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Hey, Power at the Nation, we have a cool one for you today with Dr. Craig Heller from Cool Mitt.

So I was a little skeptical when I got reached out to by Cool Mitt, they sent us some devices,

which actually are like, look like a cylinder, like imagine a large kind of thermos looking device

with some hoses and they fit into your hands to cool your palms.

So they sent me a bunch of the research and I went through it, but didn't do a super deep

dive and we've been just kind of using them intermittently within the gym, booked the podcast with

PhD Stanford professor Dr. Craig Heller, who's still a teaching professor, PhD in biology from Yale,

and has a interest in the roles of sleep and circadian rhythms in

learning and memory and more importantly temperature regulation for humans as it relates to

non-performance but every other facet from heart health hypertrophy and whatnot so they've developed

these cool mitt technology over a number of years.

And I am completely floored with, not only this podcast, the information and what he was talking about

for using it for hypertrophy studies and volume for pushups and pullups and some of the anecdotal stuff.

So we dig in on the elements of the cool

mitts, more importantly, how to cool the hands, how it works, what the temperature, and the

performance-enhancing effects, which he was able to, you know, claim and substantiate through research,

are very performance-enhancing steroid-esque. So it also also relates to hypertrophy and strength, but also to endurance.

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