Wim Hof Podcast | Russell Brand & The Power Of Cold Water

We'd probably be healthier

if we ate food that were available

and grew in the place that we're in

at the time that we're in it.

In the correct season.

Rather than eating something made in a laboratory

or grown under lights or whatever it is.

I think that the same is true for the way we treat the body.

Try to replicate what this...

what this body evolved to do.

It needs to move, it needs to do something.

And that's why I feel...

Like when I first spoke to Wim

What I...

Like, I remember the time that I jumped into cold water

Like...

You know, maybe 5 years earlier, just to sort of see what it was like.

I was curious about it.

And when I jumped into the cold water

I hear myself go

Like, I thought "Oh my God" I've never heard that noise come out of myself before

You know, like there's this...

there's this stuff in me that I'm never using

I'm never using it

Like, my body's capable of it but I'm not doing it.

And like, so...

You know

I think if you don't explore those territories

which could be mapped as neurological

which could be mapped as psychological or spiritual

It doesn't matter how you map them

It matters that you know there are these terrains

that are not being utilised within you

Because the cultural experience...

'Culture' means guide, manipulate, maneuver

Like, it will have a mirror in your mind

if you watch certain TV shows

if you watch certain news, if you eat certain food

it will have a mirror in the pathways through your mind.

You're leaving on a few little tracks

and a few little grooves.

And when you feel the cold or when you feel the breath

it breaks out into new dendrite spikes

new experiences

new realms

And suddenly think "well who was I anyway?"

What am I? Am I memory?

My appetite, my impulse, my preferences?

My likes and dislikes?

Can I just, let that die?

And just go like "Woah, is dead, I'm not that anymore"

That guy's dead.