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5 Reasons Why You Should Take Cold Showers
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There’s nothing like a warm shower when we want to relax or even warm up on a cold winter day. The idea of subjecting ourselves to cold showers can actually seem crazy at times given how luxurious it has become to enjoy hot showers. But the truth is a cold shower can provide a lot of benefits that you may want to consider.
1. Improves Immunity & Circulation
Running cold water over your body at the end of a shower can improve circulation as blood is sent throughout your arteries to surround your organs. It can be viewed in the same way we run certain systems at high performance every so often to keep it maintained and well oiled. Increased blood flow can also help certain skin and heart issues as well as lower blood pressure, help clear blocked arteries and improve our immune system.
2. Improves Hair and Skin Condition
Hot water can dry out your skin and hair. Of course, it doesn’t help that there are high levels of chlorine coming out of our showers which has a drying-out effect on skin and hair as well. If you can run your shower colder or finish cold at the end, it’s a natural way to keep your skin and hair from drying out as cold water tightens cuticles and pores. This helps to prevent natural oils on the scalp and skin to be stripped away so easily. By keeping a proper oil balance you will have soft, shiny natural looking hair. This also helps to keep the skin and scalp cleaner as well.
3. Increase Alertness
Have you ever woken up early in the morning and felt tired hopping in the shower and as you feel the warm water running over your body you want to jump right back into bed? This is where cold showers can come in handy. As cold water hits your neck it causes you to do that almost slightly shocked deep breath. This increases oxygen intake and also gets the heart rate up which pumps blood through the body faster giving the body a nice natural surge of energy.
4. Eases Stress & Depression
Cold showers have also been shown to help decrease stress levels. One study found that exposure to cold helped decrease uric acid levels and increase glutathione, an antioxidant considered to be one of the most important for a healthy body.[1] The participants swam regularly in ice-cold water during the winter months and it was found that they adapted to repeated oxidative stress.
Another study found that cold hydrotherapy (i.e. cold showers) helped to improve moods and had an anti-depressive effect with no bad side effects or creation of dependency. Subjects were tested with one to two cold showers at 38 degrees Fahrenheit that were two to three minutes long. These were followed by a five-minute gradual adaptation to make the procedure less shocking.[2]
5. Speeds Up Muscle Soreness and Recovery
A study conducted in 2009 found that people who rested or immersed themselves in cold water after their exercise saw a decrease in onset muscle soreness caused by resistance training, cycling or running. It was found that a 24 minute bath in water with temperatures around 10 – 15 degrees celsius (50F – 59F) was most effective. Taking a cold shower after your workouts would still have a positive effect on muscle soreness as well. The longer you go the greater the benefit.[3]
How To
So how do you do it? Well you turn on the water cold and hop in.. sort of. There’s actually some differing ideas on exactly how to take a cold shower and one of the ways that I’ve used most is listed below from blog.iamgary.com.
- Turn the water on, set to cold. Some people will tell you to start warm and decrease the temperature slowly each time you shower, then start a little colder each day. Yes, that method will eventually result in taking a cold shower but you’re going to miss out on the heart-pounding exhilaration that you only experience fully the first couple times you take a cold shower. It doesn’t have to be ice cold, just cold.
- Feet first. Your feet will adjust to the temperature fastest so get them under the spray and work your lower body under the water as quickly as you can. By the time the water is splashing your stomach you’ll be looking for a distraction so…
- Hands second. Get your hands and arms wet, then splash water over your torso. By now your legs and front should be thoroughly wet.
- Head under! You’re going to be be breathing heavily and involuntarily so be careful not to inhale any water through your nose or mouth. You’re going to feel alright, like hey I can do this, but you’ve forgotten part of your body…
- Back last. Millions of nerve fibres are routed through your spine so getting your back wet is the hardest part. You’re going to feel a lot of sensations, almost an electrical charge crackling up and down your back. Get this wet last then finish washing and scrubbing. Good job, you’ve taken a cold shower.
Joe Martino
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Now,this should be forbidden here,it’s a straight way to see a few corpses.
Joe,as a decent reporter you should mention the “yes and nos”.Is this recommended for people with any health conditions,under any circumstances??? NO!!!
I will not get any further into the subject as it’s useless with illiterates.
well have fun with your cold showers… i am sure there are more effective means of dealing with those problems than freezing showers
Funny thing! We need more methods like things . Thanks a million and please keep up
All showers are toxic if you dont remove chlorine from the water
Here’s how you take a cold shower: Soap up with a wet sponge or wash rag. Use a a non oily soap. A real good one is Chandrika which you can buy at Indian grocery stores for $1. At fancy stores in places like NYC Chandrika will cost many dollars more. This soap washes off the body very quickly with minimum water. In Indian villages I have seen people bathe in rivers and at community bathing fountains/pumps/wells. It’s an amazing technique to observe them wash the whole body while still wearing one cloth and moving the cloth around the body washing everything without exposing any private parts. Very quickly with one dump of a vessel of water. Or they just go in the river wrapped in cloth soap up and dunk their body and come out. So I think Chandrika soap may be manufactured especially for this style of quick bathing in the villages. It falls off the body instantly with little water. Also another interesting thing is that it is said by the monks who rise before dawn that well water is warmest at this time of day even in winter. So they can take there mandatory bath before meditation without much discomfort.
I live in the USA. So I take a cold shower by filling a bucket up with cool filtered water. I step into the tub with the bucket and close the shower curtain. I soap up with an amazing big sponge I bought at a marine supply store in the 80′s that just keeps holding together. Then I dump that bucket of water over my head in one quick dump. The flash of cold is like a millisecond and my skin starts to feel like a fiery sensation is enveloping it. And I immediately dry off. Personally i would never take a cold shower because even a couple seconds under the cold spraying water feels like someone is beating the hell out of me. But that bucket dump is a flash of cold only felt as quick as a blink of an eye. This was true even when I took bucket baths while staying in a cabin in the middle of winter one time near Buffalo New York. We had to break a hole in the ice of a spring fed stream outside our door. I filled a bucket and carried it inside. The cabin was heated with a wood stove, but I was too lazy to heat the water up. There was a washroom with a tub and drain but no running water. So I soaped up there and dumped that ice cold bucket on my head. Same thing cold flash in a blink of an eye and that fiery sensation again but more intense. Sometimes after someone else had already broken the hole in the ice I just went out the door with a towel and just dumped that bucket over my head at the edge of the stream.
I heard that when you sleep that toxins come out of your pores and when you bathe in this way with cold water, your pores immediately slam shut and the toxins fall off your body. If you take a hot shower supposedly the toxins end up back in your pores.
Everyone knows the advantages of cold showers or cold washing.
Not only those for one´s own body. Also those for Our Planet. To learn to wash cold makes a BIG difference about how much electricity or fuel you spend. Our all-too-big ecological footprint as Westerners is mainly due to three things: car-driving, hot-water use, and meat-eating. Reduce these to a minimum and become innocent.
But there are lots of people who feel all too discomfortable during a cold shower – even after repeatedly and earnestly trying to adapt to them, they just can not.
One should rather write an article about
“Seven Reasons to forgive and not despise those who can only wash or bathe warm” !
- in order to relieve those from the inferiority complexes that some Cold-Showerers give to them.
In Germany, the word “Warmduscher” (Warm-Showerer) means something like “wimp”.
Fact is: Those who can do cold showers without any discomfort are lucky, Nature gave them a special possibility to keep healthy, a special gift –
but many of those lucky ones mock at the less lucky, imagining it to be their own merit to have this ability.
Once they grow old and “rheumatic” and sensitive to cold – they will grasp how unjust their attitude has been.
some words from me as a M.D. now:
A bucketful of cold water over the BODY will be OK for healthy people,
but those who are not yet adapted to cold showers or similar procedures should NOT pour it right over the HEAD. They could faint from the cold shock upon it.
Elderly people could even get an acute attack of heart rhythm disturbance by a cold shock upon head or chest.
The torso is the place where you feel cold water most uncomfortably. If you are elderly or suffer from some heart disease but wanna start adapting to cold washing or showering just the same, leave the chest dry the first two or three times.
Those People of Good Will who wish to do the necessary morning body-cleaning without using fuel or electrical energy ie wash cold no matter if it feels good or not,
although being sensitive to cold and originally fond of warm baths,
may do it with a wet cloth and a bowlful of water
and – as the Indian people, thanks commenter for reminding me to this – without stripping naked.
Just expose and clean one limb after the other and wash the torso at last, putting the wet cloth under the shirt or something like that.
Our great-grandmas did it exactly so during 19th century, in the mornings of normal working days.
On Sundays, then, you may happily enjoy a comfortable hot bath – as our ancestors, again.