Ice Hack for weight loss!! No exercise needed

What is going on? I've warriors. So there's been this new wave of people searching for ice hacks for fat loss where they can use ice and not do any exercise at all and specifically target belly fat, for example, and they use this as a compress to try to see if you know, it makes the it freezes the adipocytes and then it it kills the fat cells. Well, we're going to take a look at some of the you know, I'm going to look at two short videos. This one's about two minutes at 47 seconds and then we're going to look at another one. They're super old videos about eight years old, but because there's a resurgence. I want to look at the videos that were popular in in this field in terms of ice hacks, right? So let's see. This could not even be what what I'm looking for, but I know the next video after this will definitely be that. So first, let's go ahead and check this one out. Let's see. I like to watch these live with you guys. I don't like to watch them beforehand. So let's see what happens. Swimsuit season is here and everyone is looking for a quick and easy way to shed a few pounds, right? But now one doctor is suggesting a new diet that will melt away those stubborn pounds. Literally, it's called the ice diet. Well joining us live this morning to explain exactly what it is and how it works is Don Napoli. She's a registered dietitian with UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health. Good morning. Thanks for a registered dietitian. Not a doctor. They just flip-flop these words and registered dietitian. Okay, good morning. Thanks for the ice diet. Okay. I'm a little leery. Tell us what this is. Okay. So the theory behind this is called thermogenics and it's saying that your body expend so much energy or calories to melt the ice. So you're actually spending calories and not bringing in calories. So essentially you should lose weight. Yeah, because a lot of people think if you drink why does she say it was so with such a lack of confidence. She's like essentially you should lose weight if you're if you're at a show if you're at a Good Day, Orlando, whatever at a new show and you're representing something as a thing to do have a little bit more confidence than that. You should be like you it's almost like you're questioning if thermodynamics is correct of what you're saying will work in tandem with thermodynamics. If you've even tested this at all. If this is just a theory that you popped into your head. That's the vibe that I got from the way that she answered that question, but let's continue. Drink something cold like cold water in the morning. It speeds up your metabolism and it helps you lose weight. But does this really work? Great. So theoretically theoretically it should work because you are expending those energy but truthfully to lose a pound each week. You have to expend about 3,200 calories and that equates to about nine pounds of ice per day. See that's another miss misconception. Even if you expend to 3,200 calories, right? It's not in a vacuum. It's not guaranteed that not even close to being guaranteed that those 3,200 calories will come from body fat. It's going to come from glycogen. It's going to come from some muscle tissue is going to come from a bunch of different things. It could even come it could come from so many things. So for them to just be like, oh 32 boom. That's the month. That's the number on on on, you know on the money is 3,200. So just figure out a way to get 3,200 calories to be burned and it's going to be 3,200 calories of body fat. That is not necessarily Kate the case. Hold on. What did she say? Nine pounds a day to lose one pound week, right? I don't know anybody that can eat nine pounds of nine pounds of ice to lose one pound a week because nine pounds would equate to 3,200 in terms of the thermodynamics of cold and and melting ice. Are you eating the ice or are you putting it on your body? Look what's going on? I thought that this was putting it on your body. I could be wrong of ice per day. No, that's all you would be eating all day long is ice. No food. Just ice, right? It's a lot of ice. Even you put ice in every single one of your drinks. It's a lot of ice to be eating to really, you know work. So I mean truthfully you probably could turn the thermostat down a little bit or you know, wear less clothing so that you're actually, you know, you're speeding through metabolism that way and probably lose more weight than eating the ice. So if people want to attempt, why does she seem so flippy floppy unsure what she's saying? This is so frustrating come with some confidence, please to this nine pounds of ice a day. Is it even safe to try and do something like this? You know, ice is safe as long as you're not chewing it. So you're not putting your teeth or your gums and damage and you're not eating too much ice. You're not, you know, eating ice when it's really cold outside. So you're putting yourself at a higher risk of hypothermia ice is safe to eat. He's not going to harm you but you know, I don't think the nine pounds is really doable. Yeah. I mean, there are so many fad diets. These come and go all the time. Doesn't it basically come down to eat right and exercise and you'll slim down. Yeah, you know, I hate to be also. Okay. So they are poking fun at the ice diet. That's what they're doing. That's the reason why she seems so unsure with what she's saying because she's saying that the ice diet doesn't appear to work. So she's going against using the ice diet. Okay, you like the the go back to everything, you know, we've always talked about and be that kind of boring, you know, just eat right but it really does work and what you really should be having in your diet is helpful foods because you want your health to be good. So if your health is good, then your weight is going to be stable and manageable and you're going to be in a healthy way. You're going to be physically fit by including your physical activity your fruits and vegetables your whole grains getting your fluids in all that together works to make you a healthy human being. So that is really what our goal should be just go back to the basics. It works. Yeah, all right. Well, I do agree with quality of food. It definitely helps you. It definitely makes your body healthier and helps with metabolizing body fat, but let's look at this video right here. I want to look at this video personal fitness and health coach for just $30 per month. Let me introduce you to the whoop 4.0 calories in equals calories. Let's look at this video real quick. This is not the true weight loss equation and I will explain why many so-called fitness experts are wrong. This is by primed on YouTube and this video was five years there are more ways to lose weight than through activity levels and caloric restrictions. Essentially what you're doing is getting rid of energy in order to lose weight and energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms people seem fixated on exercise and storage as the only two ways to do so thermodynamics is king in changing forms of energy and it allows you to get rid of fat in a ridiculously high pace. Okay, so all right. This is what I was looking for. This person is actually talking. It looks like he's going to be talking about putting ice packs and stuff on your body to burn away body fat. So in this video, I will break down how exposure to cold will burn calories simple method to maximize fat burning and what to eat before cold exposure to lose more weight faster. Remember when news came out about Michael Phelps and his ridiculous 12,000 calorie diet. Well, he debunked that himself by saying he only eats about eight to 10,000 calories per day. That is that is absolutely outrageous to be able to be in peak condition while forcing 10,000 calories down every single day, but the secret of burning that much but keep in mind Michael Phelps is incredibly active and swimming is the most taxing. It's the most taxing kind of thing that you can do. In terms of burning calories in terms of your heart rate because and in terms of just physical activity because you're literally using every part of your body every single part of your body is being used and he has to swim for a consistently high like a super high amount of time for super for intervals at a time just constantly non-stop swimming. It is not you cannot look at this man and put him in the real world with other people. He can eat 8,000 10,000 calories. That does seem pretty super high even all things considered but he is burning calories constantly. He's using that energy all the time all the time. All right, let's continue many calories is not only in his exercise but in his environment. He trains for hours in water. The cold water that makes it possible to burn those extra calories exposure to cold temperatures is known to mimic if hold on gut micro trigger fat loss in response to cold temperatures exposure to cold temperatures is known to mimic the effects of exercise protecting against obesity and improving metabolic health. So this is not even a study. This is talking about the study now reveals the beneficial health effects of the cold exposures are mediate mediated in part by gut microbes. The research has found that the cold exposure dramatically alters the composition of intestinal bacteria and mice others they might study this microbial microbial shift is sufficient to burn fat improve glucose metabolism and reduce body weight now. Okay, I'm not saying that cold will not, you know, kill fat cells or adipocytes and then reduce the fat because of the fat cells dying. I'm just saying that with a compress is probably not possible considering the fact that our bodies fight against that and know it'll heat up and it will definitely it wouldn't essentially heat up the the the compress that you have on you and it will no longer be cold. It's not going to have a sufficient amount of consistency of cold to to bite through and and kill the the adipocytes. Now, if you do it through like injection and stuff like that through medical injection and it goes directly to the fat cells. That's a completely different story. So what this is looking at is like a mice study with mice and like what happened to the mice is much easier for a very very small mice. If you put a cold compress as massive around them that they won't be able to escape and they won't be able to stop it from piercing through and killing some fat cells but to put a compress on a human is a completely different story does can can cold can cold compresses burn can cold temperatures burn fat cells. Yes, but it would have to be done through some type of injection not through just putting a compress on top effects of exercise protecting against obesity and improving metabolic health take climbing Mount Everest. For example, obviously the climbing itself will burn calories. However, the extreme climate will force body fat to be used as heat and the pounds will fly off. Take climbing Mount Everest. For example, obviously the climbing itself will burn calories. I'm a study extreme class. I'm a study nerd. It's a game. It's a matter measuring simultaneous energy intake energy expenditure and body composition. Let's see the loss of fat mass over the observation intervals was 1.4 point 7 kg on average to those of the weight loss and was significantly correlated with the energy deficit lower than during the preparation in the Alps. It says and was significantly correlated with the energy deficit which is with a 0.05 statistical significance number, which means that this is more than likely because anything 0.05 or below means that this is more than likely what happened is statistically significant. So and it says was significantly correlated with energy deficit. See this is the thing people energy deficit means that you like a net negative energy balance. Like you're at a caloric deficit basically not this is not talking about cold. So people will put stuff like this up and you'll see oh, it's a study man. This is so cool. There's a study 1992. This is so cool. And it really it's not saying the thing that the person in the video is talking about. So you always got to be very mindful of these studies. That's why one of the best things to do is to show the study that you're talking about like he did. Unfortunately, this kind of shows that what he's talking about is not really it doesn't really relate to what he's trying to say like this doesn't relate with to what he's trying to say. Yes, they lost weight from climbing Mount Everest basically from an energy deficit. Climate will force body fat to be used as heat and the pounds will fly off Scott Parasinski a former astronaut attempted to climb Mount Everest twice and lost about 25 pounds each time in order to prevent excessive weight loss. They had to eat lard and sticks of butter. This is the power of thermodynamics an alternative way to get rid of energy and simply shiver fat away the Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism writes in their studies that you can shiver yourself slim by turning the heat down a few degrees our bodies do not naturally burn calories due to today's overheated homes and offices. So there are two kinds of fats white and brown. It's the brown fat that the body will burn to generate heat and the colder you become the more brown fat you will burn and when the white fat becomes cold it can turn into a kind of brown fat which in turn will be used as heat in one study participants were exposed to cold temperature for 10 hours each night for a month. They had only bedsheets and had their food provided with good nutrition after undergoing extensive evaluations when the month had passed it showed that the participants had a 42% increase in brown fat volume while at the same time increasing fat metabolic activity by 10% Ray Cronies former NASA scientist states that he used this technique to boost his weight loss on many occasions one time losing 30 pounds in six weeks. It takes a lot of energy heating the body and it's not much difference than heating your house by exposing the body to cold. It has to use the body fat as energy in order to maintain natural body heat Ray experimented on himself by drinking only ice cold water sleeping without covers went from midwinter shiver walks to see how effective this method was. He lost almost six pounds the first week. He later improved his methods and made it a lot less painful which I will go over shortly back in 2006 Ray tried losing weight following an exercise and diet plan. It worked great and he lost about 20 pounds in 12 weeks. This was before he was introduced to cold exposure and the weight he lost during this plan was sadly gained back with interest. However, Ray was not done yet. And after reading about the effectiveness of cold exposure and fat loss he decided to try it again. He used the same diet and exercise plan, but this time he implemented intermittent cold exposure this time. He lost 29 pounds in only six weeks for an average of 4.8 pounds of weekly fat loss. The addition of cold exposure alone rapidly increased the fat loss and he managed to lose the weight three times faster Ray Kronis and Tim Ferriss have both experimented with thermodynamics in order to lose weight fast and there are some fairly pleasant methods that most people can use. First of all, he consumed an ECA stack 45 minutes before being exposed to the cold and he did that on an empty stomach. The ECA stack causes your body to target specific fat cells to be burned for energy all while racing your overall method. See this is a problem when you introduce so many different variables to the weight loss process is that you don't know what is correlating and what is causing you don't know what is just there because you did this or what is just there because you actually use this tool to lose weight. So when that it's tough to use this and say that this is a good data source to tell you a look cold works. Now what this person was doing is not even a cold conference. This person was just using cold, right? He was just sleeping with no covers lowering the AC going outside when it's super cold probably would barely a shirt on or whatever walking. I mean, yeah, your body is going to burn some calories to compensate for the cold, but it's not going to be enough to you're not going to kill. You're definitely not going to kill adipocytes this way. What you're going to do is just you're going to just use energy like every like you're going to shiver your way, you know, and and that shivering process is to help you heat up your body and it's going to help you burn calories, but it's going to be so negligible that I mean you're way better off doing it with with a with a diet system or exercise than the small negligible returns that you're going to get on the little bit of calories that you're burning from from getting yourself from being cold to heating up your body metabolic rate and suppressing appetite after that. He simply submerged himself in a cold bath for 20 minutes. We was only submerged from the waist down the first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes. He submerged his whole body except for his head. However, there is a more pleasant way of doing it and you will get about 60% of the results even without the easy. Let's see this even without ECA. Okay, let's see simply place an ice pack on the back of your neck and upper traps area for roughly 30 minutes. It's more beneficial if you do it in the evening when you're less insulin sensitive and that's pretty much it. There won't be any spasmic shivers and you can chill in the couch while doing it. Another method you can use is to simply drink a big glass of ice cold water on an empty stomach upon waking up studies have shown that this will increase resting metabolic rate up to 30% 60 minutes post consumption and lastly go for a cold shower start off with hot water and apply shampoo and soap and when it's time to rinse it turn it cold. Make sure the water hits the upper back lower neck area for the best results. Most of the stuff that I've talked about you can buy on Amazon for a pretty cheap price. I will link the ECA pills. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and stop it right here. The cold compress all that stuff. They're good to help your body reduce its heat. If you are if you have a fever or anything like that, but in terms of weight loss is so negligible and it's so minute. It's it's it's nearly useless. So no, so can ice in theory freeze and kill adipocytes which are the fat cells that house the fatty acids within your body, especially within the subcutaneous region. Yes, it can the best way to do that will unfortunately be through a medical practice where they'll inject it into you. That is the best way that is probably the only way to do that every other way your body is so powerful that it will actually heat up and it will kill the the heat from whatever compress you put on your body not giving it the opportunity to come in and kill or freeze those adipocytes and on top of that even with that energy that it increased to reduce the heat of the ice pack that's being put on your body. It's so negligible. You're just you're much better off not even paying attention to this for the little bit that you're going to get out of it and just going ahead and doing a diet or a nutrition thing or anything in terms of eating even intermittent fasting whatever you want to do to for the for the calories in control portion and some exercise to help with the thermodynamics of calories out like they're using the word thermodynamics in a like tricky way like thermodynamics that means burning and that means cold and if you it's going to be burning the cold and the cold is is the reverse so your body has to but that's not what how it really works. That's not how it really works cold can work but not in the way that they're explaining it here. It definitely has to be through a medical intervention. All right guys until the next one. Let me know what you think down in the comment section below hit that like button hit that subscribe button and we'll see you in the next one. Peace.