Cold Showers

Cold showers not only offer their own benefits, but help shield you from the deleterious effects of hot showers. It may sound like a paranoid concern, but experts unanimously agree: hot showers vaporize dangerous amounts of chlorine and other toxical chemicals into the air. This has been acknowledged by the presigious magazine, New Scientist, professor [...]

Cold showers may increase one of the body’s most powerful endogenous antioxidants: glutathione. While the body can make its own glutathione from other nutrients, our bodies cannot seem to utilize glutathione pills or capsules. Encouragingly, a study of winter swimmers hints that cold water therapy can stimulate increases in glutathione levels. In fact, many of [...]

Cold water therapy is more than just a folk cure for minor ailments. For hundreds of years, cold water therapy has seen prolific usage in mainstream medicine for treating a plethora of conditions. Controlled experiments show that it improves athletic performance, helps prevent disease, improves mood, decreases pain, and provides other benefits. Several physicians have [...]