Cold Shower General

Just did my Wim Hof breathing exercises and took my coldest shower yet. Intense tingling on my body and a huge surge of addrenaline. Feeling PUMPED.

Anybody else into cold showers / Wim Hof?

Aware me on this breathing and why is it important for cold showers

So you take super deep breaths for a minute and it fills your cells up with air, you still here?

Anyways you take deep breaths for a long time and it oxidates your cells.

I'm not exactly sure WHY but it makes you withstand the cold better. Your entire body will tingle and you will find yourself warm in a cold as fuck shower.

I love it, I get adrenaline boosts. Wim Hof, through an entire lifetime of breathing exercises and challenging his body against extreme cold environments, has been able to fight off infectious diseases on command. Shit is pretty awesome if you ask me.

wim hoff blows my mind I do his breathing technique before I meditate when lying in bed getting ready to sleep. It really helps clear the mind.

yes, its extremely hard for me to go cold from start to finish so ive been going warm/cool then the last part of the shower go as cold as i can. it just sucks trying to shampoo and body wash while freezing but im working towards it. definitely feeling 100 times better afterwards compared to a steaming hot shower. best done in the morning or before bed

It's called 'tummo' by Tibetan monks and 'the Wim Hof method' by trendy, fashionable types.

It's part adrenaline from intentionally hyperventilating and part regulating your autonomic nervous system through intense focus. In Wim Hof's case, who is a record holder, it also has a lot to do with him having more brown adipose tissue than the average person.

> it oxidates your cells.

So, breathing, any kind of breathing, "oxidates" your cells (I think you mean, oxygenate, technically it does both but oxidation of cells is bad and is the reason you need antiOXIdants in your diet).

What tummo does in the short term is create a surge of adrenaline. You hyperventilate when you panic, and so when you do it on purpose your body takes this as a signal to initiate the fight or flight response, thus adrenaline is released.

Adrenaline can help you ignore the effects of cold, it can also prevent an immune system response.

In the long term tummo is a form of meditation where you dedicate your focus on bodily functions that are usually completely automatic and try to control them. This is extremely difficult to do and takes years of dedication. Some expert practitioners of tummo have been known to be able to sleep hanging upside down while forcing their circulatory system to fight against the effects of gravity.

All due respect to OP, but this is entry level stuff, basically Tummo 101 - First Lecture. I mean, the fact is if you have trouble consciously breathing in a way where you hyperventilate the suggestion by tummo gurus is to have a cold shower so your body is FORCED to hyperventilate. The Wim Hof method is basically 'something that happens anyway when we're exposed to cold'. There is somewhat of a distinction though which is that we accept things more easily when we have control over them, and acceptance is a big part of any kind of meditation.

OP btfo'd

Link me one study that actually say cold shower got benefit.
The hydrotherapy study that is always posted says that it cause test drop and lowered serotonine level.

So, where can I enroll for Tummo 102?