Health benefits of cold

Cold is free, so use it to boost your health and your morale. Taking quick cold showers, jumping into the ice-cold lake, or rolling in the snow wearing nothing but your underwear is scientifically proven to make you younger, healthier, happier, improve your skin and get rid of/prevent cellulite.

• Cold increases blood circulation which helps flush out toxins everywhere in the body. It promotes repair of the circulatory system by stimulating capillary beds. Taking quick cold showers in the winter actually helps to stay warm during the day, it helps your body to develop the ability to handle cold weather and not to get chills and colds.
• Keeps the pores of you skin closed during the shower, so your skin doesn't absorb too much chlorine and fluoride from tap water, which is bad for it. Also, you don't inhale as much chlorine gas as you would in hot shower, where there is a lot of steam. If your intention is to thoroughly clean your skin, then you should use a water filter
• Quick dips in ice-cold water or snow build up will power and strengthen your nerves.
• When you take a hot shower, hot water washes natural oils from your body, causing your body to compensate by producing more oil. So if you're suffering from acne or oily skin, cold showers may be the perfect free solution. In fact, dipping your face in a bucket of ice every day is a beauty secret of many women to keep the skin tight, elastic and vibrant.
• Cold showers fight depression. They help to balance the autonomic nervous system.
• In many cultures of the world bathing in ice-cold water is known to be one the best longevity tools.

Make sure not to expose yourself to cold for more than 10 minutes at a time, longer than that isn't recommended.