11:22 Gosh this is so true. Countless times I have found things out that doctors missed because I researched current info vs depending on my doc to tell me. We have to take our lives into our own hands.
Doing your own research and informing the doctor, I have found works, but also risks "flavor of the week," thinking. It is important to hear them out carefully, too. The experience they have had for decades generally is not something to casually discard.
Great conversation. I did a lot of extreme hot saunas up to 110 C (I was alone in the sauna and I could set the thermostat by myself), followed by cold showers and plunges in the swimming pool (no freezing cold because it was in Malaysia). I did that in series, so 3 saunas alternated by 3 mild cold exposures. My body liked that, I could clearly feel a sense of total relaxation and well being. Unfortunately I left that resort-condo in Malaysia where I could do that for free and alone (nobody used the sauna nor the swimming pool in the late evening).
Thank you for the well needed pushback on this guy Matt, but I still fear you gave him more oxygen than he deserves. You are the only one in the space that gives pushback to people that you're interviewing. Thank you, and don't stop.
This is an interesting episode, although the suggestion that Finnish sauna research would somehow be explained by Finland not being a member of NATO until recently is absolutely ridiculous. P.S. please start posting content a Bluesky, it finally has real momentum.
I appreciated the comment about ice baths potentially triggering a Transient Global Amnesia episode. Other triggers include sex, exercise, holding your nose and blowing to clear your ears, stress - anything that might create a strange breathing pattern. I experienced a TGA in 2020. You lose the ability to make short term memories for about 12 hours. It is freaking scary. It resolves by itself and is diagnosed by getting negative results from every test there is to rule out a mini-stroke, epilepsy, etc. It is not as rare as you might think. Typically these only occur in people over age 50 so if we solve this whole aging thing....
Bragging about becoming religious about ice baths (which he sells) instead of consulting an expert in addition, when biomarkers are worrisome, sounds disturbing to me. Some political/conspiracy theory statements combined with wrong country allocations are also ringing alarms. Isolating the signal from the noise (as he says) is not easy in this episode. The actual „first cold plunge then exercise“ discussion was interesting. There really can be more research done on this.
I don't understand attacking BJ so much for drastically more scientific approach then this guy, but staying calm arround him, very strange and hypocritical
35:30 please stay away from anti establishment proponents on your channel, you are very rigorous and strict about other topics, but claiming is all fabricated and haox narrative is inexcusable
I can't measure, whether he is full of hot air or cold shit, I guess it depends if he just exited a sauna or a cold bath. But I tell you, the b-factor (general tendency to spit out bullshit) for when he talks is significantly elevated from him keeping his mouth shut about the things he knows too little about. Btw p-factor is a general proneness to psychopathology :).
Do you really feel it's a good use of podcast time to have on a ice bath salesman to voice skepticism of doctors, diagnostic tests, and the medical establishment writ large? I'm so sick of these "do your own research, google webMD, or mayo clinic and you know more than doctors", because their training is outdated???
This has nothing to do with actual podcast (which I haven't watched yet, but I'm sure will be great when I do), but is that a dog or a rabbit sitting on the shelf behind Thomas?
Why buy an ice bath if you could just use the bath in your house instead ? Like fill it up with cold water and add some ice to it. Even a cold shower will do. I don’t understand why you’d buy something like that. Just another gadget you really don’t need
I love that Matt holds his ground and pushes back on less rigorous thinking
Im not sure why this guy is on the pod in the first place. He sounds like a crackpot.
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11:22 Gosh this is so true. Countless times I have found things out that doctors missed because I researched current info vs depending on my doc to tell me. We have to take our lives into our own hands.
Sweden and Finland have not been behind the iron curtain. They joined NATO recently for reasons other than being at some point part of the USSR.
That sounds right. They were never behind the Iron Curtain, and joined NATO very recently
Doing your own research and informing the doctor, I have found works, but also risks "flavor of the week," thinking. It is important to hear them out carefully, too. The experience they have had for decades generally is not something to casually discard.
Great conversation.
I did a lot of extreme hot saunas up to 110 C (I was alone in the sauna and I could set the thermostat by myself), followed by cold showers and plunges in the swimming pool (no freezing cold because it was in Malaysia). I did that in series, so 3 saunas alternated by 3 mild cold exposures. My body liked that, I could clearly feel a sense of total relaxation and well being. Unfortunately I left that resort-condo in Malaysia where I could do that for free and alone (nobody used the sauna nor the swimming pool in the late evening).
Thank you for the well needed pushback on this guy Matt, but I still fear you gave him more oxygen than he deserves. You are the only one in the space that gives pushback to people that you're interviewing. Thank you, and don't stop.
This is an interesting episode, although the suggestion that Finnish sauna research would somehow be explained by Finland not being a member of NATO until recently is absolutely ridiculous. P.S. please start posting content a Bluesky, it finally has real momentum.
I appreciated the comment about ice baths potentially triggering a Transient Global Amnesia episode. Other triggers include sex, exercise, holding your nose and blowing to clear your ears, stress - anything that might create a strange breathing pattern. I experienced a TGA in 2020. You lose the ability to make short term memories for about 12 hours. It is freaking scary. It resolves by itself and is diagnosed by getting negative results from every test there is to rule out a mini-stroke, epilepsy, etc. It is not as rare as you might think. Typically these only occur in people over age 50 so if we solve this whole aging thing....
Bragging about becoming religious about ice baths (which he sells) instead of consulting an expert in addition, when biomarkers are worrisome, sounds disturbing to me. Some political/conspiracy theory statements combined with wrong country allocations are also ringing alarms. Isolating the signal from the noise (as he says) is not easy in this episode. The actual „first cold plunge then exercise“ discussion was interesting. There really can be more research done on this.
I don't understand attacking BJ so much for drastically more scientific approach then this guy, but staying calm arround him, very strange and hypocritical
35:30 please stay away from anti establishment proponents on your channel, you are very rigorous and strict about other topics, but claiming is all fabricated and haox narrative is inexcusable
This guy is below threshold for this podcast. P factor? lol.
I can't measure, whether he is full of hot air or cold shit, I guess it depends if he just exited a sauna or a cold bath. But I tell you, the b-factor (general tendency to spit out bullshit) for when he talks is significantly elevated from him keeping his mouth shut about the things he knows too little about. Btw p-factor is a general proneness to psychopathology :).
Absolutely 💯
Do you really feel it's a good use of podcast time to have on a ice bath salesman to voice skepticism of doctors, diagnostic tests, and the medical establishment writ large? I'm so sick of these "do your own research, google webMD, or mayo clinic and you know more than doctors", because their training is outdated???
Agree 100% this guy is almost at level of social media influencers, bad
This has nothing to do with actual podcast (which I haven't watched yet, but I'm sure will be great when I do), but is that a dog or a rabbit sitting on the shelf behind Thomas?
Looks like a tortoise to me.
Why buy an ice bath if you could just use the bath in your house instead ? Like fill it up with cold water and add some ice to it. Even a cold shower will do. I don’t understand why you’d buy something like that. Just another gadget you really don’t need
You might be interested in this Washington Post story. Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates