Changed....UR DOIN IT WRONG
The only time you sweat after a shower is when you've just had a really hot one!
Surely you dont sweat after a cold shower....dunno how you experience this...
You feel nice and warm when you get out, but there is no condensation/humidity in the atmosphere of the bathroom and your body temp. isn't elevated to frankly unhealthy and unnecessary levels and everybody I know agrees that you simply don't sweat after a cold one.
Obviously I can't argue with your experience and if you find you swear after it, then clearly I can't tell you you don't, but I just don't see how you do and yo're the only person on this planet that I know who enounters this.
Links on the subject:
http://ownyourhealth.wordpress.com/...ce-about-the-health-benefits-of-cold-showers/
http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/showers.html
http://www.cold-showers.com/a-doctors-view-on-cold-showers/
Look up
"Ishnaan Therapy"
Personal experience surpasses "controlled studies" in some situations, and this is one of them. Though there is a mountain of evidence supporting the health benefits and it;s been known to mankind for a LONG TIME but you've never heard of it because GlaxoSmithKline could never patent COLD WATER.
BIGHOOTER - I feel your pain and i'm sorry to hear about your plight with the depression. I too have suffered with depression for most of my life, aswell as crippling anxiety, panic attacks, bipolar and manic psychosis from time to time.
I seriously feel like a new man after doing this. I urge you to try it...and keep your head/face under the cold water for as long as your body. I feel it is important to make sure your head gets possibly the most attention (but envelope your whole body with the cold shower
)
But I actually feel like how I imagine others to feel like in their normal day-to-day life. I have more energy, I feel more confident, my anxiety is near-enough gone, I can feel a more prevalent testosterone effect within, I feel much more clear-headed and generally happier.
It should also be noted that I have also completely given up shampoo/shower gel/deoderant for various health reasons, which should warrant a thread in it's own right, but you should
definitely look into this.
Some of the chemicals in shampoo are disgusting - Sodium Laureth Sulfate, for one.
But my acne is nearly gone, my hair looks great and I just can't believe how much of an effect it's had on me.
ektamine Firstly, that's cool that you lived in Samoa!Secondly....yes, thermal stress is the key factor here that we don't experience enough of in day-to-day life. It is often prescribed information that you should do as you say, like a 3 min hot shower and a 2 minute cold, and do this a couple times getting hotter/colder each time....but to be honest, I find that each time I go from hot to cold it just makes it harder to adjust back to the cold feeling! It's hard enough as it is, without having to do it several times in a row so I just prefer to have a full on cold one (though I do start at lukewarm to wash with jst water and a flannel and get progressively colder...I wish I knew what temperature the water I am using is though.)
