Ice Bath Science: Using Ice to Burn Fat and Boost Testosterone w/ Evan Demarco, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash Barbell Shrugged #613
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Brown fat, also called brown adipose tissue or BAT, is a special type of body fat that is (activated) when you get cold. It's also the same type of fat bears use when hibernating.
We are born with a lot of brown fat, especially behind our shoulder blades. Newborn babies can't shiver, a process that creates heat within the body so they use their abundant stores of BAT to regulate their temperature.
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There are two types of fat on your body – white fat WAT and Brown Fat BAT. White fat is the bad fat that we all associate with excessive caloric intake. Those calories are stored as white fat for use as a an energy source later on. White fat is mostly stored in thighs, hips and stomach and too much of this kind of fat is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. There are metabolic disorders.
The white fat in your body is made from large droplets of fatty acids. The cells of brown fat are packed tightly with mitochondria, the powerhouse of all of our cells. Brown fat takes in excess sugar and fat and breaks them down for use as an energy source.
What does all of this have to do with getting cold?
When your body gets cold, it produces a hormone called norepinephrine. Brown fat has receptors for the norepinephrine and when these receptors sense that hormone, they signal the abundant mitochondria to crank out the energy production. That energy production process creates heat to help regulate your body temperature.
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- How to Improve testosterone using ice baths
- How to lose weight with cold water therapy
- How to improve immune response using ice
- Why you Improve strength gains using cold water
- How to Improved lymphatic drainage and stay healthy using ice baths
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| 0:00.0 | Shroud family, today's episode, we are hanging out with our good friend, Evan Demarco. |
| 0:05.0 | He's back on the show and I want to say this is the fourth of the fifth time that we've |
| 0:08.9 | had Evan on in the last two and a half years, which is almost two episodes per year. |
| 0:14.5 | The reason I love having Evan on is he is one of these people that's always at the cutting |
| 0:20.1 | edge of what is next. |
| 0:21.6 | He is no problems using his own body, his own training, his own mind, his own everything |
| 0:28.2 | to go out and create the N equals one that allows the conversation for health and wellness |
| 0:32.6 | to continue. |
| 0:33.6 | He's not the one sitting around waiting for the science to prove him right. |
| 0:38.5 | He's the one that's out there testing the next thing. |
| 0:41.6 | He's out there finding the next thing and how he can optimize his own health and take |
| 0:49.3 | things to the next level so that science then knows exactly what to go test once they |
| 0:54.1 | get into the lab. |
| 0:56.1 | And today's show, we are looking for ways that we can optimize testosterone and burn |
| 1:02.6 | fat faster using ice baths. |
| 1:05.0 | What's super cool is that he has created his own ice bath. |
| 1:09.8 | It's a cryo tub that allows your body to improve testosterone, lose weight, improve |
| 1:17.8 | immune response, improve strength gains, improve lymphatic drainage, all kinds of benefits |
| 1:24.8 | that you can have by using these ice baths. |
| 1:28.0 | And what's so cool about these one is each tub is handmade from reclaimed wood and 100% |
| 1:33.4 | pure copper and sealed with a natural flaxseed oil for a look and finish that is beyond |
| 1:39.8 | compare. |
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