk about it so much and why so many of the top performers in the world welcome cold exposure.
0:37.7	This is the show. And we we have as a guest, Dr. Mark Harper.
0:43.5	Now, in this show today, we talk about how to achieve powerful, tangible health, wellness,
0:51.0	and mentality benefits with combining science, case studies from individuals. And I'm telling
0:57.7	you, cold water has cured some crazy things, right? Not just chronic pain, not just arthritis,
1:03.1	things that you think about, but things like anxiety, depression, even PTSD and migraines.
1:08.8	So if my ranting hasn't been enough over the course of the past 10 years, if what Dr.
1:14.5	Mark says does not at least open your mind, your heart to getting a cold shower every
1:21.0	once in a while, then I don't know what will.
1:22.5	I promise to stop, but this is an outstanding episode.
1:25.9	I can't wait for you to listen to yours
1:27.6	truly and Dr. Mark Harper. Let's get into it.
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