Andrew Huberman· PhD
However, if you're interested in using cold exposure for fat loss and thermogenesis, you want to do the exact opposite thing.
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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.
However, if you're interested in using cold exposure for fat loss and thermogenesis, you want to do the exact opposite thing.
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I want to talk about cold and cold exposure because there's a great misconception about this that actually you can leverage once you understand how to use cold to either increase thermogenesis and fat loss, metabolism, or you can use it for stress, mitigation and mood.
There is a time and a place for the use of the ice bath or the cold shower or the cold plunge, those tend to be when you want to deliberately increase brown fat thermogenesis or when you want to deliberately work on mental resilience.