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The Science & Health Benefits of Deliberate Heat Exposure

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The Effects of Cold Exposure on Growth Hormone

In the contact of cold, if you get into a very cold ice bath, even for 20 seconds, it's known to increase norapenefron 200%. It can double the amount of norapanefron that you suddenly release into your brain and body. I'll talk about those obet but if you were to do that every day, you would become cold adapted. This circuit that compares the shell and core of your body would adjust in ways that it could either predict that cold stimulus or create some thermogenic mechanism before exposure. If you start getting heat adapted, it's very unlikely that you're going to get these massive increases in growth hormon.

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