Chanel here. Welcome to menopause nutrition.
I believe women can thrive in menopause and
had the body composition of their choice if
they must have their nutrition and lifestyle. And
today, we are going to be talking about
cold water therapy an ice spa thing
because I may or may not be
starting to ice bath. I will give you
the info on this. But there's an interesting
study that I'm going to quote that has
some very
good race research behind it, showing that cold
water therapy is helpful for. My menopause time.
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Before I give you all of the research
and details around the benefits of cold water
therapy for my menopause are tried.
My husband has been ice spa thing for
a while. He actually started earlier this year
just having a cold shower every morning, which
I will actually tell you I have been
through that process myself. I don't do it
every day. But last year. I did it
a lot.
I can't really remember why, but it is
very helpful. So what happens is with cold
water therapy, you actually get a shot of
dopamine.
It is, different chemicals,
actually also
epinephrine and norepinephrine epinephrine. They're like that... They
give you
a a shot of a adrenaline if you
like, and it's
like gives your body a text.
So Gary is the type of person who
wakes up with no.
I am not like that. I actually a
very motivated fit person, So I don't wake
up feeling like that, but he was, like,
feeling like he needed to try something. So
he's started with doing daily
cold water
showers, which in summer here as at she's
not cold at all. I'm just giving you
the heads up.
Then he decided he was doing a ice
bus, so he bought a freezer and he
has... Converted this freezer into an ice bath.
So he's got all the stuff It's got,
like,
filtration and temperature, and all of the thing
it's very cold actually, and it's very big.
Both of us could to get in at
the 1 time if we wanted, but we
haven't done that yet.
So he's been ice spa for a while,
and he does, like, 5 minutes and at
a time.
Anyway, good for him. And
so then recently,
I just wanted to give you the background
so understand like the process. I was not
interested and and I have ice bath before,
and I find it very challenging.
I find it really hard to do.
And
so I didn't really feel like doing it.
And then I suffer from sore elbows, I
hyper extended my elbows. So
after training, I started putting my arms and
ice baths to see if they would help
with the employee information in my elbows,
and I do actually think it does.
So then I'm running a lot because I'm
doing the High rock training,
I went for a big run the other
the dynamite. I'm getting in the ice bath
because I ran in the morning, and then
I was training in the afternoon actually, just
have a I'll go off then
because
it did... I just realized something. So I
got in the ice bath after they run
just to my wife's. Just I just wanted
my legs to get done, and it definitely
helps right from an inflammatory point of view.
So then what happened was because I'm running
and then with my elbows, I'm like, I've
got half my body in doing my legs,
and then I've got my arms and laid
doing my arms and Ga like, what are
you doing? Like? You just just get in
your whole body? Like... And I just wasn't
really to do it.
Anyway, I saw my ph on Monday long
story short, and I was telling karen and
she's laughing and she's a real fan of
my buff as well. And she's like, yeah.
You really should just get your whole body
and you just, you know, it will save
you time. So on Tuesday,
for... I decided to do that. And
it...
I did it for 2 minutes. Our ice
bath is currently at 8 degrees.
So I got in for 2 minutes, and
like I like it definitely took my breath
away, but then I managed to breathe into
it, and
you know, got through the 2 minutes. And
afterwards, I actually felt really
amazing.
And it's at it's hard for to put
this into words, but my brain was working
better,
and that you get this interesting
sensation through your body.
Which is really
it's really nice. Like... So I have this
love hate relationship
because this morning again, I felt compelled to
do it again. And so I cut up
and I got in the ice spot again
for another 2 minutes.
So then I wanted to share this because
I've looked into it, like the research and
science behind. We know that there's a number
of reasons that I bar thing generally
is helpful. So 1 of them is it
from a mindset point of view. Like, as
human beings, we just don't actually do hard
things very often. So then when we are
forcing ourselves into an comfortable
position
and I by thing for me is very
challenging.
It's actually putting you out of your comfort
zone and you're making yourself do so hard.
So
like, Gary said to me you say you
guys, well, you won't do anything harder than
that today. Like, that's, like, the hardest challenge
or have today, everything else will be easier.
And that's... So it definitely helps
promote a stronger mindset consent because you're making
yourself do something harder. So when you do
a harder work workout. Right?
So that's 1 aspect of it from a
mindset point of view. Obviously, I talked about
those chemical
in your brain that happen. So there's
definitely research showing it helps with cognitive issues
or function in your brain. So people that
have
Adhd and anxiety and depression and any neurological
things going on, definitely
can help in that respect. And I felt
that myself yesterday. Like, I just felt different,
and it's for me to put it into
words, but I know I just felt different
and my brain was working differently.
So there's a real thing about it.
It actually affects your metabolism. So your metabolism
goes up because what happens is you get
into this cold bath,
and your body,
obviously,
your core temperature
decreases. So what happens is your metabolism actually
has to kick into place
to help you get warmer. And then my
ph was telling me this today, she knows
a lot about it. She was saying that
then
the temperature,
your body temperature actually runs a little bit
higher for the rest of the day, which
actually affects your metabolism interesting.
Now I know
there's research showing. It actually helps change the
fat composite composition in your body. So this
is probably due to that metabolism change, but
we have different types of fat and our
body.
White fat
is not
metabolically active. And so we don't really want
white fat in our body. And what ice
does is it actually converts the white fat
into brown fat. And brown fat is metabolic
active, so it can actually be useful in
the body. So this is a byproduct, so
anyone on their kind of fat loss journey.
You. Well, it's not even from a fat
loss point of view. It's actually from more
of a health point of view. You're creating
a healthier
version of the cells in your body if
you like because we don't want that white
fat. We want the brown fat. So a
lot of white different research,
I wanna just share with you before I
jump into the numbers
what I personally now because I feel like
now, I definitely have a love of hate
relations ship don't get me wrong. Like, it
is challenging,
but I actually also
feel amazing afterwards. So... And I kind of
understand, like, what Sonya was telling me now
because it's hard to put it into words
because it sounds stupid, like, when I even
verbal it.
But
for now, I'm going to lean into it
and give it a test. So what I'm
going to do is I'm going to act
actually book an a ad scan. I would
like to do this anyway, and I think
it's quite a good idea for any of
my
friends out there who are, you know, wanting
to like getting blood work done at least
once a year, getting a debt to scan
to see where your muscle,
how your bone is,
you can actually then go ahead and be
able to,
like, for me, I'm gonna do a existing
again now because But only 2 days into
this.
Then see what happens as like, maybe in
6 months time after ice bath or even
3 months time, what the changes to my
body composition are,
just by adding ice bar to the max.
Like keeping my my training will pretty stay
the same, my nutrition will stay the sign
same So this is what I am personally
on to do.
If you're following my stories, I actually have
a posted almost. Stories about it.
I think for a couple of reasons.
1,
I think people are sick of saying people,
ice spa. Stories Anyway, I'm gonna start sharing
it so you can see that I'm actually
doing it. But I also wanted you to
understand where I was at with it, so
you could... Listen
to the background.
So this is just, you understand like, where
this is all coming from. So I will
start sharing all my stories like the ice
bath.
So you get the gist of it.
So that is what I'm gonna do. And
I'm gonna now explain to you some of
the physical and mental benefit it's
that's a study done by the university
University
college of London
on
1114
women were in the study. So what they
found was
this
so they used they... The study was cold
therapy. So either swimming in cold water.
I'm not sure how many were doing ice
baths or actually just cold water swimming that
cold water therapy.
And it helped with hot flashes
helped with mood things,
So very interesting. So
3 785
women on the study. We're going through menopause.
And
like I said, I'm not exactly sure on
the the split on baths and swimming,
but I'm not gonna go and drive to
Sand gate to swim at this time or
of the, I guess I could get in
my pool, but at same sort of saying
same same. Right?
So it reduced anxiety, which is a by
byproduct of medical menopause symptoms.
It helped with moods things and, like, basically,
people who were,
like, suffering from low mood, which is another
side effect.
30 percent has
help Ward found that it helped with hot
flashes, which is
amazing.
In 6 out of 10
people found that it just helped with them
menopause symptoms. So very high numbers,
we're gonna say like 60 percent of the
people
found benefit from cold water therapy for their
menopause symptoms. And the reason I'm sharing this
is there's a lot of women obviously that
cannot take Hr t or they don't wanna
take Hr,
and the medical symptoms are
a major issue. So knowing this
information. Maybe you've got a pool and you're
getting in it at winter and you can
try doing that. I'm not saying you have
to go out and buy ice bath, but
you can also get in the shower, you
know, for 2 minutes or 3 minutes,
not the same. Like, it's not definitely not
the same. Like, and I I say this
because
the last 2 days getting in the ice
bath, it it takes my breath away and
getting in the shower doesn't do that to
the same. I've never felt, like a getting
into it the ice bath,
but it would still give you a stimulus
and something that you could definitely like stuff.
Working on.
And then what also was interesting because I
not I know not everyone over here might
not necessarily be. A menopause yet, Like me
you're still, you know, cycling,
you know, getting a period,
711
of the woman that were having mid straw
symptoms,
it helped.
So it helps the natural symptoms, which
our daughter who still looks at home. She
suffers with this, so I will be sharing
this information with her as well. So really
good research to show that it helps not
only woman who are just still, you know,
have a normal
administration. But if you're on your medical menopause
journey, it could be another tool that you
add to your toolbox, to be able to
try out and see if this protocol like
works for you. I will keep you posted,
of course,
as
journey through this myself. Like I said, I'm
only 2 days to. So it's very new
over here, but I do feel
different.
In myself. And so I'm interested to see
how I go and how I
progress and if I still feel motivated to
do it or not and how that pans
out. So I'll keep me posted. And I
will start sharing on my stories. I just...
I I don't know why I didn't. I
just... Yeah. Anyway, I won't tomorrow. I promise
I will video or make it into the
ice bath tomorrow so you can witness it
yourself. So I'm not making this up. You
can see it with your own eyes.
As always I'm trying to give you information
that can help you on your health and
wellness journey and your menopause Journey. Right? I
know a lot of you tuning in may
not want to do Hr t.
Or
maybe you cannot do Hr. So this is,
you know, a protocol that you might be
able to implement that will help alleviate some
of those symptoms.
I'm giving you all of the information, Of
course, this is something I you know, delving
into myself. And that's 1 of the reasons
why I think I'm pretty good at my
job because I do test this stuff out
myself
and decide if
it is true. You know? So
there's a lot more to,
you know, just looking at research
you know, looking at information, saying what the
latest,
you know, people are doing or when by...
And then actually doing it yourself. So A
lot of the reasons I have such great
success with the people I work with whether
it's on my programs and my 1 on
1 is truly because I know
I've been in your spot. I I've been
that person who,
you know, was having hot flashes was waking
the night wasn't sleeping wasn't happy was not
motivated. Like, all of the things that you
may be experiencing yourself.
So
I truly then turned myself into an experiment
and went delved into
all the different things. And obviously, I continue
to do that as a nutrition and health
coach
myself, working with people.
I
want to be the best version of myself.
So all of the things I learn is,
obviously for my own purpose
to live my very best life.
But I'm not gonna gate keep them over
here. So I'm here sharing them with you
so you too
can fast track your success like it me
a long time to sort some of this
stuff out. And that's why my program like,
has such great success because we can condense
it into a smaller window of time. When
you don't have to be trying to navigate
the crap that I did for 4 or
5 years. You know, this is a fast
track to you feeling better quicker. And what
I find is by the time you get
to this point, and I know from my
own personal experience,
you actually wanna feel good. You wanna feel
your best. Like, you don't wanna get halfway
through your life and be like,
is the search because that's that's what I
was feeling right. Like, is this all there
is because
that is not a good place to be
when you've got half your life to go.
So when you really,
you know, plug in, Learn, I was saying
this to my ph today. She's
she's doing a in person menopause workshop coming
up in the next couple of months that
she wants me to speak
you know, on as well.
And
people and are saying this to it, people
I work with they want to be better.
They're very motivated.
Like, they're they want to feel their best.
And
you know. This is why I'm over here
sharing this stuff with you guys. So I
truly hope it helps. I really do. And
you might not be ready to do guys,
but here and every time, I've told a
couple of people over the last couple of
days, and
the response has not been positive.
People are like, oh, I'm not sure.
And I get it. Like, I get it
because being gary started doing the spots here.
I was very clear with him that I
didn't wanna feel pressured to do it until,
you know, I felt really and I didn't
know when that was gonna be.
So I get it. If you'd if if
the thought of doing a nice bath is,
you know, not there for you. Then that's
completely fine you, at least have the information
now if you then
decide
to try it or the symptoms
start getting too much for you, then
you can certainly remember that this information's is
here and then give it a go.
So you've just got options that way,
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is caring. So... And as you hear me
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