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Cold Showers – Actual Benefits and Myths You Should Know

From Hardik Pandya to Neha Sharma, many celebs take cold showers and ice plunges. Why do they do that? Come, let's analyse the benefits
Shubhechhya Mukherjee
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Shubhechhya Mukherjee
Cold Showers – Actual Benefits and Myths You Should Know

Introduction

Brrrrrrrrng! The alarm clock groaned for the THIRD TIME! Hit snooze, AGAIN! I fell asleep in the middle of a doom scroll - my phone's still playing the video of Christiano Ronaldo talking into my screen from a tub.

Miserably, I dragged myself out of bed and stood in front of the bathroom mirror. Then it dawned on me: It was already 7 a.m., and I had to be at the office by 8!

I calculated how much time I had before I could rush out: brush my teeth, get ready, get coffee on the way, and maybe skip if it's too late! This was all I could afford, but my body was not ready to move, and my mind was completely muddled.

With great effort, I hauled myself into the shower and turned on the ice-cold water. I felt the ice bath jolt me awake from the dead. As soon as I turned off the knob and stepped out of the shower, I felt like a different person.

As I rushed out of my house at 7:40, I was still sleep-deprived, but at least now I did not feel like it—or even, might I dare say it, look like it.