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what would happen after 14 days two

weeks

if you took a cold shower

every single day that’s what we’re going

to talk about we’re going to do a deep

dive into this topic now you may have

heard of this guy called iceman he’s

wrote a book he’s done youtube videos he

developed the wim hof method using

things like ice baths cold showers to

improve your health i’m going to talk

about some of the benefits and the

research revolving around using

cryotherapy or

cold therapy now before you click off

and say there is no way in heck i am

going to ever take a cold shower

just hear me out because there are some

seriously positive

benefits from doing this and you can do

it very very gradually so it’s not very

uncomfortable okay now i’m serious

all right now you would think that

going out in the cold when it’s rainy

and it’s cold you would you’d get sick

that’s because your parents told you to

stay out of that rain it’s cold out

there you’re going to get a cold just

stay inside where it’s nice and warm

well it just so happens that when you

expose your body to the cold i’m not

talking long term just a short term

your immune system becomes enhanced

you get more monocytes and lymphocytes

these are white blood cells that fight

off pathogens

you have a boost of t helper cells the t

helper cell is like the quarterback of

the entire immune system

okay you also get a spike of t

suppressor cells that help to calm down

an overactive immune system so they

prevent too much destruction of the

immune system so it’s kind of a system

where your immune system is fighting

things off yet you have other factors

that are making sure there’s not too

much collateral damage so your immune

system is enhanced when you expose it to

cold which is very very

counter-intuitive

number two you get a spike of

noradrenaline noradrenaline is similar

to adrenaline

and when they tested people that have

anxiety

attention deficit disorder

depression they usually have low

noradrenaline so by using this amazing

method of exposing yourself to cold you

can spike noradrenaline and improve your

overall mood so if you’re depressed you

can pull yourself out of that lower

emotion if you have anxiety excessive

worry things like that you it can

elevate your emotion it can help your

cognitive function

your focus

your memory you can become more alert so

apparently our bodies have evolved over

eons to adapt to things like

cold

hunger starvation so our bodies through

this process have developed certain type

of adaptive survival mechanisms to

improve our health to survive better

when exposed to cold and hunger and

things like that

it’s called the hormetic effect and a

hormetic effect is when you expose

someone to a stress

and then the body adapts and becomes

stronger like exercise would give you a

hormetic effect

fasting would give you a hormonal effect

taking a cold shower would definitely do

it all right the next thing is that

taking a cold shower is going to help

you lose weight how well

when you take a cold shower

you’re going to trigger

brown fat another term for brown fat is

brown adipose

tissue

so the sensation of cold is the

main stimulus to stimulating brown fat

so the more cold the more brown fat that

you have now what’s so significant about

this brown fat versus the white fat or

white adipose tissue

well brown fat increases heat

energy and metabolism your metabolism is

going to be raised when you have more

brown fat you’re going to lose more

weight and brown fat will also trigger

more loss of white fat which is

the storage fat that you have in your

body okay so that’s pretty cool in fact

100 grams of brown fat can burn

3 400 calories per day that’s more

calories than you potentially could eat

in a given day so we want more brown fat

on our body another reason why it can

help you lose weight it can create an

increase in insulin sensitivity okay

if you’ve been watching my videos the

more you improve insulin sensitivity the

less insulin that’s going to be produced

because it’s going to work now and

there’s going to be less resistance to

insulin and the more weight loss you’re

going to have the better the blood

sugars you’re going to have

so if you have diabetes your

pre-diabetes and you take a cold shower

you’re going to notice that your blood

sugars actually come into check much

better and when that happens you’re

going to lose weight number five

cold showers help with inflammation they

are anti-inflammatory

so if you have inflammation in your body

if you have some type of autoimmune

disease if you have

arthritis bursitis tendinitis taking a

cold shower would be a very therapeutic

thing number six

cold showers can increase your overall

antioxidant networks okay more

antioxidants the less dna damage the

less risk of getting cancer and other

diseases number seven neural protection

okay cold showers help your brain and so

apparently cold activates the regrowing

of neurons okay so that’s pretty cool

and also as a side note when you’re cold

you have a much better sleep now this is

within reason okay i’m talking about

freezing i’m just talking about having

the temperature a little bit cooler you

will sleep a little bit better so

another benefit i forgot to add on to

this is sleep all right number eight

longevity why because

cold showers stimulate autophagy just

like fasting stimulates autophagy

autophagy is a condition that your body

gets into where it’s recycling old

damaged proteins okay

so if there’s certain things that aren’t

working in the body like their proteins

or enzymes or their mitochondria or

they’re they’re plaquing in the brain as

in amyloid plaquing or whatever your

body’s going to recycle all that and

turn that into brand new proteins the

other cool thing about taking a cold

shower is that it will help lower

cortisol that means it’s going to reduce

your stress

okay

also it’s going to create better

recovery so if you’re an athlete okay

and you’re sore and you need faster

recovery

coal therapy is the way to go i remember

long ago when my wife and i went to the

dominican republic and uh i remember we

walked off the beaten path

and found this little oasis this little

um

like building and they had all these

different uh little baths and they were

like

they looked like little jacuzzis but

some were really really cold and some

were really really hot they had like

freezing

lukewarm hot really hot and so on and

that was a really

interesting introduction to cold therapy

because at first it didn’t make sense to

me why would anyone want to jump into

some cold bath right but we both tried

it out and it was freezing but then of

course we went into the warmer bath and

the hot jacuzzi and i remember feeling

really incredible after doing that my

body was just like

feeling amazing and i slept great and

then i kind of forgot about it for some

years now coming full circle here i am

talking about exposing yourself to cold

so anyway here’s the 10 benefits of cold

showers and think about it if you can

experience these benefits from just a

cold shower i mean you’re already

probably taking a shower every day all

you have to do is turn it to the cold

for a little bit and then turn it back

to the hot and i’m going to show you now

what i would recommend i would do this

when you’re in the shower

start with the hot shower okay

get comfortable get really hot take the

hot shower feel comfortable and then

turn it to the cold

okay i mean a nice cold shower not

lukewarm but really cold

for about 30 seconds

now anyone can handle 30 seconds right

and then turn it back to hot and then

just have that as your introduction to

the cold the next day you go in there

start to increase the 30 seconds to

maybe 40 seconds okay and then the next

shower turn up to 50 seconds and

gradually increase this to the point

where you’re taking a cold shower

for

5

to 10

minutes but if you do it gradually it

won’t be that uncomfortable in fact the

benefits that you’re going to see are

going to be mind-blowing and you’re

going to finally realize you should have

did this a long time ago what’s

interesting you have all these feedback

systems in in the body

that when you expose your body to a very

cold sensation it actually warms up the

internal core of your body you actually

get more circulation internally the flip

side of that when you take a hot shower

it actually cools down the inside of

your core this is why taking a hot

shower before bed might be a good thing

because it’s going to cool down your

body and you’re going to sleep better

the body sleeps better when it’s

slightly colder but anyway this might be

an easy way to approach this cold shower

unless you want to just do a cold turkey

and just jump right in now the other

thing that i want to mention is

infrared saunas okay

use a lower temperature than a

traditional sauna so they use like 120

to 140 degrees fahrenheit versus

traditional saunas which are 150 to 180

degrees fahrenheit now this has nothing

to do with a cold therapy but the only

point of bringing it up is that it’s not

as hot as a traditional therapy and

there’s some real interesting hormetic

effects to infrared which i will share

in another video real soon but anyway as

you can see if you did cold therapy for

14 days

you would see remarkable health benefits

now if you haven’t seen my recent video

on the benefits of fasting

you have to see that check it out right

here

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