Hot/Cold Alternating Showers are Great for Health and Longevity

It's pretty steamy out here in South China at the moment, and I've been experimenting with cold showers. I start off with a warm one then towards the end flick the switch to cold... You don't have to go super-cold at first, just unpleasantly tepid will do. Anyway, this morning I was feeling chilled but really tired, didn't want to do anything, just had a hot/cold shower, stayed under the cold water for only 2 minutes but wow! Instant energy, and the feeling hasn't left. So I googled it and found a lot of links on it, really interesting! It's actually rated as a really powerful cure in many cultures, recommended by everyone from Yogis to Samurais.

4 Reasons to take cold showers

Cold Shower, anyone?

Yoga Cold Shower therapy

Wow, this dude recommends 7 cycles of Hot/Cold, says it's incredibly powerful

Plenty more info out there, David Wolfe talked about it on his broadcast recently.










[edit on 15f20090pmSun, 24 May 2009 22:14:15 -050015 by HiAliens]

For what it is worth, stick your face under the shower stream and switch from hot to cold every few minutes, getting a little hotter and a littler colder as you can tolerate it. Use your feet to turn the knobs if you need to. It is hands down the best facial possible: gone are the black heads, white heads, and it cleans out the pores likes its nobody's business.

[edit on 24-5-2009 by Alora]

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Thanks for the info, it was hard putting my head under there the first few times..... It's amazing that these simple, powerful little tricks are not common knowledge