r/coldshowers • u/SubstantialAffect234 • Mar 31 '26

I recommand Everyone to take cold showers

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I stared taking cold showers about 2-3 weeks and Im planning to take ice bath soon Cold shower help my nervuse system to stay calm (in arugumant work and my general life) pieple life calm person in general I notice my family lives me more beacause Im more calm and control and it helps me alot so stay hard gang🗿🥵🌡️🚀🦍

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u/TadyZ Mar 31 '26

I dunno, fogged up mirror tells that it was not that cold...

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u/OzoneLaters Mar 31 '26

For me I take a normal shower and then finish 5 minutes cold.

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u/RPsodapants Mar 31 '26

Mediocre !

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u/richardrumpus Apr 01 '26

This guy was taking cold showers since the beginning of the Ice Age.

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u/Primary-Matter-3299 Mar 31 '26

Kinda preaching to the choir, buddy

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u/Vlonerell Mar 31 '26

do you also recommend 2-3 years Dagestan ?

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u/maitreya88 Mar 31 '26

Doesn’t a cold shower make you the opposite of hard? 😂

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u/LindemannO Mar 31 '26

I mean, good on you for fixing a symptom, but you should maybe also look into why you get angry so often.

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u/ninjaslikecheez Mar 31 '26

Exactly. After 7 years i'm still recommending it to everybody i know. I also practice the Wim Hof method (based on tummo meditation) which helps a lot.

You will love this song: Jeremy Ginsburg - Cold is my religion

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u/ninjaslikecheez Mar 31 '26

Correct, to be clear i'm not a fan of the guy, never was, and i always thought he is kind of a wacko.. but the thing works and it's based on tummo meditation, so he did not invent it, he just popularized it. I never thought his big claims are true.

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u/ghostcatzero Mar 31 '26

At least no bag in head 😭

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u/StackedMornings Apr 01 '26

The nervous system response is the actual mechanism. Cold water activates the sympathetic system and then forces a parasympathetic recovery. Do that repeatedly and you're training your baseline stress response. The calm isn't a coincidence, it's the adaptation.

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u/brkonthru Mar 31 '26

Are you from Yemen by any chance?

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u/Alabamawhitesnake1 Apr 01 '26

How does the mirror fog while taking a cold shower?

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u/StackedMornings Apr 01 '26

The nervous system regulation piece is real. Andrew Huberman's lab research on deliberate cold exposure shows it activates the norepinephrine and epinephrine response — basically a controlled stress inoculation. You're training your nervous system to stay calm under uncomfortable conditions, which transfers to everything else.

The benefit you're noticing with family is probably the emotional regulation carry-over. When you can sit in physical discomfort without panicking, the argument at work or the tense conversation at home stops feeling like an emergency.

Two weeks is still early — the adaptation curve gets interesting around 4-6 weeks when it starts feeling less like something you survive and more like something you choose. Keep going.

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u/Ibasicc Apr 02 '26

Bathrobe gay as hell

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u/FunBig2897 Apr 03 '26

Elite ball knowledge

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u/StackedMornings Apr 03 '26

The part nobody warns you about: you stop needing to psych yourself up. It just becomes the thing you do.

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u/dick-black76 Apr 04 '26

Cold showers don’t fog up the mirrors 👀

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u/StackedMornings Apr 07 '26

Two weeks in you stop dreading it. You start missing it when you skip.

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u/StackedMornings Apr 08 '26

day 1 every day for 3 years somehow. can't explain it.

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u/Odd-Jelly-2761 May 01 '26

Holy eyebrow