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I live in Seattle, WA but I do love hot weather. Summer time, I love a 80-90′ sunny day and I especially love being near a sandy beach and blue ocean. So the popularity of being cold and shivering a few times a day is a hard one for me to implement into my day. Why should we submerge ourselves, including our head, into a cold (32′) freezer tub for cold thermogenesis or run outside in the cold weather with barely any clothes? Why should we shiver when we are told we will catch a cold if we get cold or stay outside with wet hair?
I have interviewed my podcast friends Brock Armstrong, Brad Kearns for my podcast (click here to listen), listened to Ben Greenfield talk about cold therapy in our KION Coaching program and to the guys from Primal Hacking.
Why do I need to SHIVER??
Hormesis.
We need to be able to adapt and recover from a stressor. I know when we “run from a lion”, we hopefully have time to recover, rest and rebuild from that quick emergency threat. We adapt. We are able to switch back and forth from the sympathetic nervous system to the parasympathetic nervous system quickly.
Our problem is our addiction to busyness and being chronically stressed which results in being chronically stuck in the sympathetic nervous system. We have lost our ability to adapt to a source of stress or threat then recover.
Our ancestors had time to recover… instead we live life as a RACE and don’t stop to breathe. Regarding being cold, just as being hungry, our ancestors had to adapt the the weather and the food available depending on the season. Instead, we eat when we think or see food plus we put on the car seat heater, add extra layers on to our outfit and bed at night time- or increase the heat in the house to stay comfortable.
Bloggers in the biohacking and functional medicine world talk about the term EPIGENTICS.
“Basically it means that even if we have a genetic predisposition for breast cancer, we don’t ever have to get breast cancer if we tune our environment in such a way that those genes are never expressed.” -www.primalhacker.com
So if our environment and lifestyle habits don’t change very often then we don’t challenge our genes?
Dr. Jack Kruse is the main cold thermogenesis hacker/reseacher that I always hear about over the years.
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COLD EXPOSURE IS IMPORTANT
When we expose ourselves to cold, our bodies go through a process of cold adaptation. This is built into us from the time long ago when the dinosaurs went extinct.
The meteor that hit the earth caused decades, no, centuries of cold temperatures and ash covered the earth. It was dispersed in the atmosphere and didn’t come down for a long time.
Much of the world was then covered in ice during the ice ages that humans adapred to and lived with until very recently.
Our bodies adopted mechanisms to deal with cold that kept us healthy. And from the ice ages until 50 years ago, humans continued to get cold. We spent more time outside.
When we were indoors, we spent more time indoors in evironments that were cooler because we didn’t hhave the resources and technology to condirtion our spaces as we do today.
And now, we don’t even turn these cold adapted mechanisms on anymore.We’re missing a huge part of our biology.
COLD EXPOSURE DONE SAFELY CAN
- Improve sleep
- Burn body fat
- Activate brown fat
- Allow you to eat more and weigh less
- Reduce inflammation
- Improve athletic performance
- Extend your lifespan
- Reduce stress in all situations
- Make you more tolerant to heat
- Improve brain function
Shivering has been shown to deplete muscle glycogen similar to an intense workout, thus inceasing human growth hormone (HGH) which builds lean muscle and burns fat. You can lose weight without even working out if you get cold.
https://primalhacker.com/blog/primalhacker-cold-thermogenesis
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