The 7 Benefits of a Cold Shower

Today we are going to talk about the seven

benefits

of taking a

cold

shower

. This is actually something called

cold

therapy with cryotherapy. Now, with cryotherapy, they put you in a crowd chamber for only a very small period of time because it's so cold. maybe three maybe even five minutes and this concept is really based on this word hormesis okay hour mucinas what is that is a situation where you add a low dose of dress or a moderate amount of stress to create a beneficial effect there is a lot of Things that can create this effect, this is called the hormetic effect, but it's actually a survival mechanism that has been around for eons.

I mean, if you think about the past with human bodies, the combination of how many times our bodies have starved and been in the cold, so you freeze and starve, and what the body will do with The time to adapt is actually built into our genes, so just by taking a 20-minute cold

shower

you can increase norepinephrine by two to three hundred percent and when you increase this neurotransmitter, which is produced by the adrenal glands and other parts of your body, it can really reduce inflammation, it can increase your antioxidant networks, including glutathione, so it improves your detoxification ability, protects against DNA damage and also increases your mitochondria to the extent that it can generate the amount of mitochondria it can generate. more energy, which is fascinating, so taking a cold shower over a period of time can increase your energy and they also increase your T cells.

These are the cells that help you prevent infections against viruses and even bacteria. Now you would think that by exposing yourself to the cold you would get sick, but you will only be in the cold for a certain period of time when you take a cold shower. I always recommend starting with about 30 seconds for a minute and gradually increasing it over time and then maybe turning it on to a hot shower and alternating just because the pain tends to be very painful so it pays to ease it gradually. If these are some of the

benefits

of a cold shower, it decreases muscle soreness and any time you have an acute injury, you will want to use cold and not heat. just one side down, will also decrease joint pain, joint inflammation, especially with rheumatoid arthritis, will speed up recovery whether from a workout or if you had a real injury due to a sport for example, decreases inflammation in general, increases your cognitive function, your general mood there have been some interesting studies on depression and anxiety and it can also increase your metabolism.

Now I know the last way people want to lose weight is by taking cold showers, but it may increase your metabolism a little bit, but of course you want to be on a ketogenic diet and on and off. fasting to do it really properly anyway these are the benefits and comment below if you have ever used cold as therapy thanks for watching hey if you haven't subscribed yet hit the button below and I'll keep you posted hey that's all.