Andrew Huberman· PhD
People just put ice pack down there or a jar, not this jar, but a jar of cold fluid between their legs and just sit there, or they go back and forth between the ice bath and the sauna.
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
People just put ice pack down there or a jar, not this jar, but a jar of cold fluid between their legs and just sit there, or they go back and forth between the ice bath and the sauna.
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Some of this has to do with heat damage to the testes, so potentially cold therapy could be helpful for that.
Hot showers are probably fine. But if you're going to go into a sauna, for instance, you might want to rethink that decision. And if you do decide to, you almost certainly would want to bring a cold pack in that you could-- well, hopefully put some material between the cold pack and the scrotum so you don't get a cold burn. But put something there, but keep the scrotal tissue cool.
I actually have suggested that that's actually what I do when I go into the sauna