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Myth-Busting Wellness Hacks: Cold Plunges, Coffee, Alcohol, and Fitness Trackers

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Effects of Jumping in Cold Water on Mood

We get lost in what I call kind of like biomarker madness, which is we point to the hormones and say, man, that gave me a 500% increase in adrenaline or a 200% increase in dopamine. So I think here, the key is not to get lost in the hormones, but to get to the functional results, like what actually is changing.

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