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Cold showers and why you should do it.

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planar1280 said:
cold cold shower will give u a cold.
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What? No, cold water strengthens your immune system.

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Ploid 3.0 said:
Why is it that everything good for you really sucks? Example, eat healthy vs tasty food.
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The problem is not the food, he problem is that we are lazy.
 
If I'm showering in the morning I always go cold due to the testosterone connection. I do take hot ones when I feel like shit/worked in the rain/snow though.
 
I live in Minnesota in an apartment that's chronically chilly in the late fall, winter, and early spring, so hell no.
 
Beardz said:
All this year I've been showering with cold water... and I love it.

I feel like a new person every morning, I don't get tired during the day, my mood is better, my skin feels better, my hair, everything is better with cold showers.

So GAF, what do you think about a nice cold shower in the morning?
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I'm not big on the idea. I'm too fucking cold all the time as it is.
 
Kurtofan said:
The absence of pain is a gain in itself.
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True, but I think that without a little pain and suffering every now and again your perspective on things can be warped.

Also, thanks to this thread I will from now on be taking cold showers. I had no clue whatsoever that hot showers lowered testosterone.
 
It's a cold morning in winter.

Hmm.. a hot shower or a cold one..

Yea, I'll stick with hot thanks.

Maybe go cold for a few seconds at the end in the summer but that's it.
 
LegendofJoe said:
True, but I think that without a little pain and suffering every now and again your perspective on things can be warped.

Also, thanks to this thread I will from now on be taking cold showers. I had no clue whatsoever that hot showers lowered testosterone.
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I bet it has something to do with the nutsack. It doesn't like the heat, being inside the body would too hot.
 
I used to do hot and then at the end I would slowly adjust it to colder and colder temperatures.

However, at times my college showers start off luke-warm... so fuck that.
 
Only boiling hot showers for me. So hot my skin turns red. It feels amazing. My wife doesn't know how i can do it.
 
Those benefits seem mighty attractive.

But I've done the opposite, I pretty much only take hot showers all year round, hotter and hotter to see what I can stand.

It's relaxing. But that article explains a lot (fuck ashy elbows). Maybe I'll experiment with some lukewarm showers.
 
a cold freezing shower is so good in the summer and after a work out is B^) .

but in the winter, lol fuck no, i go very hot water at first then to just hot water.
 
I won't freeze my balls for some "invigoration".
 
Stet said:
I like lukewarm showers. Basically I adjust the temperature so it feels like hundreds of fat women spitting on me.
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Sir, with lines like that, you should be in marketing!
 
LegendofJoe said:
True, but I think that without a little pain and suffering every now and again your perspective on things can be warped.

Also, thanks to this thread I will from now on be taking cold showers. I had no clue whatsoever that hot showers lowered testosterone.
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I would definitely take that claim with a grain of salt. It's clearly not a well-studied issue, just an interesting little tidbit that got spun in favor of the view the author had already decided to support.
 
^ Besides if it was something major, we would've seen it before.
 
i wear a windbreaker without gloves when a blizzard hits NYC because frostbite invigorates my mind and body, and the resultant increase in testosterone makes me feel manly.
 
No way! Hot all the way, this is how I shower

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This might be weird but does any one else turn the water almost as hot as it will go and shoot it on their head and then scratch as hard as you can with your fingers on your scalp? For some reason it's orgasmic.
 
HamPster PamPster said:
No way! Hot all the way, this is how I shower

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Yup

Don't forget:

Pondering if you have shampooed yet or not

Stepping the heat higher and higher and relishing each new plateau
 
HamPster PamPster said:
No way! Hot all the way, this is how I shower

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Yeah. This right here is word.

I can't imagine going in for a shower every day thinking about my health and freezing. I like to enjoy anything I do. Thank you, so goddamned much to whoever invented boilers.
 
Orayn said:
I would definitely take that claim with a grain of salt. It's clearly not a well-studied issue, just an interesting little tidbit that got spun in favor of the view the author had already decided to support.
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Woah, woah. Are you joking?? It is a fact. Ask any fertility doctor. Or you know, read a book. Don't spread misinformation, especially when it has the potential to harm people's health.
 
HamPster PamPster said:
No way! Hot all the way, this is how I shower

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brofist.

it isn't a shower without several minutes of intense contemplation, followed by 30 seconds of actual cleaning.
 
HamPster PamPster said:
No way! Hot all the way, this is how I shower

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Try those 25 minutes in an ice cold shower. Your thought will be so clear you'll feel like you cracked the code to life.
 
Mr. E. Yis said:
Woah, woah. Are you joking?? It is a fact. Ask any fertility doctor. Or you know, read a book. Don't spread misinformation, especially when it has the potential to harm people's health.
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I was referring to the article's claims about testosterone, not fertility. Also, even in the case of fertility, most of the research that's been done has been on longer, more continuous exposure to heat than what you'd get in a typical shower.
 
R2D4 said:
This might be weird but does any one else turn the water almost as hot as it will go and shoot it on their head and then scratch as hard as you can with your fingers on your scalp? For some reason it's orgasmic.
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Head massages are awesome as well. Just having someone do anything up there feels good. Like petting a dog on the head causing him to wag his tail. I wonder if those head massagers do anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQT0-rMChw
 
Orayn said:
I was referring to the article's claims about testosterone, not fertility. Also, even in the case of fertility, most of the research that's been done has been on longer, more continuous exposure to heat than what you'd get in a typical shower.
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I said in my previous post (#39) that long term hot showers (more than 20 minutes daily for a year) will lower sperm count, and done longer will make you infertile and likely unbelievable pain and possible removal of a/both testicles. That is fact. There's a reason they're out of the body' heat, and it's not for a fashion statement.
 
Hmm, now I am intrigued. I wake up fairly early, so I am always a shower zombie and have issues waking up. Takes me about an hour to get with it.

May try the hot to cold thing in the AM.
 
Mr. E. Yis said:
I said in my previous post (#39) that long term hot showers (more than 20 minutes daily for a year)
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I was initially addressing someone who said they'd swear off of regular length showers of a reasonable temperature because of the supposed benefits to testosterone, but your responses to me were concerning hot, long showers described by the article. Just a misunderstanding, I guess.
 
Just take warm showers and finish it off with a blast of cold water. Same for washing your face, hair, whatever.
 
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