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▶ Essentials: Cold & Heat Exposure for Metabolic Health | Dr. Susanna Søberg 17:09 “So if we can have activation of the brown fat just by going out in the cold and just by sleeping in a cold room or if you have courage for it, you can go out and expose yourself in a cold plunge.” ▷ Unlocking Persistent Motivation & Extreme Resilience | Ross Edgley 1:43:03 “But deliberate cold exposure with a shower, a cold plunge done safely. People can get familiar with the experience of being flooded with adrenaline and the fact that the mind is in complete disarray for the first 20 or 30 seconds and that it can slow their breathing and grab hold of their mind and create a strategy.” ▷ Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs 36:13 “I do find it very useful. And years ago, my lab had collaborations with the special operations community.” ▷ Essentials: Sleep Toolkit for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing 8:35 “it could be a cold tub, or if you own a cold tub that's specifically designed for deliberate cold exposure, get under some cold water.” ▷ Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools | Huberman Lab Essentials 16:12 “You could take a cold shower. You could do an ice bath or get into a cold circulating bath in order to evoke epinephrine and dopamine release.” ▷ Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools | Huberman Lab Essentials 16:12 “You could take a cold shower. You could do an ice bath or get into a cold circulating bath in order to evoke epinephrine and dopamine release.” ▷ Cultivating Awe & Emotional Connection in Daily Life | Dr. Dacher Keltner 1:19:45 “Sure, I've done some cold plunges. I like the cold. I got to do them. I do the cold. That sounds good. Yeah, it's fun. I mean, you know, it's psychologically painful and you feel better afterwards.” ▷ The Most Effective Weight Training, Cardio & Nutrition for Women | Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple 2:27:05 “If you want to accelerate recovery, then you're potentially compromising adaptation. So ice baths are a perfect example of that. You're getting more recovery, but you're possibly blunting the hypertrophic stimulus.” ▷ Essentials: Micronutrients for Health & Longevity | Dr. Rhonda Patrick 21:37 “So today I did three minutes at 49 degrees Fahrenheit. I have a cold tub.” ▷ Essentials: How to Exercise for Strength Gains & Hormone Optimization | Dr. Duncan French 16:23 “But it's probably not the most beneficial approach to use an ice bath in that scenario because you're dampening, you're dulling the mTOR pathway and the hypertrophic signaling pathway.” ▷ How to Control Your Cortisol & Overcome Burnout 1:00:00 “If you want to boost your cortisol levels using deliberate cold exposure, cold shower, ice plunge, whatever it is, you can do that.” ▷ How to Control Your Sense of Pain & Pleasure | Huberman Lab Essentials 13:10 “First of all, I want to talk about heat and cold. We do indeed have sensors in our skin that respond to heat and cold, and one of the best tests of how somebody can handle pain is to ask them to just get into an ice bath.” ▷ How to Grow From Doing Hard Things | Michael Easter 45:31 “you wake up, you can scroll on your phone, or you can hop in the cold plunge, take a cold shower.” ▷ Contracts of Love & Money That Make or Break Relationships | James Sexton 1:20:48 “Maybe if you did contrast therapy, saunas, cold plunges, you'd be better. You know, maybe if you took more creatine, you'd be better.” ▷ Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave 1:17:41 “Going into the cold plunge, which does allow us to experience something and stay a little bit longer. And it gives us... that I know I can walk through this.” ▷ Build Muscle Size, Increase Strength & Improve Recovery | Huberman Lab Essentials 23:27 “If you getting into the ice bath after doing resistance training you are likely short circuiting the improvements that you're trying to create.” ▷ Supercharge Exercise Performance & Recovery with Cooling | Huberman Lab Essentials 20:55 “If it's a very hot day and you're going to train, getting into an ice bath first, sure, it will cool you down, but that's not going to be as effective as cooling the palms, the bottoms of the feet, and the face.” ▷ Boost Your Energy & Immune System with Cortisol & Adrenaline | Huberman Lab Essentials 12:59 “pick a practice that you can do fairly consistently maybe every day but maybe every third day or every fourth day maybe it's an ice bath or a cold bath maybe it's a cold shower” ▷ Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse 46:58 “I would do something else that I know raises epinephrine, which is I'll do a cold plunge first thing in the morning of one to three minutes long.” ▷ How to Enhance Your Immune System | Dr. Roger Seheult 5:35 “So in that area, we can talk about sauna, cold plunge, things of that nature that can actually help with our immune system.” ▷ How to Optimize Testosterone & Estrogen | Huberman Lab Essentials 17:44 “So nowadays there's a lot of interest in using cold as a way to stimulate testosterone sounds pretty crazy but believe it or not that and things like ice baz and cold showers can have positive effects on the sex steroid hormones.” ▷ The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin 2:11:36 “Getting in cold water every day is a very important, I think it's a beautiful opportunity to train it so much. ... most consistent stimulus for adrenaline release and noradrenaline release in the brain that is safe if done properly.” ▷ How to Use Exercise to Improve Your Brain’s Health, Longevity & Performance 1:42:56 “I'll be the first to say that I love getting into the ice bath or the cold plunge or taking a cold shower after I've been in a hot sauna for 20 or 30 minutes.” ▷ How to Achieve True Happiness Using Science-Based Protocols | Dr. Laurie Santos 2:43:03 “Or even, you know, honestly, for me, like I'm not a super fan of exercise, but like a really, really hard workout that feels miserable. When you finally stop, it feels, I do a lot of yoga and my favorite thing is at the end when they're like, and now you can do shavasana.” ▷ How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett 51:05 “Sure. I own one and you know, this sort of thing. And I think they're great for shifting your state.” ▷ How to Defeat Jet Lag, Shift Work & Sleeplessness | Huberman Lab Essentials 19:42 “And if you were to get into a cold shower or an ice bath, if you have access to one, afterward, there's going to be a thermogenic effect of your body, increasing temperature.” ▷ Using Science to Optimize Sleep, Learning & Metabolism | Huberman Lab Essentials 24:29 “Nowadays, there's some interest in cold showers and ice baths. Getting into an ice bath is very interesting because you have a rebound increase in thermogenesis.” ▷ Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver 22:23 “That is not to say that cold plunges and cold immersion is bad. It's just in the hours following resistance training, specifically for hypertrophy and strength training.” ▷ Optimal Protocols for Studying & Learning 1:32:19 “If you want to take a cold shower after learning some material, or even better testing yourself mentally on that material while in a cold shower or cold plunge. You certainly can, just don't stay in there too long.” ▷ AMA #18: Cold Therapy Advice, Skin Health Tips, Motivation, Learning Strategies & More 15:25 “We know that if you can afford a cold plunger, access a safe river or stream or cold plunge. Great.” ▷ LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman at the Sydney Opera House 38:36 “Now, when you get into the cold plunge, you're cold, but guess what? Same thing... The cold, cold is a very powerful stimulus as is heat. So, you know, minimal effective dose, you know, you could have some fun with it, but don't go wild.” ▷ Dr. Matt Walker: How to Structure Your Sleep, Use Naps & Time Caffeine | Huberman Lab Guest Series 2:02:52 “it would make good sense to me to wake up... or get cold shower, cold plunge” ▷ Tools to Enhance Working Memory & Attention 1:06:40 “if you have access to a cold plunge or a cold body of water that you can safely get into up to your neck for 30 seconds to a minute, if it's 50 degrees or less. Most people opt for 30 seconds to as much as three minutes deliberate cold exposure in a shower or cold plunge or other body of water.” ▷ How to Prevent & Treat Colds & Flu 1:41:12 “If you're feeling really strong, do a cold plunge for a minute or two minutes in between.” ▷ How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity | Huberman Lab Podcast 1:51:07 “getting into the cold shower or cold plunge when you absolutely don't want to do it, well, provided you can do it safely, that's going to be the best time to do it if your goal is to build up tenacity and willpower.” ▷ How to Succeed at Hard Conversations | Chris Voss 1:53:14 “"These days, you know, I'm looking for every hack there is... So what these days, cold plunge sauna, principally... Hitting a cold plunge is challenging psychologically and physically. It's a state shifter."” ▷ AMA #7: Cold Exposure, Maximizing REM Sleep & My Next Scientific Studies 6:10 “So if you get into a cold shower or a cold plunge or a cold ocean or a cold lake” ▷ How to Use Cold & Heat Exposure to Improve Your Health | Dr. Susanna Søberg 11:01 “Let's just address that we are taking a cold plunge, for example.” ▷ Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort 1:06:09 “You could get into an ice bath. You could get into a cold plunge.” ▷ Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab 1:10:23 “then an ice bath might be a great choice. ... you would probably be willing to give up some small percentage of eventual muscle growth after a single session to get out of pain.” ▷ How to Optimize Fertility in Males & Females 3:00:20 “A lot of people are now using cold showers and ice baths” ▷ How to Optimize Fertility in Males & Females 3:00:20 “A lot of people are now using cold showers and ice baths and circulating cold baths” ▷ AMA #3: Adaptogens, Fasting & Fertility, Bluetooth/EMF Risks, Cognitive Load Limits & More 24:02 “Or if you have access to an ice bath early in the day, plus some sunlight, doesn't matter which one you do first, doing that early in the day is really going to create that peak of cortisol, dopamine, epinephrine early in the day.” ▷ Navigating Conflict, Finding Purpose & Maintaining Drive | Dr Lex Fridman 42:27 “"we have one here it'll be straightforward for you i always say that the adrenaline comes in waves and so if you just think about it walls like you're going through a number of walls of adrenaline as opposed to going for time"” ▷ Fitness Toolkit: Protocol & Tools to Optimize Physical Health 51:47 “Then I get out and then I will get into an ice bath or a cold water bath that's about 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit... I will do anywhere from three to five rounds... of heat for about 20 minutes and cold for about five minutes.” ▷ Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration 56:10 “You can get into an ice bath... and you know that getting into cold water or under cold water greatly increases epinephrine levels and dopamine levels in the brain and blood.” ▷ Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration 56:10 “Nowadays, there are a number of different commercial sources of circulating cold water.” ▷ Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration 56:15 “If you have access to a body of cold water, like a lake, or a pool, or an ocean.” ▷ What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health 1:15:13 “And certainly getting into an ice bath or getting into a cold shower, or any kind of cold body of water, provided you can do that safely, that will sharply increase your adrenaline.” ▷ Sleep Toolkit: Tools for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing 31:43 “This could be an ice bath. If that's your thing, it could be a cold tub, or if you own a cold tub, that's specifically designed for deliberate cold exposure.” ▷ Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools 1:05:15 “You could do an ice bath or get into a cold circulating bath... The point is that the time in which you would want to do those protocols is after, ideally immediately after you're learning about.” ▷ Micronutrients for Health & Longevity | Dr. Rhonda Patrick 1:53:27 “So today I did three minutes at 49 degrees Fahrenheit... I have a cold tub.” ▷ How to Optimize Your Hormones for Health & Vitality | Dr. Kyle Gillett 2:29:29 “Taking an ice bath or a cold shower or a cold exposure in general... it will help acutely, specifically the application of cold to testes that are too warm.” ▷ Time Perception & Entrainment by Dopamine, Serotonin & Hormones 53:34 “Nowadays there's a lot of interest in things like cold showers, ice baths, submersion in cold water tanks and, you know, lakes and oceans and things of that sort.” ▷ Using Your Nervous System to Enhance Your Immune System 1:40:56 “This may be the basis for why people will do cold showers or ice baths and then get into a sauna.” ▷ How to Build Endurance in Your Brain & Body 1:44:59 “There is some evidence that getting yourself into an ice bath or cold shower after endurance training can actually improve the mitochondrial aspects of endurance exercise that you can get improvements in mitochondrial density and you can get improvements in mitochondrial respiration by doing that afterwards and that it can facilitate recovery.” ▷ Science of Muscle Growth, Increasing Strength & Muscular Recovery 1:34:53 “If you are somebody who uses cold through cold shower or ice bath or jumping in a lake or a river, whatever it is that you use to generate cold as a recovery tool” ▷ Supercharge Exercise Performance & Recovery with Cooling 1:04:16 “There is a time and a place for the use of the ice bath or the cold shower or the cold plunge. Those tend to be when you want to deliberately increase brown fat thermogenesis or when you want to deliberately work on mental resilience.” ▷ Supercharge Exercise Performance & Recovery with Cooling 1:04:16 “There is a time and a place for the use of the ice bath or the cold shower or the cold plunge. Those tend to be when you want to deliberately increase brown fat thermogenesis or when you want to deliberately work on mental resilience.” ▷ Using Cortisol & Adrenaline to Boost Our Energy & Immune System Function 1:02:46 “So I'm reminded by people here at the Huberman Lab Podcast that the optimal strategy therefore would be a 90 minute session of focus or learning, then immediately after cold shower or tumultite breathing or ice bath or something of that sort, maybe a hard run or HIIT training if you can't get access to the other things.” ▷ The Science of How to Optimize Testosterone & Estrogen 1:11:32 “so the most plausible explanation for why cold exposure, either through 1 to 10-minute ice bath or cold shower or the ice underpants thing, would increase testosterone or increase estrogen”