This video is about my experience with Cold Therapy (CT) or Cold Thermogenesis as it's commonly known in the field of biohacking.
Benefits of Cold Therapy
Regular exposure to cold is known to offer various health benefits. It can speed up your metabolism, help with weight loss, build more brown fat, reduce swelling and inflammation and even soothe sore muscles. For this reason athletes use ice baths and other types of cold therapies in order to speed up recovery after physical exercise. Additionally, CT is also linked to better sleep, more focus and a stronger immune system and resistance to colds and flu.
Cold Therapy was made popular by Wim Hof and Dr. Jack Kruse.
Wim Hof uses a series of breathing exercises before cold exposure: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/practice...
Jack Kruse recommends the following protocol to get started: https://jackkruse.com/cold-thermogene...
So, watch the full video to know benefits and how it works. Any questions, please ask me below.
As always there's quite a bit of conflicting information out there about how to break a fast. One thing everyone agrees on is that the fast needs to broken slowly and gently. You also need several days to go back to eating normally. For example, if you do a 7 day fast, you need about 3 days of refeeding. On a 10 day fast, you'll need 4-5 days and so on. How you break the fast will make or break the whole experience. If you go right back to your old way of eating, you can easily negate all the benefits of your fast. One school of thought insists on breaking the fast with fruit, more specifically watermelon and then lots of veggies and more fruit. Since my goal is to remain in ketosis, I will be taking a different approach. I will be eating protein, fat and some low-carb veggies, bone broth and lots of water. I would also recommend abstaining from alcohol for at least a few days so you're not overburdening your liver. Listen to your body. Don't force the food if yo...
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