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Episode Summary:
Welcome to The No Cap Health Show, a weekly podcast where Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler uses his decades of experience in medicine and ability as an expert researcher to provide a light-hearted approach and share health trends popular on TikTok. In this episode, Dr. Brian provides his Cap/No Cap analysis on today’s topic: Benefits of Cold Showers, Part One.
What constitutes a cold shower? How can cold showers help with athletic recovery? How can cold water treatment help with arthritis and asthma? Find out in today’s episode!
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Key Takeaways
01:09 – Dr. Brian introduces today’s topic, Benefits of Cold Showers
04:36 – What constitutes a ‘cold shower’
07:06 – One of the main benefits of taking cold showers
10:46 – Why cold showers help with athletic recovery
11:22 – Cryotherapy treatment
12:50 – How cold packs, in small doses, can help with inflammation and swelling
13:40 – Other health benefits of taking cold showers
14:25 – Dr. Brian provides the No Cap Recap of today’s episode and encourages listeners to reach out and Rate and Review this podcast on RateThisPodcast.com/NoCap.
Tweetable Quotes
“Personally when I take cold showers, I just flip the knob all the way to the coldest so I don’t know what it is. I’ve never actually showered with a thermometer. That’s sort of an interesting idea, maybe a little bit creepy, but I’m never done that.” (04:57) (Dr. Brian)
“Cold showers stimulate the sympathetic nervous system. They also increase endorphins, which are like your natural pain killers in your body. And that’s really the secret sauce behind the cold shower Big Mac if you will.” (06:36) (Dr. Brian)
“It turns out that you can overdo the cold exposure and actually reduce your exercise performance. So, word to everybody and a lesson from my experience, don’t do more than ten minutes of cold exposure because you don’t want to run the risk of overdoing it.” (10:20) (Dr. Brian)
“Having the cold exposure helps with muscle recovery in terms of the damage that occurred. But also it helps improve pain and it helps reduce inflammation and damage from the inflammation.” (11:09) (Dr. Brian)
“Cold showers can reduce inflammation in the body which helps explain why people with rheumatoid arthritis have been helped because that’s an autoimmune disease where the body is attacking itself with inflammatory cells.” (14:47) (Dr. Brian)
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