Tag: cold exposure
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Cold Plunge Journey 2
Listening to The Huberman Lab podcast on deliberate cold exposure, I learned something quite surprising. The best place to put something cool or cold on the body to bring your temperature down if you are overheated (risk of hyperthermia) is NOT the back of the neck or chest. Why? Because of the medial preoptic…
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Cold Plunge Journey
This is the first of several posts I’m going to make on cold plunging or deliberate cold exposure. I began my cold plunge journey back in February of this year (2023). I regrettably decided to start in the Winter, enduring the Puget Sound’s coldest water temperatures in the 30s and 40s° F. I would spend…