Benefits Of Cold Bathing
Cold Therapy Has Been Used In Medicine For Many Years Now For A Good Reason! Here I'm going to list some of the reasons why you should undergo cold therapy.
There are many forms of cold therapy, including cold ice baths, such as:
Convection Therapy: occurs indirectly when water or air moves across the body in currents that create a temperature variation.
Cold Ice Pack is Conduction Therapy: energy is exchanged by direct contact between areas of different temperature.
Since thermal energy is exchanged through water in ice baths, this form of therapy gives a greater heat exchange than any conduction therapy. Therefore, I recommend individuals undergo full body cold water submersion!
Try Breathing deeply to enhance the adrenaline response to cold water
Cold shock will increase norepinephrine (adrenaline) release from the brain, giving us mood changes!
Cold shock may also consistently help our cellular physiology by affecting the growth of new mitochondria, which will help with energy production in the cell! This occurs through the production of heat to warm us up when cold, for example via the shivering response.
Fat Loss may be enhanced through mitochondrial activation when exposed to the cold via norepinephrine (adrenaline) neuroendocrine effects systemically.
Immune System Enhancement through similar effects with norepinephrine (adrenaline)
Decrease systemic inflammation through blood vessel alterations.
Research Articles Used:
Regular postexercise cooling enhances mitochondrial biogenesis through AMPK and p38 MAPK in human skeletal muscle
Plasma norepinephrine responses of man in cold water
Increased Brown Adipose Tissue Oxidative Capacity in Cold-Acclimated Humans
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