Cold Plunge Research Institute
3rd Annual Symposium 26-27 June 2026

• ​​Bikman is an expert in the action of insulin as it relates to fat and body composition, and author of the best-selling Why We Get Sick.  He credits his Morozko ice bath practice with boosting his testosterone and helping him sleep.

• Winters survived ovarian cancer at the age of 19 by making radical changes in her diet and lifestyle.  She is now one of the best known naturopathic oncologists in the world, author of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer and Mistletoe.  She reports that her husband has experienced a +300 ng/dL boost in his total testosterone after starting an ice bath practice.

• Seager used a daily ice bath practice to drop is prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood marker from 7 ng/mL to less than 2.  He is author of the definitive scientific works on cold water immersion therapy, including Uncommon Cold and Uncommon Testosterone.    

Additional plenary speakers include clinicians, researchers, practitioners and patients with expertise in cold water immersion therapy as a remedy for managing chronic illness.

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• Sean Smiley is a California Fire Captain who survived a training injury that damaged his left testicle and resulted in suicidal thoughts.  He credits a regular practice of cold water immersion therapy with rescuing his testosterone, lifting his mood, saving his career, and his life.

• Dean Hall is a licensed family therapist who swam the entire 188 mile length of the Willamette River in Oregon in just three weeks -- an ordeal he credits with curing him of chronic leukemia.  He chronicled his story in his book The Wild Cure and has founded a new therapy practice based on his concept of biowilding psychology.

• Paul Reynolds, PhD is a Professor of Biology who specializes in the effects of glycation in the body.  He studies how blood glucose spikes impair the function of red blood cells, weaponize cholesterol to increase risk of heart disease, and adversely impact other essential metabolic and hormonal functions.

• ​Holly Wyatt, MD practice obesity medicine and conducts research at the University of Alabama Birmingham.  Her most recent book is Losing the Weight Loss Meds, in which she descies strategies for weight management for those who have tried and quit GLP-1 agonists.

• Jeffrey Hartford is a cancer patient who refused the recommendations of allopathic oncology in favor of treating himself with naturopathic therapies.

• Adam Boyd is a former SWAT police officer and Tactical Instructor who now works with first responders throughout the American Southwest.

• Jacob Perkins, DC teats patients at his clinical practice in Utah using cold water immersion therapy, sauna, hyperbaric and others.  He credits cold plunge with improving mood, cognitive function, and resolving chronic illness among his patients.

• Kevin Fontaine, PhD is the Antoine Lavoisier Endowed Professor of Energetics and Healthy Lifestyle in the School of Public Health at University of Alabama Birmingham.  His expertise is in behavioral health interventions and he is leading a research program at UAB to study the potential of cold water immersion therapy to reverse Type 2 diabetes.

• Andrea Romero, DOM reversed her own chronic illness by leveraging the grounding in her Morozko ice bath.  Now she is supervising the use of cold water immersion therapy for treating a patient with multiple sclerosis (MS).

• Rich Ganley is the Founder of the Positive Impact Alliance and inventor of the Recharge Room, a set of complimentary modalities that speed the recovery of First Responders from occupational stress and environmental exposures.​​