[feiri]

How long are your cold showers, and in what ways are you feeling great? You mentioned that you're trying to recover faster. What are you recovering from? I hope you get better soon ;'o

I recently started trying to take more cold showers, but they're never exclusively cold. I start cold for a minute, then take a regular hot shower for another 5-10, and then finish it off with another cold rinse for one last minute. This has been my drill for pretty much every evening in the past six months, also inspired by the "longevity framework" as you put it!

It doesn't feel as if my life has changed drastically by any means, apart from the mild ego stroke of "wow I sustained two whole minutes of cold!" That said, it might be because I'm not doing cold showers right.

If it adds any context I'm in my early 20s right now.

[stanete]

Wow. Nice. I thought I added the link but I wrote about it here: https://www.stanete.com/cold-exposure/.

I also started doing the same. Start with a normal shower and then turn off the hot water. About the benefits, Huberman said you need at least 11 minutes per week. I do feel leas soar that normally. And about the time, in theory it’s better to not do the cold showers in the evenings because a cold shower will make your body to generate heat and for sleep you want the contrary effect.

I’m interested in what you mentioned about longevity framework. Do you have one? How you got interested in that?

[feiri]

Oh I was just borrowing your words for "longevity framework" aha. I've taken a look at your website, and it seems like you have a much more well-defined "framework" than I do, given your commitment to a healthy diet, regular physical exercise, etc. In fact, I wouldn't say I have a longevity framework at all. It's an interesting concept though, and I feel like I certainly could learn from you by establishing a more formal set of health-guidelines for myself, so thanks for the idea!

I was first exposed to the idea of cold showers for better health in Veritasium's "How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt7LjqJ45k. The video isn't focused on cold showers exclusively, but he briefly touches upon it as a method of improving longevity. I figured that implementing cold showers into my daily routine should be a pretty easy task, because it doesn't add any extra work into my schedule--it's just replacing a small portion of my hot showers, which I should be minimizing anyway.

And yeah, you're probably right about cold showers being less of a good idea in the evening. How often do you shower then? I can't bring myself to go to bed at night without feeling clean, but showering twice in a day also feels a bit time-consuming and excessive.

[stanete]

I usually shower twice a day (morning and post workout) but the morning shower is only water cause I’m already clean. I plan to eventually ditch the hot water in the morning altogether.

Actually there is no need to do it every day as long as you stay under the cold for more than 11 minutes per week. For me, doing it every day seemed easier to ramp up. Once I get to 3-4 minutes under the cold water per shower I’ll think about doing it maybe 3 times per week.