I did this for a while. It’s good for increasing your brown fat.
The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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#32Dr. Rhonda Patrick goes over cold therapy (along with hot therapy) numerous times in her nutrition/health/biology/epidemiological research. cryo usually is -180 degrees F for 2 minutes. But a similar effect can be achieved with ~40 F (IIRC) exposure for ~4-6 hours. I think she has mentioned similar effects for immersion in cold water for several minutes as well. The benefits of cold shock are basically: * increase no…
40F with or without clothes? 4-6 hours without clothes and Im pretty sure you're looking at fairly severe hypothermia.
IIRC the scenario was with clothing on where people spend extended period of time outdoors in the cold. E.g. shoveling snow, hiking on a cold day, etc.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
40F with or without clothes? 4-6 hours without clothes and Im pretty sure you're looking at fairly severe hypothermia.
In 40F water for 4-6 hours and you're looking at a severe case of death.
40F outdoors with clothes.
Ice baths are several minutes.
The faster the thermotransfer, the shorter the cold shock period, obviously...
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
40F with or without clothes? 4-6 hours without clothes and Im pretty sure you're looking at fairly severe hypothermia.
I am not sure how much clothes would help in preventing hypothermia.
Clothes are the reason people don't regularly die when they go skiing, or for that matter, live outside the tropics.
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#35Dr. Rhonda Patrick goes over cold therapy (along with hot therapy) numerous times in her nutrition/health/biology/epidemiological research. cryo usually is -180 degrees F for 2 minutes. But a similar effect can be achieved with ~40 F (IIRC) exposure for ~4-6 hours. I think she has mentioned similar effects for immersion in cold water for several minutes as well. The benefits of cold shock are basically: * increase no…
Would you mind linking to an academic study concerning the mitochondrial biogenesis effect?
No idea.
Just passing along the info. At about the halfway period of the aforementioned video she has of her talk at a conference, she goes over the biogenesis effect, but I dont recall there being a direct study link. But in other videos, she does show screen shots of the studies when she makes statistical claims which make the studies pretty easily searchable on pubmed.
Her published stuff on foundmyfitness.com does have studies though.
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#36I feel like the benefits you obtain through cold showers disappear after a while as you get used to them. That's similar to the benefits I felt of meditation.
IDK, I have yet to get used to cold showers during the last two winters. Still too lazy to get my gas turned back on in 2.5 years so it isn't all that bad I guess...but during the deep Arizona winter when the temperature drops to around 50 those showers aren't even a little fun.
There is a brown fat adaptation beyond shivering that does happen.
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#37Can someone tell me if their study design compensates for bias introduced by not everyone completing the study? It looks like only about 70% completed it.
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#38I used to do this every morning... just take a normal hot shower, then at the end crank it full cold and endure until normalized. It's a free high, great way to start a day. I presumed endorphins are being released. Now I prefer to run a bunch of miles and immediately jump into the (cold) ocean while still all hot and amped up from the run. The water doesn't even seem cold, it's great. Normally people wear wet-suits…
Could that induce a heart attack? Like drinking a glass of ice water after mowing the lawn in hot weather.
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#39I can offer my anecdotal experience. Been shutting off the hot water at the end of my morning showers and enduring the cold for a few minutes for the past 3 years. I have noticed that I get fewer colds. And with the colds I do get, their symptoms are lighter, and they go away much quicker, often gone in a day or two. And I haven't caught anything real bad, like a flu, since.
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#40I skimmed the cover page. If you shower at night are the advantages tracked to be local to only that moment or does it have a prolonged general benefit?
Sometimes i do cold showers at night, instead of the morning, and I still feel like I get the same benefits.
interestingly enough cold showers in the morning wake me up, and cold showers at night relax me. Not exactly how it works, but it does.