Bill Gifford
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 22 Mar
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It stops the kind of the muscle protein synthesis.
They did a crazy experiment where they had people do like a leg workout, like a, you know, intense leg workout.
I think it might have been cycling at high resistance.
Anyway, leg resistance training.
And then they stuck them in individual like leg boots.
And one was full of hot water and one was full of cold water.
And then they had them drink a special drink that tracked muscle protein synthesis and found that the leg in the warm water had more muscle growth potentially and the leg in cold water did not.
If I lived in Miami, I would have a cold plunge outside on my deck, and I'd get in it every day, though, just for that temperature regulation.
And in fact, my sauna place here in Salt Lake has an awesome cold plunge, and I'd go there in the summer just to dump the heat and feel cool.
It feels good to feel temperature-regulated.
And we can talk about temperature and sleeping as well.
So it's a little bit tricky.
We think that there are potentially brain benefits to brief cold water immersion, but all those markers are measured in the blood.
but not in the brain because you have to kill the person to do that.
Some studies you can't do.
But another point I'd like to make, I mean, I feel like a lot of cold plunges are like overly cold.
They're like aggressively...
performatively cold and there's you know based on the experts i talked to it seems like the physiological benefits of that cold water immersion are really in the kind of around the 50 degree mark yeah i do 49 and it's just because that's what the gym temperature is and i have no control but i have no control over it so it is what it is it's probably better than 39 and 39 basically you get more pain than gain
And, you know, there's a certain, like, as I said, performative aspect to it.
And, you know, people get competitive and, you know, oh, I'm in the 33 degree cold plunge instead of the, you wuss, you're in the 41 degree cold plunge.
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