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remember when I ran that 13 mile half marathon last summer I could have actually doubled my performance capacity all with the help of this funny-looking love I recently visited Stanford where researchers are developing tech that can make exercise way more efficient no steroids necessary we have freshmen women doing over 900 push-ups in 45 minutes what we've shown is we can get equivalent increases in training response in performance responses without using steroids and the nice thing about it is it leaves no residue or extra nipples or whatever else it works by letting cooled water flow into a vacuum around the palm of your hand then it helps draw that cooled blood back into the rest of your body the results a faster recovery and better performance so what I'm feeling is almost like a blood-pressure cuff a little bit of constriction right so you pull your hand out you can see your hand is still warm right it's so fascinating how this part is warm and this part is cool yep what we found is that the build-up of heat is a major contributor to fatigue onset and so if we can keep the temperature from rising so fast people can exercise for longer wait what in God's name so of course in the name of science I had to put this cooling glove to the test I didn't even know it was gonna start off completely horrific or do I have to do we're just going to stick this thermocouple probe 2 feet up your nose this is the most terrified ever event and then I leaned my head back a little nobody oh dear God you find a little hole it goes down yeah there you go that's going in your mouth mm-hmm and swallow just keep following like the taste of it yeah wonderful do the best thing you were ever Wow well that was awful okay it's all uphill from here right better than just about anybody I've ever seen do this on your first pass just right through okay well thank you that's good to know super attractive to her but then it was time to get me into the ultra ha exercise chamber so I have a temperature probe way deep down in my nose in the esophagus I'm in a room that's about 101 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm gonna walk up a 10% slope for 20 or 30 minutes and just get all heat it up I'm sweaty it's naughty there you go okay so you've come up about how much did agree now so your temperatures climbing pretty quick now what would this take your core temperature up to about 38 and then put the cooling device on one hand and see if we can't change the trajectory of the car cover drive okay it's time to cool you down though so let's see what happens here so you feel anything after about ten more minutes I was spent I can't believe how hard that was like I ran 13 miles two months ago and I thought that might kill me so what we're doing is just watching your temperature drop here and the glove seemed to have worked my core temperature went down and more importantly my good mood came back the glove has proven so effective that Stanford is even using it to train their own athletes and sometimes on the field too what we'll do is when we're training especially in the summer and the heat we'll have it readily available and if somebody is struggling they need a little bit of recovery somebody might be cramping a hydration issues anything we'll put them on the unit is it kind of in the meantime until it goes mainstream is it kind of a little unfair advantage it sounds like our little secret we've presented to the pac-12 and there's a lot of interest within other teams but again they're still skeptical about it so we like to keep it our little secret I guess until it really goes mainstream I can't believe how things I feel actually I'm not ready for the football team but my results were impressive and then at this point we put on the cooling device and you can see we have changed the trajectory of your core temperature rise right without the glove I would have run out of steam at 15 minutes with the glove I would have cocked out it more like 30 minutes a doubling of my performance and is that pretty consistent across everybody who tries it I mean do you find that yeah we always see an improvement in performance a lot of it has to do with what the fitness level of the individuals are the Stanford team says their research into temperature control has all kinds of medical potential from helping patients with multiple sclerosis be more active to getting obese people off the couch for longer periods individuals with multiple sclerosis you can actually give them a degree of freedom be able to go out and walk twice as far as they normally be able to that to me is very dramatic you know if you're talking about exercise performance having guys doing 600 pull-ups and a thousand push-ups is pretty dramatic for my part I'm probably not gonna get to 600 pull-ups but I am ready to give this love thing and try in the real world as long as I never have to do that nose tube thing again watch someone Watkins what