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Using Deliberate Cold Exposure for Health and Performance

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The Most Common Question I Get About Deliberate Cold Exposure

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There's no simple prescriptive of how cold to make the environment in order to extract maximum benefit for mental or physical performance. The most common question i get about deliberate cold exposure is, how cold should the water be? And we've answered that with uncomfortably cold, to the point where you want to get out, but you can safely stay in. For many people, that will be too cold. Some people can go into cold shock and can die as a consequence of getting to that extremely cold water very quickly. Cold water immersion up to the neck,. with your feet and hands submerged also, is going to be the most effective. Second best would be cold shower. Third best

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