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Cold water immersion

TheCatWoman

I've heard that things like cold showers, cold water swimming etc are really good for ones health, especially if one has something like fybromyalgia or other inflamitory conditions and for mental health too.

Has anyone tried it, does it work or did it just make you so cold you couldn't get warm again?

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  • I swam in a Lake in late December years ago, and I have had a couple of swims in the Atlantic in springtime, but it’s not something I would do now. Yes, I felt great afterwards, but it might have been the adrenaline after doing such a thing. I would never manage to make it a daily habit and I would hate to put myself through the torture and find that the sea water hadn’t been cold enough to give the body a ‘shock’ to reset the brain. I can’t find any scientific studies that look at temperature efficacy. If there were such studies, I would reconsider.

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  • I swam in a Lake in late December years ago, and I have had a couple of swims in the Atlantic in springtime, but it’s not something I would do now. Yes, I felt great afterwards, but it might have been the adrenaline after doing such a thing. I would never manage to make it a daily habit and I would hate to put myself through the torture and find that the sea water hadn’t been cold enough to give the body a ‘shock’ to reset the brain. I can’t find any scientific studies that look at temperature efficacy. If there were such studies, I would reconsider.

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