Aiming said:ROEL said:Avala said:Don’t do it if you are planning to go to sleep after shower, it awakes you. Also don’t do it if you are sick, feeling low on energy or hungry (great appetite booster BTW)
I remember clearly that yogis recommend washing your feet with cold water before going to bed. They explain that it helps falling asleep. FWIW.
My experience with taking cold showers before bed has so far been that first it wakes you up/refreshes you, but some time later the tiredness sets in and the sleep seems to be deeper.
loreta said:So when we live in warm countries, like me in the Canary Islands, what to do with the cold protocol? The water this morning for my shower was cold but not too much cold. Then it came warm, really. Is there something to do in cases like me?
Palinurus said:I googled for russian ice swimmers as I remembered seeing some documentaries about that long ago. Its' something like a national custom over there.
Approaching Infinity said:Rabelais said:Question: Does the cold protocol require immersion or direct contact with water of the specified temperature, or could it be done by going outside in a pair of shorts (or nude) for the requisite time period, in 10 - 15 C ambient outside air temperature?
Edit: Oops, I posted this question before reading through the entire thread. I see that Laura already answered the same question from Davy72. So I guess dry cold works too. Going out on the deck in the early morning, upon awakening, when its around 12 C, will certainly get the juices flowing for the day... and save water.
It might work, but I'm guessing you'd have to spend more time in cold air of that temperature.
Since air isn't a good conductor of heat, I'm not sure how good 'cool' air would be at dropping skin temperature.
Of all these persistent pursuits of his in relation to me, I remember that the one most worrying to the older people round me, for instance my mother, my aunt and our oldest shepherds, was that he always forced me to get up early in the morning, when a child's sleep is particularly sweet, and go to the fountain and splash myself all over with cold spring water, and afterwards to run about naked; and if I tried to resist he would never yield, and although he was very kind and loved me, he would punish me without mercy. I often remembered him for this in later years and in these moments thanked him with all my being.
If it had not been for this, I would never have been able to overcome all the obstacles and difficulties that I had to encounter later during my travels.
gottathink said:Just something interesting, I do not recall which chapter this is in but Caeser comments on the sturdiness of the Germanic tribes and notes in The Gallic Wars that they bathe in cold water and eat meat. I will track it down if anyone is particularly interested.
(Alada) There was apparently an electromagnetic storm, but there wasn't any related CME or plasma release to seemingly cause this, but there was a weakening of the Earth's shield. What caused this suddenly weakening of Earth's shield?
Goemon_ said:(Alada) There was apparently an electromagnetic storm, but there wasn't any related CME or plasma release to seemingly cause this, but there was a weakening of the Earth's shield. What caused this suddenly weakening of Earth's shield?
What CME stand for ?
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