The Healthy Power of Cold Shower

17 January 2008 4,591 views 8 Comments

A cold-water shower can be a very revitalizing experience. The use of taking cold showers in the dawn is exceedingly enriching and still has been used therapeutically across the reality for thousands of years.

Cold showers have the following positive effects:

Brings blood to the capillaries, therefore increasing circulation throughout the body.

Cleans the circulatory system.

Reduces blood pressure on internal organs.

Provides flushing for the organs and provides a new supply of blood.

Strengthens the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.

Contracts the muscles to eliminate toxins and poisonous wastes.

Strengthens the mucous membranes, which help resist hay fever, allergies, colds, coughs.

Many health problems are reduced or still eliminated over moment by providing appropriate circulation of the blood to the stricken region using the cool shower.

How to have a cold water shower
- Simple massage the body with almond oil before taking a shower
- Shower in cold water until your body temperature rises and no longer feels cold, but toasty and warm
- Make sure the bathroom is heated.
- Never get out of a cold shower into a cold room
- Researchers recommend taking a cold shower - around 68 degrees - for two to three minutes once or twice daily as a treatment for depression, preceded by a five-minute gradual adaptation to the temperature.

Caution
A cold shower should not be taken during a women’s time of menstruation as she needs extra rest and gentleness during her menses.

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Gamy Rachel said:

Yes, I love cold and also warm showers,
depending on the weather.

I completely agree that a cold shower
will help the blood to circulate better.

Once suggestion here. If you have tire eyes
after many hour on the PC, do this.

If you have those power spray hose fixed in
your bath room, use that to spray the water
at your forehead and eyes (of course closed)
Move your spray in a circular movements around
your eyes and forehead many times until you
feel good.
See how you feel after that. I normally will
wake up feeling very fresh.

Hope this helps

Blessings
Gamy

# 17 January 2008 at 10:07 pm

Maor, Israel said:

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# 19 February 2008 at 4:39 am

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# 8 March 2008 at 2:45 pm

John Dass said:

I have been taking cold showers after disconnecting my instant heater (to save electricity) for a few months now, and found that I hardly fall sick. Even my wife gets the flu, but I do not get it and I have since not had ulcers or sore throats. I take 2 cold showers a day. In the morning, which energises me and in the evening before going to bed and I have a very good sleep. Initially it was to save electricity, but in the end, I benefit in health too. Therefore, I agree with the article 100% and recommend to you.

Thanks to this article, I now understand that the way I am feeling now is not an illusion and is infact scientific. Thank you article writer.

# 8 January 2009 at 11:04 pm

Leon said:

On Sunday night July 23, 2007, I began my cold shower regimen. Since then I have taken cold showers. But I have also used other methods to test my body’s response to them. Warm-cold showers, warm showers with no cold. Cold showers twice a day and just cold showers at night. But my body responds better to cold showers in the morning. I even tried cold baths, which I started in February 2008 but I discontinued that in June 2009 because it does give me as much energy as the cold shower. Since the cold shower therapy I have gradually weened off my asthma medication, which I discontinued on Jan. 22, 2008 and my asthma has improved since. But there were a few days where my asthma would flare up. So I started nasal cleansing in September 2008 and after another asthma flareup, made it a habit of practicing it in October 2008. Seems my asthma disappears after using both the cold shower therapy and the nasal cleansing.

# 19 June 2009 at 4:46 pm

Dr. Poops Alot said:

cold showers cause your poop to freeze up!
hahahahahah

# 1 July 2009 at 7:28 am

Proof? said:

This article is interesting, but the author provides no support for any of the claims. There are a few I would like to discuss.

1. “Cleans the circulatory system” How? The spleen filters the blood and the immune system destroys foreign particles.

2. “Provides a new supply of blood” Cold water does not cause the multiple different components of blood (like white blood cells, red blood cells, and multiple ions) to be produced. These things are too different to have a common source like cold water.

3. “Strengthens the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system” How? By increasing the frequency of action potentials? Maybe during the cold shower, but the effect would not be long term.

4. “Contracts the muscles to eliminate toxins and poisonous wastes” Toxins are processed in the liver and excreted. Muscle contraction has nothing to do with it. “Poisonous wastes” probably means ammonia because that is the most common poisonous waste of the body’s basic metabolic activity. However, this is converted to urea and excreted in urine.

I understand that the backbone of many of these claims is that more blood will be pumped to help heat the body. However, you cannot take that basic fact and make these wild statements that can be refuted with a bio 101 class from high school.

I am not arguing against health benefits of cold showers. If you feel more energized, relaxed, or whatever, then keep doing it. This article is not factual or scientific.

People need to read website such as this carefully and actually think about what they read. Not everything on the internet is true. Hopefully the multiple spelling and grammatical errors tipped you off.

# 1 July 2009 at 10:52 pm