Exercising will increase body temperature somewhat paradoxically getting into a cold shower or cold water. You have a little area in your brain called the medial pre-optic area. If you make the surface of your body cold, guess what happens? Core body temperature goes up. So if you're going to do ice baths or cold showers, you can do it. I would say do them sometime better than not at all.
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning.
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