Depends on the situation and what you want to achieve.
For example cold and warm showers both have different benefits after a hard workout.
Warm water is better for muscle relaxation, reduced stuffy airways, etc. and is shown to let people fall asleep more easily when done shortly before bed.
Cold showers after intense workouts can help reduce muscle inflammation and improve recovery time.
And on the list goes.
If you shower in the morning or during the day, take a warm shower and end with 1-2min of really cold water. It’s been shown that you don’t really need more than that to trigger a little stress response from the body wich will wake you up, help boost your immune system and can improve blood circulation.
(In general do not take cold showers if you have chronic respiratory issues)
No they are not.
Not an expert in the matter, just do not want to take cold showers.
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There seems to be some evidence to support this, interestingly enough:
Both cold and hot showers have health benefits. Cold showers can help reduce inflammation, relieve pain, improve circulation, lower stress levels, and reduce muscle soreness and fatigue. Hot showers can improve cardiovascular health, soothe stiff joints, and improve sleep.
You forgot to add that cold showers help with the sperms count, that thing really helped us get pregnant
So you’re saying I should take scalding hot showers
No worries, just the nether regions. Or dip the boys in scalding hot water once a while.
Or just play some games on your laptop.
Yes. Cold showers are linked to higher white blood cell count, decrease in sick days, decrease depression, better sleep, among others.
At the very least they’re more environmentally friendly and time-saving than regular showers. In my personal experience, I am much less sensitive to short-term temperature changes than others.
Yes. Cold showers (and that means as cold as you can make em) stimulate your immune system and activate your brown fat cells who in this artificial environment in which we’re never cold lie dormant. Brown fat activates just before you start shivering, it heats up the body by burning calories and helped our ancestors survive situations where they could just turn up the heat. There’s a cool book on this: “What doesn’t kill us” by Scott Carney. It’s about Scott, a journalist, being sceptical of the achievements of Wim Hof (the dude that takes hour long ice baths) and visiting him to prove that he’s a false prophet.
I once spent almost a year only taking cold showers. It sucks big time for ten seconds and then your body adjusts and you’re actually quite comfortable (seriously, try it. Pretty amazing feeling). Wish I hadn’t stopped, but come winter hot showers just became too enticing :D
There’s an interesting Vox video about this too.
Just a simple explainer, but interesting nonetheless.
Supposedly hot water can exacerbate dry skin although I don’t know to what extent it does but it seems to be fairly common consensus. Personally, I’ve always been a bit skeptical about that.
This makes sense to me. Higher temperature water is better at removing oil from a surface (this is why you use hot water to wash dishes). Hot showers are more likely to strip oils from your skin than cold showers, leading to drier skin. Of course if you use harsh soap it won’t matter what temperature the shower is.
A lot of this stems from the fact that many water heaters, especially older ones contaminate the water, add heavy metals, etc.
No, cold showers are terrible for me. Ruin my whole day.
