9/27/2023 0 Comments Wim hof method cold therapy![]() If you have a resting heart rate of 60 beats per minute you may assume that your heart beats once per second. The intervals (or time) between each heartbeat should be variable. Healthy hearts don’t beat like a metronome. ![]() But certainly, heart rate alone doesn’t tell us the whole story. Research would suggest that a healthy range for heart rate is between 60 – 90 beats per minute. A follow-up study consisting of only breathing techniques would be highly informative. The researchers did conclude: “It appears that mainly the breathing techniques used by the trained individuals accounted for the increase in epinephrine and subsequent attenuation of the inflammatory response.”Īlthough the extent to which subjects exposed themselves to cold in this experiment is both impressive and extreme, the question remains whether it was necessary to achieve the aforementioned physiological changes recorded by the researchers. One of the limitations of this study is that it does not allow for the researchers to accurately determine which component of the ‘treatment protocol’ was responsible for the changes in outcome measures. ![]() Cold shower therapy has often been advocated at a frequency of up to once per day in water temperatures of approximately 8-16 degrees Celsius for durations of up to 10 minutes. The protocol (frequency, duration, temperature) followed by subjects in relation to taking cold showers was not provided as part of the study.Ĭertainly, the extent to which these subjects were exposed to various forms of ‘cold therapy’ far exceeds the protocol often recommended for taking cold showers.
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