Cold exposure can be beneficial for individuals struggling with addiction, seeking alternative dopamine sources, or experiencing emotional dysregulation.

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“What I'm referring to is the fact that one of her patients helped themselves get and stay sober off drugs by using deliberate cold exposure to increase dopamine.”

“And my colleague at Stanford, Dr. Anna Lembke who's the head of our Dual Diagnosis Addiction Clinic has talked about in her amazing book Dopamine Nation about patients of hers that have really helped themselves along and out of the more depressive phases of working through addiction and in just depression in general through directed cold water therapy.”

“And in any case, I'm a big fan of deliberate cold exposure, mostly for the neural effects. Again I'm obsessing over this concept of energy”

“so so um yes I think that it's an immediate horic response and let me just say we see this being beneficial not just in people struggling with addiction or looking for alternative sources of dopamine but also when people get immediately disregulated”

“in terms of a mood modulator and a a replacement Behavior because I do think that ultimately we are Strivers right we want to experience intense emotions and and it's not that we can just sort of not have goals and not have emotions we we want that kind of intensity and certainly many of my patients um have reported similar types of positive responses to ice cold water plunges”