-If your friends told you to go jump in a frozen lake, would you do it? If you’re like most people, the very idea creates an instant recoil.
Nothing could be more pointlessly painful. Yet, cold conditioning has been used throughout much of human history as a potent tool for health (no frozen lake needed!).
Today, science is backing up those ancient traditions with studies showing that cold conditioning might just be one of the simplest and most effective methods to positively shift your health and your approach to living.
And believe it or not, it’s actually enjoyable.
In this article, I’m going to show you the physical and mental benefits of exposing your body to temperature variation and some techniques for making it a consistent practice in your life.
Here’s how cold conditioning works.
Like exercise, short-term, intense cold exposure creates stress on our body. And again like exercise, our bodies adapt to this stress in a number of ways.
Those adaptations equate with a wide range of health benefits. It’s not about taking a single cold shower next Wednesday. Cold conditioning must be practiced regularly to create the adaptive responses we’re looking for.
But “regularly” can be as simple as a few minutes in a cold shower once a day, and the benefits go far beyond just feeling warmer in the cold and increasing our ability to thermoregulate...
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