Niraj NaikFounder & CEO of SOMA Breath | Music-Powered Breathwork Pioneer | DJ, Speaker & Author

Benefits of Hot 💥 & Cold ❄ Immersions

26 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A brief conversation (Niraj Naik) explaining physiological benefits of alternating hot and cold immersions. Claims include cardiovascular exercise via vasodilation/vasoconstriction, heat shock at very high sauna temperatures (~90°C) stimulating growth hormone and awakening stem cells, and practical protocols such as alternating hot and cold showers (e.g., 5 minutes hot then 5 minutes cold or progressive intervals starting at 1 minute).

Questions this video answers

Approximately 90 degrees centigrade.

Do a hot shower for five minutes then five minutes very cold, and rotate.

Start with 1 minute hot, 1 minute cold, then 2 minutes hot, 2 minutes cold, etc.

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What happens in the body when you do an hour of hot and cold immersions? Why do you consider it to be so powerfully healthy?
There's many reasons why it's so good. First one, exercise your cardiovascular system. Because when you go into the heat, your blood vessels dilate. When you go into the cold, they shrink, because the more they're exercised, the stronger and healthier they will stay. Then the intensity of the heat will have an effect. Very hot sauna like 90 degrees centigrade, that gives a heat shock. What that does is actually ST stimulates growth hormone and also stimulates stem cells to awaken. So does the really cold. Extreme temperatures basically stimulates stem cell activity. The fast hack for it is to do a hot shower, five minutes and then five minutes, very cold shower, and just rotate. Just start with 1 minute, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 2 minutes. Like that.