Ice Bath and Cold Exposure Benefits
Cold water immersion can enhance mental health, physical health, and performance. Give Dr. Andrew Huberman, PhD’s podcast a listen. He details specific protocols to safely engage in deliberate cold exposure, including minimal exposure times, time-of-day effects, determining optimal temperatures, recovery, mindset, and movement during cold exposure. He discusses how cold exposure can be used to safely stress the body to improve attention, mood, and cognitive focus and boost metabolism and reduce inflammation. He also explains how cold exposure on specific regions of the body (called glabrous skin surfaces) can be leveraged to enhance endurance and weight training and increase work output.
Research and Article Links
Human physiological responses to immersion into water of different temperatures
