#72: 📘 Guidebook: Thermal Therapy for Longevity
#72: 📘 Guidebook: Thermal Therapy for Longevity
How to use hot and cold exposure to improve health and wellness
💬 In this note:
📘 Guidebook: Thermal Therapy for Longevity
📚 The Mountain in the Sea
⚡️ The Excel World Championships
🗣️ Looking for the read-aloud version of Nina’s Notes?
📘 Guidebook for Thermal Therapy
In recent years, the wellness and longevity communities have been discussing the benefits of extreme temperature exposure.
Whether it’s the sweaty heat of a sauna or the shocking chill of an ice bath, evidence is growing to indicate that subjecting our bodies to extreme temperatures for short periods of time can have profound health benefits.
In my latest guidebook, I dive into the world of hot and cold exposure and explain how these practices can contribute positively to your health.
This guidebook provides you with an overview of how thermal therapy affects the body backed by scientific research. I also provide practical advice for safely incorporating the practices into your daily life.
What’s Covered?
The basics of thermal therapy, focusing on both cold exposure and hot exposure
The science of cold exposure
How it affects the metabolism
What “the Drop” is
Protocols for safe exposure to extreme cold temperatures
The basics of hot exposure, what it is, and the science behind the benefits
Alternatives if you don’t have access to a sauna
Protocols for safely exposing yourself to hot temperatures
Have you wanted to try thermal therapy and don’t know where to begin?
My guidebook is a great place to start.
Plus, it’s free!
Grab it here.
📚 Book of the Week
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
★★★★★
An intelligent octopus society has been discovered in a remote archipelago. The octopuses display culture, with a language and even poetry.
In response to this discovery, an international tech corporation, DIANIMA, has sealed off access to the area.
And a bold marine biologist is desperate to study the octopus.
I really loved this book. It was well written, thrilling, and makes you think about how differently we treat species if we believe they are intelligent.
The Mountain in the Sea was very much in theme with a book I read over the Christmas holiday, Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Bauman, another book I gave 5 stars.
Surprise - you get two books of the week this week!
Venomous Lumpsucker paints a bleak picture of a future where capitalism has won.
This future has normalized species extinction.
Companies can buy extinction credits if they need to wipe out a species in order to grow their business.
It’s the modern day carbon credit….but much, much worse.
Even more problematic, is that the extinction credits are affordable for the mega corporations.
Starting at €23,000 a pop, someone can buy a handful of extinction credits and wipe out an animal’s breeding ground to mine a precious mineral.
It’s grim, and I hope a far cry from the direction we are heading as a society.
Despite its bleak theme, I completely enjoyed this book. The author is funny, entertaining, and unbelievably creative.
⚡️ Check This Out
Do you love spreadsheets?
Are you an Excel master?
If you are….I’ve got good news for you.
There is a competition for the most savvy Excel-er out there.
And it’s called the Microsoft Excel World Championship.
Covered by ESPN, the competition happens annually, and the finals are in Las Vegas.
Check out some highlights from the 2023 Championship here - the commentary is hilarious.
Any Excel user with or without prior experience and a specific skill set is welcome to
Enter the Excel Esports tournament to try their hand & compete for prize money and global recognition.
You enter the contest by buying a ticket to the championship and you can show the world your spreadsheet skillz.
How it works:
The participants advance through the brackets as they score points solving MS Excel-based game tasks.
You will be given instructions, rules for the game, and questions to answer at an increasing level of difficulty.
Use IFS, XLOOKUP, SUM, VBA, Power Query: anything is allowed, and the strategy is up to you.
To solve these tasks, you will not need any specific knowledge of finance, engineering, statistics, or other scientific disciplines.
You can already buy your ticket for the 2024 competition here, for $50.
Edited by Wright Time Publishing