Transform Your Health with Cold Showers – Dr. Berg's Guide to Cold Showers

What would happen after 14 days and two weeks if you took a

cold

shower every day? That's what we're going to talk about. Let's delve into this topic. Now you may have heard of this guy called Iceman that he wrote. a book that has made youtube videos developed the wim hof method using things like ice baths,

cold

showers

to improve

your

health

. I'm going to talk about some of the benefits and research surrounding using cryotherapy or cold therapy now, before I close and say there is no way I'm going to take a cold shower, just hear me out because there are some very positive benefits to do this and you can do it very, very gradually, so it's not very uncomfortable.

Well, now I'm serious. Right now you would think that going out into the cold when it's raining and cold would make you sick. That's because

your

parents told you not to get in that rain, it's cold out there, you're going to catch a cold, just stay. inside, where it's nice and warm, it happens that when you expose your body to the cold, I'm not talking long term, just short term, your immune system gets better, you get more monocytes and lymphocytes, these are white blood cells that fight. pathogens, you have an increase in T helper cells, T helper cells are like the quarterback of the entire immune system.

Okay, you also get an increase in suppressive T cells that help calm an overactive immune system to prevent excessive destruction of the immune system. system, so it's kind of a system where your immune system is fighting things, but you have other factors that make sure there's not too much collateral damage, so your immune system is enhanced when you expose it to the cold , which is a very, very counterintuitive number. two, you get a norepinephrine spike. Norepinephrine is similar to adrenaline and when they tested people who have anxiety, attention deficit disorder, depression, they generally have low levels of norepinephrine, so by using this amazing method of exposing yourself to the cold, you can increase norepinephrine and improve your general mood.

If you are depressed, you can get out of that lower emotion. If you have anxiety, you worry excessively, things like that, it can elevate your emotions, it can help your cognitive function, focus your memory, you can be more alert, so apparently our bodies have evolved. for eons to adapt to things like cold starvation, so our bodies through this process have developed certain types of adaptive survival mechanisms to improve our

health

and survive better when exposed to cold and hunger and things like that, It is called hormetic effect and hormetic effect. it's when you expose someone to a stress and then the body adapts and becomes stronger like exercise would give you a hormetic effect fasting would give you a hormonal effect taking a cold shower would definitely do well next is taking a cold shower you will help you lose weight how well when you take a cold shower are you going to activate brown fat another term for brown fat is brown adipose tissue so the feeling of cold is the main stimulus to stimulate brown fat so the more cold makes more brown fat than you have now, what is so important about this brown fat versus white fat or white adipose tissue?

Well, brown fat increases heat energy and metabolism. Your metabolism will increase when you have more brown fat, you will lose more. Weight and brown fat will also lead to greater loss of white fat, which is the stored fat you have in your body, so that's great, in fact, 100 grams of brown fat can burn 3,400 calories per day, that is , more calories than you could potentially eat. on a given day, which is why we want more brown fat in our body, another reason why it can help you lose weight, it can create an increase in insulin sensitivity. Okay, if you've been watching my videos, the more you improve insulin sensitivity, the less insulin there is. which will occur because it's going to work now and there will be less insulin resistance and the more you lose weight, the better your blood sugar levels will be, so if you have diabetes, your prediabetes and If you take a cold shower, you will notice that your Blood sugar levels are much better controlled and when that happens, you will lose weight.

Number five, cold

showers

help with inflammation, they're anti-inflammatory, so if you have inflammation. your body if you have any type of autoimmune disease if you have arthritis bursitis tendonitis taking a cold shower would be very therapeutic number six cold showers can increase your overall antioxidant networks okay, more antioxidants, less DNA damage, lower risk of getting cancer and other diseases number seven neural protection okay, cold showers help your brain and apparently the cold activates new growth of neurons, okay, that's great and also as a side note, when you're cold you sleep much better now, this It's within reason, okay?

I'm talking about freezing, I'm just talking about having the temperature a little cooler, you'll sleep a little better, so another benefit I forgot to add to this is getting a good night's sleep, number eight, longevity, why do cold showers stimulate autophagy by like? fasting stimulates autophagy autophagy is a condition where your body goes into which it recycles old damaged proteins, so if there are certain things that are not working in the body, like your proteins or enzymes or your mitochondria, or they are building up in the brain like amyloid plaque or whatever your body is going to recycle all of that and turn it into completely new proteins.

The other cool thing about taking a cold shower is that it will help reduce cortisol, which means it will reduce your stress, okay? create better recovery, so if you're an athlete, okay, you're sore and need a faster recovery, charcoal therapy is the way to go. I remember a long time ago when my wife and I went to the Dominican Republic and I remember we went off the beaten path and I found this little oasis, this little building like building and they had all these different little bathrooms and they looked like little jacuzzis, but some of them were really very cold and others were really very hot, they were like being frozen, warm, hot, very hot. and so on, and that was a really interesting introduction to cold therapy because at first it didn't make sense to me why anyone would want to soak in a cold bath, but we both tried it and it was very cold, but then of course, I went in to the warmer bath and to the hot jacuzzi and I remember feeling really amazing after doing that, my body felt amazing and I slept really well and then I forgot about it for a few years, coming full circle here I'm talking about exposing So, of all Anyway, here are the 10 benefits of cold showers and think about it, if you can experience these benefits with just a cold shower.

I mean, you're probably already showering every day, all you have to do is turn it into cold water. for a moment and then put it back in hot water and now I'll show you what I would recommend. I would do this when you're in the shower, start with the hot shower, okay, get comfortable, get really hot, take the hot water. Get comfortable in the shower and then run it into cold water. Well, I mean a nice cold shower, not lukewarm but very cold for about 30 seconds. Now anyone can handle 30 seconds correctly and then put it back in hot water and then have that as an introduction to the next day it's cold, it starts to increase the 30 seconds to maybe 40 seconds, okay, and then in the next shower it goes up to 50 seconds and gradually increase this to the point where you are taking a cold shower for 5 to 10 minutes, but if you do it gradually it won't be as uncomfortable, in fact the benefits you will see will be mind-blowing and you will eventually realize that you should having done this a long time ago.

What are you interest in? You have all these feedback systems in the body that when you expose your body to a very cold sensation, it actually warms the inner core of your body, you actually get more internal circulation, the other side of the coin is that when you take a shower hot, it actually gets cold. deep inside your core, this is why taking a hot shower before bed can be a good thing because it will cool down your body and you will sleep better; The body sleeps better when it's a little colder, but anyway, this might be an easy way to approach this cold shower unless you want to just go cold turkey and jump in right now.

The other thing I want to mention is that infrared saunas are okay, they use a lower temperature than a traditional sauna, so they use between 120 and 140 degrees. Fahrenheit versus traditional saunas which are between 150 and 180 degrees Fahrenheit. Now this has nothing to do with a cold therapy, but the only point of mentioning it is that it is not as hot as a traditional therapy and there are some really interesting hormetic effects in the infrared that I will share another video very soon, but of all So, as you can see, if you did cold therapy for 14 days, you would see notable health benefits now.

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