Andrew Huberman· PhD
Well, the same approach was used by people to quit hard drugs as described in @StanfordMed MD Dr Anna Lemke's book, Dopamine Nation.
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Well, the same approach was used by people to quit hard drugs as described in @StanfordMed MD Dr Anna Lemke's book, Dopamine Nation.
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Is it giving up cocaine? Yeah, great, stick with the ice bath.
this was an individual addicted to alcohol cocaine who got into recovery um experienced a lot of dysphoria and discovered that taking an ice cold shower in the morning by a trainer or a coach was actually um made him high it gave him the kind of response uh that he often got from drugs so he began doing daily ice cold shower and then over time got himself like um a cooler and you know would submerge himself in ever colder temperatures and then got a motor to circulate the water so he was breaking the ice off in the morning at some point kind of realized oh wait a minute I think you know my tendency to take things to extreme maybe operating here but yes absolutely I agree with you ultimately this was a a healthy a healthy coping strategy
this was an individual addicted to alcohol and cocaine who got into recovery um experienced a lot of dysphoria and discovered that taking an ice cold shower in the morning that was recommended to him by um a trainer or a coach was actually um made him high it gave him the kind of response uh that he often got from drugs so he began doing daily ice cold shower and then over time got himself like um a cooler and you know would submerge himself in ever colder temperatures and then got a motor to circulate the water so he was breaking the ice off in the morning at some point kind of realized oh wait a minute I think you know my tendency to take things to extreme maybe operating here but yes absolutely I agree with you ultimately this was a a healthy a healthy coping strategy
so and it really really works for some people um
ultimately this was a a healthy a healthy coping strategy um and ultimately you know in really which really speaks to what is a healthy coping strategy uh it's something that we also do with other people so he started doing it with his family with social groups people would come over over for ice cold water bath parties you know much better than having people over um you know to to snort some lines or you know whatever the case may be