What Scott experienced when he first met Wim Hof. He currently lives in Denver, CO.ĭuring our discussion, you'll discover: -The shocking story of the huge number of people Scott has found who have died during meditation experiences. In 2004 he received a MA in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Along the way, he learned Hindi and twice drove a motorcycle across the country. He first traveled to India while he was a student at Kenyon College in 1998 and spent six years living there. In 2015, Scott founded WordRates, a website that aims to add transparency to the business of journalism with Yelp-esque reviews of magazines and editors. His second book A Death on Diamond Mountain: A True Story of Obsession, Madness and the Path to Enlightenment came out with Gotham Books in 2015. His first book, The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers, was published by William Morrow in 2011 and won the 2012 Clarion Award for best non-fiction book. In 2010 he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for the story “Meet the Parents” which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring. He holds a number of academic appointments including as a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. ![]() ![]() He regularly appears on variety of radio and television stations from NPR to National Geographic TV and has had academic work published in Nature and SAIS Journal. ![]() He has been a contributing editor at Wired and his work also appears in Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, Playboy, Details, Discover, Outside and Fast Company. Scott is an investigative journalist and anthropologist whose stories blend narrative non-fiction with ethnography. Kilimanjaro wearing nothing but a pair of running shorts and sneakers. His own journey culminates in a record bending, 28-hour, climb up to the snowy peak of Mt. My podcast guest on todays show, award winning investigative journalist Scott Carney, dives into the fundamental philosophy at the root of this movement in three interlocking narratives. Perhaps no one exemplifies this better than Dutch fitness guru Wim Hof, whose remarkable ability to control his body temperature in extreme cold has sparked a whirlwind of scientific study.īecause of him, scientists in the United States and Europe are just beginning to understand how cold adaptation might help combat autoimmune diseases and chronic pains and, in some cases, even reverse diabetes. They are connecting with their environment and, whether they realize it or not, are changing their bodies. These extreme athletes train in CrossFit boxes, compete in Tough Mudders and challenge themselves in Spartan races. Every year, millions of people forgo traditional gyms and push the limits of human endurance by doing boot camp style workouts in raw conditions. The feeling that something is missing from our daily routines is growing and has spawned a movement. When we slightly reimagine how how our body fits into the world and then we can conditioning ourselves to find resilience in unfamiliar environments. The new book What Doesn’t Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength uncovers how just about anyone can reclaim a measure of our species' evolutionary strength by tapping into the things that feel uncomfortable. Most of us don't even realize that natural variation - sweating and shivering - is actually good for us. And many of us are chronically overweight. The technologies that we use to make us comfortable are so all encompassing that they sever the biological link to a changing environment. ![]() Today we live in the thrall of constant climate control and exercise only when our office schedules permit. They evaded predators and built civilizations with just their raw brainpower and inner grit.īut things have changed and now comfort is king. Our ancestors crossed the Alps in animal skins and colonized the New World in loin cloths.
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