Another Way To Recover: Cold Water Immersion

Cold Water Benefits

  • Support lymphatic drainage

  • Promote brain health

  • Improve mental health

  • Facilitates a healthy inflammatory response

  • Promote metabolic health

  • Support immune health

  • Fend off muscle soreness

  • Enhance post-exercise recovery

  • Release endorphins

  • Stimulate vagus nerve

  • Regulate sleep

  • Improve overall mood

  • Reduce pain in people with Rheumatoid arthritis

  • Reduce stress

  • Improve skin tone

  • Improve mental alertness

  • Speed up healing of soft tissue injuries

Warnings

There are risks involved with cold water immersion: hypothermia, provoke cardiac arrest in those with cardiac history, arrhythmia, respiratory distress in those with underlying health issues, uncontrollable hyperventilating.

If you have an underlying health condition you are worried about, get advice and medical clearance from your primary care physician.