Dr. Stacy Sims
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How cold?
Someone wanted to do this at home.
10 degrees Celsius.
So what is that?
About 40?
It feels cold.
Not an ice bath because ice is not good for women.
You could if you get really cold, yeah.
You might want to add a little bit of ice and let it melt.
Okay.
But not ice baths that we see in all the popular media because that is way too cold for a woman's body.
It does the opposite.
It's a severe stress and causes a stress response rather than a parasympathetic calming response that we want.
Oh, yeah.
I've talked about this before.
I mean, I was amenorrheic until I was 20.
I couldn't have periods.
Okay.
Because of high stress, high sport, you know, didn't care, didn't eat well.
In the whole mindset of the, you know, 90s of...