Now I do see on social, a lot of people, they're trying out like ice baths and they do the dip,
they dip into it and they get ready, they get their suit on or they go and their tub is filled
with ice. And what they're doing is they're trashing their adrenals and they don't know
this. I want to go into that a little bit before we go into localizing with cold packs and so forth.
One thing I don't like about the ice baths is the body thinks it's in danger when you submerge
yourself in icy cold water. So your body goes into the chaos moment, fight or flight. And as it goes
into fight or flight, your adrenals are totally just blowing out adrenaline, epinephrine everywhere
because the adrenaline is rushing through your veins to try to stop you from going into hypothermia.
Keep that in mind. So when we do ice bath dips and we do them for quite some time,
our body goes into urgent, urgent, emergency, emergency. Something's wrong. You have to protect
the brain. The brain has to be protected. So then your adrenals flood literally a big portion of
your adrenaline out at once. A big portion, 85 to 90% of adrenaline gets released and spewed out of
your adrenals. That adrenaline is circulating through your body because it's there to try to
keep your blood circulating, to try to increase your heart rate so that your heart rate doesn't
go down as you go into hypothermia. So keep that in mind when we do ice baths.
