I used this to save myself from a heart attack about 2 years ago. Hypertension stage 3 and I could feel it building, so I took a 2 hour shower with the water as cold as I could bear bc I didn't have a way to the hospital. It absolutely saved my life. I recommend it to anyone in a pinch, but definitely *go to the hospital if your life is at risk.*
I could almost cry from seeing this and thinking "I bet that would help when I can't stop a panic attack" and then going to the comments to see people saying it works for them. Holy shit, this might be a gamechanger for me.
seriously it works so well. also doing a cold plunge somewhat regularly will help with some regulation in general (once every few days at the end of your shower, turn the water cold)
In my experience the more senses you engage with something that isn't the anxiety trigger, the more it tends to help, hence why lots of people recommend chewing ice. This further having a biological reflex to slow the heart down is all the more effective. One final thing I'll say is try to build a slight taste association with your calming down. My xanax tablets have a certain taste, and my body has now somewhat tied the taste to the calming.
I was actually told to do this, run a cold bath, get in quickly and hold your breath under water for a moment. If you have ptsd or panic disorder this has a lot of potential to help slow your heart rate.
@@jaredschroeder7555is it counterproductive to engage in some sensory stimulation during high anxiety episodes? I have noticed for example trying to concentrate on my breathing aggravates my anxiety, it makes me hyper aware and often doesn't help
And this is why doing this can help with anxiety. A lot of anxiety is a positive feedback loop - you feel anxious which increased your heart rate which makes you feel more anxious which increases your heart rate more, and it keeps going. This addresses the physiological side of the feedback loop and gives you some relief.
@@tanyaredfieldThere is a way for people like you. You simply have to do it more frequently than normal. Eventually you will overcome the fear and relax.
My PTSD is so freaking bad i used to carry a cooler in the back of my SUV packed with ice so I could immerse my entire head... you have to put your whole head underwater and hold it as long as you can. It's one of the few things that can slow down or stop an attack. I wouldn't wish this sh*t on my worst enemy
NO WAY I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID THIS!! I literally have my ice bucket in the back of my car right now. I have a form of ptsd and panic disorder with agoraphobia (cant drive more than 45 mins away from home) this ice water has litterly been a lifesaver
@bayareadrifter415 I know what your going through. But 45 mins from home is a bloody good effort 👏 some people can't leave there home at all. So be proud
This has been a lifesaver for extreme anxiety, panic attacks and agoraphobia. I litterly never leave home without my ice water bucket it's always in my car or nearby. It works for extreme cases but the water has to be FREEZING cold 🥶 with as many ice cube as you can fit. Dunk your whole head in and hold until you can bear the cold anymore and feel the panic and/or anxiety litterly drip away
Tell me more about this!! I have extreme panic attacks leaving the house and I have to go for a scan at the hospital in the city in 3 days!! I haven't left town in years!
@kassiep I'd be glad to help.I know exactly how you feel! First step is to get an ice chest. They have cloth sealable ones I usually get on amazon but you can use anything. Fill it with cold water and a shit ton of ice cubes. I mean a crazy amount of ice. You're probably going to have to go buy some bags of ice. Once it's been sitting for a while getting super cold, You dunk your whole head inside and hold it for as long as you can bear. You wanted to feel unbearably cold and keep holding it after that for a while longer. Your whole head needs to be dunked, your whole face and head. After you take your head out you will immediately feel relief from panic and anxiety. Sometimes the anxiety can come back in a few minutes so just repeat the process. It's almost like taking 1 mg of xanax to be honest. I have a small portable one also and I even bring it inside of the doctor's office with me lol
@@bayareadrifter415 that is so so much for that information. Much needed! I guess ima have to buy some things asap for this trip. I'm terrified about that urge to RUN when I'm in a car, that urge just to get out of there and run. It's overwhelming and I feel so so trapped to the point I'm about to loose control, it's horrible agrophobia and panic is :'(
@2intriguing1 Because unfortunately they don't want us to know about these natural remedies.They would rather make billions by prescribing meds that are (to say the least) no good. This method does work though I highly suggest trying it. It doesnt just work for anxiety too it works if you're stressed or anything. Kind of like a reset button
This short is amazing. It really shows not only that the Temperature part of the TIP skill works, but just how quickly it works. You are doing gods work sir.
May I just say KUDOS for an 'all-in' demonstration teaching this concept. You're a brave man, and an excellent teacher. I won't forget this information! (* Thank you!)
@@MedicalSecrets I’ve been thinking of trying cold plunges or showers to help change white fat into brown fat, since I’m very overweight. I’m only out 5 months since a quadruple heart bypass. This scares me. Am I being paranoid?
@@musicnut1966 Yes, consistently taking ice-cold showers actually does help in weight loss (even though I'm a scrawny guy, I used to take them a lot myself). However, in _your_ specific case of having had heart surgeries, you should definitely first consult with your doctor before attempting any ice-cold showers on a regular basis.
Would that work for tachycardia before it goes into arrthymia? I am 81 and when I came down with a high fever; my heart began to race and went into an arrthymia .
yes! when adults have tachycardia we tell them to bear down for a vagal maneuver. this sometimes works to lower the heart rate but what about pediatrics or even babies? we can’t explain that to them! so we use a bag of ice to the face! wonderful.
I believe OP is saying they use a different mechanism for adults, which involves pushing like you have to poop Kids especially babies may not understand, so they get ice on their face instead :)
Because it's a humanly adorable statement 😁 And we're used to "stating locations of body parts" for children and from children. So it's a bit like "being spoken to, like in childhood, when we used to laugh over the most simple matters like seeing faces of friendly looking people"
Amazing! Wish my science classes had lessons like these to sum up the chapters. Science should be taught with excitement. You never know what students you may have in the classroom that may grow up to become scientists 😊
@@MedicalSecrets It has improved a lot already. I am in at hospital twice each year for gastric procedure where I have to be put under to be able get the thing down my throat. I got esophageal varices that needs to be watched and fixed if the blood veins get's too huge. It's a side effect of having a damaged liver (Cirrhosis from medication the GP put me on for 8 years). During the visits where I was under anesthesia I almost every time experienced being abused and I had nothing to say about the procedure. I felt very worried about each visit. I was refused medications, etc. Now that I talked to them about my bad/horrible experiences, things has improved. It's thanks to educating myself through internet + your channel. The way you explain things is easy to understand for a normal person. You are calm and tell the truth, which inspired me a lot. I should not feel bad the two days prior to each visit and hurt a lot afterwards cause they did not give me the attention they should have. Doctors (and staff) can be very aloof and detached from emotions. For them I think many are tired of doing the same thing every day. They become more machines than humans. It was a lot of nightmares and also waking up crying after I awoke from anesthesia. I went home feeling sad and confused. I live alone. My son gotten old and moved to another city. Thank you so much for your channel, education and advices. I wish I was able to donate to your channel, but I am retired and live on a minimal budget. But know I am eternal grateful for the advice you given in your videos. I wached a lot of them and subscribed after the first video I saw. I had no clue doctors could be reasoned with, but if you stick to truth and be direct about the issues one has, things can change. Best wishes from Norway. ❤
@MedicalSecrets I saw a pain specialist recently with whom I felt if I tried to advocate for myself she would have tried to 5150 me. She was insane in the office. I could tell by her staffs facial experience this is a daily occurrence .
@@allywolf9182 For several reasons a lot of healthworkers, doctors, etc. should be subjected to a course on how to interact with patients. There is no reason to act angry, spiteful or spew morals onto their patients. The worst situation is for those who suffer from substance addiction. It has taken 20 years from the law was changed here in Norway, making it an illness and that these patients should get equal treatment from health systems, farmacies, etc. as for any other groups, but it took that long before it actually changed how doctors, nurses, etc. followed the new laws. They had rights, but in practice it was as before. You'll still find the odd morals and old age attitudes towards these patient group from a lot of people, still today. But you can complain and the system will give out warnings to those who are worst to not give proper care.
A person diagnosed with SVT here. My doctor recommended that every time I felt an SVT episode come on, #1 I would have to flex my whole body, #2 hold my breath, #3 dip my face in ice water, #4 take a very cold shower and do #1 & #2 at once. It was scary and extremely uncomfortable, but I would rather be cold than have an episode... at age 11 I had my first oblation, and I had my second at 14 years old.. I still have episodes at age 22, but it doesn't come on so often. Now I have to teach my 2 year old those things until she can have her first surgery...
I wish I can talk more about with you, being living with that since long time, did you get better results after ablation? Did you had that at what place? City / hospital, thank you😊
The water in my city on winter is so cold that it will literally leave a red mark on your skin and give you a brain freeze but even like that i love taking cold showers when I'm angry, that calms TF down on me😂
Now please teach me how to raise my BP while sitting in a chair! I've got pretty low BP. Which is an issue during dialysis as I alarm every 30 minutes causing someone to have to walk to shut it off. I need to raise it by 15. Oh it is also caused by scar tissue. Hypotension of the Portal Vein.
This is interesting because I've had three episodes of tachycardia and after the first one they told me if it happened again to plunge my face in ice water. It doesn't always work for tachycardia and in my case it didn't but this is an interesting demonstration.
I’ve had tachycardia many times before and every time it is extremely scary. I believe during one hospital visit they told me I could try this also. Usually I have to go and they give me a medicine in an IV that stops the heart but then it starts back up on its own. Well, at least I always hope that it does. I believe the medicine is called adenosine.
@@jpflock1078 during a tachycardia event, slowing your heart rate through breathing doesn't work. During a tachycardia event, the heart rhythm cycle is out of whack and the ice water can sometimes shock it back into normal rhythm.
@@tammy5926 you are posting misinformation. Cold water does not provide an electrical shot to restart your fast beating heart rhythm. If no electrical power is used to shock a heart rhythm then it is the slow breathing that is slowing the rhythm
It’s because he’s holding his breath. he only has his face submerged underwater. His organs are not going to be affected in the few seconds of his face being under.
@@smitjs01sounds like you didn't understand the post at all. cold water on the face activates a reflex that lowers your heart rate. he's demonstrating that your body helps you to swim underwater
It actually slows down, because your holding your breath, apart from the cold water. And yes, I do study medicine at a community college so I do indeed know what I’m talking about.
Omg, Dr Kaveh, that even looks like a painful thing to do. Thank you so very much for doing this experiment so we don't have to. I love your videos and your Shorts are always fun.
Hyopthermia,the whole body getting cold, in drowning situations causes that slowing and pushes oxygenated blood to the core organs as the extremities get too cold and those blood vessels clamp down, buying time. It's why inducing hypothermia is actually used in a few heart procedures, slowing heart rate and giving the surgeon time to make a repair while staving off brain damage.
I have chronic recurrent pericarditis and it’s resulted in a dilated left ventricle and some pretty wild tachycardia and a fib episodes. This has saved me more than once.
@@LYJManchesterUnited mine is from recurrent acute pericarditis/myocarditis. Which came out of absolutely no where. I’m young, healthy, don’t smoke, don’t drink, go to the gym, I’m not overweight. My cardiologist did say that there was a huge influx of cases of young healthy men getting pericarditis after Covid and the Covid vaccine but I’m a woman. I guess there has been a lot more women getting it as well after Covid and the vaccine but not enough to do studies I guess and the ones for young me were limited. Pericarditis is super painful with other symptoms so you’ll know if you have it. Even after the inflammation is gone I’ve been left with a lot of afib and tachycardia and just weird random heart palpitations when I lay down or sleep. It took A LONG TIME to get answers from doctors when I was at my worst. They told me it was acid reflux and then anxiety and some more stuff. Finally one night I refused to leave until I saw a cardiologist in the morning and they left me on monitors and watched my heart rate do wild stuff all night. Took a long time but that’s just my experience. I hope you get some answers soon and feel better ❤️🩹
Thankfully. Anything other than that would just be more added burnout to an already challenging line of work in a terrible system. It's only right he grabs all joy he can get, after surviving even a day "in there".
In Indian tradition, splashing cold water on someone's face is sometimes used as a quick remedy to help calm a person who is panicking or feeling unwell. This sudden and forceful action can help shock the system and bring the person back to a more alert and stable state.
Why was I expecting it to go up and was surprised when it went down? Thank you for sharing :) Answer: The shock of the cold. I thought the shock of the cold ice water would increase the heart rate.
@lovejoy71422 I thought holding breath makes it go up because your body is actively using up the oxygen stored in your lungs and therefore blood and has to pump harder to get that leftover oxygen to its vital organs... 🤔
@Trad-Mom I noticed many years ago that my heart rate goes up when I breathe in and my lungs are full and it goes down after breathing out. At first I thought it was a problem but it turns out that having a lot of heart rate variability is a sign of good health. Anyway I think the logic is that increasing the heart rate costs more oxygen so doing it when you already have little of it would be counterproductive. Better to slow down and wait
Thank you so much for this. I have epilepsy..not only is the hot weather dangerous for me...if an aura is coming on...a frozen bottle of ice water on the vagus nerve is a gift.
@mi81tkne47 I have been diagnosed with SVT as well. Some other methods that work are blowing through a syringe, holding breath and bearing down, and the one they had me do at the hospital in which they had me lie back on the bed, they may have even inverted me, then they suddenly raised the head of the bed up while I held my breath and bore down as if I was giving birth. I can't remember all the details, but if you google or look up on youtube "vagal maneuvers for SVT" or "valsalva maneuver" they should come up for you.
Dang that was fast. You can even hear it pick up at first (I assume because he’s anticipating the shock from cold water?) and then immediately slows down when he hits the water.
@@luke14946It was probably Magnesium as a vitamin supplement. It's sold everywhere...Dollar General, Walgreen, Walmart organic market places, and online.
@@luke14946 no capsule containing magnesium threonate from Natural Stacks. I take one nightly for sleep. He, 175 lbs, takes only one. Experiment to see what works.God bless you and yours !
It actually changed twice, it accelerated when you breathed in, and then slowed down like you said after you submerged your face in the cold water, this is also why they say to dip your face in the water if you fall through the ice, it can calm you down just enough to think about what to do instead of panicking
❤ Love the heart ♥ what a marvellous organ it is everything literally if it's not working (failing) then every organ in the body suffers. Saw when my Husband was alive lived with many chronic states of health how forgiving amazing heart can be how it compensates adjusts copes keeps us alive miraculously. You can be brain dead but only die once ❤ stops beating. Just think how big a body is to size of heart that beats continually all our life till last breath & all work it does - we should "cherish" appreciate look after our bodies ❤ precious what a fantastic job it does.
It's not just in ice water, it also works with simply holding your breath, you can also feel the change when you hold your hand on your heart, and if you do it for long enough where you're on last few seconds before needing to breath your heartbeat will almost be imposible to feel It also works with panick attacks/anxiety etc, you just hold your breath, put your hand on your heart and feel the change, absolute game changer for me when I was younger, it helped so much with my anxiety but kinda disturbed my asthma tho (at least my asthma isn't severe so I don't get the attacks, but I need to take deep breaths from time to time and if I can't, I can't breath, but if I stop breathing for few seconds then it kinda resets and I no longer suffocate)
Face diving, maybe my heart can take it. An inch lower, my heartbeat will decrease to zero! I could never understand why people torture themselves like that.
I tried this a bunch of time when I had SVT. Never worked quite as well as I wanted it to. Eventually my episodes escalated to lasting over an hour and thankfully I had a successful catheter ablation.
That was amazing. You learned something every day. I would’ve thought it would’ve got faster. I’m a heart patient and the doctor told me I couldn’t get in cold water.
To everyone trashing him...yes, holding your breath reduces heart rate. So does cold water immersion...cold showers, baths etc. Probably the effect is increased if holding breath under cold water. No need to bash the guy. Chill.
The beautiful thing is that cold water effectiveness is mentioned in the Quran (And remember Our servant Job, when he called to his Lord, "Indeed, Satan has touched me with hardship and torment.") (So he was told], "Strike [the ground] with your foot; this is a [spring for] a cool bath and drink.")
