Getting Out of a Shower and Into a Warm Room
when reading your writers comments on cold water therapy he/she said "Never get out of a cold shower into a cold room." - why??? i come to this site for answers. just making a statement without backing it up is pointless. how can i make an informed decision myself without hearing "why" i shouldn't get out of a cold shower into a cold room. might i keel over and die, would it cause paralysis... i think your editor needs to check all the content before it gets published so that your writers give us answers and reasons. back to the cold shower. peace badrab
The practice of cold showers is to give the body its electrical effect and wake up the languishing body with sudden cold shower in hot or warm weather or taking a cold shower and going into a warm room.
The reason this is done is that if the body is in hypothermia for too long of a period, the body's immune system remains suppressed and the body's temperature is not operating in an optimum condition. This is how we catch cold.
This begs the question why a cold shower help in the first place if there is a fear of hypothermia and suppressed immune system.
The reason is simple: the body needs some sort of short term stimulation such as a sudden cold shower from a languishing body. It is the same why if we get too sleepy, someone throws cold water on our face.
It would defeat the purpose of the cold shower and would invariably make you sick, if not from hypothermia, perhaps catch a cold.
The point is NOT to lower the body temperature, BUT give the body sufficient stimulation with cold shower quickly enough, without changing the body temperature. And to do this successfully, is to go to a warm room AFTER the cold shower so that the body remains in homeostasis.
It is the same with massages. The purpose in a massage is to give some muscle the circulation it needs to get rid of toxins and help circulation, but a 24 hours a day, 7 day a week massage would invariably lead to a badly bruised body just the same.
'The key is to do just enough, without hurting yourself.
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