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Q&A 448: Hot Tub vs. Cold Pool For Recovery, Shocking News On Thyroid Misdiagnosis, Bad Sleep Mitigation, The Latest Science On Creatine & Much More!

Ben Greenfield Life

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Getting a Hot Tub or a Swedish Son?

Hot water is going to be better because you get what's called the hydrostatic pressure of the water against the skin which helps you to drain a lot of those metabolites. See recovery is so multi-factorial. There are so many metabolic factors. You have calcium, hydrogen ions, lactate, inorganic phosphate. These host of things that build up and this dictates that if you engage in an activity that just basically drains the muscles more quickly it's enormously helpful.

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