The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I personally get tremendous benefit from doing deliberate cold exposure three times a week and using the walls method that I described earlier as my gauge for how long to stay in and typically that means that I'm staying in for anywhere from two minutes to six minutes per session and that averages out to about 11 to 15 minutes total per week.
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I, myself, start every day with either a one to three-minute cold shower or a one to three-minute immersion up to my neck in a cold bath, cold water, circulating water, or a cold shower. I do that mainly for the psychological effects related to the long lasting increases in dopamine and epinephrine.
I decided Well I would do something else that I know raises epinephrine which is I'll do a cold plunge first thing in the morning of 1 to 3 minutes long and the effect isn't quite as strong but on those same days when I do that clearly adrenaline raising activity I also see a uh for me a significant increase in my rapid eye movement sleep and the quality of sleep later that night