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December 11, 2023 16 mins

Imagine, you've just accidentally consumed gluten, and the inflammation sets in. From my personal journey, I've found a surprising savior - a plunge into cold water. This episode delves into the remarkable health benefits of cold water exposure and cryotherapy - a simple yet powerful tool for boosting overall health and well-being. I discuss my personal experience of how a quick swim in a cold pool helped alleviate the symptoms of an accidental gluten encounter, and the potential for this method to be integrated into your protocols if you accidentally consume gluten.

Have you ever considered how a cold shower, bath, or a dip in a natural body of water could significantly enhance your health? The second half of our discussion illuminates the science-backed benefits of cold water exposure.

Always, however, approach it with caution and under proper supervision. So, gear up and take the plunge - the cold might just be your new best friend!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now, last week my family and I went away camping
and we stayed at a caravan park.
We've got a camping trailer andwe planned this weekend away.
My son had a couple of daysextra off school, so we thought
let's make the most of that andwe'll go away for four days and
we had everything packed readyto go.

(00:21):
The kids were so excited and myhusband had to duck out and
pump up the tyres on the campingtrailer and fill up the car
with fuel and just do a few lastminute things.
And while he was out, hedecided to grab us lunch, which
was very kind of him and he'swonderful when it comes to

(00:41):
getting me gluten free food andhe always asks all the right
questions and he follows all ofmy procedures to make sure that
my food is safe and gluten free.
And he got home and I wassitting in my kitchen and I was
eating my gluten free wrap,which had chicken and salad in
it, and it was delicious.

(01:02):
I've had it from the sametakeaway place so many times.
The girls that make it are socareful.
They prepare it in a clean,safe environment and I've never
had an issue in all the yearsthat I've been buying this same
takeaway gluten free wrap and Iwas eating my wrap and I got to

(01:25):
almost the last mouthful and Ithought what is that flavour in
my mouth?
Because it tastes nothing likethe rest of the wrap that I'd
eaten and my brain went oh mygod, that is hummed chicken.
So I immediately spat it out inmy hand.
I washed my mouth out.

(01:45):
I couldn't make myself sickwhich I wish I could have but I
was so freaked out that I'dconsumed gluten and I was just
beside myself.
I couldn't believe it and Ididn't know if I'd swallowed any
, but I thought that it waslikely that I'd swallowed

(02:06):
something that I shouldn't have.
So my husband said let's justnot go camping, let's just stay
home.
This is going to be a nightmare, like I don't want to be away
and you're just on the toiletthe whole time.
I was like do you know what?
I don't want to disappoint thekids.
I can use their toilet paperinstead of my own.

(02:27):
Let's just go, it's going to befine.
And I was mentally trying totalk myself into the fact that
it was going to be okay.
So off we went.
We're driving to the campsite,which is probably not that far
away, maybe 45 minutes away andwe've got about halfway there
and I've made my husband pullover.

(02:48):
He said he was going to be sick.
Thankfully I didn't.
We kept going and it was ascorching hot day it's probably
the hottest day that we've hadso far this year and it was just
disgusting.
So we got to the campsite andmy husband said look, you go, do
what you need to do.

(03:08):
I went to the toilet.
It was fine, everything wasfine.
And he said he'd set up thecamper trailer and the kids were
nagging to go in the pool.
And I thought do you know what?
I think that's going to be good, I'm going to go in the pool,
I'll feel fine and it's going tobe okay.
And by this time I felt a littlebit off.
I felt a bit dizzy and just notquite right.

(03:30):
So I put my bathers on and Iwent for a swim and I'm not even
joking I felt instantly better.
It was like the temperature ofthe water just made everything
feel so much better and Ithought there is something in

(03:50):
this and I'm going home and I'mgoing to do some research on
this because I cannot believehow much better it made me feel.
So I was in and out the poolfor the next sort of four to
five hours with the kids justhaving another swim, getting out
, having a rest, getting back in.
And that night I was exhausted,I was tired, I felt a little

(04:12):
bit of vertigo but my bodywasn't aching.
It wasn't feeling the normalbody aches that I get and I
couldn't believe how much of animprovement I'd felt just from
going in the pool.
And, as it turned out, I musthave only had a very, very

(04:32):
slight amount of gluten got inmy system because I didn't have
my usual symptoms that I wouldhave.
But I did definitely have thethe, you know, the vertigo and
the a bit of brain fog.
I took panadol, so paracetamol.
I took that on a Saturday andSunday and I was a little bit
off but I was fine and Igobsmacked at how much better I

(04:55):
felt.
I did follow all of myprotocols that I recommend
inside Ultimate Celia system forif you do get gluten, and they
worked.
But I do believe that addingthis cold water therapy Into it
made an extra impact on the waythat I felt from having gluten
in my system.

(05:15):
So I wanted to talk about coldexposure and cryotherapy and the
benefits of it and how that cansupport you moving forward, if
you get gluten, or just if yousuffer from other symptoms or
Problems, from maybe otherautoimmune diseases or other
issues that you've got going onin your life.
Now, if you never heard ofCryotherapy, basically what it

(05:40):
is is you are exposed tofreezing Temperatures.
So whether you, you know, yougo in a freezing cold lake in
the middle of winter or you gointo an ice bath, this is
something you need to dosupervise.
You need to make sure you onlydo it for a period of time.
Please speak to your doctor.
This is not medical advice.

(06:02):
This is major sharinginformation, but it is something
that has been made famous inrecent years by a bloke called
Wim Hof, and he teaches you howto breathe through that cold
water exposure.
Because, you know, jumping in atub of iced water is not very

(06:22):
pleasant and, to be honest, it'sonly ever something that I
thought sports people did.
I thought it was something thatpeople did to Recover from that
muscle pain.
My husband has done it for manyyears.
After playing football, theywould jump in an ice bath and it
would help with, you know, thatmuscle aches and pains.

(06:42):
It would help them recoverfaster.
So that is one of the benefitsof doing Cryotherapy, and you
might not have exposure to anice bath or you know an ice the
ice in kind of lake or anythinglike that but you can even get
cold exposure just from perhapsgoing for a swim in the ocean if

(07:03):
you're near the beach.
I know a lot more people aredoing that these days.
We live just near the beach, sothe beach is just down the road
from us, 500 meters from ourhouse.
I drive past the beach everysingle day and there are always
people swimming in the oceanwhen I'm dropping my son to
school, so we drive past thebeach to get to his school and

(07:24):
there's always people going foran early morning swim and Once
upon a time I used to think theywere crazy, because I don't
really love being cold and forme it's.
It's kind of like if it's hotI'm going for a swim at the
beach, whereas now I'm startingto learn the benefits more of

(07:45):
this cold water exposure.
That it's something that I'mgoing to be working my way up to
doing more often.
My brother and his girlfriendI've just started doing Sunday
morning swims, no matter whatthe weather, no matter what the
temperature is.
They go down to my local MilanaBeach and they go for a swim
and just enjoy those benefits.
So, yeah, it's prettyincredible and it's something

(08:05):
that I wanted to talk with you alittle bit more about some of
the other benefits with Today aswell, so some of the other
benefits that you can actuallyget from Cryotherapy or cold
water exposure or even coldexposure.
So if you are living in StAmerica or Canada, obviously
it's a different time of Well,it's a different season, it's

(08:26):
not a different time of year,but it's a different season to
what we've got here in Australia.
So we're going into summer, youguys are going into winter and
in winter you can.
You can go for a walk and youcan expose your body to cold
temperatures.
Obviously, you need to makesure that you are, you know,
looking after your body, thatyou're not gonna get frostbite,

(08:48):
things like that.
But if you can go for a walk inthe cold or even just go
outside and get some coldexposure, it's amazing what it
can do, not only for yourmindset, but the way that you
feel.
It can really wake you up.
Most of us just want tohibernate when it's cold and
stay indoors, but it can lead toother issues when we just don't

(09:09):
get out and don't, you know, gooutdoors and enjoy what you
know nature does for us.
So you might want to pushyourself a little bit and get
some cold exposure movingforward as you go into the
winter months.
Now we talked about how it candecrease inflammation.
It can help with recovery andsupporting your muscles after

(09:30):
you know, heavy workouts, thingslike that.
It can also help with weightloss.
So it doesn't it's not like yousit in an ice bath and you lose
weight, it's the benefits fromwhat that does.
So it can increase yourmetabolism, so that can then
lead to weight loss.
And then it can also help withrecovery to get you back out

(09:51):
there and exercising.
So if you are someone that doesintense workouts or you know
you're playing sport and youfeel that muscle pain for days
on end after, say, a big game ofsport so, for example, my
husband let's just say he playedfootball and for a couple of
days he was in agony andcouldn't really walk then doing

(10:13):
that cold water exposure or thatcryotherapy helps you to get
back out there.
You know, hit the gym or go fora run, do what you would
normally do by reducing thatpain.
So for my husband, when he'sbeen playing football again this
year, he's had a couple ofyears off, so he turned 40 this
year and he knows his body's notwhat it used to be and what he

(10:36):
does, no matter what temperatureit is.
He goes down to the beach on aSunday, so he plays football on
a Saturday and then he goes downto the beach on a Sunday.
It can be freezing cold.
He'll have a, you know, a bigjumper on and he'll go down in
his shorts and he'll just walkin the water up to his waist and
it helps his legs recover somuch quicker.

(10:57):
So for him that is a massivebenefit and he knows the
difference that it makes for himand his recovery.
Another thing that cryotherapyor cold exposure can do is it
can help with lowering your riskof getting depression.
So that's pretty cool.
People that I've watched onlinethat have done it for the first

(11:20):
time, where they've done thiscold therapy, they have said
that they felt so aliveafterwards.
So they do it and then they'vegot like all this energy and
they feel amazing.
There's a TV show here inAustralia called the Block,
where these couples go on theshow to compete for a prize of

(11:41):
$100,000 and they fully renovatea house.
And it was last year actually,and this couple they did this
cold water therapy, they did thecryotherapy in an ice bath and
I remember the guy getting outand he was just, it was so full
of energy and he just got somuch work done in his house that

(12:03):
day.
And to see that benefit is huge.
So Tony Robbins, he does thisevery morning.
He has this like it's kind oflike this meter by meter, I'd
say, square in his backyardwhere it's just a plunge, where
he literally jumps in and popsup and he stays in there for

(12:23):
however long.
I think it's recommended aboutthree or four minutes.
Don't quote me on that, I'm not100% sure, but he does that
every morning and that just getsthe body going and starts you
on an amazing path for the day.
Another thing that it can do ishelp with reducing eczema.
So a lot of people report thatit helps with eczema and for me,

(12:45):
I had eczema as a kid and Iknow that it was always worse
when I felt hot and I alwaysremember that in winter it was
always much more comfortableliving with eczema.
So obviously that's reducingthat heat, that eczema it brings
to the body.
If you've got that heat ratherin your body, if you reduce that

(13:07):
heat, it's going to feel betterwith the eczema and reduce that
itchiness and improve it.
So that's a pretty cool one aswell, something to think about
if you struggle with eczema orif your child struggles with
eczema.
And then last one that I wantedto share was it can prevent
migraines and from what I'vefound is, it's to do with

(13:27):
supporting the muscles aroundthe neck.
So if you struggle withmigraines and it's not linked to
your gluten intake, it could belinked to your muscles.
This can actually support thatas well.
So that's something to thinkabout there.
If you do struggle withmigraines and you're not sure
how to get on top of that, now,if you don't have access to an

(13:50):
ice bath, you can do it yourself.
People do it in eskies.
I don't know what do we callthem in America?
What do you call them overthere?
I think they're called colons,I'm not sure.
So basically, it's what youkeep your drinks in with ice, so
we call them eskies.
In Australia, I've seen a lotof people use them where they

(14:13):
fill it with ice and fill itwith water and plunge into those
.
So that could be an option.
A bath would work, but again,it's quite a large space to fill
with ice, so you could evenjust try it with cold water to
start with and work your way upfrom there, maybe grabbing a bag
of ice and seeing if that works.

(14:33):
But even just in a reallynatural state, just hitting the
ocean, hitting a lake, goingsomewhere that you can jump in
the cold water and exposeyourself to that can do wonders
for your mindset, your health,your body and, as I discovered,
reducing inflammation afteraccidental gluten exposure.

(14:54):
So I hope that is a bit of aneye opener for you, because it's
something that I certainlylearnt recently and wanted to
share with you, and I will beadding this to my protocols
inside Ultimate Celiac System.
So, for those of you that havegot that program, you'll see an
update on your checklist forwhat to do if you accidentally

(15:14):
get gluten, and it could be assimple as just jumping in a cold
shower if you don't have access, rather, to one of those other
options.
So thank you so much forlistening, thanks for tuning in
again this week, and I lookforward to talking with you
again very, very soon.
So yeah, have a great week.
I'll talk to you then.

(15:34):
Bye.
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