[rco8786]

> Every cold shower study is fundamentally flawed as it can only be done on healthy individuals.

Could you explain what you mean by that? Why can't unhealthy individuals participate? And even if they can't, are study results still not applicable for healthy people?

[gcatalfamo]

If I have muscle or respiratory difficulties, 100% I can't take a cold shower.

[rco8786]

I am not asking why some people might not be able to take a cold shower (which is different than just being "unhealthy"), I am asking why the studies are "fundamentally flawed" because of that. Like obviously the studies can't include those people, but does that somehow negate the results for the people that do participate? It seems like any given study would have some % of people who cannot participate.

[wincy]

In the documentary about Wim Hof (by Vice think), he was friends with a guy with terminal cancer who said doing the cold plunges made the cancer bearable and changed his life.

[snapcaster]

Often people who have made their identity about a thing make claims about the thing like this

[wincy]

I mean he wasn’t claiming it cured him. He was just some philosophy professor who was suffering existential terror as one does at the end of life. And he said that doing cold plunges helped him, an avowed atheist, face death’s door with courage. I feel like that’s something that should at least give us pause, similar to how psilocybin seems to have a similar effect.

[Obscurity4340]

What is that "My identity is the thing I'm obsessed with", called?

[Obscurity4340]

Honest question folks. Like Sublimation or reverse sublimation?

[not_really]

Disagreed, it sounds like you haven't tried.