RPG Podcast #009 | Ice Bath 101 w/ Dr. Har Hari

On this episode, Robert dives into deep conversation with Dr. Har Hari Khalsa out of LA. They discuss chiropractics, ice baths, psychedelics and more.  

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-Show Notes-

0:44- Chiropractor Har Hari Kalsa’s explains his job is removing interference to allow the body to heal itself.  The three forms of interference: physical, mental/emotional, and Biochemical (toxicities that we are exposed to).

2:41- Robert was skeptical about chiropractors after listening to the Joe Rogan Podcast but needed it after physical trauma from his trainings in the U.S. Army. Khalsa was humored because he had a partnership with fellow Chiropractor, Peter Goldman in Los Angeles and Goldman actually worked on Joe Rogan and his team at one point.  Patton finally tried it after his business group brought a chiropractor to one of their meetings and only applied pressure that couldn’t even crack an egg, it is called upper cervical method.

4:46- C1, where the brain stem is ,(the first vertebrae) if misaligned or experiences too much pressure, can cause a whole range of health problems. With forty years of experience in Kundalini Yoga and healing, and chiropractor for thirty years, Khalsa describes himself as 90% student, 10% teacher.

7:11- Khalsa and Patton both love the Wim Hof breathing method to energize and heal the body.  It brings one to a very present moment, a one pointed meditation.

9:18- Four years ago, Khalsa begins doing cold showers and Wim Hof breathing method. He suggest after you can do ten minutes in a cold shower, you are ready for an ice bath. He did an hour in an ice bath on his 60th birthday ! His belief is that doing this breathing method makes you tougher in weathering the cold.

13:10- Intermittent hypoxia (intentional lowering of blood oxygen level) increases EPO (Erythropoietin). This shocks your body into being fully awake.

15:40- Khalsa chuckles as he says, “Wim Hof is the second coming”.

18:40- Health, Happiness and Strength are three things that you get from breathing in the cold.

20:53- Khalsa has a chest freezer he uses that gets to thirty two degrees and will change the water every ten days.

23:39- Khalsa recommends that one does not do Wim Hof breathing method in the ice bath, as it may lead to dizziness and possible drowning.

25:31- Growing up in Orange County in the 70’s, Khalsa went on to attend USC which he stated had a huge drug culture.  Leaving after only one year, he went up North to University of Oregon-Eugene where he discovered psychedelics. It was an exploratory thing for him and it was somewhat spiritual, having a revelation on LSD staring at a picture of Stonehenge. What impacted him more was beginning a Kundalini Yoga practice while at the university. He later moved to Colorado at age twenty to pursue skiing and stayed at an ashram in Denver, Colorado.

29:19- Khalsa finished his studies at Colorado University in Boulder.

30:45- Khalsa goes to Colorado every year, for the past forty years because of the Summer Solstice in Espanola, New Mexico. After the festival is over, he enjoys going around Colorado to hike and explore.

32:30- Khalsa recommends eating 1.5 grams psilocybin mushrooms and getting into an ice bath, Patton has done this but went into a hot tub.

35:00- There is a big reminder that we have been with the cold for a long time, our ancestors had to deal with it to survive and make you superhuman.

37:01- To promote anti-aging, Khalsa takes NMN (Nicotinamide mono-nucleotide) daily, intermittently fasts, and uses hot and cold therapies.

38:45- Khalsa states that Ozone therapy is the number one anti-microbial in the world. It stimulates the production of glutathione which is anti-aging.

43:43- Khalsa states that an eighteen day water fast is the equivalent to a one hundred thousand dollar stem cell injection.

46:45- Leech therapy is coming back in popularity as discoveries are being made in stem cell generation.