Bathing with cold water may be the best healthy habits that you can follow, especially during the winter, and despite the low temperatures and the feeling of bitter cold, your decision to take a cold bath gives your body a lot of benefits for your health, we will discuss in the following lines, according to a report published on the website Healthline.
Experts have identified some of the amazing benefits of taking a cold shower in winter:
1. Increase alertness
A cold shower in a cold climate always requires you to breathe deeply and at a high intensity to warm your body, and this is the only way to keep you alert and feel energized to perform your tasks with focus and vitality.
2. Maintain healthy skin
The skin is affected during the winter and becomes dehydrated, but having a bath with cold water contributes to closing or closing the pores of your skin so that the moisture under your skin remains awake, unlike a warm water bath, which exacerbates the problem of drying out your skin and hair.
3. Enhance immunity and blood circulation
A cold bath contributes to accelerating blood flow around the organs, which increases the body’s immunity and protects you from circulatory diseases.
4. Relieve muscle pain
You may feel tired and sore after exercise, so a cold water bath can be a solution to the problem of muscle pain.
5. Get rid of uric acid
Research shows that taking cold showers can reduce uric acid, which, if elevated, can result in many diseases including gout, joint pain and kidney stones.
6. Weight loss
A previous study found that exposure to very cold temperatures when taking cold showers in winter contributes to a 15-fold burn of brown fat in the body, which means you can lose up to 5 kg per year if you continue to shower in cold water every morning.
7. Reducing symptoms of depression
Cool water mist stimulates your nerves, stimulates the antidepressant brain and improves mood.
8. Detoxification
Cold shower water causes the lymphatic system in your body to work more efficiently, which affects the detoxification process in your body significantly.
9. Increase energy
The metabolism in your body will increase if you take a cold bath, because it makes your heart pump more blood around the body, this way you will get extra energy because your body metabolism is going well.
10. Fights insomnia
Having a cold bath will help you overcome insomnia, get enough sleep, and reach the stage of deep sleep.
