Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

This Friday, we're talking all about freezing away your inflammation with cryotherapy.

I know you guys have heard of cryotherapy. It is trending right now.

And athletes have been doing it. Celebrities are doing it. Biohackers are doing it. And probably you and I should be doing it, celebrities are doing it, biohackers are doing it, and probably

you and I should be doing it too. Cryotherapy has been around in one form or another for a long,

a long time, from the time of the ancient Romans, taking frigidarium baths to the time of the

polar bears jumping into freezing cold lakes.

And we've all seen 100-year-old people diving into these cold freezing lakes.

Why are people doing cryotherapy?

There's so many benefits.

Typically, cryotherapy is the whole body being immersed.

And people claim that has significant benefits for

boosting your metabolism, your endurance, making you feel energized and alive. It gives you an immediate

high, and it gives you some really great long-term benefits. Some people are going into

biohacking clinics where they can step into a cryo chamber.

And that would be a tank filled with liquid nitrogen.

You can get two to three minutes of exposure.

And temperatures can drop down to like 130 degrees negative centigrade or that's like negative 266 Fahrenheit.

That's crazy. Two to three minutes you have to wear

earmuffs and gloves so you don't get frostbite and critical organs. But another method is taking

an ice bath where you fill your tub with ice cubes. People have home ice baths. People soak in

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