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Meet Gordon Giesbrecht, the world's expert on hypothermia, who leaps into frozen lakes, injects ice water, and takes very, very cold baths.
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Gordon Giesbrecht
Canadian physiologist
Gordon Grant Giesbrecht is a Canadian physiologist who operates the Laboratory for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at the University of Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada.
He studies the effects of extreme environments, including cold, heat, hypoxia, and hypobaria on the human body.[1] His laboratory motto is vitas salvantas (saving lives). He was dubbed "Professor Popsicle" in a feature article in Outside Magazine.[2]
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Academic career
Giesbrecht is a Canadian academic and public educator.
Giesbrecht earned a PhD in physiology from the University of Manitoba in 1990 and has been a professor of thermophysiology in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management since 1991. He is best known for his work on cold physiology and the co-creation of Cold Water Boot Camp and