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3 minute cold shower every morning has changed my life. Once out I feel alive and ready for the day. Safe to say I will be doing this my whole life. Would highly recommend 🤙🏽
A few years ago some mates suggested ‘ open swimming’ as a man test. I took my son and we all went lake swimming in winter, it was very hard at first but we all said ‘ we feel alive’ we took this up as a hobby and when the season closed I bought an IBC 1000 litre water tank, so I could continue going in cold water. I had been in the army for many years and suffered terribly with PTSD, flash backs, nightmares and anxiety, when I was in the cold water it did something to me that I can’t quite explain, it started to make it all go away...I found solace in the water...my son and I realised after two years that we were immune to the cold and we no longer got sick or had any injuries, infact if we got any knocks or injuries we were better the day later.
I’d heard that you can die of hypothermia in 2 mins in freezing water. So through the winter I took a timer, cracked the ice and relaxed into the cold, once I did 22 mins and was completely fine...
We’d also took up weight lifting, cold water helped with recovery...
I believe cold water therapy has taken years off my age....I’m 45, 200lbs with big muscles and six pack, I feel like I’m 35...
I highly recommend everyone take Andrew hubermans advice here and take up cold water therapy.... it will change your life
Good luck!
Thank you Andrew
Your humility combined with your expertise is damn inspiring. Thanks for all you do Andrew!
The great thing about cold is the ability to penetrate overthinking & shift the stance from which your thought quality emerge.
Me and my friend started cold exposure like a month ago, when we started the water wasnt so much cold, but it was a challenge for sure to wake up every morning and go for a swim in lake. But as the time went my cold exposure training totally killed my depresion and anxiety. I started cold exposure for fun, but as the time went i started to see changes in my life. So I kindy beg for all the ppl that read this and have some sort of mental problems TRY THIS !!! And you wont belive how much this can help. Now when I look at this topic it make sense to me, but month ago I would laugh you off. GO FOR IT STAY HARD !!
@primitiv.99
I've had anxiety for thirty years. I started doing cold baths a year ago and am now calmer and less anxious than I've ever felt before. It works.
Every morning it's daunting getting into the cold bath especially in the winter, but the benefits start immediately afterwards.
Thank you for your inspiring and insightful podcasts.
@susannahsinclair1649
I'm currently doing 12.5 C atm (roughly around 55 F) . I find it unbelievably cold! Only lasting 3 minutes or so. Start shivering at the 2 minute mark. I'm loving it, the annoying thing is, for a 3 minute activity, it's taking me about 33 minutes to get it done 😂 30 mins of procrastination, and false starts and then 3 minutes of immersion.
@azzakean
There’s one benefit to cold showers that I never hear anyone ever mention. I have really dry skin and since I’ve been taking cold showers for the past two years my dry skin has improved tremendously.. I would say at least an 80% improvement.. that alone is worth it.
@Solitaire427
Thanks Andrew for another great video. I just want to show gratitude for basically changing my life. I've used a lot of the different protocols in my life and it truly has improved my mood and general well being. Cold showers was something that's really been effective for me.
@keiser2889
I've been taking cold showers for 5 years now. It has changed my life. There are many aspects of my life that have improved from cold showers, one of them being stress. My resilience to stress, my ability to focus while under stress, as well as my ability to voluntarily place myself in a stressful situation or "out of my comfort zone" has gone through the roof. Fear can never be completely absent, it's a biological response built into our bodies. What is important is the ability to manage it and operate in it's presence. Another aspect of my life that has been improved from cold showers is my dry skin, dry eyes and dandruff which have plagued my youth have all but disappeared completely. I am also in amazing shape physically now. It's as if my body has become SO good at using adipose tissue (fat) as fuel to keep me warm during my cold showers that it is now very easy to maintain a healthy bodyweight. I believe this is because my body is so well trained on tapping into my fat stores for energy. I guess you could say it "sped up my metabolism". Cold exposure is a VERY powerful tool and I could write a damn book about it I love it so much but I'll leave it at that. There's my two sense. Peace and love y'all.
Edit: I wrote this comment after some exposure. As you can see it gives you some energy 🤣
@Donovan_McD
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