Andrew Huberman· PhD
You get into the cold shower and if it's cold enough, that will be stressful, you will experience an increase in epinephrine, it will increase your alertness.
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You get into the cold shower and if it's cold enough, that will be stressful, you will experience an increase in epinephrine, it will increase your alertness.
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When you get into cold water, you secrete adrenaline.
there is never a case in which getting into cold water does not evoke a release of epinephrin. So the quickening of the breath, the widening of the eyes, the feeling as if you can't catch your breath and even some physical pain at the level of the skin that happens almost every time, or every time that you get into cold water, even if your cold water adapted.
If it quickens your breathing, if it makes you go wide eyed. That's increasing adrenaline release.
cold water immersion can certainly drive an adrenaline release.
the norrine release with respect to cold exposure and that can be even 20 seconds like at you know 39 degrees or whatever F that quickening of the breath that's a adrenaline is is an incredible molecule