The following is an operation podcast production. You're Uber driver. You're pulling up to your spot and you have to just quickly go, hey, this is what coal plunging is all about. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. You can talk about noraphenephrine and epinephrine, which is the same as noradrenaline and adrenaline. We can talk about the big social media stat, which is like 350% push of dopamine when you do a cold plunge, which is more than cocaine. There is a cascade of bliss and neurochemicals in the body that is going to make you feel in a heightened state and an excited state. And when you get out, you're going to have a parasympathetic rebound. You're going to have oxytocin if you do it with other people. So there's all these neurochemical reasons to do it.

But at the end of the day, I think stretching people to their greatest capacity.

And if someone's listening to this right now, knowing that you can do hard things, it is a mirror to everything else you do in your life.

Creating a stretch of your window of tolerance.

It's about giving you, you're deliberately doing something that's a bit beyond. You're finding your edges. And you are settling yourself into that edge so that you can

recognize how much stronger you actually are than you believe about yourself. And how you can

show up in the world with like, you get a greater capacity from it. As you push your edges,

you create resilience, right? This is like the point. This is the longevity piece. This is the way we show up in the world with like, you get a greater capacity from it. As you push your edges, you create resilience, right?

This is like the point, this is the longevity piece.

This is the way we show up in the world piece,

is being more resilient.

Hey, it's Kristen Weitzel.

I'm here on Ever Forward talking all about cold exposure therapy

and why it's amazing for you.

I don't always, the one on my front porch took like a year off for personal health matters.

And so I really want the audience just kind of think about and listen, is it worth it for me?

And get clarity as to what matters to you.

What are your goals? And maybe here's a way to kind of add it or optimize it a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of what is all a great opener,

I think a lot of what we see in the landscape of specifically cold too is the sensational

nature of it on like the gram. It's like Instagram and cold plunging and there's like a famous, you know, real or something where the guy is this like double-headed axe and is jumping off a fjord, you know, into the cold water that's like hundreds of feet below. I've seen that. Yeah. It's like, you know, and it makes it a little unapproachable to most people and specifically to females. I work with a lot of women who are like, okay, that's just like too much. It's like the dawn of biohacking when Ben Greenfield was like, I'm injecting things and redlighting my testicles and like, you know, and it just seemed like a lot of risk in there. But what I really see and what I really want to say to the audience and anyone who's listening is we're going to talk about cold and we'll talk about heat.

And these really are tools that have existed for thousands of years and extremely shifted the way that people did health and well-being before any of us who are alive on the planet today.

And if I'm thinking about it from the landscape of your audience, it's like what makes us able to be super present with ourselves, with our lives, with our families, with our friends?

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