Ben Greenfield undergoes a whole-body cryotherapy session at -121°C (-202°F). He compares the three-minute chamber experience to his regular cold showers and spring swims in the Spokane River, noting it's cold but manageable, with goosebumps and the expected shrinkage.
Questions this video answers
Jeffrey Jaime, CISSP; March 28, 2013.
"Negative 85 Celsius" (Ben’s spoken report).
Ben/others report "Negative 121"/"Negative 122" (display); a speaker says that's around "negative 202 Fahrenheit."
At "a minute 25 into the session" and was told there was about a minute left (implying ~2.5 minutes total).
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All right, here we go.
Let's see how cold this thing gets. Now I've been warned that this is supposed to get pretty uncomfortable. And I'm gonna warn you guys, I have no clue how it's gonna feel.
Here we go.
I'm gonna drop you down just a little lower.
Alright, sounds good. Here's what it looks like.
Also, Ben, right here, this bite right here is telling you the temperature in Celsius.
Okay? So it's negative 85 Celsius right now.
That's.
This is cold. I gotta tell you, right now it's uncomfortable. It's not, it's not like super duper bad. It's, it's, it's doable. I can't guarantee how I'm gonna feel, you know, one minute from now. Right now. This is, this is doable. How am I doing, man?
You're doing phenomenal right now. You've got about 15, 20 seconds into it.
So we're gonna see how my, how my Spokane river, springtime cold water submersions help me out when it comes to this stuff.
So I've written about cold thermogenesis on my blog before you can go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com, do a search for icing or cold thermogenesis or anything like that. I've never actually done a cryogenic chamber like this before. Now, my hand that's not holding my phone up, I can tell you right now it's getting pretty dang cold. I can tell that my feet. He says take it out for a couple seconds. Look at that.
How you going, sir?
Good, good. I'm fine.
Am I, am I limited to 2 1/2 minutes if I don't get cold?
So right now you're at a minute 25 into the session. You got about a minute left to.
Go, Vin, because I feel fine right now. Like, I'm barely good.
It's a different type of perception of cold, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
Are your balls frozen yet?
What's that? No, dude, I feel fine. Like, honestly, negative 120 Celsius. You're out.
Negative 202 Fahrenheit right now.
All right, so there's the temp. Negative 121. Negative 122.
That's around negative 202 Fahrenheit.
I feel okay. Maybe it's because I take a cold shower every morning. There you go.
You've been training for this your whole life. You know it.
Yeah, yeah. I've been training for this moment my whole life.
All right. It's cold, but it's doable.
Anywhere specific.
What's that?
You feel the cold anywhere specific.
You know what? I'm. I mean, and I'm not just saying this because I'm. I'm video recording myself, but it's not that bad. Like, I. I feel fine right now. Absolutely. Like, so good.
I'm glad I'm wearing socks, though. I can tell you that. I can tell it's cold deep down there. I can tell there's some serious shrinkage going on right now. All right, I'm gonna. What am I on? Last ten. All right, last ten. Last ten. I'll let. I'll let you viewers stick with me for these last 10 seconds. Are you on my camera? All right. For the door. Okay. Okay. All right. We're gonna see what it looks like when I step out. This is like Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Terminator or whatever. All right, cool. A little bit of chicken. Cool. Yeah. Some goosebumps. All right, folks. So there we go. Cryogenics. Check it out.
