“As much as I read about it, actually taking a cold rinse never gets easier. It feels great afterward, but the stories in which people describe the week or month they spent taking cold showers have always seemed both impressive and baffling”
Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty A friend of mine regularly takes 30-second cold showers at the end of her regular showers. When she and her boyfriend are fighting, one will often lightly suggest that the other take “a cold rinse.” She’s been telling me for years that it acts as a mood reset.
A new book referred to a device that makes cold-water bathing sound marginally more inviting. In The Nature Cure: A Doctor’s Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine, Dr. Andreas Michalsen, head physician of the Department of Naturopathy at the Immanuel Hospital Berlin, writes about something called a “Scotch hose” so frequently that I figured I’d missed the part where he explained what it was.
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