Cold Shower
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Michael delves into the science of cold water immersion, revealing how just a little bit of physical stress might go a long way to improve your heart health, boost your mood and help keep colds and flu at bay. To find out more, he speaks to Professor Mike Tipton from Portsmouth University who’s been researching exactly what happens in your body when you’re doused with cold water, and why it might have a positive impact on your body and brain, with lasting effects.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out |
| 0:24.4 | where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. Ah! |
| 0:37.0 | Oh! |
| 0:38.0 | Oh! |
| 0:39.0 | We'd all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're bombarded with often conflicting advice. |
| 0:48.0 | So, if you were going to do just one thing to improve your mental and physical well being what |
| 0:54.4 | should it be maybe a few squats to enhance your brain or more bacteria to |
| 1:00.0 | improve your mood or even a cold shower to boost your immune system. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will explore one thing you can start doing tomorrow to |
| 1:15.6 | improve your health or life in ways you might not expect. |
| 1:20.3 | So I'm about to do something that in less than a minute might help to combat stress, keep you alert and impact your immune system. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm about to take a really cold jar. I've been doing them for a couple of days now, right? So the good thing about it is when it stops. Now that certainly wake me up, but is it something that you would be prepared to do? |
| 1:52.0 | Hi, this is Sandia and I work as a primary school teacher. |
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