Hi, I'm Kevin Don, the Get Fit Guy, and I'm here to reassure you that in 2023, I'll be cutting through the noise even more than I did in 2022. Facts. Now, if you are a frequent listener of the show, you'll know that I'm big on being unbiased and objective.

If you're a new listener,

maybe here because of a New Year's resolution,

well, welcome to the home of objectivity.

For a while now, it's been a bit of a craze

to plunge yourself into a frozen river like a total maniac. To wake up in the morning to a cold shower,

fill an old chest freezer with ice cubes

for an alternative afternoon session with your friends.

There have been myriad posts about it,

so I'm going to make a bit of an alternative post

about the ugly duckling of water and environmental temperatures. Heat. Now, as crazy as it may

sound, there are actually health benefits to hot water and hot environments, and in fact, may even

beat those of cold water into submission. So let's dive in. Now, the first time I heard about the

benefits of heat was when I was living in Hong Kong.

About 2013 at this time, a cryotherapy place had just opened,

and everyone was desperate to spend 90 bucks to stand in minus 250 Fahrenheit for three minutes

for recovery and detoxification.

Sounds very compelling. Now, I happened to hear at that time a TCM, which is Chinese traditional medicine practitioner, telling someone that ices for the

dead. By this, he meant that the health benefits for living organisms were to be found in heat rather

than extremes of cold.

Now, both camps can't really be correct, right?

Because hot and cold are mutually exclusive.

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