Be A Man! Take Cold Showers.

https://scitechdaily.com/the-surprising-health-benefits-of-cold-water-therapy/ 

Cold water therapy, or cold immersion, is what it sounds like: immersing yourself in cold water so that your body temperature drops.

Examples of cold immersion include:

• Cold showers or baths
• Ice baths (immersion in water between 50 and 60 °F)
• Cold pools or lakes (for swimming)
• Taking a walk outdoors in the cold

Let’s look at the health benefits of cold therapy or exposing your body to the cold.

Your immune system prevents you from catching cold viruses and other infections. Many people try to boost their immune systems with vitamins and supplements, but they don’t realize they could get better results by taking a walk in the cold or taking a cold bath. That’s because white blood cells, which fight infection, circulate in your body more quickly when you are exposed to cold temperatures. Exposure to cold may also help your immune system produce other infection-fighting warriors, including t-cells and antibodies.

Why might this be? Exposure to cold increases your resting metabolic rate and stimulates the release of catecholamines, compounds released by your nervous system that activate your immune system. Studies show that cold exposure modestly boosts the activity of the immune system. You could get these benefits by taking a dip in cold water or walking outdoors in cold temperatures.

Stress is a natural response to any challenge. It’s our body’s way of telling us to pay attention and be prepared to deal with a situation. Stress is meant to spur action, whether that means getting out of the path of a speeding car or doing your best on an important project. Stress serves a purpose but only in small doses.

When you’re stressed for too long or too many things simultaneously, it becomes difficult for your body to manage or recover from the effects. That’s when stress can affect your health and well-being. Some people with unmanaged stress develop depression.

Could immersion in cold water or cold exposure help with depression? One study found that taking a cold shower twice per day reduced symptoms of depression. Although it’s an area that needs more study, anecdotal studies show benefits, too. One way cold immersion may help depression is by activating your sympathetic nervous system so that you feel more energetic.

Who enjoys achy muscles after a workout? Unfortunately, it’s a fact of life when you first start working out or after an unusually tough exercises session. After you work your muscles in a way they’re unaccustomed to, it’s common to experience delayed onset muscle soreness. Research shows cold immersion reduces muscle soreness, which may help speed up your recovery time after a training session. The cooler temperature causes blood vessels to constrict (narrow), which reduces the swelling of tissue around the injury. The same thing happens when you apply a cold pack to an inflamed area. The cold reduces tissue swelling and pain. Cold is a natural anti-inflammatory without the side effects of anti-inflammatory medications.

Cold increases your metabolism and activates thermogenesis, in which brown fat burns calories to produce heat. This is one reason cold showers could be effective for weight loss. In addition, spending time in cold temperatures causes you to be more active because you move around more when you’re trying to warm up.

Some resources suggest that cold water therapy and cold therapy boost calorie burning. But is there any truth to this claim? Studies show that exposure to cold increases resting metabolic rate, which, in theory, could help with weight loss. However, few studies have looked at this issue, and there are other factors to consider. For example, does exposure to cold cause you to eat more and compensate for the calories you burned? It’s an intriguing area that needs more research.

Another way cold exposure could help with weight loss is by improving insulin sensitivity. One study found that 10 days of cold exposure boosted insulin sensitivity in diabetics by 43%. This should help with blood glucose control, too. With cold exposure, cells can better clear glucose from your bloodstream, and that’s a benefit for your metabolic health.

The best way to get started with cold therapy is to introduce yourself to cold showers. If you’re not used to cold showers, you’ll need to build up tolerance. Start by exposing your body to cold water for 10 seconds, followed by as much warm water as you want. Gradually increase the amount of time spent in the cold over a period of days or weeks, until you can commit to a full minute under an icy stream. Cold immersion is most effective when you maintain it for at least one minute, so shoot for that as your minimum target duration.

After a cold therapy session, cool down gradually. It’s never a good idea to start with extreme temperatures when first introducing your body to cold showers — this is especially true if you’re trying out an ice bath for the first time! Gradually cool the water down as your tolerance increases. This will help prevent shock and injury.

The article fails to mention that cold therapy also helps boost testosterone and can help in fertility.  

Taking cold showers is tough. Particularly in the colder months, when hot showers are divine. But they have an immense amount of health benefits. Even if you don't want to just stand in the cold shower and bask in your shivering misery, you'll at least take faster showers, which will save water. It also give you less time to foam up with endocrine disrupting chemicals that are found in shampoo and soap. Use a natural soap without any chemicals, and only wash your armpits, crotch and feet. There is no need to wash anything else, including your hair. Buy a natural loofah and exfoliate you skin thoroughly.

There's a reason that our grandfather's testosterone levels were twice as high as ours. All of the estrogen in our food, GMOs, microplastics, EDCs, obesity, etc, it's no wonder there is a surge of men who feel like women. 

Be a man! Take a cold shower every day. Only wash the parts of your body that need washed (armpits, crotch, ass and feet). Quit using skin care products (including shampoo and conditioner) that have BPA, phthalates, or the word "fragrance" on the ingredients label (companies use "fragrance" as a loophole to add petrochemicals they don't want detected). Exercise daily. Drink an elixir before you eat breakfast (lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, cayenne pepper, pink Himalayan salt). No fast food. No ultra-processed foods. 

If you want to be a man, you have to act like a man. It's a simple as that. And it takes a real man to take cold showers, eat right and exercise. There are plenty of fake men in the world, but you're not one of them. 

Your body is a temple. It's your temple. A temple God blessed you with. You owe it to yourself - and to God - to be the Man you were created to be. 

God didn't get it wrong. He created men to be men.

Be a Man!