Cold Shower Therapy: Joel Runyon at TEDxLUC

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.

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 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.

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

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?

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

There's nothing therapeutic about a cold shower.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Challenge accepted 👍

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.

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

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

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

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’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.

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

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

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.

I'm still bald though.

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.👍

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

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

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

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?

I’m working on mine.

5 minutes is actually impressive

'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!

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

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

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.

Lol it ain’t that baddddd😮

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?

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

I’m here because my water heater broke.

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've been doing cold showers for 3 years now... it's just "a shower" at this point. I often take extras during the day too as a reset. It rolled into another good habit too... drinking lots of water (during the shower)

A daily 2 min cold shower, qui gong and cutting out sugar and junk carbs has restored my youthful vitality..

I don't even have a water heater at home. So, I have no choice but the cold shower. 🤣

Taking these types of challenges.. makes you think that no matter how harsh life is.. you'll be fine.

Cold showers awakes your soul

This brings back some memories. Our old and outdated gym in Jr. High School didn't have hot water and we were required to take showers after P.E. class. You got in and out as quick as you could but I can tell you that you found yourself much more alert for the rest of the day. I haven't taken a cold shower on purpose since those days.

Brilliant. He's right. I've been doing it for some time and it affects other areas of my life in a positive way.

Interestingly---all the excuses,denials, procrastinations,rationales & reasons stated here about cold showers is 100% equal to early in my life deciding to run every single day.
Everyone tells me " running is hard,running g hurts,running is painful, running is------fill in the blank.
Now after several decades of running not once but twice a day.... all these protests as expected fall on deaf ears & have zero traction in my psyche.
I tell people all the time fitness is a choice, health is a choice; so is taking cold showers which I adopted a month ago after exploring Wim Hof's ideas about it.
Bottom line, you must become a visionary & forecast the people you truly want to be& devise a plan & then work yr plan.
Everyone admires a super devoted dedicated, persistent & consistent person.
As Eluid Kipchoge( marathon WR holder)opinied" you have to learn to become comfortable with the uncomfortable."

You don’t have to jump into a cold shower, you can go in it hot and slowly turn it to freezing.
It’s no about shocking yourself, or making yourself scream, it’s about those 3 to 5min in a freezing shower.
So weather you want to jump right into the cold or gradually get there is the same thing.

I take cold showers at night before bed, Am i doing it right?.