Cold · 10
30 s
of cold at the end of a shower did as much as 90 seconds
The end of your shower is the cheapest place to try cold water.
In a Dutch trial of 3,018 adults, people who ended a warm shower with 30 to 90 seconds of cold took 29% fewer sick days off work, and the shortest dose did as well as the longest. The days they spent feeling ill didn't change significantly.Source 1 · Randomized trialThe Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled TrialBuijze GA, Sierevelt IN, van der Heijden BCJM, et al.. PLOS ONE, 2016.Read the paper ↗PubMed ↗
Try this
Finish your shower with 30 seconds of cold for a month and see whether you like it.