Let's talk about the 10 benefits of cryotherapy or the benefits of freezing.

Since the stonage time, our bodies have adapted to various things like starvation and freezing.

A little bit of freezing occasionally is very beneficial to your body.

It creates something called the whoremetic effect, which is inducing a small stress to

make your body stronger.

There are certain genes, proteins and enzymes that get activated when you put your body

in colder temperatures.

Whether you put yourself into a cryotherapy chamber or just take a cold shower, you can

activate certain genes.

One is the satellite cell.

Now a satellite cell is like a pre-muscle cell, like a stem cell that can actually then turn

into a muscle cell.

So one of the benefits is muscle soreness or muscle repair from damage.

And that's one of the things that gets activated.

And then you can increase these enzymes called kinases, which increase muscle synthesis.

So again, it's repairing muscle damage after some injury.

And this is why they apply ice after you have an injury.

Also, cold therapy will suppress certain genes that regulate inflammation.

So it's not just about vasoconstricting the blood flow and getting the blood flow out

of there.

It's about activating your genetics to create an effect.

That's called epigenetics.

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