When experimenting with hyperthermia or hypothermia, including hot or cold baths, extreme caution and consultation with a doctor are necessary. — Whalespan
When experimenting with hyperthermia or hypothermia, including hot or cold baths, extreme caution and consultation with a doctor are necessary.
⚠ High risk
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.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“And as always if you're ever going to start playing with hyperthermia or hypothermia, cold baths, ice baths, hot showers, hot baths that are beyond the kind of norm of what's comfortable, you have to be extremely careful and please consult a doctor.”