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Embracing the Cold: Dr. Susanna Søberg on the Benefits of Cold Therapy

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What's Happening When the Cold Hits Our Skin?

When the cold hits our skin, we have co-perceptors in the skin that will be activated as soon as you actually just take your bathrobe off on the daddy or just buy your outside in the wind. In the brain, there's this temperature regulating center in the hypothalamus, which will send them, nor adrenaline out and activate hormones. So all the stress hormones will go up and activate the sympathetic nervous system, and part of that is also activating the brown fat. The blood is going to go to your core. Your fight and flight system then will make your heart rate goes up,. It's only 9 to 12 millimeter mercury so it's very little actually that signs show

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