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The birch show. So I tried something new this morning. I'm playing with my health, but in a good way.

I tried my first ice bath this morning. That's how you chose to start your day.

So I have for like the last week and a half been doing as soon as I get up in the morning.

First of all, I hate cold showers. I hate hate hate cold period, right? But I've been reading a

lot about the health benefits of cold water showers and cold water baths. It helps with inflammation.

It certainly gets your dopamine going really early in the morning. It's good for your mental health

and it's got a whole bunch of other mental, um, a whole bunch of other health benefits also,

all right? My husband does this. He does. He the cold showers like he'll he turns the shower on

and instead of waiting for it to warm up, he gets in and he starts it as a freezing cold shower.

It's something like a beer will give you one and one point five times the dopamine. I think cocaine

is something like 10 times the dopamine mean or something like that for 15 minutes. Cold shower,

like the whole thing cold will give you 10 times the dopamine for like an hour and a half. Like it's

something insane. What it's better than drugs for your brain. So I could say that doing just the cold

showers over the last week and a half, I can feel the dopamine hit like the higher talking about

usually till about eight in the morning, eight nine in the morning, right? So, um, I started to get

used to the cold showers and then I went online and now they have these, um, fairly inexpensive

baths, not just your own bath, but like it almost looks like a trash can. You fill it up with water

and ice the night before it's ready for you in the morning and the first thing you do when you

get up is you dive into this thing to start your day. You do a cold punch. I know. How long do you

stay? I've been fascinated by ice baths and wanting to do them because I see people with the galvanized

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