Mihail Pautov talks to an expert about cold-water immersion and dopamine. Eleven minutes per week split over two to three days, one to two minutes per dip, can boost dopamine, insulin sensitivity, and metabolism.
What about cold plunge? How. How long should you stay there to have this dopamine release?
You don't have to stay that long to get that dopamine spike. It's only a few minutes even. So what we can see is that the cold shock is what's actually increased the dopamine. And the shock, the shock of it, of that. So if you can work on your cold adaptation, breathe yourself through like we talked about, you will get that dopamine spike and it will last for hours afterwards. What my study shows is that if you do 11 minutes, but you have to divide that on two to three days.
11 minutes per week.
Per week, yeah.
Okay, so it's.
Not in one row. You do. You don't sit 11 minutes in the cold water. Not a good idea. But you can work yourself up to 11 minutes per week, divided on two to three days, maybe.
Okay.
And on that day, you would do one to two minutes in the cold water per dip, and you might do a switch to a sauna. So if you can do that, then you would have the health benefits that we see from my study, which is an increase in insulin sensitivity, and that is a really good marker for having a better metabolism.