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🗓️ 1 September 2023
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Discover the amazing benefits of cold-water immersion and the best way to make it easier.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518606/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-016-3480-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05030-3
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0:00.0 | Now, for some reason, we don't like to freeze, we don't like to starve, it's very uncomfortable, |
0:09.5 | we like warm weather, we like to have food available all the time and we definitely like to be |
0:14.4 | comfortable as far as our temperature. Well, our ancestors have adapted to temperature over a |
0:20.3 | very long period of time due to the season called winter. Nowadays, we can easily overcome this |
0:27.9 | severe cold winter by just turning the thermostat to 70 degrees. Today, I'm going to talk about |
0:34.0 | some interesting research relating to cold water immersion and your genes and how using cold |
0:42.5 | therapy can greatly affect your genes in a positive way. Now, I have an actual cold water |
0:48.3 | immersion tank outside my house and when I first used it, I set the temperature to 37 degrees. |
0:55.9 | Okay, that's pretty darn cold and I don't recommend doing that to start out with because |
1:01.7 | I could only last five seconds. I would recommend starting out like a 50 degrees Fahrenheit, |
1:07.1 | which is 10 degrees Celsius, starting out with just a minute, you know, and then gradually |
1:12.0 | working up from that. But to experience the benefits of this cold therapy, you want to be |
1:17.5 | uncomfortable. And to experience the benefits I'm going to talk about, you really only need 11 minutes |
1:24.6 | or a week. So anyone can do that. Even if you don't have a cold water immersion tank, you can do |
1:30.8 | this with a cold shower. You can find a pool that's really cold or maybe jump in the pond somewhere, |
1:36.9 | but there's different ways of experiencing this therapy. Now, if you compare cold therapy to |
1:42.0 | warm therapy like a hot shower, you're definitely going to experience more benefits with the cold |
1:47.2 | therapy simply because it's more uncomfortable. If you just can't even fathom to doing this or have |
1:54.7 | no tolerance for doing this, it could be that you just need more B vitamins. B vitamins help |
2:00.1 | increase the tolerance to extreme temperatures. And I will put a link down below of where I got my tank |
2:06.1 | and I'm not affiliated with this company. I get no kickbacks, but it's called the cold |
2:10.9 | plunge store. And I bought the tank called the flex, but I really like it. I think the benefits |
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