Mihail Pautovmedic, IC Fundeni · Doctor Mihail - Medic specialist în chirurgie generală, Educator de sănătate

Femeile au sensibilitate diferită la frig în funcție de variațiile hormonale 🧊👨🏼‍⚕️☝🏻

11 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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This content was created by Mihail Pautov. This content was uploaded by Mihail Pautov. This is a YouTube video titled "Femeile au sensibilitate diferită la frig în funcție de variațiile hormonale 🧊👨🏼‍⚕️☝🏻" (created 2025-01-11T16:00:03Z). The excerpt is an English-language conversational exchange between Mihail Pautov and another speaker/expert about cold and heat exposure for women: they discuss how menstrual-cycle-driven hormonal changes alter core body temperature (by up to ~1°C), how that affects tolerance to cold plunges and saunas, practical guidance to adjust exposure duration based on one’s cycle, baseline core temperature and stress level, and note that the topic needs more research.

If you're a woman and you want to practice cold exposure, hot exposure, is there anything you have to pay attention on regarding the menstrual cycle or the fertility, let's say, is there any harm you can do there or any, anything you need to know regarding that.
Women's temperature during the cycle also varies a lot. It could be a whole degree actually.
Yeah.
So it means that sometimes you as a woman can go and cold plunge and maybe you could do a 1 minute plunge or 2 minute plunge, or you can sit in the sauna for a very long time and you're like, wow, I'm doing great. And then it goes a week and then you do the same thing. And then you wonder my, why am I feeling more stressed in the cold water today? Maybe it's the same temperature. So you wondering, but it's often because our cycles determine our, our core temperature. And if we are already colder from the beginning because of our cycle, our hormones, then we would feel that cold exposure more stressful. So if you are stressed out during your period or you feel stressed, if you colder you feel maybe you have mood swings, even as a symptom of that, you, you might not want to go and cold plunge then. I've heard also women say, well, it actually helps for me mentally when I have my period. And that's where I'm like, well, it works for you, I think. I think you should do that then. So this is just a research area that I think needs to be studied even more. So you can use my protocol either when you are a woman or a man, you can do that. But you have to ask yourself when you go, is this a day where I'm in the water one minute or two minutes? That depends on your core temperature and your stress level.