Reader Mae used the website's "Contact Me" to inquire on 2023-2-12: "Hello Professor Lin: Since I know the effects of taking a cold shower, if it can enhance immunity, brighten your hair, improve skin quality, and resist depressio...
Reader Mae used the website's "Contact Me" to inquire on 2023-2-12:
"Hello Professor Lin: Since I know the effects of taking a cold shower, if it can enhance immunity, brighten your hair, improve skin quality, and resist depression, I started taking a cold shower, which has been six years since then. Even if the cold waves in winter come, it will be The head of the water dragon is coolest, and it can be tolerated from the face, limbs, and finally wash the body part. But recently, a family doctor told me that it is not recommended to use self-torturing. If you want to achieve the above effects, you can take a bath with warm water and then pour it with cold water. In addition, a full-cold bath may increase blood pressure. Always respect You are not willing to give up on the quotations and agreements of knowledge and information, and want to teach you your opinion. Thank you" {999 9}You can see a lot of Chinese and English information on the Internet. Speaking cold showers can enhance immunity, brighten your hair, improve skin quality, resist depression, etc. However, these voices are almost all based on speech, assumption, or reasoning, without real experiment data.
For example, the so-called anti-depression is actually based on a hypothetical paper published in 2008. Adapted cold shower as a potential treatment for depression. This hypothesis has never been tried to be proved by anyone. In other words, no one has published an experimental essay.
The only scientific article I can find with real experiment data is The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial, published in 2016. Its conclusion is: "Repeatedly converting hot water to cold showers leads to a decrease in sick leave absences for adults without severe overlapping disorders, but the number of sick days has not decreased."
More interestingly, the University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland is now undergoing a clinical trial, Feasibility and Effects of Taking Cold Showers: A Randomized Controlled Study (Feasibility and effect of taking a cold shower: a random comparison study). The lead researcher is Jens Gaab, professor of psychology at the University of Barcelona.
The start date of this study is October 1, 2019, and the initial completion date is October 2022, while the expected completion date is October 2023. 3,000 volunteers are to be recruited.
Research:
The beneficial potential of cold water soaking has been recognized throughout the history of humans, and the early
