In this video, we’ll discuss the benefits of a cold shower.
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In this video we have a fun topic and that is the benefits of cold showers.
Now you’ve probably heard of this cold therapy.
This cold therapy is used by health enthusiasts.
People who are suffering from conditions and even athletes in order to improve their overall
health now what we’ll do in these videos will discuss how you can implement this into
your daily routine starting today in order improve your health.
We will talk about the benefits and how you’re gonna implement it starting today.
Let’s dive in.
Now when we look at this cold therapy, this is something I've been using for many years
it started back in my days of college hockey where if we had a doubleheader game we had
a game in the morning, game in the afternoon we’d use a cold bath in between in order
to support recovery and it helped you know improve our performance on the upcoming game.
So that's when I was first introduced to it many years ago and then later on I found out
there are many more benefits to this cold therapy thing.
Let’s go ahead and talk about them first of all it’s gonna help decrease inflammation.
Now this is important because you’ve heard me say before when you decrease you decrease
pain.
I recently had a patient of mine say when I had my hip replacement I went through all
these different therapies and none of it worked.
What actually worked is I did the cold therapy and i did it right in my home.
Did an ice bath and it helped to decrease the pain because you decrease inflammation,
you decrease pain.
You decrease inflammation you also decrease your risk of disease down the road.
So if your someone who has a lot of aches and pains you can use cold therapy to support
htat.
It is going to decrease swelling right.
If you get it swollen ankles, swollen knee you put ice on because it helps decrease that
swelling and inflammation.
It’s gonna support recovery.
Now I mentioned now back in my college hockey days this is what we did in order to actually
boost performance and support recovery.
So, if you’re an athlete or you’re someone who is trying to recover from a injury this
will help quite a bit.
Now I knew an olympic level athlete who was using this they said they had to use it every
single day in order to actually boost their performance and keep them in the game.
So it helps in a significant way.
Next, is going to help us increase testosterone which is great.
A lot of people are trying to increase testosterone in the body.
It’s going to help your immune response.
It is going to do so by boosting your white blood cells in your body.
It is scientifically proven it boos white blood cells which is going to improve your
immune system.
It also is going to increase your quality of sleep.
It’s going to give you better focus.
Okay, now when we look at this better focus one of the ways that we see this happen is
that if you go to take a cold bath or a cold shower the first thing that you do is you
get under that cold water and you go you know you gasp for air.
You take that big breath in and you continue to do that for the next couple minutes and
essentially what happens is you hyper oxygenate the body you get more oxygen to the brain
and it helps improve your focus.
This whole breathing methods around this of getting more oxygen to the brain in order
to help improve mental focus.
So, it’s going to help with that it's going to help improve your mood.
Now, when you boost this noradrenaline in the body, it’s gonna help but give you a
better outlook on life, improve your mood and doing cold showers, cold therapy, cold
baths it all helps with that.
It’s going to support weight loss.
It does this couple ways first of all it’s going to help speed up your metabolism it’s
gonna also activate brown adipose tissue now this brown fat is basically a different kind
of fat that's around your body.
It’s around your clavicle, it’s around your sternum, it's around your upper back
and it’s very different than the white fat that's around your belly, your legs, your
arms and everywhere else in your body.
So when you put yourself in that cold environment in that cold bath, that cold therapy essentially
what happens is you activate that brown fat and what that brown fat does is try to warm
up the body as a result of that it burns the white fat off and so if you want to increase
your level of brown fat on the body you do cold therapy on a regular basis and it’s
going to help you burn that white fat off.
Next is it’s going to decrease blood glucose and I actually have done this little test
on myself.
So basically I was plotting my blood sugar and then I did a cold bath, with that cold
bath my blood sugar dropped and then after it went back up and normalized again.
So when we do that cold bath and we look at our blood sugar essentially what happens is
our body is using that blood sugar in order to help warm it up to produce heat and so
if you want to drive that blood sugar down which a lot of people do this is a good way
to do it.
Let’s talk about how you can go and do this cold therapy in your own lifestyle.
Now first of all you can do cryotherapy and when I say cryotherapy i’m referring you
to you going to a place of business where they have these cryotherapy chambers you go
inside they put that nitrogen gas in there and it decreases the temperature to about
a negative 300 degrees fahrenheit.
Now this is going to decrease your skin temperature to somewhere between 30 degrees in -40 degrees.
Now you are are only in there for about 3-5 minutes typically.
So you know for everyone’s whos in there going well, how are you not just gonna freeze
and turn into a block of ice well, it’s a very short period of time, very intense
cold air.
And so with that cryotherapy there's a lot of benefits that we just discussed here you
can do that it’s just that you have to not mind paying for it.
Okay so this is something that you’re going to actually go to a place of business, pay
for and it offers a lot of benefits that's the good part.
Now there is a couple ways that I go about doing this in my own home now first of all
you can do cold showers.
Basically turn your shower on cold and you can go in there anywhere between 5 and 20
minutes essentially is gonna really decrease your bodily temperature and you’re gonna
get the benefits that we talked about over here.
Now a lot of people you know when you look at cold showers you want to actually start
slowly.
It’s a little bit of a abrasive process at first.
So basically start slowly, ease yourself into it and there you can get the benefits the
other thing you can do is do ice baths and this is where I first started with this before
I even knew any of this existed besides recovery.
I was doing ice baths and and basically fill your tub with water you can put some ice in
there for the fun of it if you want.
That will bring the temperature down even further and as a result you’re gonna get
the benefits that we talked about over here.
And then lastly you can use an ice vest.
Now this is something that’s pretty interesting.
I actually have one of these and what you do is you put this vest on and you pack it
full of ice packs and while you are working, when you’re exercising you can wear this
ice vests and it’ll really cool your core down and you are suppose to get the benefits
that you are getting from cold therapy.
It’s supposed to you know increase that brown fat content there’s actually been
some you know different self studies that have been done on this and the ice vests have
proven to work well.
So this is something I like to do when I was either working at my desk or even exercising
and I really liked it and I like all these methods right here.
I just think that this is something very easy to implement into your lifestyle and the benefits
are really great.
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