The touted benefits include improved mood, more energy, weight loss and reduced inflammation, but the science supporting some of those claims is lukewarm.
Here’s what medical evidence, experts and fans say about the practice, whichYou might call Dan O’Conor an amateur authority on cold water immersion. Since June 2020, the 55-year-old Chicago man has plunged into Lake Michigan almost daily, including on frigid winter mornings when he has to shovel through the ice.
His first plunge came early in the pandemic, when he went on a bourbon bender and his annoyed wife told him to “go jump in the lake." The water felt good that June day. The world was in a coronavirus funk, O’Conor says, and that made him want to continue. As the water grew colder with the seasons, the psychological effect was even greater, he said.
"It felt like I was being stabbed with hundreds of millions of really small electrical needles," he said. “I felt like I was strong and powerful and could do anything." “You have to conquer your own trepidation. You have to muster the courage to do it," he said."And when you finally do it, you feel like you’ve accomplished something meaningful. You’ve achieved a goal."
Cold water immersion also activates brown fat — tissue that helps keep the body warm and helps it control blood sugar and insulin levels. It also helps the body burn calories, which has prompted research into whether cold water immersion is an effective way to lose weight. The evidence so far is inconclusive.
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