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#638 - When Science Doesn't Have Answers To Our Problems

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Ben Coomber

Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Alternative medicine is often at odds with science, but do alternative and holistic therapies fly in the face of evidence based practice, or is it part of the triangular approach? If there isn't science to support something, is it worthless, should we disregard it? Many people are desperate for answers for many health issues they have, just as I have been with Long Covid - of which nothing is proven to work - so what do I/we do, sit and wait for science or act under the 'alternative' light of health care? What if said therapies aren't safe? A big conversation, listen in to what Tom and I think...

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio. I hope you are having an awesome day. So when are you

0:09.2

gonna sing on this show? I'm just not, as I say, it's just not gonna happen. But it's

0:14.8

good to hear you singing, man. You know, you've had a rough couple of days. It sounds

0:17.6

like you've, uh, you've picked up a bit. I have made the power of an ice bath, made

0:22.7

a swear by it. I absolutely swear by it. Yeah, I keep thinking about getting one for

0:27.8

the garden, but we haven't got a garden. Like our gardens are not small, follow it for

0:31.4

a new build, but it is still a new build garden. And ends making me choose between my archery

0:36.4

target and an ice bath. And so at the minute, the ice bath's losing out. The ice bath can

0:41.0

go under the archery target. No, I wouldn't work. An ice bath is like a meter square. That's

0:49.4

it. We have a source of my archery target. It's a big meter square form thing that stands

0:54.0

in the corner. And it's just now. And I'm trying to construct a very nice garden to sit

1:00.5

in. And I just keep putting shit in it to use that doesn't look nice at all. Like, I'm

1:06.9

gonna lose it eventually. So some flowers around it. Yes, what I said, I was like, I'll paint

1:12.5

flowers and stuff on the side that'll be fine. No, she's having none of it. I am, I need

1:17.0

to go and sort of write up my blog on long COVID, which have been promising people for ages.

1:24.0

I mean, I haven't done enough research and almost I should have done more, but time is just

1:30.0

such a low premium. And I don't think I'll really draw a conclusion, but we know that cold therapy

1:37.2

has an effect on inflammation. And that's why you don't recommend people have it after exercise

1:44.1

if you want to adapt, unless you're in like a competition phase and you're using it to speed up

1:49.9

recovery. But in terms of like me having long COVID, every time I've gone sort of aggressive on

1:57.2

ice bars, I've done it every day, just felt so good so quickly, like it's improved my rate of

2:02.7

recovery so much compared to everything. I've taken Tom, man, so many supplements that

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