You wake up in the morning, jump into your bathtub and what do you do? If you’re like most men, you turn on the hot water — no testosterone boost, no energy boost, no health benefits, your skin gets all dried out and prone to damage. You’ve probably heard of cold showers before, it’s a simple decision in the morning that, instead of turning on the hot water, you turn on the coldest water you can handle and stay in the shower for as long as you would under hot water.

Why should you take cold showers?

We as men have grown too comfortable, our bodies and minds didn’t evolve to survive in such a comfortable environment as our modern civilization provides for us, and the more we go against the way we were meant to live the less of a man we become, we developed mental and physical illness as a direct result of our comfortable, paid for, inert lives. So instead of focusing on the health benefit (of which there are many), my first argument for showering with cold water will be a philosophical one.

You see, for millions of years, up until very recently in human history we didn’t have widespread access to large amounts of warm or hot water, so most of the humans, for most of the human history bathe exclusively in cold, even ice-cold water. If you think about prehistory, the only access our primitive ancestors had a hot shower was when they came upon a thermal spring in their travels.

The cold water in which the primitive man washed himself kept him awake, focused, it heightened his senses, a mixture of hormones rushed through his body preparing him for the hardships of life.

And what about today?

Most of us never even tried showering in cold water, as soon as the hot water is spent we leave our showers, in short, we grew too comfortable, too afraid to even try to put our own body through even the safest of stress. When I tell people that i take only cold showers most of them are skeptical, thinking that you can develope some sort of illness from such a habit, they aren’t even a bit aware of the damage their hot baths do upon their masculinity and mental preparedness.

What does it feel like?

The first time cold water hits your warm.body it sends a panic signal to the brain, adrenaline gets released and you enter the fight or flight mode, once the primary rush of adrenaline passes, .you suddenly feel relaxed, calm and a wave of joyful feeling floods your mind. You loose focus on all the negative thought you had till that point, the cold water automatically breaks any neurotic patterns which plagued you. your breathing become deep naturally, your body relaxes muscle by muscle as you get used to the cold, soon you won’t even feel the cold water anymore, only a rush of endorphins through your brain as you enter a deeply relaxing yet awake and aware state of mind.

Other benefits

In a recently done study it was proven that cold showers can help with depression and anxiety. I tend to imagine the stress your body goes through when you take a cold shower as a sort of survival experience, your muscles tense up, your subconscious mind panics and once you realize that you are in no great danger, a feeling similar to that of escaping actual death and danger arises in you, of course, bringing with it a plethora of pleasant emotions. Feeling your otherwise useless and inert self overcome such a stress must signal to.your subconscious that you aren’t that useless after all, an impulse which indeed helps with all sorts of stresses and mental illnesses.

As someone who works out regularly, and who is physically active for a good amount of my day, I find that cold showers also help with soreness in my muscles and help certain muscle groups to recover faster after an intense workout session. I’ve been taking cold showers almost exclusively for two years now, and my recovery time after a workout reduced from.a couple of days to a single night, the pain and soreness in the muscles in almost non-existent.

Cold showers boost testosterone

One of the main aspects which deter main how much of a man you are is your testosterone level. Average levels of testosterone in male populations in the west have been on a decline for decades now. In big part thanks to the comfortable lifestyles which we indulge in, making us not only feel less useful as a man, but hampering the development of some of our most vital masculine characteristics. One major factor in the drop in testosterone levels which is directly linked to low sperm counts in men, is due to keeping the testis too warm, daily cold showers have shown to spike testosterone levels in men.

Cold showers have greatly improved my life. I think that it is a habit a modern, masculine, well-adapted and well developed man need to adopt in order to improve not only his health but his mental well-being and happiness as well.

For more.information about the benefits of cold showers check out the following resources:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/inner-source/201407/cold-splash-hydrotherapy-depression-and-anxiety

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biomedres/27/1/27_1_11/_article

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