Practicing stress buffering through cold water immersion or breathing protocols can increase energy and immune system function.

“Now, there are ways to leverage stress, epinephrine and cortisol in ways that serve you and to do it in a deliberate way. There are also ways to do that that increase your level of stress threshold, meaning they make it less likely that epinephrine and cortisol will be released. So I want to talk about the science of those practices, 'cause I get asked about these practices a lot. Things like Wim Hof breathing which is also called tummo breathing. Things like ice baths. Things like high intensity interval training.”

“But what we're talking about here are ways to increase energy and to teach our brain and body to teach ourselves how to regulate the stress response. So in addition to the benefits of the actual practices what we're talking about is building a system so that when you experience increases in epinephrine and cortisol from life events you're able to better buffer those.”

“there's a biological mechanism that's very important if you want to do those things increase energy and your immune system on demand learn learn to buffer stress on demand in real time and it means taking these protocols these practices whether or not it's cold water or ice bath or exercise or any of those and making one small but very powerful adjustment in how you perform them”