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Boundless Life

What Doesn’t Kill Us: Why Your Body Needs Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude & Environmental Conditioning.

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/hardertokill2 Our ancestors crossed the Alps in animal skins and colonized the New World in loin cloths. They evaded predators and built civilizations with just their raw brainpower and inner grit. But things have...

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0:00.0

Yo, yo, hello, hello.

0:02.4

It has been Greenfield and I am actually shivering as I record this introduction for you

0:07.8

because I just got out of the cold pool down here in Los Angeles.

0:12.1

And yes, I know all of you listeners in Alaska and Wisconsin and Minnesota and the

0:18.7

backwoods of Idaho and Washington are snickering right now that I am complaining about cold

0:24.0

weather in Los Angeles.

0:25.0

I am actually at my buddy, Tai Lopez's house for a series of meetings and podcasts, etc.

0:31.6

down here in the LA area, which I avoid like to plague, but I swoop down here about every

0:36.0

quarter for around five days to batch all my meetings.

0:39.1

That's what I do when I have to go to cities I don't like very much, but Tai has a pool

0:44.4

that's relatively cold and the reason that I swam in it today was to prepare for today's

0:50.5

interview, which is all about what doesn't kill you while your body needs freezing water,

0:56.3

extreme altitude and environmental conditioning extremes.

1:01.3

This is, as you may have guessed by the title, a fun podcast.

1:05.3

You're going to enjoy it.

1:06.9

It will inspire you to go out and do things like swim and cold slash, admittedly, lukewarm

1:12.7

water in Los Angeles.

1:15.3

Before we jump into today's show, let me tell you how to turbo charge your brain.

1:20.4

With peppermint.

1:21.4

There is a recipe for peppermint mocha that whether you are shivering after a day of snowboarding

1:28.3

or skiing or whether you're lounging on the beach in Florida or swimming in a pool in

1:34.2

Los Angeles is actually a wonderful, wonderful recipe.

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