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information without first speaking with your doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hey everyone, this is

Dr. Rucho. Welcome back to Dr. Rousho. And today, we will be covering some research updates

regarding diet, lifestyle, sleep health, hormone health, and optimization.

I'm trying to partition these to probiotics as the one, gut health, as the other, thyroid

as yet another, and then one more kind of popery, everything I feel pertinent and within my and the clinic area of focus

with this podcast. So there's a lot here to unpack and I'm very excited to jump into this

discussion with you. And we'll start off with the interesting topic we have discussed and

actually had Scott Carney on the podcast. If you remember back,

he was and is an investigative journalist who wanted to discredit the work of Wimhoff

because he had written a couple books and done some journalism regarding these kind of false gurus.

And so he went to study with Wimhoff with the intention of discrediting him and actually

became a big fan of his work.

So this next study, a novel Wimhoff training program to reduce stress response during an Antarctic expedition looked at

13 healthy participants who were randomized to control or the Wim Hof method, which is essentially

breathing exercises, cold exposure, and some meditation for 20 minutes per day.

And after two months, the Wim Hof group experienced less depressive symptoms and a lower

stress response than the control group. So pretty interesting to see more evidence for Wimhoff. The next trial looked at

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