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
grams of brown fat can burn
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.
