On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 22:17, Huda Masood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you convince yourself that you receive 500 dollars worth of health, > motivation and resilience benefits to withstand 180 seconds of 12-15 > centigrade water every. Single. Day. for a week? > Could I? Certainly. But I've looked into the purported benefits of it and I find the evidence unconvincing. Certainly not to the tune of $3500/wk in benefit. > My assumption is that you’ll decide it isn’t worth it, even for USD 500. > I think it would be worth it if the health benefits were sufficiently supported by evidence, but they aren't. There are a number of studies claiming health benefits for various low level stressors that increase cortisol, but the long term results are mixed, and I prefer to use strength training instead. It's REALLY not clear to me that there would be any incremental benefits. > My motivation for cold showers (6 months of pure agony, I’ll add) is > twofold and deeply personal -watching my father die -cancer- and be > miserable about being cold, and my own mental health benefits enormously > from it (it is the hardest thing I can do in a day, everything else is a > piece of cake). But no amount of money would incentivise me to do this. > I'm glad it's working for you - how much money would it take to get you to go to the gym and do strength training three times a week? :) — Charles
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