Dr. Craig Heller
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Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
And the standard treatment that's recommended by medical organizations is you take cold packs and you put them in the axilla, the groin.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
The armpits and the neck.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
Mm-hmm.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
So what we did is we did studies in which we made people hyperthermic, and then we measured the rate at which we could cool them by putting those heat exchange bags in the recommended location versus palms, soles, and face.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
The cooling rate was double.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
Wow.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
You keep your gains.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
It's a true conditioning effect.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
You respond to the increased work volume.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
by all of those mechanisms you mentioned.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
You increase the number of contractile elements in your muscles.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
The muscles get bigger.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Increase Strength & Endurance with Cooling Protocols | Dr. Craig Heller
It was fun.