Dr. Rhonda Patrick

I think, you know, obesity is a disease, type 2 diabetes is a disease.

It's an occupational hazard.

Sedentarism is a disease.

We're sitting.

I mean, so I do want to kind of shift gears because cold water immersion is an area that you have done research in.

And...

I'm personally interested in the neuroendocrine effects of cold water immersion.

A lot of physically active people are interested in using cold water immersion for recovery, for enhancing, sorry, for blunting inflammation of the muscle.

But you've shown, and maybe you can talk about your study, about doing cold water immersion immediately after resistance training can blunt some gains.

Do you think the timing of cold water immersion can affect whether or not you're going to blunt those gains?

And you said something that I picked up on, you said for six hours.

Do you think that if you do cold water immersion and you wait six hours after resistance training, that you would still affect muscle protein synthesis?

I mean, pure speculation.

So waiting for recovery days.

Now you mentioned endurance training, but there are studies showing that cold water immersion can enhance performance in endurance trainers and also enhance neuromuscular function.

You're talking about that.

Probably not as – these people aren't –

You know, the resistance training is really stimulating muscle.

So I'm wondering if you could do it perhaps on an endurance training day, maybe wait a few hours again.

Right, yeah.