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🗓️ 13 June 2020
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My guest on today's show, an immersive journalist and self-experimenter named Scott Carney, first joined me for the fantastic episode entitled "What Doesn’t Kill Us: Why Your Body Needs Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude & Environmental Conditioning."
Today, Scott - a New York Times Bestselling author - is back to discuss his brand new book, which I found to be a thrilling and inspirational read: "The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress and the Key to Human Resilience."
Thrive or die: That's the rule of evolution. Despite this brutal logic, some species have learned to survive in even the most hostile conditions. Others couldn't—and perished. While incremental genetic adaptations hone the physiology of nearly every creature on this planet, there's another evolutionary force that is just as important: the power of choice. In an explosive investigation into the limits of endurance, in "The Wedge", Scott discovers how humans can wedge control over automatic physiological responses into the breaking point between stress and biology. We can reclaim our evolutionary destiny.
While writing the book, Carney submerged himself in ice water and learned breathing techniques from daredevil fitness guru Wim Hof. It gave him superhuman levels of endurance and quieted a persistent autoimmune illness. At the core of those methods is a technique called The Wedge that can give a person an edge in just about any situation.
In my conversation w/ Scott, you'll discover:
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0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, what really happened for me is I envisioned a wedge pushing that space between the stimulus of the ice water and that reaction that my body had. |
0:14.0 | It's scary when two guys face off against each other. This is usually not about cooperation and love or anything, right? |
0:21.0 | This is about I'm going to murder you with this weapon in my hand and all of a sudden this confrontational sort of dangerous exercise turns from danger to dancing. |
0:32.0 | Hell, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
0:43.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show. |
0:52.0 | Welcome to the show. I've been getting crazy people on the show and today's journalist is no exception to that rule. His name is Scott Carney. |
1:02.0 | He just wrote a really, really great book. I've been reading a lot of good books lately. |
1:07.0 | You may have heard my podcast last week with James Nestor on his new book, Breathe, and this book I would say falls into the same category as a thrilling read for anybody who wants to learn a little bit more about it. |
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