When you get into cold water, even just 60 degree water, there's a very long lasting increase in dopamine that is on par with some prescription drugs for increasing dopamine. Stress activates your nervous system and in doing so, it activates your immune system makes perfect sense when you think about it. My suggestion is if you're coming off a period of high stress to do some sort of adrenaline-spiking behavior as you taper out of that stressful period. Can red light therapy help treat exercise intolerance and fatigue and mitochondrial disease? Allison, I'm glad you brought this up. In 1908, the Nobel Prize was given for phototherapy. So there we go again.

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