Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE Review of 1301 with Laird Hamilton

Episode Date: May 27, 2019

Laird is a big wave surfer and a great human being. He's been on Rogan in the past and always brings some great stories and knowledge on health and wellness. I learned a lot from their conversation and going to try some of the things he suggested.   Enjoy my review folks!   Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

Hey guys, thanks for tuning in. Today's episode of the J.I.E review is episode 1301, Lauderd Hamilton, the big wave surf. This guy's been on Rogan a few times and he's pretty well known. He's a really interesting dude. He, if you're into kind of fitness and health and longevity and learning about new ways of training,

his conversation with Joe is definitely for you. It's really good. Full of a lot of information and he's worked with all kinds of people from all different spectrums of health and well-being and I bring a lot of information to the table. It was it was a great conversation. I really enjoyed it. So let's start this one. Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Room View. Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. One more do you want? Well, one of the first things that they got into in their conversation, I guess Laura does is really into saunas, he's a big saunagai, a lot like Joe, you know, a lot

of people are using saunas right now for recovery and reduction of inflammation and just, you know, it's, I think it's kind of like a meditation in there too because it's uncomfortable So, you know, you just focus on your breathing and get going. He cracks his sauna to 220 That is kind of crazy to me Maybe he's getting in an ice bath first, so it's not as hot I generally go into the sauna after I've been working out. So I'm pretty hot warmed up anyway and I can't stay in there too long. Like I'm lucky if I get 15 minutes,

and my sauna, my gym, it isn't even that hot at all. It's like 16170. Soren is a tough, they are tough. And if you're not using it, and you're not in a sauna, but you have access to one, maybe one's a gym, or some club that you go to.

Give it a shot, start using it. I think that there is a lot that you get out of it. I always feel really good once I use it. I had a sinus infection recently. My ear was hurting. It's really bad. And I went in, did a sauna for a real, I stayed in for almost, I think like 33 minutes. I did it a long time way

longer than I usually did, but I was I was just uncomfortable and kind of in a lot of pain. And it really it helped kind of open things up and you know, and you get the opportunity in there kind of really work on your breath too. You know, if you if a lot of us talking a lot about breath work breathing through your nose of the health benefits from that really expanding your chest and really the only times I notice myself doing anything like that is when I'm in the sauna so it's kind of good practice for that for sure. They talk a lot in this conversation about how workouts are kind of like an antidepressant.

They really do reduce stress and anxiety. So any one out there that suffers from that, or if you ever do, and whenever I catch myself feeling that way, I do try to pay attention to how much exercise I'm doing. Because if I'm not doing a lot, because I'm kind of in my head with frustrated things I do notice that That when I get back to doing something running working out just some digits or whatever It really does just take that anxiety way obviously the problem of a thing that you're worried about is still there But you just not thinking about it in the same way He mentioned

Dr. Ronda Patrick has this kind of like 10-day challenge where you go into a sauna that's a little cooler than 220, it's like 170 and you do it for an hour and you do that for 10 days in a row. That seems super intense. I don't know if I could even get close to that. So I don't know what kind of challenge that that is or how, you know, if people can really do it or even if that's safe, it seems like a really long time and a little bit dangerous. But if Dr. Ronda Patrick is saying it's a good thing, she's super smart. And this guy believes in it then, I don't think it's a bad idea. You know, heat really does seem like the best recovery for taking care of yourself.

A lot of the time people will talk about ice, you know, using ice for an injury, hurt your knee, you bump yourself, but it looks like it might be heat now. Heat. It's so weird how those things go back and forth. It's like, can we not figure this out? I know it's complicated. I'm not saying it's not. But, you know, doctors and physios and all the rest of it, they really should have this down. They should know how to do this and give us the best information. Talks a little bit about his lifestyle. Obviously, this guy lives in Hawaii, and his wife was on a little bit about his lifestyle. Obviously this guy lives in Hawaii and his wife was on recently. She's that volleyball player that was on the podcast and they talk about living at the beach and how nice that feels and how living in a city is kind of not natural. It's a bit much. People are kind of negative and uncaring and they're all squashed in together and it's just

kind of mentally quite a lot when you're living in a city. And I feel that, I've lived in Chicago, I was right downtown, there's a lot going on. You could see hundreds and thousands of people a day and barely say hi to anybody. It's kind of a weird situation. And now I live right by the beach. I live in Santa Monica and near LA. And it's, I think there will always be a place in my heart for that, for like being able to see the ocean. Like I get to see it every day.

And it's really interesting. I never lived at a place like that before. So I really understand what he's saying and that connection. And I think there's something healthy about it. It's pretty easy. You know, and pretty fun. Back to the breathwork that he was talking about. It really fascinates me. I'd like to learn a lot more about that. I know Wim Hof is a huge breathwork guy. I once read his book and I didn't really follow any of the strategy afterwards. I was a bit lazy with it. I did read it and then I was like, oh, this sounds really good. And then I did some like ice

baths for a while. But the idea of getting really good with your breathing, you know, and jujitsu guys do it because you lose your breath fast when you're under stress and when you're rolling Jiu-Jitsu, if you're new, you'll get tired immediately because you're just not concentrating on your breathing. And Hicks and Gracie and his son, Kron, who they talk about on this podcast, Kron actually lives pretty close to where I do. And you used to eat at a sushi place that was right next to my work. But they are incredible breathwork experts. And you can look at some videos online of Hicks and doing his breathwork and he kind of rolls his stomach around.

And it's one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen. I think it's like a yoga technique. I don't know how they quite get it, but it's supposed to really give you a ton of control over your breathing. And again, a lot of really good health benefits. You know, you seem like a bit of a weirdo if you just sat in your room or your house

or at a beach or wherever meditating and kind of panting and breathing funny, but if you can get past that and get focused on just that breathing portion, I think there's a lot to it. That's why I like these conversations with Joe and he brings these people on that that kind of just make you think

in a bit of a different way. And they're bringing, you know, they're kind of taking the woo woo and the weirdness out of things like yoga and meditation and all the rest of it. And they just get into what are the benefits? What are the benefits? One thing that I thought was quite interesting

that he was talking about is he said that running is really bad for you unless you're on sand or grass. Now, if you follow Joe's Instagram, you know, a lot of times he takes his dog, Marsha, and they run the hills. And when you're running the hills, there's a lot of impact. You know, and he wears those minimalistic shoes, so even more impact. But he's saying, you know,

his feet got stronger, his legs are stronger, and the runs get easier. But a lot of this saying that, no, it's bad for your knees. It's not good for you. It's way too much impact. You shouldn't run. You should use other things that are low impact and keep your knees and everything in better shape. And that makes sense. It does. But maybe there's a fine line between, and I really don't know, but I'm just postulating. Maybe there's a fine line between that high intensity and then slowly building up to it so that it's not damaging. Maybe what's happening is people just go from not doing that kind of exercise to getting out there,

you know, in the hills or running on the road and, you know, their feet are already weak and their knees are already weak. And like they said on this podcast, you have, it's something like over half the bones in your body or in your feet. So there's a lot of moving parts down there and if they're not used to that kind of impact, you know, they're going to get smashed up and then it probably does make sense to run on grass and the beach. But yeah, that's a tough one because I don't know if running is all that bad. I think we were designed to run, you know, you just got to keep doing it and build up to it. So you're not, you're not overdoing it early on and causing some injury.

He also does a lot of pull work, a lot of work in the pool, not necessarily just swimming, but to have weights and and not weights, but like the the floaties that create like buoyancy and then you got to push against them and move around and that's kind of fascinating. I think I, you know, the only time you ever see that is when you see really old people at the gym just sloshing around in the pool and you just think, well, they can't do anything else. But maybe there's some good workouts for everybody in there. I think I'd like to try some of those and see how I feel afterwards. I think that that could be really good. But yeah, again, I got maybe like four or five new perspectives of something health wise that are like easy enough for me to

do and try just from this podcast in like three hours. So I really like that. And yeah, I'd like to hear what you guys think. But anyway, it's a good one. Check it out and see what you get out of it and also try some of these things and see if they do any good. But guys, as always, thank you so much and have a great day. you