Sal Di Stefano

Cold plunge.

Also, if you're on the level of too much stress, a lot of things go into the stress bucket.

Exercise is one of them.

You know, if you're in a calorie deficit, that'll go into one of them.

Of course, conversations with people, lifestyle, lack of sleep, all goes into the stress bucket.

And if you have too much stress, adding more stress is just terrible.

It doesn't matter if you think it's a good stress like workout or cold plunge or fasting.

So then you'll get these people who, you know, are overstressed already and they're working out and then they try fasting and at first they feel good, but then they start to overstress their bodies and then they start to get hormone imbalances, don't know what the hell's going on.

They go to a functional medicine practitioner and they're like, you are in, you know, stage four adrenal fatigue, what they used to call it, or HPA axis dysfunction.

And the first thing they'll do is they'll tell them, eat breakfast, like stop fasting, not good for you.

So

We've done several episodes on why you should not fast for weight loss.

It's an absolute terrible approach.

And we always get some pushback less now than we used to because I think a lot of people have done it long enough to be like, oh yeah, this isn't great.

Yeah.

If we took sleep, diet, activity, and lifestyle, which would include like interpersonal relationships and stuff like that.

So if we take those things, those four things,

Those make up, I don't know, 98% of what is going to contribute to health, longevity, energy, all that stuff.

The 2%, you can put other stuff in the category like cold plunge, red light therapy, sauna, supplements, and stuff like that.

That's how little of an impact it makes in comparison to those other things.