The Goop Lab (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - The Goop Lab - full transcript

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When I started goop in 2008,

I was like, "My calling is something else
besides, you know,

making out with Matt Damon on screen
or whatever."

And now, it's this modern lifestyle brand.

To me, it's all laddering up to one thing,
which is optimization of self.

Like, we're here one time, one life...

Like, how can we really, like,
milk the shit out of this?

You have 100 needles in your face, Elise.

Just another day at the office.

The opportunity that we have
with the goop lab

is that, as a company,
we can go out in different groups



and go on a much deeper dive
into some of these topics

that our readers are curious about.

This is gonna be my first experience

- with mushrooms.
- Oh!

You have to let go of your ego.

So what happens in a workshop?

Everyone gets off.

What the fuck are you doing to people?

We get to explore, like, is this real?
Do we feel better?

And grapple with some topics that are hard

and embarrassing or shameful.

Isn't that beautiful?

Relax.

That was, like, next level shit.



So, are you guys ready to go out
in the field and make a ruckus?

- Yeah.
- You can handle it, right?

Seven degrees Celsius,
44 degrees Fahrenheit.

Thermo shockingly cold...

for a human to go into the water.

You cannot just jump in.

This is dangerous.

Right over here.

I started to feel,
like, a panic attack coming on.

A human wouldn't last too long,
and he would go into involuntary gasping.

But cold water is a great way

to learn to deal with stress.

If you learn how to breathe deep...

Fully in.

Breathe in.

Letting go.

I'm gonna pass out.

You can go into the cold water
and adapt.

And with that,
you become the alchemist of life itself.

Kate, it's your moment.

- There's the lady. Hello.
- Hi.

I've just been watching
YouTube videos of you.

- All right. Can I hug you?
- Of course.

- Hi, you lovely lady.
- Thank you.

- It's so nice to meet you. Amazing.
- Nice to meet you.

- Thank you.
- I can't believe you're real.

You're the living example
of mind over matter.

Yes. They call me "The Ice Man"

because I do all kinds of extremes
in the cold,

and I show through evidence-based studies
that our autonomic nervous system

can be influenced just by the mind.

I think what you're trying to prove
or are in the process of proving

is that this prevailing belief

that we cannot control our
autonomic nervous system is a fallacy

and that we can directly impact

and affect our immune system, our mood,

the way that we respond to life.

Yeah. Yes. And now, I work with scientists
all over the world.

So, we provoked a reaction already.

The study I did showed
that just by using the mind,

I was able to make the skin temperature

not go down after exposure of cold water.

That's crazy.

That led to the interest of scientists.

They injected E. coli bacteria,

and I did not become sick.

I was able to defy the reaction

of the bacteria injected.

I read about that.
And you've taught people how to do it.

Within four days,

they were able to do what medical history
has stated is not possible.

We changed science over there.

It would have been amazing
to take the goop staff

and shoot them full of endotoxins,

but Netflix legal said no.

Yes. I tell you, we found natural ways

to get people back in control
over their own mood

and to influence their inflammation,
which is disease,

using three pillars:

Breathing techniques,

gradual cold exposure,

and mindset,

or the Wim Hof Method.

Do you ever think about why you
are the chosen person

to discover this
and brought it to the world?

I see my function now:

to help millions and millions of people
when they are having inflammation

or psychosis or depression or anxiety
or fear or anything.

Now, what I did with these guys
at Lake Tahoe.

- Yeah.
- The goop team...

- Tell your story.
- Yeah, tell your story.

- I mean...
- It's beautiful.

Tell the whole thing.

Like, I think about it, and I still
can't believe that it really happened.

Hey, guys.

Hi.

- How's it going?
- Hi.

We're gonna have two days,
great days together, yeah?

We come here together
to share natural wisdom...

through breathing.

After thousands of years of traditions
of breathing techniques,

both in yoga and in China, in Japan...

It has shown its power,
but it took, like, 20 years of training,

and I want you to learn it
within ten minutes.

- Wow.
- Breathing makes the body alkaline.

What do you need
to go into the elements of nature

and to oppose it?

You need an alkaline body.

Alkaline body is the right biochemistry

for the nervous system
to adapt to the environment.

And this weekend,
you're gonna prime the body

to go and meet the cold
and become like peaceful warriors.

Okay, I'm sort of a crazy Dutchman.

- Who are you?
- My name's David.

I've never done
any cold exposure therapy before,

so, yeah, I'm very excited
to learn more about that.

After this weekend, you will be an expert.

- Yeah.
- Nice.

- Hey, beautiful.
- I'm Megan,

and I'm the coldest person in the world.

- Oh, wow. That's great.
- Yeah.

- So we got a challenge coming.
- Yeah.

I'm skeptical, but I'd love it.

- Deal.
- Deal.

Yes, baby.

My name's Heaven.

Um, my boyfriend takes a cold shower
every single morning.

He's never sick.
He always has his, like, mind clear,

and I'm sort of thinking, "Should I be
taking cold showers every morning?"

A cold shower a day keeps the doctor away.

My name is Kate.
I'm the executive editor at goop.

After having my baby,
I was diagnosed with a panic disorder.

I've always had terrible anxiety,

but after having a child, it all just
kind of spiraled out of control.

I will teach you how
to feel the sense of control

over the hormonal imbalance
that creates the panic.

I would love nothing more.

Yes. It's going to happen. Thank you.

I'm Sara. I read a few of the studies
you participated in,

and it was really interesting
that you were able to show

that this is not just a placebo effect,

uh, both in you
and other control subjects,

and I wanted to see for myself.

I'm Ana.
I'm one of the food editors at goop.

And I'm here because I think I just need
to learn how to breathe.

I end up getting so anxious or stressed

in ways that I know I could
just breathe through it.

Breathing is really what I think
is, like, mostly my focus.

- Yes. Great!
- Let's do it.

All right, beautiful people.

We're gonna go into the depth today.

We follow the breath,
the breath is the guide.

Don't force the guide.

Fully in.

Letting go.

These breathing techniques,
they go very deep.

Don't do them in the car while driving,

don't do them in a swimming pool.

Fully in.

Letting go.

Let the thoughts go. Follow the breath.

The breath is able
to go anywhere in the body.

To all cells.

The body is becoming alkaline.

A total reset in the depths.

Here it comes. Fully in!

Let it go.

And stop after the exhalation.

Excellent.

Enjoy the peace.

We go a little faster.

Fully in.

Fully in!

Don't hold back!

Go, go!

Go!

Fully in.

Fully out.

Fully in and hold.

Free all the blockages.

The soul knows no fear.

No agony, no anxiety. All there.

You are in control. You are in control.

I can feel the tears.
I can feel the emotion.

That feeling makes you able

to go on your journey being confronted

with anything that comes
between you and your goal.

We are ready for the next step.

The soul has come home.

I felt a little emotional,
or a lot emotional.

I was not expecting that type of reaction
out of it.

The fast breathing

and, like, my whole body
feeling tingly and stuff...

I don't know, I just wanted to cry,
I still feel like crying right now.

I don't know why,
but, like, I couldn't stop crying.

I don't know, I just felt like
he was talking to me and I like...

Yeah, I just got really...
emotional about it.

What is happening, Kate?

I went completely numb and tingly
in my hands,

- which is all panic attack symptoms.
- Yes.

My hands go into, like, claws.

It was basically all the physical symptoms
of a panic attack.

- It was like exposure therapy
- Yeah.

because it almost triggered
a panic attack.

Yeah. I saw you shiver.

- All of the physical symptoms.
- That's not of the cold.

Yeah, it's not.
Like, my teeth were chattering

and that's all... everything that
happens to me during a panic attack.

I shake, my teeth chatter,
everything goes numb.

A panic attack
is very much like fear driven.

You start to feel the symptoms,

and you're like,
"Oh, shit, I'm having a panic attack."

And then the fear of that
kind of fuels it

until you're like,
"Okay, I need to go to the ER now."

But if I had to kind of articulate
what the difference was,

is that the fear element wasn't there.

The way Wim kind of talked us through
the breathing,

the symptoms would dissipate.

Yeah. Well done.

It was insane.

I have such severe anxiety that normally,
and Elise knows this,

because she's gotten
those panicked phone calls from me

before I have to get on a plane.
I have to drug myself.

I have to take Klonopin
or any kind of medication...

- Right.
- ...to get through,

just to be in the car to the airport.

That is something a lot
of people can identify with.

My first wife had anxiety, trauma,

fear, depression...

and going through the system,
psychiatry, pills, medicines...

only got worse.

So it got completely out of hand,
and the terror was too big.

In '95, she jumped from the eighth story

just after giving kisses of goodbye
to young children.

Beautiful woman decides to jump

- from the eighth story down.
- Oh, my God.

- That's so terrible.
- There I am with four children,

very little money, brokenhearted.

But there the soul-search began.

I always say my children made me survive,

but the cold water healed me.

Because I went into nature,

I swim under thick caps of ice.

In nature, your mind becomes strong.

I learned about stillness therein.

Through breath, cold, and mindset.

Yes.

I think this is
a transformational technique

that will change mental healthcare.

My work is extremely intense.

I'm a physician/oncologist,
so my life is full of stress.

I treat leukemias, lymphomas,

and I also do bone marrow transplants.

It's a tough field because some
of my patients unfortunately die,

and I have to deal with this consistently.

A number of times I tended to get,
I would say, depressed.

I tended to have more trouble dealing
with my anxieties.

I did a little bit of research on Wim Hof,

and I started
to practice his breathing technique

and cold exposure,

and I do feel a dramatic effect
on my ability to cope.

I have to give to my patients,

and I have to give them the strength,
and I have to give them hope.

And his method
is definitely helping me with that.

I also think that women
are connected to this power of breath

because of childbirth

and the idea of sort of removing pain

from your body with breath.

If you do conscious breathing,

you'll consciously go
into the biochemistry,

and the amount of stress
coming upon your body is less.

- Wow.
- You are the master over the situation.

So. you train them in your breath work,

and then the minute you're done,

you're ready for cold exposure?

- Yes.
- We did "snowga,"

which was basically yoga in the snow
in our bikinis.

- How long?
- Twenty-five minutes.

- Out in the snow.
- Twenty-five minutes outside.

And these are people who live in LA

who have, like, zero business being out
in the snow in their bikinis.

Before you go into the lake,
you go into the cold.

So, you are able to exercise
the vascular system.

It's like beginning with a weight.

Begin with three kilos.

Then to five, seven...

Follow your feeling.
Your feeling is the guide.

Don't force the guides.

- We're going.
- There we go!

All right, where are the shoes coming off?

Right here?

I feel like I've wet my pants.

To go out into the cold
in nothing but a bathing suit is...

I think it would be weird
if I wasn't scared of it.

- Here we go.
- Oh, fuck.

Come on!
Make a stance and there we go.

Give it noise!

I don't know if I could have done that.

I'm actually... honestly I'm surprised

- all of us were able to do it.
- Yeah.

Going into snowga,
I felt really skeptical,

especially 'cause you're standing
on the snow.

That seems kinda crazy,

considering that I have a hard time
with air conditioning,

but it was so fun,
and my body just felt warm.

Yeah! Give each other a high-five.

Our original state of our mind is able

to take on stress,
but not the way we live.

Lake Tah...

We have gone into cities.

We never feel the elements of nature
within us.

Thus, our bodies are in a different state,

like a muscle if you don't train it,
becomes weak.

Partners, warrior.

There we go!

The vascular system is three times
the length of the world inside

with millions of little muscles.

If you take a cold shower,

those little muscles begin to bring
the blood flow a lot better to the cells.

Let's go. In the circle.

- The butt in the snow.
- Aw, shit.

- Oh, gosh.
- Okay, try it.

- Let's go for the feet.
- All right.

Okay.

- Yeah.
- Ooh!

- Come on. Come on.
- Come on. There you are.

I felt energized,
and I still feel that way.

Come on, hey, the split!

I think that the water portion
is gonna be more tough.

I hope I can get all the way in.

Snowball fight. Hey!

The cold works.
We got a lot of anecdotal evidence

of people who are cured
in all kinds of diseases.

My favorite way
to embarrass my kids in public

is to remind them
that I'm not paralyzed anymore.

I had contracted an autoimmune disorder
called Guillain-Barre,

and the diagnosis was, "We need
to warn you that you may not make it.

But if you do make it,

you have a 50/50 chance
of permanent paralysis.

A couple days later,
they let my daughter into the room

and of course, she's 11,
and she's my little angel.

Big tears in her eyes and she comes in,

"Oh, my God, Daddy,
are you gonna be okay?"

And I said,
"Yeah, I'm gonna be okay, sweetheart."

And she came over and she held my hand

and she looked me straight in the eye
with big tears, and she said...

Excuse me.

"But, Daddy, you have to promise me.

Because I know
you'll never break a promise."

Excuse me. I'm so sorry.

And I did. I promised her.

My son, who's 15 comes out,
and he says,

"Hey, Dad, there's this guy,

and his immune system's so strong
he can't get sick."

It was Wim Hof.

So, I started training with him.

They helped me in the shower
and turned the cold water on,

and I'm like...

And in three months,
I was completely symptom free.

Out, gone, done.

And that was four years ago.

I've done it every single day
of my life since then.

Fully in.

Let it go.

I can even hear his voice.
"Go, Doug, you can do it."

The mindset is important.
I go into the cold.

Your mind becomes strong.

And I tell you,
everybody is able to do this.

Only, we have never been schooled

how to deal with stress just by thought.

My son can sit in one of your ice baths
for two minutes.

He started when he was 11 years old.

- Eleven years old. Amazing!
- Yes.

Now he's 13 and he can...
Yeah, he does it a lot.

This is the best investment you can have.

Wim Hof has had impact in our lives

by showing that he is not superhuman,

that his kind of ability
to do what he does

is within everyone's reach.

I believe I started practicing Wim Hof
when I was 13 years old,

and my mother introduced it to me.

It's something I do before I have a test
at school or before I run.

I do a couple rounds of Wim Hof.

I take a cold shower,
and I go to school feeling really ready.

I really found a lot of benefit from it.

I feel like it gives me mental clarity.

I love that we do have it as a family.

We usually all just go down to the beach

and just ocean plunge
for ten or 15 minutes.

And then you stand up and you do your...

- My horse stance. You like that.
- Yeah.

He's like, "Don't do that
when my friends are out."

I'm kidding.

Horse stance is,
like, a very structured movement,

and it kind of gets you in that place

of "I'm about to plunge my body

into very cold water."

Roll in like the seashore.

The wave comes.

Letting go. Follow the flow.

We're gonna go immerse
into very stressful cold water.

Just be as nature is calling upon us.

Follow the life force.

We are her children.

Today, we will meet nature.

This is it. We will jump into the depth.

Horse stance.

Thirty-eight Fahrenheit.

Really cold.

This is probably the most insane thing
I've been asked to do for goop...

is to jump in the most cold water

in a bathing suit
in the middle of winter.

So, yeah. Here I am.

- Come on.
- Ana! Come on, Ana!

- You got it, Ana.
- Take your shoes off.

- So jump...
- Yes!

Ready?

Breath in, go in, go out, breathe out.

Oh!

Yeah, Ana!

It was so freaking cold.

Like, if I didn't have
the breathing techniques

and didn't breath the whole time,

I would have not been able to move.

Breathe in, go in, come out, breathe out.

Okay. One, two...

Long breaths. Long breaths!

Once I got in, I just felt like
I was drowning, honestly.

It was just like...
it's so jarring and shocking,

but I was like,
"Okay, I can move, I can swim.

So, if I can swim,
that means I can keep going."

- You got it. Go!
- And use mind over matter

- to get through it.
- Give it a smile. Come on!

- Yes. Beautiful.
- You got it.

Right over here.

Make your jump.

Okay, I'm just gonna go right here.

- You got this, Heaven.
- All right.

- You got this, Heaven.
- There you go. Last breath in.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Whenever you're ready,
breathe in, go.

Come out, breathe out.

Yeah! Feel that force.

Control! Beautiful!

Horse stance over there. Horse stance.

Good, good!

Right here. I'm right here!

- Yeah, come on. Yes. Well done.
- You got it, Kate.

- Come on, girl.
- Yes, you got it.

- You got it.
- Come on, Kate.

- You got it.
- You got this.

Looking at the lake, it was like,
a pretty massive "Oh, fuck" moment.

Like,
disbelief that I'm actually doing this.

Kate, it's your moment.

Take a minute.

- Kate, good job!
- Yeah, Kate!

Good job, Kate. Beautiful!

I started to kind of feel...

like, a panic attack coming on,
but I tried to breath through it,

and I just kind of controlled myself
and powered through it.

Long breaths. Long breaths.

What did the water feel like to you?

I mean, it feels like jumping
into a fucking cold lake. I mean...

It's exactly
what you think it would feel like.

And then, you actually do it,

and you live through it,
and you survive it,

and you feel really, really good after.

That's dedication, that's teamwork,

tribal, like a family,
very strong together,

helping each other, synergy. Power!

It's freezing outside, and I...
I wasn't cold.

And it just sort of makes me think
that a lot is in my head.

It's crazy that I have control, basically.

Get back in business.

Love for the day, lust for life.

Sold.

- That was, like, next level shit.
- Yeah.

That was incredible.

You guys did great. Bloody great.

- Awesome.
- Oh, thank you so much.

- Oh, man.
- Yeah, thanks, great.

You have been showing
that you are a master over your anxiety.

- Yeah.
- Especially Kate.

- You killed it. You killed it.
- You weren't even anxious.

- You can be a proud mother now.
- I feel like that was like...

Like a change...
Not to, like, sound dramatic,

but I feel like that was, like,
a changing point in my life.

- Like, that jump was like a...
- How about that?

A jump into the depth of yourself.

- Yeah. I really hope so.
- And controlled it.

- I hope that is.
- No, you did.

- You did, and you will see. You will see.
- I hope that it, like, stays.

I don't know if my panic disorder's
gonna go away.

I don't know
if my anxiety's gonna go away,

but it was definitely, um,
a turning point.

I haven't had a panic attack
since that experience.

I say yes to that.

- That's amazing.
- Yeah.

I started tapering off my medication.

- Your psychiatrist is working with you...
- Yeah, I'm working with my psychiatrist

- to slowly taper off.
- Are you doing the breath work still?

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

And then I finish with 30, 45 seconds
of a cold shower.

It's become like a ritual,
and it feels very empowering.

Hmm.

I want to start doing that.
I love taking cold showers sometimes.

I think a lot of our anxiety comes from,
it's a control thing.

And this was taking the control back.

And now you understand
that you can control your body.

- Even the ritual of a cold shower,
- Yes, exactly.

you tell yourself...

- "I'm in control of this."
- Exactly.

- That's amazing.
- Amazing, is that?

The right breathing techniques are able
to bring us very deep insight

with much more control
over our mood regulation

and our performance.

Would you come with me...

- Yeah.
- ...to do push-ups?

I can't do a push-up. On this fast?

I can barely walk from point A to point B.

All I can say is I know she's fasting,
and she says she can't do push-ups.

She's still gonna do
more push-ups than I...

- She's stronger than I am.
- No, I'm not.

Yes, you are.

Let's do this breathing

and see how many push-ups
you guys can do.

- Oh, my God.
- Okay.

We are going to do push-ups...

- Okay.
- ...and then we are going to

do the breathing exercises,

which makes the muscle tissue alkaline

and therefore, is suddenly able
to do more push-ups,

even without air in your lungs.

Okay.

How many do we do?

- As many as we can?
- Yes.

Just go. Go as much as you feel.

Aren't you tired yet?

Doing good, ladies. Yes. All right.

I think I did maybe 14 or 15.

All right, Gwyneth.

- She is strong as fuck.
- Okay, 20. There. That's...

And she is fasting.

- That's why I said this is embarrassing.
- That's strong.

All right, 20.

Twenty and 14.
Those are the numbers.

I don't think I can do any more push-ups.

You give the best, you get the best.

Just do that.

You give the best, you get the best.

Okay.

Fully in.

Letting go.

Fully in.

Letting go.

Fully in!

Letting go. Don't hold back.

- I'm gonna pass out.
- You can become a little bit light-headed,

lose in the body, tingly, it's all good.

Last one.

Fully in.

Let it go.

Stop after the exhalation.

Stop breathing and push-ups.

Just go. Don't mind. Feel.

Four, five, six...

Whenever you feel the urge to breathe,

you can take an inhale and keep on going.

Over the 20.

Twenty-two, three, four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine.

Thirty... done.

Good.

Oh, my God.

How do you feel?

I feel good.

My arms are tired,
but I'm not even out of breath.

I'm not out of breath, either,
I don't think.

I thought I was
gonna pass out for a minute

- when we were doing the breathing...
- Yeah.

...and then it kind of passed. You know?

So, it's like you're just focused
on the breath

- and not fainting.
- Yes.

Yeah, I felt high.

- Hi.
- Hi.

Well done, ladies.

- Thank you very much for showing.
- Thank you.

- That was pretty cool.
- Amazing.

Today, it was a great day.

You think so?

No, I feel so.

We are here in the present,
feeling strong.

I don't think I would have been able to do
what I did today

without this village, this community.

Family is nature.

Trees are nature. We are one.

♪ Such a lovable energy running 'round ♪

♪ Give it sound
Give it words from the heart ♪

- ♪ That's the start, hey, hey, hey ♪
- Ha!

- ♪ Do you remember how to play? ♪
- Ha!

♪ A new revolution starts right here ♪

♪ You saw you got it all
It's nature's call to do it all ♪

♪ Hey, hey! ♪

♪ Doing it all, let us play ♪

Nice!

Remind yourself every morning:

Are you happy? Are you strong?
Are you healthy?

If not, then breathe, motherfucker!