What are the habits of people in my practice and that I work with, that I
see on a regular basis that make them look younger, more youthful, be more
energetic, be happier and live longer.
That's what I'd bring you on this channel.
And today is just that.
What if a bit of pain every morning?
Could improve your energy, your skin, and your metabolism today.
That's exactly what I'm going to tell you.
So many successful people are starting their days with cold showers
from businessmen like Elon Musk.
The athletes and actors like LeBron, James and Dwayne, the rock Johnson
and all for very different reasons.
In ancient times, Roman bathing was based around the practice of
moving through a series of heated rooms, culminating at the end.
In a cold plunge in modern times, the traditional ritual of the
Frigidaire has been kept in most saunas and spas around the world.
One up there in Canada, where I go skiing you're in this, uh, it's,
it's a hot pool with a mineral salts coming out of the mountain naturally.
And there's glacier water coming in next to it.
It's a deep dive into cold, and I will tell you, it takes, uh,
plunge after a day of skiing to really want to be freezing again.
In this video, I'm going to cover the top six reasons you should
be starting your day with cold.
Instead of hot, many of us know hot water on the skin is aging.
It prematurely.
Number one, your circulation will improve.
The first thing you should know about cold showers is how
they affect your circulation.
Because this leads to a lot of other benefits, those doing
facial massage and certain facial treatments know the increase in
blood flow makes your skin better.
And when we study skincare, sometimes we put a placebo or a fake product on
one side to study the real product.
And the other, the side with the fake product gets better to some.
And that's thought to be from increasing circulation to the skin.
But in this case, when the cold water hits your skin, the body experiences
a mild form of stress and will trigger it to rush pump, warm blood around
the body to keep you from freezing.
It's like tricking your body.
When this happens, you are rapidly increasing your body's circulation, but
temporarily after you've done this for a while, There is some evidence to show
that it actually will start to make your circulatory system more efficient
and that result is more permanent.
So there's long lasting benefits of that cold exposure.
Number two, your skin will look better when your body has better circulation.
Your skin will also start to look better because the blood is.
Fresher you have more oxygen and oxygen facials in fact are all the rage.
This is why so many people love to do a cold compress in the morning.
The constriction of your veins will help reduce inflammation, increase fresh blood,
which helps things like dark circles.
Under eye circles, eye bags, even red eye.
A lot of people use hot to get the BI meibomian glands and the eye going and
then cool to decrease the inflammation.
Another way it benefits your skin is by reducing the oils your body
produces when your body becomes cold, it restricts the pores signaling
to the body to excrete less oil.
This places a major role in keeping your skin clear.
And decreasing oily hair.
If that's an issue you may be struggling with as well, number
three, your metabolism will speed up.
This is the effect everyone is looking for.
Taking a cold shower will cause your body to prepare, to fight off cold, causing it
to burn more energy throughout the day in order to really get the full effect of.
You will need to spend more time in the cold than just a
two to three minute period.
So unless you're willing to be uncomfortable for about 10 minutes
or even more each day, you may not see a large change, but keep in
mind, even small changes will burn calories and you can advance as
tolerated up to that longer duration.
Number four.
Your immune system will be stronger.
Here is a randomized controlled trial that showed 79% of participants in
the interventions groups completed a 30 consecutive day protocol.
So about a month it showed a 29% reduction in sickness absence for
the cold shower regimen, compared to the control group that didn't take
the cold showers, no related serious.
Events were reported in that trial.
Cuz a lot of people say, what about that cold plunge?
Is it D.
Always check with your doctor.
Certainly, as they said, it changes circulation, but in that trial,
there were no adverse events.
So it seems a cold shower can also improve your body's ability to fight off
common illnesses like the cold or flu.
A brief exposure to the cold will increase a body's production of leukocytes as
well as monocytes and lymphocytes.
Those are the white blood cells in the body that we
measure to check for infection.
It can increase those.
Thus help fight infection.
Also in support of this in the Netherlands, they actually conducted
a study where participants were randomly chosen to take a cold shower.
In the morning, the researchers found that people who were taking
cold showers called into work.
Sick 30% less than those taking the warm showers.
So there's different studies showing evidence for this.
And of course, different cultures around the world will speak to this.
I'm thinking Sweden, Finland, the Germans, this is standard for them.
Number five, you'll recover quicker from exercise and injury.
How often after you're watching a basketball or hockey, uh, and they're
interviewing the person they say.
I'll let you go now off to the ice bath.
Many athletes swear by cold showers and ice baths, and there
is indeed signs to back them up.
Otherwise they wouldn't be taking the plunge.
When the cold water stimulates our body circulatory system, more
fresh blood is brought to the muscles, making them recover quicker
and flushing out lactic acid.
It also decreases inflammation, which not only reduces puffiness
in the skin, but can help.
With any injuries you may have, number six, you will be happier who knew that
doing something a tad unpleasant can actually make you feel better afterwards?
Well, it actually works because it's unpleasant by shocking your body.
It responds by producing endorphins to counteract the pain, just
like it would, if you twisted your ankle, you get endorphins.
But in this case, less of an issue than twisting your.
The happiness effect lasts a lot longer than the shower.
It's important to note a study showed that taking a five minute cold shower,
two to three times a week, improved people's mood and reduced anxiety.
So many of us have anxiety taking a cold shower, also increases
your mental alertness and clarity.
So indeed it is a great way to start your day.
So.
Many of you may want now to take a cold shower, but if you've had to get into
the cold water, you know how hard it can be to convince yourself to get in there.
A great way to is to ease into this is to work a small, cold
shower into your normal one.
Whether you wanna do it in the middle or the end, it's up to you.
I do it at the end.
Just start with 30 seconds of cold and gradually increase it.
You'll be surprised.
Uh, a lot of times I like it warm shower, and then go by the cold.
If you don't do it, you end up missing it.
I wonder if it's the endorphins.
Remember we take warm showers for a reason.
You don't need to replace all your showers with cold ones.
Hot showers are great for relaxing the body and they have
a number of benefits as well.
It's a balance, but I think once you start taking some cold showers easing.
You're going to miss it.
If you don't do it.
And there are so many benefits I want to know from you, let's
hear in the comments below.
Let's learn from everyone.
Stay tuned here.
Keep your skin and body beautiful, healthy, and vibrant.