Which is fortunate, given that you’re going to be extremely coldSuddenly, everywhere you look, everyone’s taking cold showers. There’s a corner of Reddit devoted to the practice (“I finally did it!”; “How safe is it to shock your brain area with cold water?”) and numerous online posts about completing the 30-Day Cold Shower Challenge. In the New York Times, the novelist Ben Dolnick reports that cold showers changed his “entire disposition toward the outside world”. Open a window and have a cold shower: could being chilly improve your health? If you’re still thinking you don’t like the sound of daily cold showers, well, that’s the point.

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2017 13:52 UTC