Degrees of Health

Dean Hall went from working 100 hour weeks as a licensed therapist and coach, to receiving a 2-6 week diagnosis to live. Our conversation with Dean documents his 11 year old dream to swim the English Channel, turned realised adult and active-cancer patient achievement of swimming the 187 miles of the cold Willamette River in Oregon. All this through a leukaemia diagnosis, a lymphoma diagnosis, bouts of pneumonia and viral meningitis, and the grief of losing his wife. Inspired to see through raising his then 14-year old daughter, he committed to do anything to prolong his time to fulfil that role. This is the story of The Wild Cure - on the critical power of finding a passionate purpose and how cold water swimming and nature led him to heal his cancer and traumatic grief. With Dean we discuss his radical remission, the power of visualisation, how we can let go of overwhelming emotions of the day via a process of ‘zero-ing out’, and the symbiotic relationship we need to return to with nature.Find Dean:InstagramWebsiteThe Wild Cure Book----------------------------------------------------------------------Mentioned in this podcast:Cancer, leukaemia, lymphoma, viral meningitis, pneumonia, depression, anxiety, traumatic grief, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's diseaseBlue Mind - Wallace J NicholsMan's Search for Meaning - Victor FranklGrounding and Earthing - Clint OberWim Hof----------------------------------------------------------------------Want to watch this on video? Subscribe on YouTubeInstagram  @degreesofhealth Tik Tok @degrees_of_health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Marc Cohen is one of the world's leading academics in the study of holistic and integrative medicine, including contrast therapy. Dr Marc is a registered medical practitioner with degrees in medicine, physiology and psychology and PHDs in Chinese Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. His thirst for knowledge doesn't end in the classroom and spans several spheres making his approach incredibly well-informed and wide-ranging.In this episode, he guides us through the concept of 'ancient future medicine' and the many bio hacks available to us that we can choose to incorporate for mastery over mind and body. We speak about oxymels, brown fat, forced mindfulness, being comfortably uncomfortable, hydrothermal wellness, and so much more. Dr Marc has a unique way of delivering information in an informative yet digestible way, sprinkled with evidence-based activities we can do at home that don’t require any cost, training or equipment.Find Dr Marc Cohen:https://www.drmarc.co/----------------------------------------------------------------------Mentioned in this podcast:-Dr Joy Hussain-Hydrothermal wellness-Tulsi (Holy Basil)-The Wim Hof Method-Ayurvedic medicine-Hormesis-Manuka honey----------------------------------------------------------------------Want to watch this on video? Subscribe on YouTubeInstagram  @degreesofhealth Tik Tok @degrees_of_health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marc Millar is the founder of Edinburgh Blue Balls, a men’s mental health cold water swimming group in Scotland. We had the pleasure of speaking with Marc about how EBB came about, why it is necessary, and how the community keeps it going. The conversation has many takeaways - the most prominent being how the concept of masculinity needs shaking up in order to have any hope of being truly useful in todays society of external toxicity and internal loneliness. Importantly, the cold swimming group is also a vector for education, support and awareness of the Joshua Nolan foundation - a suicide prevention charity. This conversation was a reminder that we all fight battles and have struggles. All the more reason to always be kind. Find Edinburgh Blue Balls on InstagramFind the Joshua Nolan Foundation hereApologies for the occasional interference - we’ll work on that!----------------------------------------------------------------------Mentioned in this podcast:-Budgy Smugglers-Beard groups-Mental health groups----------------------------------------------------------------------Want to watch this on video? Subscribe on YouTubeInstagram  @degreesofhealth Tik Tok @degrees_of_health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we had the pleasure to speak with Dr Joy Hussain, a medical practitioner promoting wellness and evidence-based sauna therapies. Joy completed her PhD at RMIT University on the topic of health effects of frequent sweating and sauna bathing. Joy is currently working to adapt sauna-based experimental protocols for lifestyle and medical applications, such as in cardiovascular disease prevention, cardiac rehabilitation and treatment for postmenopausal hot flushes.In this episode, Joy discusses links between dementia and sauna use, the benefit to females of syncing their sauna use with their menstrual cycle, the increase in cardiac load with increased humidity, thermoregulation and perimenopause, and more. What we love most is Joy’s rare, but necessary, approach to her research. Her aim is to look at all the things that could be happening and then working backwards to see what we know instead of focusing on just one pathway. Our living experience is multifaceted and as the science should be to represent it.Find Joy here:Website - https://healthwithjoy.com.au/----------------------------------------------------------------------Mentioned in this podcast:-Jari Laukkenen-Comfort Crisis-Dr Earric Lee-Sauna Fitness-Dr Wanda Pilch-Mindy Peltz----------------------------------------------------------------------Want to watch this on video? Subscribe on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDpVgBgbtgoNBz3sRQauH5wInstagram  @degreesofhealth Tik Tok @degrees_of_health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we're joined by Emma O'Kelly - journalist, long-term contributing editor to Wallpaper magazine, author and, most recently, sauna enthusiast. The book - "Sauna: Power of Deep Heat" - was sparked initially by a work trip to Finland in 2016, that led to a book deal and travelling 10,000 miles in a trusty van across Northern Europe, with friend, aid and Finn, Maija Astikainen, who so beautifully photographed the saunas they visited. Together, the pair have created a rare find in one book - a collection of stunning photography with insightful commentary and detail into the history and cultural significance of sauna practice all around the world.If you are looking to understand what sauna is, where it comes from, and why you should be interested in it, give this episode a listen. Our conversation with Emma details how she went from sauna novice to sauna addict, the definition and importance of Sisu, the Finnish and British approaches to nudity, making the cold our friend (and winters less boring), and possibly the nudge you need to give cold and hot a go.Find Emma here:Website - https://emmaokelly.com/Instagram: @emmaokelly10Book - Sauna: The Power of Deep Heat. Available on Amazon and at WHSmith----------------------------------------------------------------------Mentioned in this podcast:-Parliament Hill Lido-Hampstead Heath Ponds-Hackney Wick Community Sauna Baths-The Comfort Crisis - Michael Easter----------------------------------------------------------------------Want to watch this on video? Subscribe on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDpVgBgbtgoNBz3sRQauH5wInstagram  @degreesofhealth Tik Tok @degrees_of_health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Thomas P Seager is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University. He is the founder of a new concept called Self-Actual Engineering that emphasises application of design principles for the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Motivation, rather than the bottom. Seager is CEO of Morozko Forge ice bath company and an expert in the use of ice baths for building metabolic and psychological resilience.If you are looking to understand why you might start cold exposure practices, this episode breaks down why we should consider it. Thomas covers male and female hormonal responses (including Testosterone Replacement Therapy and hormonal optimisation), psychological resilience, oxytocin and pair-bonding, and the relationship between vitamin D, cold exposure and the immune system. He generously shares the changes we can expect to see - physiologically, cognitively, and emotionally in response to the cold.Find Thomas here:Substack - https://seagertp.substack.com/Twitter & Instagram:  @seagertp Email: thomas.seager@asu.edu----------------------------------------------------------------------Mentioned in this podcast:Andrew Huberman - Huberman Lab PodcastJoe Rogan - The Joe Rogan ExperienceMorozko Forge Ice Bath CompanyGorilla Mindset - Mike Cernovich----------------------------------------------------------------------Want to watch this on video? Subscribe on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDpVgBgbtgoNBz3sRQauH5wInstagram  @degreesofhealth Tik Tok @degrees_of_health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.