The Knowledge Project Podcast
Huberman: Why Cold Showers Are So Life Changing
when you get into cold water as long as you don't stay in there to the point where you start becoming hypothermic you actually are increasing your metabolism and body heat so a lot of people take a cold shower or get into an ice bath early in the day because you get that shot of adrenaline and cortisol you also get the release of a neuromodulator dopamine which this is incredible but there's a paper published in the European Journal of physiology it showed that there's a 2.5 x huge increase in dopamine release very long lasting 2.5 x is the amount of dopamine that's triggered by the use of cocaine but the difference is cocaine has a very sharp Peak on it and then it falls which is why people become habitual users obviously not a good thing to use cocaine at all frankly but this long sustained increase in dopamine from cold water exposure of anywhere from one to three minutes is really powerful and it increases body temperature so some people do that early in the morning to wake up as well
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How cold should it be? Approx temperature?
Got me at perma cocaine increase
I've been told that cold showers aren't good after a workout
Funny thing i am a little bit addicted to it , often in the day my thought are : "hmm i could take a cold shower now do it just do it 😂"
Gives Old Hubs plenty of energy for all his birds.
Thanks Jewberman
I'm a habitual cold shower taker. Habitual addiction confirmed
What about when you have a cold or the flu? I feel like it is not going to help when I am sick.
Nice hes not a real doctor lol
Cocaine is as equivalent to cold showers 😮
Coke showers. 😅
On May 1, 2025, I’ll hit my 5-year anniversary of taking a cold shower EVERY morning…no matter where I travel in the world. I haven’t been sick since. Test it out for 6 months folks.
Its day 5 of cold showers cuz no hot water, im getting used to it and you feel awake as hell after
Can I do this at the end of warm/normal water shower or has to be at the beginning?
Will it be 5x if we do cocaine and cold shower both? 🤔
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5mins after cold shower i dont know if id start a company or simply vomit from dopamine but after it its back to normal misery and depression
I'm trying out cold showers it really wakes you up that's for sure 😂
I'm 16 i wanna do cold shower in winder but I'm scared of hyportermia
Wim Hof taught the world this❤
On day 10 !!
I did this for ten years, nothing fantastic happened..even during our winters.
I have like a month taking cold showers (regular cold showers, not ice baths) and I can attest you actually feel better overall.
i'm still trying to figure out how life went from what it is till now, how is life so great i don't get it, is everybody just so fucking delusional and pathetic for a little bit of joy they forgive all the bad shit in life which is 99.99999999% of it ? it literally only became somewhat good recently and its still not even all that.
those are some biiiiiiig words!
Increases body temperature?
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Do we need more cortisol first thing in the morning ?
I bath in cold water everyday but have recently started getting headaches 😂. Maybe time to cut my bathing time short from 15 to 10 minutes
Benefits of cold showers : just go and take it, you feel it.
Start with coldest water from tap.
Never start warm or hot water
I love how we got excited for cocaine and then backtracked. 😂
Can we do cold water showers at night?
Ok this might make me try it….
Cold shower in the AM, cold shower in the afternoon.
Let me combine cocaine and cold shower. really pumped up dopamine bro in the neighbourhood
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I wonder if 3 minutes every morning before a workout will still stunt muscle growth
So if I do cocaine while I take a cold shower I get 5 times the effect?
Does it hit harder if you put baking soda in the Pyrex shower ?
The 250% figure was for 1 hour in 14c bath. Where is he getting the 1-3 minutes from?
I take a 20 minute cold shower (66° fh) every night. What a rush.
Cold water actually stresses your system any stress isn't great. Cold showers once in a while is probably a good idea tho
I'm currently living in washington and have been doing cold water plunges in the rivers here for some time now and I've never experienced a dopamine release.
I almost fainted in the cold plunge any reason ?
Omg. I read it as “Gold Showers” 😂 either my eyesight is getting bad or …😅😆🙃
D*ck shrinker. But hes totally right.