Andrew Huberman· PhD
If you dread cold showers or a cold plunge first thing in the morning, you stand to benefit more, not less from the long lasting adrenaline & dopamine increase it triggers.
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If you dread cold showers or a cold plunge first thing in the morning, you stand to benefit more, not less from the long lasting adrenaline & dopamine increase it triggers.
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which I would argue makes it — very likely that even 10 seconds of cold exposure gets you the effect that you want as opposed to someone who adores cold exposure like a penguin needs a lot more cold exposure for it to have the the Adaptive response
I always say that if you really dread the cold and um and don't like the cold then you are a perfect candidate for using deliberate cold exposure because the sympathetic itic aka the stress response will be greater and thereby the adaptation to that shorter one or two minutes is um is going to be much greater