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Ice baths promote Vitamin D for healthy immune function. As soon as you feel you might be getting sick, go cold and short. Don't treat a fever with dangerous pharmaceuticals. If your physician says you're hyperthermic, ask them if they'd allow you to do ice bath.

Blood labs and performance markers like VO2max do not measure health resilience. Rick Cohen MD proposes new measures for stress readiness, including breath hold index RBH.

Ice baths benefit women by modulating metabolism, improving sex health, reducing risk of osteoporosis, & boosting mental health.

Cold plunge therapy benefits the heart, the brain, & the whole body by boosting metabolism thru brown fat.

A new Cold Plunge Research Conference will bring expertise from Eastern European countries to Phoenix AZ in June 2025.

Cold therapy provides pain relief that reduces drug use. Three cases of chronic pain relief with cold are supported by clinical evidence.

Although medicine has largely abandoned cold plunge therapy, new scientific studies support the ancient wisdom of cryotherapy.

Uncommon Cold is the most comprehensive book on the science of ice baths ever published. It is an essential companion to the cold plunge.

Ice baths increase blood pressure in the short term, but may reduce hypertension in the long term.