So back to now cold packs and so forth.
Are cold packs bad for adrenals?
No, they aren't.
And I'll talk about ways of using them.
They're not because they're not putting your body into hypothermic state if you're being careful.
You're localizing with cold packs.
You're not doing the ice bath dip.
And you got to be careful.
There's a huge difference between someone who is struggling and sick with chronic sickness and illness
versus someone who's not so sick or not sick at all.
You see someone on social saying,
I'm doing the ice bath again.
Whoa, it's making me feel good.
And you're somebody that's sick
and you've had fibro, chronic fatigue,
Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis.
You don't know what you got going on.
Maybe you don't have any diagnosis.
You're just fatigued really bad.
You've got aches and pains everywhere.
You don't feel good.
You got brain fog that's totally messing you up
and making you take a whole bunch of Adderall like crazy
because you've got so much brain fog.
You're trying to survive.
You're trying to get back by.
You're on coffee.
You're on chocolate.
You're trying to just keep yourself going
and push through the day.
You go into the ice baths.
I'm doing regularly.
It's a shock to the body systems, all of them,
because your body says fight or flight, red alert,
fight or flight, something's wrong.
Something's going wrong
because your brain is starting to get cold.
Your whole body's starting to get cold.
The adrenals are just like, fight or flight, we're in trouble.
Oh my God, your adrenals are just going nuts.
Like, that's what they're doing.
Because they're saying, don't go into hypothermia.
Something's wrong.
Are you in a plane?
Did you crash in the Alps?
What's going on?
Is there wind blowing and you don't have a fire keeping you warm?
You're not indoors?
You're not by a fireplace?
Where are you?
Trapped in zero degree weather out somewhere?
and that's what your adrenals are telling your brain.
Your adrenals are telling your brain.
Your brain is communicating with your adrenals
saying, I don't know what this fool is doing.
Your brain is saying, I don't know what this person's doing.
I don't know what this person who's got misinformation
and wrong information is doing,
but I'm starting to get cold in here
and I need some adrenaline fast
and you better send that stuff up and pile that stuff in
because guess what?
If we stay in this tub a little too long, that person's in trouble.
You come out and you have a high now.
You're jacked up instead of on chocolate and coffee and caffeine and espressos and green tea and matcha tea and energy drinks.
Instead of that, you're jacked up on adrenaline.
That's how it works.
