Otto Muzik is best known to me for his research papers on Wim Hof's abilities that connected the iceman's abilities to the mysterious power of the placebo effect. The Wim Hof method website frequently cites the study and there is another paper in the works. But Muzik has a lot to say about the science of brown fat and the organization around him called "InnerFire" that might make you think twice about what Muzik's endorsement really means about the Wim Hof Method. The Wedge https://www.scottcarney.com/the-wedge Otto Muzik's Website https://neurology.med.wayne.edu/profile/aa0004 Paper on Wim Hof's BAT https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29438845/ The Dawn of Everything https://amzn.to/3WnZNZs #wimhofmethod #Innerfire #brownfat #neruoscience #hubermanlab #tonyrobbins

The language that we use to discuss the role that DNA has in creating the proteins that make up our body is incredibly deterministic and not at all what actually happens at the cellular level. When you build a house a single centralized set of instructions makes a lot of sense. But when you consider that DNA exists in every single cell--we have to reassess what it means to build an organism where the parts are calling the shots. Related reading: DNA is not a Blueprint by Sergio Pistoi https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dna-is-not-a-blueprint/ Braiding Sweetgrass #genetics #DNA #superorganism

What makes a good skeptic? Is it dismissing things that don't conform to your own beliefs about how the world should work from a scientific perspective? Or is there a more nuanced approach that allows you to -- occasionally-- change your mind? This episode is about how I think we should all take a step backward and realize that much of what we think we know about the world is probably wrong, anyway. Book Reference: Carl Sagan (1996) "The Demon-Haunted World" #beliefs #science #humility

Depending who you ask, the Wim Hof method either originated out of Hof's mind after he first jumped into ice water, or it's part of an ancient tradition of breathwork and ice bathing that goes back to human pre-history. I've decided to dig into the question to compare Wim's practices to existing Yogic practices as well as listening to Wim's own accounts of where this all started for him. The truth is not quite what you might expect. References: Videos: How Wim Hof Lost his Method Wim Hof's Yoga Manuscript and the Meaning Behind it Books: The Wedge What Doesn't Kill Us The Enlightenment Trap #wimhof #breathwork #yoga

You've probably heard of the Law of Diminishing Returns where acquiring new skills ultimately tapers off until further gains are harder and harder to achieve. But what if you flipped that logic on its head? The flip side of the same phenomenon is what I call "The Law of Speedy Gains" where you can opt to harvest the easy-upside of taking on new things and then move on to other skills that you might what to develop once you hit the first stages of the plateau.