00:00hi guys Tony here today I've got Tony huge on and we're going to be talking all about the benefits of ice baths and why they're so important in this Comfort driven Society we live in hypoxia good or bad oxygen good or bad but it's the difference it's the extremes you know you want to have a lot of oxygen sometimes and you want to have no oxygen other times I think is the secret yeah yeah yeah that's why I've been trying to combine that you I saw you doing ice baths and things like that and I've been doing cold showers and then doing like breathing exercises in the cold shower and then doing at the end holding my breath for as long as I can just trying to get the combination of like the hypoxia with the cold water just might as well do it simultaneously just to save time yeah you're lucky that you're in England you have cold water you know I'm in I'm in Mexico the water's always warm and then I'll go back to Thailand the water's always warm I don't have access to just cold shower water but yeah I can go to like the sauna and get in get inside the cold the cold bath and
01:00cold plunge yeah yeah that's my favorite coming out the sa and freezing water over me yeah I A friend of mine said that you can get some of the health benefits of an ice bath by getting a bucket uh this way you could just do it at home a bucket of water with ice and dunking your head in it but I mean that's not going to like cool the hard and the you know other parts of the body so maybe that's just the psychological benefit but this is another thing I need to look into because I I would like to make cold plunges more convenient for the home not just going to the sauna yeah you think there's people selling those little ice bars and things like that but then that surely surely it must add lows to your energy bill you think Jesus the yeah if you have if you buy the machine that has like a refrigerator for the water then those are expensive but like what Joe Aesthetics was really popularizing ice bath in Thailand my my
02:00friend and neighbor uh he would just order the ice and then dump it into a bucket that just kept the water so every day he just pour the ice in in the water you can have like ice delivered or you can go to 7-Eleven and grab bags of ice and so he's so it's no electricity it's just the cost of ice which is which is pretty cheap but it's just a little it's a little bit of work you know but you know with the with the with the herum if I had four girls going to use the ice bath okay one of the girls should go get the ice and then all four of us use it and then that's very efficient so that's what I should do in fact I'm gonna write that down okay I'm gonna get an ice bath and I'm gonna put one of the girls in charge of buying ice yeah yeah because it it hases loads of benefits I mean it's great for your mitochondria you know creates biogenesis don't it and then you've also got dopamine enhancing benefits yeah I notice I need that I need the pain in order to feel pleasure
03:00like the more pain I make myself suffer like in the gym or something else then the more pleasurable pleasure becomes to me it's like resensitizing dopamine so I'm always trying to figure out how do I get the most pleasure so yeah like Leo longevity said I'm I'm a hedonist and I'm addicted to pleasure and I say well but the difference is um I do things to reset it like I do things to intentionally cause myself pain um so that the pleasure is greater because I'm trying to get maximum amount of pleasure so I to do more painful hormetic things where I make myself suffer more ice bath and I need to figure out more different things like the ice bath to do yeah yeah no I'm I'm the same I think I think I think a lot of people are becoming that way you know they're getting more Comfort they like being in a comfort zone so by finding ways to really push you out of that comfort zone whatever it is you know hiking up a mountain or something like that you notice when you do things that challenge yourself when you say when you have food later on or
04:00you've done something to achieve you've achieved something that day when you push yourself that that pleasure just feels that bit better here's an example from the channel Moon about why it's so important to get the balance between strain and comfort right big tech companies the loneliness economy that's setting temporary happiness to us can't wait for AI to push people out of their jobs it will leave them with nothing else to do except consume these AR problems were evolved to deal with yet because there was never a reason for pre- civilization humans to resist the urge to eat their F or choose the easy option in fact taking the path of least resistance was a key trait for natural selection anything else was a waste of energy and lowers your survival chances but today corporations have taken advantage of our Primal psychology to iner entire communities of people into throwing their lives away with meaningless entertainment or stuffing their faces with processed junk but unlike other utilitarians Mill divided pleasure into two different categories lower pleasures and higher Pleasures lower Pleasures are associated with the body like eating a cheeseburger or finally getting that water out of your ear higher Pleasures require some sort of work to appreciate or even experience
05:00like listening to an opera or reading a good book ignoring this divide leads to some weird conclusions like if all pleasure is the same then it's hard to argue against taking drugs and eating junk food all day but a world where everyone believed this would eventually collapse overnight instead it's clear the higher Pleasures that you need to work for are inherently worth more than simple Hedonism they're simply of a higher quality than the kinds of Pleasures that come without any work reading a novel for example is better than half watching some trash TV yeah so we'll have to share with each other ideas we come up with you know like like the ice bath like more doing things out of your comfort zone but also something so the ice bath you could do that every day it's still gonna keep working you know yeah I think because I think Joe Rogan I think he does it every day but then he says he does it in the morning so it's almost that's why he wants to get out of the way as quick as he can because obviously on once you've done it then you get that Rush of like you know motivation it apparently does give like I think I saw a video Someone
06:00comparing it to cocaine the actual obviously not the feeling of it but like he said you get like a A Rush of like dopamine that's is is comparable but obviously sustained not something where your brain is going up and down like that yeah I just had a flashback my my grandfather used to jump in Lake Tahoe which was pretty much freezing cold water like an ice bath every morning when he'd wake up and then so would my father and my uncle and you know I did it a few times but to me it was so miserable and I didn't understand the benefits it seemed like insanity to me like why would you do something so painful and so uncomfortable but now I get it and think about it they didn't know anything about health or science but um it's more like tradition it's it's like sometimes Health Traditions develop over time because they did help a community or people feel better and the not and the benefits are also noticeable and so they're doing it even though they don't understand the science of why it's working and and and that's what they do in uh in these northern
07:00European countries that you maybe you're more familiar with these guys sauna and cold plunge all the time and they don't even know the health science of it they just know that their parents did it their parents' parents did it and they they feel healthier when they do it like the proof is definitely in the pudding like historically they're doing it and being healthier and feeling better instantly from it so that's something we can learn from because I also kind of the opposite I'm trying to avoid all the traditional bio in stuff in favor of chemical enhancement but sometimes the chemical enhancement just sometimes it needs to be complimentary and sometimes it can't just replace something like a a cold plunge like I wish there was a pill I could take that makes you freezing cold for like one minute and then you're and you're done you can just do it anywhere right but that doesn't exist yet no no it's funny you say that my mom's the same she's the last 20 years plus she goes and swims in the river every day even when there's snow she'll come out and she's bright pink
08:00so yeah she she she can handle it but her immune system is really strong she can she can like eat food that is like a week out of date whatever she doesn't get sick from it interesting but I tried it like a a year ago I went I went in the river like the C's point of the year and then I came out and I was I did 10 minutes just stationary and then I came out pink and I was like I didn't go in a warm shower after so my body I was shivering I probably it's not that's prob you pushing it too far like nearly giving my myself hypothermia I was like shaking yeah for that long wow hi guys to help out the channel do you think about investing in your health and buying one of these tests I have available and yes I'm sure a lot of viewers do like to invest in supplements but not so many into Diagnostics and it's a bit like a Formula 1 team buying modifications for their car and having no data to see how it's working check out these short videos again overview of all the data that you'll be getting