#167 This week, my awesome guest is Dr. Marc Cohen. Marc is one of Australia's pioneers in integrative and holistic medicine and is also a university professor, an author, and a poet. During our conversation today, we focus on Marc's mission of building a culture of wellness that has joy at the top of it. We talk about the benefits of hot and cold hydrotherapy, its effects on our physical and mental wellbeing, and how we can bridge western and eastern medicine to bring more order to our body. About Marc: Dr. Marc Cohen is a medical doctor, university professor, author, poet, entrepreneur, wellness trailblazer and perpetual student of life, trying to coax the world towards worldwide wellness. He has spent more than 30 years practicing and researching holistic health and published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and many books and technical texts on wellness and natural medicine. He is author of the illustrated children's books "Love & Everything", "Bing & Bang Begin" and "The Beautiful Mare and the Boy Who Gave Thanks", Founder of the Extreme Wellness Institute and Co-Founder of the Bathe the World Foundation, and co-owner of Extremely Alive Wellness Tonics and Maruia Hot Springs. Marc's Website: drmarc.co/about-dr-marc Marc's Books: drmarc.co/product-category/books

Key points with time stamp:

• Benefits of Hot & Cold Hydrotherapy (00:00)
• Encapsulating western and eastern medicines (00:09)
• Placing joy at the top of wellness (02:33)
• The process of finding the right path (06:04)
• How to bridge scientific research and traditional wisdom (11:04)
• The flow of information from the spiritual to the physical perspective (14:50)
• How to bring more order into the body (21:36)
• Wellness in the media (23:11)
• On hot and cold therapy and its benefits (24:43)
• Cold exposure and the immune system (34:26)
• Hot Hydrotherapy best practices (43:56)
• Marc's current projects (47:10)
• Changing our focus to the good we can bring to the world (52:56)

Mentioned in this episode:

• Pronoia, a concept opposite to paranoia. The belief that the universe is out to make you happy.
• Amit Goswami, a physicist
• Tom Campbell, a physicist
• Bruce Lipton
• Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Wim Hof
• Bing and Bang Begin, Marc's new children's book

About me:

My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en My website: www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co