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Mike Tipton on how our bodies respond to extreme conditions

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Do You Know if You Need a Refresher Course?

We don't know the dose rive cold, but i suspect that most of the beneficial effects are coming from the sudden fall in skin temperature. We've tested people 14 months later and still shown a 20 fire icand e don't need a refresher course. So yes, i say there is a mixed bag of science, but i'm yet to find somebody who does it who doesn't think it does them good. But as a scientist, what i want to know is, what's the mechanism? Because i want to knows whether if that mechanism happens to be cold.

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