Dr. Stacy Sims

So I'm always thinking on the outside, like what other things can we do to dampen inflammation in a positive way to improve symptomology?

So if we're thinking about the responses to cold exposure, I'm not talking about ice, we're talking about cold water exposure, it creates a cascade of immune responses that kind of protects the body.

So we're reducing inflammation, we're improving parasympathetic, which reduces stress.

So if we're timing it and they know when their period is and they can go, okay, well, for the next or the 10 to 14 days before my period starts, I'm going to have 10 minutes of cold water exposure.

And over the course of three to four months, that immune response becomes learned automatically.

So it reduces symptomology.

So it becomes one of the treatment options that we have for some of our athletes that have endo and interferes with their training.

So, I mean, the cold water exposure is available there.

So that's how we started the pilot study.

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.