Ancestral Health Radio - Scott Carney: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Can Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength | Ep.006

Scott Carney: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Can Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength | Ep.006

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01/17/17 • 82 min

Ancestral Health Radio

How many pushups can you do on a single breath?

My guest today, Scott Carney, best-selling author of the newly released book What Doesn't Kill Us could only do 20 pushups before his training with Wim "The Iceman" Hof.

During this time, Scott learned to control his body temperature and seek out the knowledge that was key to unlocking his body's hidden potential.

Since then, Scott has trained with elite athletes, competed in the world's most notorious cold-weather obstacle course race, and summited Gilman's Point on Mount Kilimanjaro... in nothing but a pair of shorts.

In today's episode I talk with Scott as he shares how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning can renew our lost evolutionary strength.

In today's episode you'll learn:

How Scott lost seven pounds in seven days,
The quickest and safest way to build what Scott calls "The Wedge",
Scott's personal 15-minute breathing routine, and...
Much, much more.

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Episode Breakdown

How to correctly pronounce Wim :)
Scott’s previous history as an investigative journalist
How people can lose touch with reality in pursuit of spiritual goals
Westerner’s lure to perform miracles and how they’re ingrained in our childhoods
Scott’s concerns about Wim’s initial claims of superhuman performance
Scott’s first thoughts and experience of Wim after being commissioned by Playboy Magazine
The simple, almost immediate trick to stop yourself from shivering
How Scott lost seven pounds in seven days
Scott shares a few of Wim’s larger-than-life claims
Why Scott believes Wim’s method has positive effects on autoimmune disease
The brief story of Hans Spaans and the Wim Hof Method
Scott describes how homeostasis has negatively impacted us as a species
Evolutionary Mismatch Disease
How fire may have shaped human physiology
How Scott outsources his natural pathfinding ability
How Tinder is possibly destroying our ability to create deep bonds and long-term relationships
How Lt. James Cook and his Polynesian navigator—Tupaia—mapped the Pacific seas near New Zealand and Australia
Di lep and wave-piloting
How humans have been using the cold to develop environmental robustness
Scott shares an old quote from the Journal of American Medical Association in 1914
Scott explains the purpose of brown adipose tissue (or BAT) and why it’s important
Scott’s first experience with Laird Hamilton and XPT (or Extreme Pool Training)
The November Project
Scott explains the evolutionary purpose of vasoconstriction
Archimedes Banya
What Scott calls "The Wedge"
Why Scott says you shouldn't use Wim's breathing techniques in water
Scott shares his 15-minute breathing routine
Why it’s easier to pass out with full lungs
Scott’s experience running the most notorious cold-weather obstacle course race in the world
Success at Gilman’s Point
Rapid-fire listener questions

How many pushups can you do on a single breath?

My guest today, Scott Carney, best-selling author of the newly released book What Doesn't Kill Us could only do 20 pushups before his training with Wim "The Iceman" Hof.

During this time, Scott learned to control his body temperature and seek out the knowledge that was key to unlocking his body's hidden potential.

In today's episode I talk with Scott as he shares how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning can renew our lost evolutionary strength.

In today's episode you'll learn:

How Scott lost seven pounds in seven days,
The quickest and safest way to build what Scott calls "The Wedge",
Scott's personal 15-minute breathing routine, and...
Much, much more.

Subscribe on

iTunes | Stitcher Radio | Google Play | SoundCloud

Episode Breakdown

How to correctly pronounce Wim :)
Scott’s previous history as an investigative journalist
How people can lose touch with reality in pursuit of spiritual goals
Westerner’s lure to perform miracles and how they’re ingrained in our childhoods
Scott’s concerns about Wim’s initial claims of superhuman performance
Scott’s first thoughts and experience of Wim after being commissioned by Playboy Magazine
The simple, almost immediate trick to stop yourself from shivering
How Scott lost seven pounds in seven days
Scott shares a few of Wim’s larger-than-life claims
Why Scott believes Wim’s method has positive effects on autoimmune disease
The brief story of Hans Spaans and the Wim Hof Method
Scott describes how homeostasis has negatively impacted us as a species
Evolutionary Mismatch Disease
How fire may have shaped human physiology
How Scott outsources his natural pathfinding ability
How Tinder is possibly destroying our ability to create deep bonds and long-term relationships
How Lt. James Cook and his Polynesian navigator—Tupaia—mapped the Pacific seas near New Zealand and Australia
Di lep and wave-piloting
How humans have been using the cold to develop environmental robustness
Scott shares an old quote from the Journal of American Medical Association in 1914
Scott explains the purpose of brown adipose tissue (or BAT) and why it’s important
Scott’s first experience with Laird Hamilton and XPT (or Extreme Pool Training)
The November Project
Scott explains the evolutionary purpose of vasoconstriction
Archimedes Banya
What Scott calls "The Wedge"
Why Scott says you shouldn't use Wim's breathing techniques in water
Scott shares his 15-minute breathing routine
Why it’s easier to pass out with full lungs
Scott’s experience running the most notorious cold-weather obstacle course race in the world
Success at Gilman’s Point
Rapid-fire listener questions

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Arthur Haines: Rewilding Fundamentals, The Human Rewilding Project, and the Allegory of the Cave | Ep.004

I am super excited, guys!

Today's episode is going to be really informative -- I hope you have pen and paper ready.

It is with none other than Stolan, the God of Plants, Arthur Haines himself.

It's really exciting because Arthur shares something that's really close to him and something he's really passionate about doing right now...

Which is essentially buying more land and creating a rewilding haven or rewilding community he calls the Human Rewilding Project.

He goes into the 12 Guiding Principles of the Human Rewilding Project later in this episode.

That's number seven, which is building community, on a list of 10 rewilding fundamentals he and I talk about.

On top of that, in today's episode you'll learn:

Strategies that help you learn your natural ecology,
How to build musculature and skeletal strength suited for our natural landscape,
How to treat altered states of reality with respect, and...
Much, much more.

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Episode Breakdown

Introduction
Arthur shares his personal definition of rewilding and his two caveats with defining it
Arthur breaks down the stigma of the word "wild"
Why nature immersion is so important to the human organism
How to find people to help you relearn your natural ecology
The traits and features of domesticated people
What is biologically appropriate food?
What are disinfection byproducts and what do they do to the human animal
How to get closer to wild food and wild water
How to strengthen your body using the natural elements
How Arthur experiences spirituality
Arthur defines the contrasting differences between a wild community and a modern society
Arthur defines the 12 Guiding Principles of the Human Rewilding Project
How the Allegory of the Cave pertains to where we're currently at with rewilding

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Dr. Jack Kruse: How to Become a Mito-Hacker Using Light, Water, and Magnetism | Ep.007

Are you a mitochondriac?

If you don't know what that means, no worries.

You will be after this episode.

Today's guest, Dr. Jack Kruse — neurosurgeon, mito-hacker, and author of Epi-Paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health — joins me on today's episode as we delve deep into the science of light, water, and magnetism.

Today's episode is long and dense.

And the show notes... are even longer and perhaps more dense.

Jack and I talk water quality, electromagnetism, and why light — or better yet — human photosynthesis — may be more important than food.

But I think my favorite part of this episode is when I hit Dr. Kruse with a not-so-brief round of rapid-fire questions hidden near the end. So be sure to stick around.

Full disclosure: I forgot to plug in my fancy-pants podcaster mic and the sound quality isn't what it should be. But sue me. What was I going to do? Tell Jack to start over? I don't think so.

But in today's episode you'll learn:

Why the time of year and the light you eat under may make food toxic,
How WiFi effects carbohydrate addiction,
The three essential pieces of equipment Jack recommends everyone buy, and...
Much, much more.

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Episode Breakdown

Jack discusses what sets his online work apart from the rest of the ancestral health community
Jack breaks down what Quantum Mechanics is and how that affects the planet’s food web
Why Jack says light is more important than food
Why people are addicted to poor light environments
Jack discusses how frequencies of light effect our bodies on a cellular level
Why proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are linked to light frequencies (340hz) and mitochondrial health
Why Jack was mocked by a doctor at Paleo FX for eating a banana
How the time of year and the light you eat under can make food toxic
What Jack says made his work controversial
Why Jack pushes people to ask for a farmer’s growth chart at farmer’s markets
Why farmers want to show you what’s seasonal for your latitude and location
The problem Jack sees with the ancestral health and paleo movement
Why doctors are quantifying zip codes and how they’re related to mitochondrial dysfunction
Why Jack says people on LCHF (low-carb high-fat) diets plateau
Jack describes why LCHF in a strong UV light environment is an absolute mistake
The change Jack wants people to understand
Why people in the stroke belt have so many problems with eye diseases
Why Jack has found people in the Gulf easier to deal with than people in Nashville
Why health gurus need to understand the way they deliver their message is part of their problem (it’s not their words)
Why non-native EMF and blue light can raise blood glucose and insulin
Why Jack says vitamin D levels are so low in San Diego and LA
What is a mitochondriac?
Jack’s prescription for anyone who spends most days under fluorescent lights
Why you need personal context when describing your health with Dr. Kruse
Jack describes the big elephant in the room
Why big names in the paleo industry are spending big bucks on lab work
Why it’s easier to learn about light, water, and magnetism today than it was 12 years ago
One reason why research biochemists and research scientists in the paleo community get upset with Dr. Kruse
What happens to our health when we go from 1g to 5g networks
Jack shares a story of one of his students and the ill-effects of WiFi
How WiFi effects carbohydrate addiction
Jack describes non-linear and the duality of light
How an electron spin determines free radical signaling
How power lines change the electromagnetic field 90,000 kilometers above the earth
Why Jack says drinking Malbec wine and eating blueberries on the beach in Mexico wouldn’t have effected James
Why is food a half-truth?
The labs Dr. Kruse suggests James keep an eye as a baseline
The three essential pieces of equipment Jack suggests everyone buy
Jack tells a story of hacking his fr...