How to Stack Cold Water, Sauna and Breathing to Accelerate Your Metabolism – Susanna Soeberg, Ph.D. : 1014
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™…Susanna Soeberg, Ph.D., a Danish researcher, international scientist and expert in cold and heat therapy for health and performance, explains how you can harness the massive benefits of cold water immersion (winter swimming), sauna, breathing, and your metabolism.
When it comes to biohacking, a few things rise to the top and make a pretty big difference in your body and brain. Through her research, Susanna discovered the minimum threshold of cold and heat exposure for health benefits. We get right into that on the show. She also works with functional breathing during cold environmental conditions and cold water immersion, especially winter swimming.
Have you been considering this biohack for awhile? Baby steps won’t get you there—prepare to go all-in with the cold. “You could take cold showers, for sure,” Susanna says, “but it's not going to activate your parasympathetic nervous system in the same way as submerging yourself into cold water.”
Earning a Ph.D. in metabolism at the University of Copenhagen set her on course to focus her expertise on ways metabolism works for and against you—and what you can do to improve your metabolic profile. She researches obesity, Type 2 diabetes and insulin management, as well as how brown and white adipose tissue (fat) function differently within the human body.
In Susanna’s new book, “Winter Swimming: The Nordic Way Towards a Healthier and Happier Life,” she describes the benefits of winter swimming and cold water immersion on your physiology, mental health, and capacity for resilience.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.3 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.4 | Our guest today stayed up late in Denmark in order to be a guest with us today. |
| 0:22.3 | And it's someone I've wanted to interview for quite a while because as you know, I'm |
| 0:27.0 | into Colt. |
| 0:28.0 | I don't want to be cold all the time. |
| 0:29.3 | That's not even good for you. |
| 0:30.8 | But brief exposure to cold is something that I've featured on my blog when biohacking |
| 0:35.6 | was first getting going. |
| 0:37.4 | I talked about different types of cold exposure. |
| 0:39.9 | I've done it consistently for 12 years, opened one of the first cryotherapy locations at |
| 0:44.3 | upgrade labs in LA. |
| 0:45.7 | So I'm a true believer, but there wasn't as much science 12 years ago. |
| 0:49.2 | In fact, people thought it was crazy pants for it. |
| 0:52.6 | But then they tried it and it seemed to work. |
| 0:55.1 | So now we're going to go deep with a researcher who really is an international scientist and |
| 0:59.7 | an expert in cold and heat therapy, which are those environmental variables that you |
| 1:03.7 | change to have control of your biology. |
| 1:07.5 | And she also does. |
| 1:08.5 | This is going to sound so weird for you guys. |
| 1:11.4 | Functional breathing in everyday life. |
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