Cold Shower Therapy: Joel Runyon at TEDxLUC

Get three bowls. Fill one with hot (not boiling) water, one with Luke warm water and one with ice water.

Put one hand in the ice water and the other hand in the hot water. Wait five minutes and plunge both hands in the lukewarm water.

Feels weird, doesn’t it? This is why cold showers are bearable. When you step out, you are no longer cold, …as opposed to taking a hot shower, then threatening bodily harm to whoever just opened the bathroom door and let out all the steam.

I’m here because my water heater broke.

I started taking cold showers a week ago and now I have a fever 🤡

Why do I get so itchy after a cold shower? And it’s burning itches I don’t know how to explain it but does any one know why or get it them selves?

Lol it ain’t that baddddd😮

I just fill my bath tub early in the morning & sit in it for good 2-3 minutes you'll feel every inch of your body when you come out. That's what feel amazing.

Just check your heart condition first, cold water shock can be dangerous in some cases

Crazy been taking cold showers for at least 2 yr occasionally starting out cold keeping it get hot for others, and then stepping out

'And I screamed like a little girl'. I wonder why a grown man can't say 'And I screamed like a little BOY.' Is it worse for a man to scream like a girl than to scream like a boy? What does it say about how you think about women in your culture when 'screaming like a girl' is worse than 'screaming like a boy'?
Grow up, man!

5 minutes is actually impressive

I’m working on mine.

Now when you say cold, are we talking about the comdrst setting? Or just some colder water setting?
Isnt taking a cold shower a good way to get sick?

ok i do 3 to 5 mins of cold shower than hot shower as reward is it okay?

Use me as the "I'm listening to this while in a hot shower" button."

Doesn’t actually explain the overall benefits of cold water therapy

I started taking cold showers on 1st of December 2022 and continued till now.

Nine weeks so far.
I was 61 years of age when I started.

I can honestly say I feel great.

The truth it is not easy, as soon as the cold water hits me it shocks me from my toes to my head.

I take deep breathes as I shower for 4 minutes.

When I turn the cold shower off, I truly feel amazing, my whole bodt is woken up,

It definitely takes a strong mind, a mental toughness to step into that cold shower, especially as you know you could walk into a warm shower.

It is not easy but so much worth it for all the health benefits that can come from taking cold showers.

All the very best.

John.👍

I'm still bald though.

Holy Smokes, 5 minutes😳😳
When I first started, I could hardly do 5 seconds of full on cold! Let’s get real. Unless you are an animal and can walk into full cold start out with warm and gradually go to full cold.

My challenge now is the unheated pool. Max 40 seconds and I am in actual pain for 10 seconds after I get out.

5 minutes cold shower is a long time, especially during the winter.

I started cold shower to make myself suffer but it was a good thing

He JUST explain his experience about cold shower , BUT never explain the physiological benefits of it and THAT is the reason for what he started with cold treatment. 👎🏼

I’ve been doing cold plunge is for a year in water that’s 50°. It’s completely changed my life and I know that I will continue with this therapy.

I've been hearing great things about Cold Showers, Cold in General, I feel like the idea behind is shocking the body to an uncomfortable feeling where your just forced out of your head. You could look at it as if your body in a state of Inflammation and a Cold Shower is just the perfect medicine.

I start Hot Shower, then cool down, then cold and colder

after watching videos on Cold Showers
im ready for another Cold Shower 😂

I’ve been feeling terrible last 4 months. Depressed, anxious, no energy. 2 weeks ago during morning shower I hit myself: I realized that the water was warm! I realized that I stopped taking cold showers and that’s exactly the reason why I feel so devastated… Since that day I wake up loving life again, thanks to cold shower! It is actually powerful guys, please just try it out

Missing really important information- 1. Define cold- what temperature? 2. How long is needed from a SCIENTIFIC basis for benefits? He said "five minutes" but is that science based or just something he said? Good start, but this is like a rough draft of a speech.

Challenge accepted 👍

day 2 morning and night cold showers, starting day 3 tomorrow and i am not going to quit.....

I'm in Australia so the water doesn't seem to be very cold right now, but I'll see what winter brings. I suppose this time of the year, I'd normally still be using too much hot water so I guess it's a start. It's a nice feeling being able to do stuff that most people "can't" handle.

WOW. What a talk. One of the best ted talks I’ve listened to. Truly transformative.

They brought wim on here to explain the same thing and the crowd was just laughing at him

I have started taking cold showers for one week, I find myself gradually start to get used to it. I will stick to it to see how it will influence my life.

There's nothing therapeutic about a cold shower.

Warm water is necessary to get clean. That is reason enough to take a warm shower.

When I tried to took a cold shower I felt like I gonna die and my body gonna freeze and I automatically opened the hot water, I can't do it, Does Anyone here have the same thing I have?

How long do you need to take the cold shower for what is the least amount of time and how cold does it have to be freezing cold or can it be room temperature cold

I just finished my one year anniversary of cold showers. Amazing that I could make it through an unusually cold winter and now it's become almost second nature.

Do what you want to do,but dont immerse your babies in ice water,maybe cool water to bring their fever down
People have been taking bath in ice water in the winter for ages . Remember that Not everything is for everybody .

I have been doing the cold shower for some times and I have started the cold plunge recently. This morning I have done my 32nd cold plunge with 4.1 degree celcius. I feel great and I am very proud of myself.

This speaker is a time waster. He begins by talking about some friend he met in a bar and a new job that he took. I lost interest after the first two minutes. And stopped watching.

I took cold showers for over a year and never got sick. I started in the dead of winter. It's amazing at around halfway through your body feels warm

18/30

challenge: day 2 of cold shower

BOOOM! Cold showers touched my life.

Cold showers are amazing. However, work yourself up to 5mins. Start with cool water, just your head, then your shoulders, then legs etc. Gradually get colder and stay in longer. Work up to 4 or 5 mins. Do it the very first thing in the morning. God helps those who help themself.

Cherioh old chap

I AM taking my first cold shower just after listening this ted talk,i feel great

Cold showers are amazing. But they’re not the answer to everything. Having a cold shower won’t fix everything in your life.

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