The Yakutian Morning Routine: Ice Bath (-50°C/-58°F) 

Это очень круто! Вы большой молодец! Я думаю эта мечта многих людей на планете) Да и вообще человек должен наслаждаться жизнью а не работать на трех работах ради денег( так пройдет вся жизнь а вы даже этого не заметите Вам огромный респект и удачи)

Is that you Wim?

@@swisstrader Lol

What an inspiring story, glad you found. Your happiness

as they say "money can't bring happiness"

Привет, скажу тебе маленький секрет, в душе на много тяжелее чем в проруби, особенно утром, дома тепло в среднем 25 градусов, а вода ледяная +2+3, т.,е вода на 23 градуса холоднее чем температура дома, поэтому тяжело и кажется холодно, ты нагрейся хорошо чтоб было жарко потом резко перекрой горячую воду, глубоко дыши и не напрягайся на голову сначала можешь не лить воду только на тело, и увидишь что несколько секунд ты простишь, главное не напрягайся и дыши глубоко. Если есть у вас клуб моржевания сходи посмотри, поговори с людьми которые моржуют. А вот на улице уже наоборот если - 20 градусов, а вода +3,+4 градуса то получается что вода теплее улицы на 24 градуса и окунуться будет намного легче чем душ дома, так как в клубе моржей обычно позитивная обстановка, там нет такого что кто-то окунулся а кто то нет, и для тебя будет мотивация они могут и ты, как только окунешся 1й раз, все потом с каждым разом будет легче, как то так, сам плаваю по50 метров за раз, у нас прорубь 12,5 м на 4м, туда обратно 25, и так далее, тоже сначала окунывался а потом поплыл, у нас большой клуб в Новоуральске, кто-то по 200,300,400,метров плавают, со временем сам поймешь сколько лжешь проплыть, или просидеть, поверь все кто приходили первый раз в итоге плавали, не помню чтоб кто-то не смог. Удачи

@@user-rv2yd1wr3r vous êtes des américains vous sava

After every shower i turn it to Cold water. You feel much fitter!

@@user-rv2yd1wr3r Thankyou!!! 🏊‍♀️

It's fine to take hot shower, but as you get close to your end turn the water gradually lower with your head under it. At the minimum blast your head with cold water before you get out, it's crazy good for your hair to.

Yo Wunba !!

'Do not try this at home!' XD

Same, me sitting under the heater thinking it looks fun

@@Conti_habi Even if you suddenly developed an insane obsession to do this at home, how would you even achieve a -58F room for doing an ice bath in your house without going through monumental effort and expense.

What's your IG

Lol. Same. For people from warm countries, watching such stuff is insane.

Dude, I'm in South Africa and we cry when the temperature drops to -6°c, I would DIE in that place😂

Love from Russia bro!

Yup👍

what does squeaking means?

I thought the water he was in was starting to freeze and he would be trapped

@@laurakoselevaite237 it's the sound you may hear from 0:05 to 0:10

И не только когда снег скрипит

Right!

Will be more like get out from the life zone

🤣🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Yeah I thought the same lol

😅😅😅😅

u wouldnt last 5 seconds in that water

Well,keep un mind that water IS a lot more dense than the air so it can freeze your body faster,thats the point

It’s -45 degrees Celsius or something similar

😂

@@Alastordadeer Yeah, that's what he wrote

Going by your profile picture, i wouldnt say no.

More like they love the cold and seem to respect it

@DONT ok i wont!

Even Eyelashes Freeze at Oymyakon.Life in the Coldest Town on Earth. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OC3Dw6Xam2k.html .....

The Yakuts are very well adapted to the Siberian climate. I have been told that they generally don’t get seasonal affective disorder. Asians seem to handle cold better than any other race.

Asians seem to be very well adapted to cold.

couldnt if I wanted to, the water can not get that cold.

My house was 70° today

Hahaha exactly, don't worry.

@@erikdahl1293😂😂

last I checked my taps cannot spit out beyond frozen water XD

Magnesium defiency can cause migraines

cold showers are a fad. just sleep enough, hydrate and eat a balanced diet...

@@ivoivic2448 🤣🤣🤣

thing is work is usually long periods of time, this resembles cryo-therapy, you only expose yourself to extreme cold for a few seconds which doesn't cost your body as much ressources and effort than enduring long term cold

Where?

​@@camrenmugabe3062 Inland and far north.

@@schlaemzas Lol cryo therapy is a walk in the park compared to this. Getting into ice cold water and when you get up from the water it's -50 and windy and you don't go into a sauna, you lay in the snow and get back into the water and then get dressed outside. I love cryo therapy but this is so many levels above that. It's like comparing a bicycle ride with a motorbike going 300kmh. I would never do this but sign me up for cryo therapy anytime.

@@craftylemon2460 ive done cryotherapy at -150C° for 3 minutes, you do not have any clothing. it is not at all comparable and is way colder than this. I know being wet feels colder because thermal transfer is more effective by liquid than air but I really don't think its any worse, this is maybe just way longer tho and you need more time to recover but the feeling mustn't be as intense

After years of this, this guy has so much brown fat to keep him warm.

The water will feel warm when you enter it from -50 degrees cold air. But you have to be very careful what to make of your sensations at these temperatures. His body can handle 0° degrees water, but he makes sure he doesn't stand around unprotected in the air.

These guys have lived in freezing cold climate for years. Their bodies have adapted to it. You heard himself say when he was young he was always getting sick. For us this is impressive, but in our climate we never reach temperatures this cold. What would happen if you put this guy in Arizona with temps constantly above 100?

Your body won't adapt to it. It's your mind that does.

@@ShadowManceri mentally you must be prepared but I guarantee you their bodies have physically adapted to the cold. It’s like lifting weights in the gym. Over time your body will adapt for the heavy weights

Agreed what a superhero

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y8hveQVno_k.html

The water was warmed up for him, you can see the steam coming off of it.

А вы ещё воевать с нами собрались

@@jordach545 у нас не греют воду в речке

Cold is only feeling inside your head ... like pain , love etc...

@@jere9915 pretty sure if you stand outside in -50 weather butt ass naked long enough you're gonna experience something that's a little more than in your head...

@@jere9915 that is incorrect. Cold temperatures affect every single cell in your body and cause notable physical effects from things such as muscle contraction, the locking up of joints, more sensitive nerves to more major things like actual cell damage, in-body crystallization, shock and frostbite. It's definitely not just in your head. Neither is love or pain by the way.

@@jere9915 so ur saying hypotermia and frostbite doesnt exist :)

@@unternity With correct equipment u wont get those , use common sense please.

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lol

Привет, поверь если ты принимаешь душь холодный по утрам, то в проруби на много легче будет. Удачи

And I thought the North sea was cold-

I love golden showers.

Before I started doing cold showers 3 years ago. I used to get sick once or twice a year. After just ending my hot showers with 30 seconds of the coldest setting, I've gotten sick just once in 3 years, it was mild and this entire time I've never gotten COVID yet. I like to tell myself it's from these cold showers!

There is a reason man has historically build shelter and tried various ways of warming it up. Humans are not animals (and even animals often seek caves and holes). Don't be clever.

Thats right , the system is telling us to stay very warm in our box😂

Only if Apetor could join…

@@Idisagreethisisnotanondamn rip

absolutely!!

Nikolai IS Wim Hof....the cold does crazy shit to you.

@@Idisagreethisisnotanon perfect Edit: later I read about Tor's death. Sad.

𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 ❶❽ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 *NUDE-DATTING.ONLINE* tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤️💌💘

It's amazing you get to a point when you embrace the water been doing them for a year can't stop, hard to start tho I recommend lowering the temp slowly

Strangely, but cold shower it’s more difficult than ice bath because ice numb the pain

i was going to say the same thing, cold showers are way worse then the good old ice bath lol @@milagra46

and shower "hits" the body with intervals in between unlike ice bath.@@milagra46

You think people lived in apartaments with central heating for millenia? It's just in the last 50-80 years. Trust me, your body is very able to do these ice baths.

@@GlossaMEYeah, but that's the beauty of modern heating: There's no need for ice baths, unless you want to do it.

@@GlossaME no , our body can only do these things with proper training like it gave warning in the video . its not natural to us .

@@Q_QQ_Q Bro, you've lost your touch with your own DNA. When survival mode is ON, trust me, it's ON.

@@GlossaME lol you must be different animal because humans dont feel extreme cold , it burns .

I once went camping in a hot area and they had to heat water for me to shower. Every other normal human being there takes cold (honestly not that cold because the place is hot!) showers.

@Ezequiel R. Gutierrez )))) это закалка организма. is ignorant people??????? НЕТ,НЕТ и ЕЩЕ РАЗ НЕТ!

@Ezequiel R. Gutierrez Certainly affects mentality in a massively positive way though.

haha. ewww. stinker. 5 days isn't bad once u didnt sweat or anything.

Well, actually water in the video is around 0 degrees, so it feels basically the same as +2...+4 degrees.

sometimes things that don't kill you leave you fully paralyzed, or comatose, or wishing you were dead. it's such literal ableist toxic positivity like not everything is good or can be spun positively.

🤣✔️

Rusty welyn 😂

Wild Bumpkin boye appeared

His name is nikołai 🧑‍🎄

these are the peoples of the north of Yakut

It has tons of health benefits, its honestly just like going to gym or jogging. First few times feels harsh till it become routine. Cold is very tolerable(to some even more preferable) when you get exposed to it a lot.

@@pk3m3 yeah right

​@@pk3m3 They might have health benefits but it also has a lot of health problems also. Cold showers are known to temporarily raise your blood pressure, heart rate, and trigger the release of glucose from your liver

@@resetedanchorpure Cold water in itself doesn't make it problem unless going to actual extreme. Already existing disease or condition does. You're right tho, with heart condition its not wise to increase heart rate uncontrollably. Same goes to serious hyperglycaemia.

@@pk3m3 Oh yeah, submerging yourself beneath ice when it's minus 50 is "just like jogging". Maybe if you're being chased by starving Rottweilers with beef dripping smeared on your bollocks.

I had a chemistry teacher who once said that if it's like -25 Celsius and there is no wind, wind literally not existing, you could practically walk with a t-shirt outside and the cold wouldn't bother you that much. According to him, it's the wind which makes the cold unbearable. I have no idea if that's true but he sounded confident.

@@Erinxh I'd say that he/she was lying as it definitely will bother you even without wind. But they are right in a way, it's way worse when its windy.

@@Maxiligamer no, it doesn’t bother you without wind and while moving.

@@MealTeam6 You never experienced -25c? It'll bother you to death if you're not dressed well/have heating in-doors

@@Erinxh It bothers me when it's 58 degrees Fahrenheit so he was definitely wrong

Im Polish bro...IK 🤣

So you live in Yukon /:

Same

@@its640am you don't need to live up north, I'm in East Canada and it can hit -30 on bad day. I'd imagine you wouldn't have to be much farther north to occasionally get Temps in the -40s and maybe -50s

​@@Nubkiller312 it's -25 out rn where I am sooo yeah, but snow "whispering" is based off neckorates, not temperature!

You know that going into freezing water when it's -40 outside is not much more impressive than when it's -1 , right ?

@@IvanTre 😐

@@IvanTre Well even going into water when its -1 below freezing is also pretty impressive

@@IvanTre What is more impressive is going out of the water without dying

@sub R0cky because the water is just freezing. Freezing water is the same temperature whether the air around it is -50 or -10 or 20°C. Water can't be really colder than 0°C ----freezing unless you change its chemistry or mess around with pressure.

You'll feel better if you get in cold water first, it'll motivate you to go for the run to warm up your muscles I think lol And the water Nikolai is in, might be warmer than the temperature outside since liquid water freezes at 0c, and he broke ice to get in it, although it might feel colder than 0 or be chilled. I read some scientists found water at -40c though, but still probably slightly warmer than outside the water there. You're still a living legend as well though, to me. I live in California and even 40f feels cold to me lol But when I lived in Japan and there was no central heating I almost died, so I know how scary the cold can be first hand. If you have ways to regulate your temperature throughout the day and not always stay cold you'll be fine.

imagine you are teacher and occasionally u try to spread some wise words to kids who 99% dont give a f, and then som Nikolai starts icebatching in -50 for his whole life every day lmfao

How is 8 degrees celsius cold, especially for running? I train outdoors till it drops below -5 celsius and I never feel cold maybe ecxept for the very beginning of the session.

@@phen-themoogle7651 I live in California too, and even 50f feels cold to me lol

THEY DON'T KNOW ME SON! THEY DON'T KNOW ME SON! THEY DON'T KNOW ME SON! Who's gonna carry the boat and the logs?

( I presume you are Middle Eastern ) - don't worry, they won't be able to take your summers, haha.

@@hristiyanhristov2480 here in summer it's over 50 degrees ")

It’s pretty normal if you’ve lived your life in those temperatures

we are not cold in Yakutia at -90

@@debizm7368 sallama yakutia en fazla -71 olmuştu

Well you know what to do. ;) I don't think I want one as of now.

ln Russia, people who swim in cold water are called walruses. That's why he got one for himself

You have to be worthy to have one. You have to be able to take an ice bath.

@@m3e92ismydreamcar you make it seem as if taking an ice bath is hard

@@aarni8360your trolling right? A normal person would die, and these people barely can, I bet if you got up from your computer and tried this you wouldn’t make it to Russia.

That's definitely not American 40. It's more like a 30 yo.

How did you connect hairs and healthiness

@@Ikjunh232 bald is old

@@yellow1612 bald is genetical not old

Even Eyelashes Freeze at Oymyakon.Life in the Coldest Town on Earth. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OC3Dw6Xam2k.html ..........

Yeah but you'll get out of the shower and after dressed you still can't afford to go dentist, still watching youtube on phone instead of anything else, still can't save money

Oh, I tried. Won't try again.

Gotta remember that the water is 0 degrees or warmer

13 Celsius ir praticly nothing lol

@@Dogmators you would be surprised 13C is very shocking. Even water at 17C feels like a shock to me. I know from experience that every degree the water temperature goes down, it feels exponentially colder

15C was the temp we usually went playing in the water in summer when i grew up.

@@234i9 That's what it was like when I liked in NoCal. Now I'm in SoCal. Where did you swim? Btw, around here, except for me, the only one's I'll ever see in the winter water without suits are kids. Kids are fearless.

Isnt depression self pity?feeling sorry for yourself?thinking that world owes you something?surely you should feel positive get up and go?

@@shakmo6611 depression is being incapable of feeling happiness. When I feel depression I do not feel the world owns me anything, that's not depression, that's just being immature and entitled. Depression may be caused by biological reasons ,in my family is a genetical thing, our brains do not produce properly serotonine. We end up requiring medication to get back ourselves. When depressed I feel empty. I can pretend otherwise, to do not make others worry around me, but inside I feel like a void. If I feel anger is not against others, is against myself. I do not feel pity about myself because pity means you feel some empathy, what I feel is that I should not be living, to stop being a burden for my family, I do not want them to suffer because I think I am a waste of human being, I rather dissapear totally, but I know that will make them suffer even worse. Having the medication, working out in the gym, swimming, sleeping properly, winter, eating balanced, all those things give me the serotonine I need, made my thoughts clear because my brain begins to work properly. I hope this gives you a better understanding leaving assumptions aside.

Thanks for the reply having said that you turned off the reply feature?isnt that voicing your personal selfless and hiding away which in itself isnt dealing with concern .thus meaning self pity?self harming or wanting to kill yourself ?self pity and loathing crying out for sympathy?so everyone around feels sorry for you?I would have disagree with your understanding of depression. I hope it doesn't offend?as it's not my intention.

@@shakmo6611 it seems obvious you want to troll, it's ok, you live your life with your judgements, I choose to continue with my life regardless of what you want to think about it, as trolling is common in the internet

@@shakmo6611 depressed people often dont show negative emotions toward others for them to not worry . They dont want to hurt others... He told you everything:The cause,the way he feels and methods to cure it,yet you still didn't understand a damn. If you want to be an a...hole,just say so.

I bet a lot of can't handle Brazilian summer heat either!

I live in Moscow and I can't do it. -50C is freaking cold. You can die there easily

Is like us Floridians we adapted to the heat and rain

@@joebojito bruh Florida isn’t even comparable to this lol

@@user-ty8be7xh8q im guessing you get hypothermia in 30secs from being there untrained

𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 ❶❽ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 *NUDE-DATTING.ONLINE* tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤️💌💘

Nada haver Kkkkkkk 👍

We need to have enough insanity within to do something like this. Hahaha...

I am from India, a country with tropical weather. I won't even survive in that cold weather, forget about an ice bath.

@@ananyabasu3770 can relate…

Mantap pak..saya yg di 16°c aja menggigil seluruh badan apalagi -50°😂

Saya ac 18 ° juga bersin bersin flu 😆

i love down south florida

I have this bath, I will die inmediately😂😂😂😂

City

@@carmencaldera5834 same💀

Or it could be that your bones are brittle because you live there? If you want to Yakutsk would your bones get stronger? maybe idk

Well i like to do a meditation session after the cold water there’s nothing quite like is in terms of inner peace when all that karmic energy leaves you.

@@Nirvana-1111 I know what you mean. I just finished meditation after the some wim hof breathing rounds. It's a good place to be

@@3runjosh for sure, did you do it when the affects of the cold shower were still at play too? Because that’s straight heaven

@@Nirvana-1111 not this morning but I've experienced both a quite a bit and yes I agree! I can't wait for winter here so I can do more cold plunges.

Same same same !!! This is above and beyond !

Wim Hof looks like a one person with extraordinary abilities. In USSR this walrus movement started massive expansion since at least 1924, (as part of Healing Fitness practices) with a lot of statesmans, army leaders etc included. I think in every city we have some enthusiasts of those exercises. But -50 is impressive for sure.

It sound beginner yea (= We fins start take t-shirt on when +5'C is outside and sun is shining. U need start get brown fat what coming from cold resist. (=

23°c is pretty normal weather in my country but southeast asia country its literally a cold weather.

hahaha same

I was in -3 water

i was in 10c water

𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 ❶❽ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 *NUDE-DATTING.ONLINE* tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤️💌💘

Земляк!

I used to take cold showers everyday at 4 am when the temperature was between 0 to 10 °... Long showers up to 1 hour. It was cool.

@@gvn1048 So What is changed in you after taking such regular basis showers, is there any results?

@@gcjffjj797a lot of people have more energy!

@@gcjffjj797 Cold showers can help reduce inflammation, relieve pain, improve circulation, lower stress levels, and reduce muscle soreness and fatigue. Hot showers, meanwhile, can improve cardiovascular health, soothe stiff joints, and improve sleep. Understanding when to take a hot or cold shower is essential.

Only 25 in canada? I live in finland and not even in lapland and its normal to have -30 few times per winter. I thought canada was colder

@@KolliOde Canada is a big country. BC generally doesn't get too cold. But here in Alberta.... Well let's just say we had -35 to -40 degree Celsius weather to this past winter. Even 3 days ago it was -26 degree Celsius with wind chill... And it's March.

@@TRxh98 yea i know that i just assumed that the commenter lives in cold area. Last year snow melted in late april which is pretty weird

@@KolliOde I should've mentioned, I grew up in the interior of BC. Not the coldest parts of Canada by a wide margin. Literally most of the rest of Canada gets worse winters than we do.

Thats not worst, what worst if your attitude towards it

yea but you cant be exposed to these temperatures that long, the water is way warmer than the air. And you want to get your warmth back fast after taking the bath.

I think the trick is this: When warm body leaves water which is almost 0°C the vapor surrounding human skin acts like insulator of some sort. That prevents the skin from freezing instantly. The opposite effect can be seen in videos where people swing their arms through a flow of melting metal. Moisture from skin boils instantly and super thin layer of vapor acts like insulator and prevents entire hand from burning. It's all ok when it takes a second, though. :)

I'm still sticking to the cold shower at the sauna for now

@@ArtemLokhovitskiy same with some cooks do oil dips .

Water does wonders...I don't know the thermodynamics but from swimming in the cold ocean I attest that the blood vessels constrict and send refined blood throughout the body it literally feels like fire when you get out the wind can blow but there is warmth all round, these guys do it during the day, I've tried day time which hurts for some reason but night time just releases something primordial, you can feel it from the gut it's like a life preserving liquid combined with adrenaline and a splash of dopamine essentially all feel good hormones are released at once, I know it for a fact because of years of strict study, not many can know the difference between serotonin and oxytocin or adrenaline and endorphins the way we're distracted mixes them all up, but my theory is that the cold effects the hippocampus and Thalamus if you look at an extracted one or crossection it looks like a seahorse, it's just my theory that it's the region that feels the freeze and after getting out of the water it feels like you have a new brain, new eyes, new senses, because of the dark suddenly you can see because the pupils are extra dilated...if you've ever had a DMT experience the winter water swim is like a snippet...I wouldn't advise anyone to do it but we all need to make our way back to nature learning to cope with cold is a great survival skill and it actually helps with extreme heat because you learn how to properly breathe...we need reconnect with the primordial if we don't, Nature will surely make her way to us. Water is sacred it's like it doesn't matter how many cold showers or baths, there's something about diving into a natural source I believe it's minerals that are preserving these godmen from frostbite, I would do that bath only if there's a sauna -50 my freezer only goes to -27 lol... But even with water alone, we need mountain minerals to detox our blood, I also believe that this cold dipping rinses toxins out, when the body is rid of toxicity it celebrates, that's why infants are in paradise, they're not exposing themselves to as many toxins as adults are. I contrast these cold dipping traditions to saunas, I'll never forget my first essential oil experience in a sauna...this therapist walked in asked if we minded some eucalyptus spearmint...Nope go ahead! He dropped a generous amount and splashed half the bucket on the hot rocks, we're looking at each other like this dude is crazy after 20 minutes I got out cooled down took a shower and was in a complete state of bliss...weed couldn't even match this state of pure relaxation. It was the best sleep.