The Benefits Of Cold Water Immersion for Your Genetics

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now for some reason we don’t like to freeze we don’t like to starve it’s very uncomfortable we like warm weather we like to have food available all the time and we definitely like to be comfortable as far as our temperature well our ancestors have adapted to temperature over a very long period of time due to the season called winter nowadays we can easily overcome this severe cold winter by just turning the thermostat to 70 degrees today I’m going to talk about some interesting research relating to cold water immersion and your genes and how using cold therapy can greatly affect your genes in a positive way now I have an actual cold water immersion tank outside my house and when I first used it I set the temperature to 37 degrees okay that’s pretty darn cold and I don’t recommend doing that to start out with because I could only last five seconds I would recommend starting out like at 50 degrees Fahrenheit which is 10 degrees Celsius starting out with just a minute you know and then gradually working up from that but to experience the benefits of this cold therapy you want to be uncomfortable and to experience the benefits I’m going to talk about you really only need 11 minutes per week so anyone can do that even if you don’t have a cold water immersion tank you can do this with a cold shower you can find a pool that’s really cold or maybe jump in the pond somewhere but there’s different ways of experiencing this therapy now if you compare cold therapy to warm therapy like a a hot shower you’re definitely going to experience more benefits with the cold therapy simply because it’s more uncomfortable if you just can’t even fathom to doing this or have no tolerance for doing this it could be that you just need more B vitamins B vitamins help increase the tolerance to extreme temperatures and I will put a link down below of where I got my tank and I’m not affiliated with this kind company I get no Kickbacks but it’s called the cold plunge store and I bought the tank called the flex but I really like it I think the benefits are amazing you’re going to find all sorts of cool benefits relating to cognitive benefits physical inflammation repair Etc so I’m going to go through the benefits and then I’ll talk about the genetic benefits as well however I do want to make one point about when you initially get into this tank your pulse rate is going to go up your heart rate’s going to go up okay you’re going to have probably the urge to hyperventilate you’ll probably have respiratory gasping where your your breathing is affected you really have to focus on controlling your breath slow it down breathe in slow it down breathe out and that will help the shock of getting into this cold water immersion so let’s first talk about all the things that it can decrease okay the first thing that it can decrease is the ratios of something called APO a to APO B ratios and this really has to do with a cardiovascular risk without getting into the details APO a and APO e have to do with proteins that are attached or that regulate the lipoproteins and so when this ratio is decreased you have better cardiovascular function another thing that will decrease is your homocysteine levels okay that is another Factor that’s uh associated with cardiovascular problems you also have decreased oxidative stress a decrease in cortisol and the hormone that controls cortisol which is ACTH which is interesting because you would think your stress would go up but it actually goes down maybe not initially but as soon as you get out of the tub and you’re relaxed antibodies even decrease okay so this is going to strengthen your immune system especially if you have an autoimmune problem your insulin actually goes down and that’s going to be a good thing because you could imagine how many body problems are associated with high insulin uric acid goes down your risk for upper respiratory tract infections Goes Down And as a side note it especially go down if you’re a swimmer swimmers have this added benefit of the cardiovascular plus many times these pools are on the cold side so swimmers have a much less incidence of upper respiratory and tract infections another thing that will decrease is your depression okay cold water therapy is like a natural antidepressant but without the side effects pain will decrease inflammation will decrease muscle soreness will actually decrease now I do want to mention another thing about muscle there’s been some research that shows that when you do this on a repetitive basis cold therapy it can actually inhibit your gains in growing muscle but if you’re just doing you know 11 minutes per week I highly doubt it’s going to influence your muscles in any negative way shape or form the benefits far outweigh any potential downside now your recovery time will decrease when you do this therapy as well so if you just exercised or you’ve done some type of athletic event you’ll recover faster and there’s also evidence that shows that cold therapy actually inhibits the growth of tumors and one Theory why this does this is because of the spike in brown fat which can suck up a lot of the glucose which is fuel for cancer cells but it does make sense that cold therapy would be anti-carcinogenic because of what it does to your genes of what it does to your immune system and what it does to your overall survival now let’s flip over to all the things that this cold therapy will increase okay it can increase your thyroid stimulating hormone as well as increased T3 which is active form of the thyroid hormone cold therapy actually increases your T cells okay I’m talking about your killer T cells which address viruses and attack cancer overall it can increase your white blood cells the concentration of zinc will increase your noradrenaline can increase making you very very alert you can even increase your insulin sensitivity which has to do with lowering your overall insulin probably one of the biggest benefits that I like about this is that it increases your mental resilience this is your capacity to adapt to stress it makes you mentally strong when you do this it’s just kind of like the same thing with fasting when you can not eat for a period of time you develop a stronger willpower because you’re basically now more in charge of your body versus people with a lowered willpower and they tend to cave when their body is craving things now let’s talk about the gene expression okay we’re turning on certain genes that were otherwise inhibited there’s one gene called pgc-1 Alpha and when this Gene gets turned on it creates mitochondria biogenesis it actually increases the growth of mitochondria which is going to help your metabolism it’s going to help generate more oxygen in the body there’s another Gene called v e g f which will increase more blood vessels and so basically you’re getting more angiogenesis which is the production of new blood cells there’s another Gene called PPA r g c 1 a that has to do with VO2 max Your Capacity to use oxygen and if someone has a mutation with this Gene their VO2 max it can be decreased up to 50 percent so cold therapy can cause expression of this Gene turn it on and increase your CO2 Max there’s another Gene called PS me1 which has to do with a protein aggregation or accumulation of damaged protein in the body which creates a lot of problems and when you add co-therapy you can actually increase the recycling of this this protein so you’ll get less accumulation of this protein aggregation another Gene is expressed having to do with glutathione which is like the most powerful antioxidant in your liver which can help you break down poisons into harmless particles which also can influence networks of other antioxidants so cold therapy increases antioxidants and as a side note heat therapy as in a sauna or even a Jacuzzi can inhibit your antioxidants now