Water: The Basis Of Life, Therapeutic Bathing, Cold Water Immersion & Extreme Wellness | Professor Marc Cohen #014

WATER: One of the Foundational Elements of the Universe and The Basis of All Life

What ways can we utilise it to optimise our individual health and the collective wellness of humans on earth and deal with the world water crisis.

IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS

An overview of water on earth

We are 99% water including the molecules in our body.

Water as the Matrix of Life and the Most Important Thing for Life on Earth

The Distribution of Water in the World - The bathing crisis.

The Dignity, Comfort and Spirituality of Water

Bathe The World Initiative

Alternating Between Hot and Cold Bathing as Therapy.

The Cold Water Hokey Pokey: At Home Therapeutic Bathing Technique

Benefits of Cold Showers/Bathing

The Risks of Cold Shock

The Importance of Easing Gradually and Gently into Cold Water Immersion and How to Do It

How Cold Showers Trained James Bond to Remain Cool and Calm in Hectic Situations

How Water Came to Earth

The Fourth Phase of Water: The gel phase substance beyond solid, liquid and vapour.

Extreme Wellness Practices

Professor Marcs 5 Factors for Life

Breathing Exercises (Pranayama)

The Importance of Coupling Hypoventilation with Hyperventilation when doing breathing exercises or the Wim Hoff method.

Alkalising the body and reducing lactic acid in the body (what causes muscles to burn) with breath.

Marcs 5 Phases of Breathing for Health

Pranayama to increase the number and sensitivity of endorphin receptors - more blissful comfort and more euphoria.

Hot Water as a Therapeutic Technique

The Importance of Magnesium and Why Most People are Deficient In It

Thermohaline Circulation: Interactions occurring at the Deep Depths of the Ocean which Provides us with Oxygen

Our Drinking Water

Conscious Relationship with Water

Tulsi (Holy Basil / Ocimum Sanctum)

Balancing Scientific Validation with Intuitive Feeling and Traditional Wisdom

Marcs Ventures in Life

and more...

ABOUT PROFESSOR MARC COHEN

Professor Marc Cohen is one of Australia’s pioneers of integrative and holistic medicine and has made significant impacts on education, research, clinical practice and policy. He is a registered medical practitioner with degrees in western medicine, physiology and psychological medicine along with PhDs in Chinese medicine and biomedical engineering.

In 2002 he became Australia’s first Professor of Complementary Medicine and Head of the Department of Complementary Medicine at RMIT University, which was by far the largest such department in the country.

He is a Board Member of the Global Wellness Summit, Past-President of the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association (AIMA), and sits on the Editorial Board of five international journals.

Prof Cohen has previously held positions as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education at Monash University, Expert Advisor to the TGA Complementary Medicine Evaluation Committee, Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Institute of Complementary Medicine and multiple ministerial appointments on various Registration and Accreditation Panels. He previously held the position as Director of the Centre for Complementary Medicine at the Monash Institute for Health Services Research.

As a medical practitioner and researcher Prof Cohen has pioneered the introduction of complementary, holistic and integrative medicine into mainstream settings.

He has also been involved in establishing acupuncture as a form of standard care in emergency department settings and developing hospital policy on practitioner accreditation as well as co-authoring many high level reports.

Prof Cohen has published more than 90 peer–reviewed articles, authored more than 20 book chapters and edited 8 books on holistic health as well as co-authoring the landmark text; “Herbs and Natural Supplements an Evidenced Based Guide”, with the first two editions being short-listed for an Australian Publishing Award in the scholarly reference section.

He is also co-editor of the landmark text ‘Understanding the Global Spa Industry’ which is the first academic book documenting the global spa and wellness industry.

He is regularly requested to examine PhD thesis from many local and international universities and peer-review articles for numerous international scientific journals.

Prof Cohen has extensive experience in running clinical trials including trials on the use of yoga for geriatric insomnia and the use of acupuncture for analgesia in Emergency Departments.

Prof Cohen is currently involved in research into various aspects of holistic health including the use of organic foods in reducing pesticide exposure, the use of yoga and meditation for insomnia and stress, and the use of various therapies and lifestyle interventions for detoxification from environmental chemicals.

Prof Cohen is one of the most active people in Australia when it comes to organising conferences on holistic and integrative medicine. He has organised more than 10 International Holistic Health Conferences and in 2003 he chaired the Organising Committee for the First World Congress on Chinese Medicine.

He also organised the Complementary Medicine Symposium at the 13th World Congress on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He has sat on Scientific Committees and currently sits on the Board of the Global Wellness Summit.

As well as organising conferences, Prof Cohen is a sought after presenter and has been an invited speaker at more than 100 conferences including more than 40 international and 40 national conferences in Australia.

Prof Cohen’s impact on the field is recognised by the media and he has received four consecutive RMIT Media Star Awards as well as the inaugural award for leadership and collaboration from the National Institute of Complementary Medicine.

This guy has spent 31 years at uni and, it is quite amazing that now just as we did this interview in September 2018, he is leaving to take a break from the academic role and moving towards other things health, which Marc talks about in this episode.

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