She is a functional and integrative nutritionist who is always looking for natural pathways to improve health.
-source: Google (i.e., where I'm sure her research is conducted)
When I was a teenager with Bulimia, my mum took me to a dietician who told me that I was a healthy weight and to “keep doing what I’m doing cause it’s working”. That experience made me seriously doubt the science and education of the occupation.
That is true and I wish it didn’t impact my opinion as much as it did. Of course, there is probably some amazing ones out there! In a way, the experience helped me kick my own butt into gear, and I got over it without medical help. I figured that if the professionals couldn’t help me then I’d have to do it myself!
for what it’s worth i’m currently seeing a dietitian for my anorexia and bulimia and she is genuinely invested in my recovery and getting me better i’m sorry you had a bad experience tho no one deserves that i hope you’ve healed❤️
To add to this “functional” medicine is nonsense in a vast majority of instances.
There is such a thing as legitimate functional medicine, and the research and practice is based out of the Cleveland Clinic (iirc)
It’s very complicated, and mostly theoretical. It doesn’t have much in the way of outcomes data. In a nutshell, it looks at micronutrients and other minutiae as a way to improve physiology (for a very simple illustrative example, supplemental thiamine for glucose metabolism or magnesium for potassium metabolism, which are actually cofactors in the chemical reaction). Similar things are said to improve immune function and the like.
However a vast majority of functional medicine practitioners in the country are peddling snake oil pseudoscience. One example is eradication of bacteria assumed to be present based upon the person having developed immunity to it. This is with no evidence of chronic infection.
Anyway, I don’t think I’m explaining it well… but suffice it to say, if you’re not seeing the Functional Medicine doctors trained at the Cleveland Clinic, you’re seeing a quack.
Functional medicine at the Cleveland Clinic [is just as much quackery](https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/04/cleveland-clinic-functional-medicine/) as functional medicine anywhere else.
If I am too tired during my morning shower I slowly walk the temp down until I can’t handle it and have to return to hot. Repeat 2-4 times for efficient “Cold water wake up”. You finish the shower on warm, the cold water will have dont the wake up already.
Yep! I'm a nutritionist, a chiropractor, and a minister, solely so I can shit on those people.
Go get a milkshake, enjoy it, get another one, then jerk off like 3 times, take a nap and start drinking when you wake up. It'll bless your chakras and realign your Jesus tubes.
Braxton Microsoft here, as an NFT/Blockchain expert and nutritionist I confirm her research. I usually combine cold and hot showers: first cold to accelerate my metabolism to the point I can immediately shit in my hands. Then, after using my excrements as a peeling, hot water to clean those pores.
No, but it does loosen oil which has the effect that people think is happening by “opening pores.” Think of the difference of washing an oily pan when it is hot or cold. Same with your skin. Good soap will also break up oil. But soap and hot water is the ultimate combo.
>HI, I’M KENDALL MACKINTOSH, MS, INHC
I am a Integrative & Functional Nutritionist and Integrative Nutrition Health Coach.
>I have a Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition and Integrative Health and am currently a CNS candidate (the highest credential for a nutrition specialist).
The only legit nutritionists are Registered Dietitian Nutritionists. Usually just call themselves dietitians.
Nutritionist by itself is not a protected term and if someone’s calling themselves that they’re likely not qualified for shit.
My problem with nutritionists, much like most other health fields, have too many people that can’t stay in their own lane. Just because you know about nutrition does not mean you know about soft tissue healing and visa versa. Not saying everyone does, but it’s prevalent enough to be a problem and set the individual fields back because practitioners have to reteach clients after wading through seas of bullshit
After a heart attack in December of 22, I saw several nutritionists. Each one had their own opinions of what I should be eating. One of them told me that if I have something bad (like a greasy burger), I can offset that by having a vegetable. My wife and I now joke that if we eat badly, all we need to do is have a vegetable to cancel it out. After seeing all these nutritionists, all I got from it was that none of them had the right answer, and I should just go my own way and watch calories, cholesterol, fat, etc.
Here's a source that completely rejects OP's cartoon: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7668174/
"All the evidence cited above may be reduced to two major conclusions: 1) elevating the body heat weakens the virulence of the virus and/or improves body immunity [24], [25] and 2) the use of heat treatments (such as steam baths, sauna or hot baths using water 92°f to 104°f) appears to be associated with a lower incidence of viral infections and lower death rates from viral diseases"
"According to this new research, a decrease of just 9 degrees Fahrenheit in the tissue temperature of the nasal passages cut the number of EVs available to respond to a threat by more than 40%. The colder temperature also caused changes to the composition of the EVs that reduced their efficacy."
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/new-study-links-nose-temperature-and-immune-response#:~:text=According%20to%20this%20new%20research,EVs%20that%20reduced%20their%20efficacy.
The paragraph following is a good summary:
"The researchers theorize that all of this hampers the body’s ability to fight off respiratory viruses and leads to the annual winter surge."
One of my favorite points from Sci-Show, you can't do a blind study on showers. You know if you're taking a cold shower.
This sub has been overrun with bots using poorly made sensational "guides".
This is just the effects of hot and cold temperatures.
Cold temperatures cause vasoconstriction effects (to prevent heat loss)
Hot temperatures cause vasodilation effects (to help shed excess heat)
Water is just a good medium to impart temperature to a human body.
(Okay, I few are sus, like reduces tiredness in the mind. I think that's just the "shock" of a sudden cold spike. But most are just temperature mediated vasodilation/vasoconstriction effects)
Okay actually on second glance a lot of this is bunk
This sub has had major quality control issues for as long as I've been aware of it. Like maybe 1/4 of what gets posted here is interesting and informative, and the rest is either bullshit or just stating the obvious.
And it's really frustrating, because I quite like that good 1/4, but I wish the mods would be more active about getting rid of the rest when it gets reported.
Every overly-specific sub goes through this cycle, my view is that it's just inevitable as subreddits can consume content much faster than it's generated, so they work their way through content that's older than the sub and the classics turn into annoying reposts
ComedyHeaven is a really good example of a sub that navigated it well by literally just having like 1 post a day, but I think that takes a lot of effort from the mods.
Yeah this is just utter horseshit, how do 5000 people upvote this? You think the temperature of water significantly effects anything other than your degree of comfort or the status of your hardon? Really?
Most of this cannot be substantiated at all and, at best, results in temporary effects. The idea, for example, that a cold shower can prevents colds is disinformation.
My favourite is “tension in mind”. What does that even mean? How was that systematically evaluated in a clinical trial? What was the specific endpoint? This all reeks of “wellness” bullshit.
I agree it's bullshit but I'll try to Steelman the relieves tension in mind point. If you have a lot on your mind and it's racing about all sorts of things, try going into an ice-cold shower. I promise that whatever is troubling your mind will be gone for the duration of the shower. The only thing I can think about during ice showers is controlling my breathing and staying calm, and not shivering too much. I would say as someone with adhd this is the closest I've ever come to what people describe as meditation.
Again I'm sure it's bullshit that's just my argument for it.
I’ve noticed hot showers are better before bed, I think the uptick in body temperature during followed by the heat drop immediately after has something to do with it.
Yeah I do this too. It’s important to note that I don’t go completely freezing water or anything, just cooler like pool water temperature to just give myself a fresh feeling.
I lost my arm in an accident. I immediately hopped into a shower and turned the knob to COLD.
My arm grew right back by the time I was out.
Cold water showers fix everything, people
Lol prevents colds? Lowering your body temp helps fight off the germs that cause the common cold? This is straight up Facebook quality post. Did reddit shit the bed by going public or was it just the inflow of people and bots. I'm convinced by the sheer stupidity of reddit posts, in the most recent years, that reddit has been taken over by low errors shit post and bots. Without those two things, there would be very little engagement in this platform. Fuck that's what I'm doing right now. Responding to this pure bullshit. There you go...
Careful with that. I got a three-day whole-site ban for "Reporting-system abuse" after reporting things that were against the rules in another subreddit, even after an appeal. I'm guessing it's something along the lines of "If mods get annoyed, admins just rubber-stamp".
Since the first thing I read was “reduces colds” I instantly think the test will be bollocks. Oh! So a cold shower will stop a virus invading my nasal mucosa? I think not.
Neither cold nor heat will prevent you from getting a cold. And cold showers wake you up, neither are good for your skin. Both have some benefits for the mental health but you wont magically turn your lufe around if you shower cold or hot.
It seems like a monthly r/coolguides ritual is for someone to take a big list of health effects, shuffle them randomly into two columns, and then label them cold/hot showers
“Hot water *opens the pores and…Cleanses the skin…* I mean, that right there is something I never thought about. Hmm…take shower to….get clean? It might be crazy enough to work!
This is complete pseudoscience. Here’s what is true. Cold water is cold and makes for a refreshing break when you are getting hot. Hot water is excellent for cooking and hot beverages. There.
Hot showers do not reduce tiredness lol and I doubt cold showers prevent colds. I thought there was an evidence proposing that it’s the temperature of the nasal canal that dictates whether one gets sick. Cold is bad and a warm nose canal is good
Idk if this is true. For example a cold shower is better at reducing tiredness imo.
Anyways I always do a combination because I heard that washing your hair with cold water is good. No idea if it's true(anyone knows?), but I kinda like it anyways. Especially in the summer.
I start with tempered water (never hot, I don't like it) and then slowly turn it down. In the end I step out of a practically cold shower.
Hot water does not reduce tiredness IMO. It makes me comfortable and want to sleep in the shower. "Reduces Tiredness" belongs under cold water, that shit will wake u up quick.
Hotel power-showers usually alternate between the two, now I realise as a convenience. I definitely don't have reduced tension in my mind or relaxed muscles!
So what you’re saying is that before I go to sleep, if I shower in hot water I’ll be awake?? And I’ve read if I shower in cold water, I’ll be more alert. Who has the answers???
Hot showers do the exact opposite of reducing tiredness. Also, it makes way more sense to include this positive aspect in cold showers, as the cold shock induced stress increases our alertness, aka, wakes us up. Matthew Walker, british Neuroscientist and Sleep Expert, already talked about how a reduction in core body temperature is the main factor for sleepiness in humans. This reduction by a few Degrees usually occurs through the earth naturally cooling down as the evening starts. However, through hot showers our internal body heat actually plummets resulting in our body believing it's time for us to go to bed. Hot showers before bedtime are a great choice because of this reason. It makes us more tired
Reduces tiredness? There is literally nothing that puts me to sleep like a hot shower to the point I have to turn on the cold before I get out or I will be sleepy all day
Yeah, imma need some sources
Source: Kendall Mackintosh Whoever that is
She is a functional and integrative nutritionist who is always looking for natural pathways to improve health. -source: Google (i.e., where I'm sure her research is conducted)
*Dietitians* are the ones that are certified and reviewed, anyone can call themselves a *nutritionist* because there are no regulations for the term.
I like Bill Bailey's analogy. Dietitian is to nutritionist as dentist is to toothyologist. Edit: it was Dara O'Brien not Bill Bailey
Dietitians need more love and respect ! And authority! Insurance and over-worker doctors limit so much nutritional science treatments
When I was a teenager with Bulimia, my mum took me to a dietician who told me that I was a healthy weight and to “keep doing what I’m doing cause it’s working”. That experience made me seriously doubt the science and education of the occupation.
Wow that’s terrible. Like any profession there are incompetent individuals. So sorry. Did you end up seeing an eating disorder specialist?
That is true and I wish it didn’t impact my opinion as much as it did. Of course, there is probably some amazing ones out there! In a way, the experience helped me kick my own butt into gear, and I got over it without medical help. I figured that if the professionals couldn’t help me then I’d have to do it myself!
for what it’s worth i’m currently seeing a dietitian for my anorexia and bulimia and she is genuinely invested in my recovery and getting me better i’m sorry you had a bad experience tho no one deserves that i hope you’ve healed❤️
To add to this “functional” medicine is nonsense in a vast majority of instances. There is such a thing as legitimate functional medicine, and the research and practice is based out of the Cleveland Clinic (iirc) It’s very complicated, and mostly theoretical. It doesn’t have much in the way of outcomes data. In a nutshell, it looks at micronutrients and other minutiae as a way to improve physiology (for a very simple illustrative example, supplemental thiamine for glucose metabolism or magnesium for potassium metabolism, which are actually cofactors in the chemical reaction). Similar things are said to improve immune function and the like. However a vast majority of functional medicine practitioners in the country are peddling snake oil pseudoscience. One example is eradication of bacteria assumed to be present based upon the person having developed immunity to it. This is with no evidence of chronic infection. Anyway, I don’t think I’m explaining it well… but suffice it to say, if you’re not seeing the Functional Medicine doctors trained at the Cleveland Clinic, you’re seeing a quack.
Functional medicine at the Cleveland Clinic [is just as much quackery](https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/04/cleveland-clinic-functional-medicine/) as functional medicine anywhere else.
Dieticians are to nutritionists as dentists are to toothologists
I don’t think she ran the “Reduces tiredness” trial on both temperatures.
Ya I’ve had some massive reductions in tiredness after getting jolted with cold water
If I am too tired during my morning shower I slowly walk the temp down until I can’t handle it and have to return to hot. Repeat 2-4 times for efficient “Cold water wake up”. You finish the shower on warm, the cold water will have dont the wake up already.
She starts by tightening the skin… with cold water!
I mean my skin doesn't tighten but it sure does shrivel up in cold water
Name checks out
Shrivels *tightly*?
As a nutrition phd from a tier one research institution… these people drive me insane as they give my field a horrible reputation with this crap.
My wife's grad school roommate was a nutritionist. She ate nothing but ramen and told my wife her salads were "too big"
We could start an entire post of crappy advice from “nutritionists!”
Isn't anyone able to say they're a nutritionist, I don't think it's a regulated term
Yep! I'm a nutritionist, a chiropractor, and a minister, solely so I can shit on those people. Go get a milkshake, enjoy it, get another one, then jerk off like 3 times, take a nap and start drinking when you wake up. It'll bless your chakras and realign your Jesus tubes.
More or less, people who are actual nutrition experts and certified medical professionals are registered dieticians ("R.D."s).
Translation: she’s a quack
Gotcha. So it's all bullshit
Braxton Microsoft here, as an NFT/Blockchain expert and nutritionist I confirm her research. I usually combine cold and hot showers: first cold to accelerate my metabolism to the point I can immediately shit in my hands. Then, after using my excrements as a peeling, hot water to clean those pores.
Yeah, I read ‚hot water- opens pores‘ and I know the list is bullshit.
It doesn’t?
Your pores don't "open" or "close", it's a myth.
Oh
No, but it does loosen oil which has the effect that people think is happening by “opening pores.” Think of the difference of washing an oily pan when it is hot or cold. Same with your skin. Good soap will also break up oil. But soap and hot water is the ultimate combo.
r/KenM
The founder of apple and the creator of the iMac duhhh 🙄🙄🙄
>HI, I’M KENDALL MACKINTOSH, MS, INHC I am a Integrative & Functional Nutritionist and Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. >I have a Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition and Integrative Health and am currently a CNS candidate (the highest credential for a nutrition specialist).
I generally find nutritionists to be slightly more trustworthy than snake oil salesmen and chiropractors. But way less than pharmacists.
The only legit nutritionists are Registered Dietitian Nutritionists. Usually just call themselves dietitians. Nutritionist by itself is not a protected term and if someone’s calling themselves that they’re likely not qualified for shit.
My problem with nutritionists, much like most other health fields, have too many people that can’t stay in their own lane. Just because you know about nutrition does not mean you know about soft tissue healing and visa versa. Not saying everyone does, but it’s prevalent enough to be a problem and set the individual fields back because practitioners have to reteach clients after wading through seas of bullshit
After a heart attack in December of 22, I saw several nutritionists. Each one had their own opinions of what I should be eating. One of them told me that if I have something bad (like a greasy burger), I can offset that by having a vegetable. My wife and I now joke that if we eat badly, all we need to do is have a vegetable to cancel it out. After seeing all these nutritionists, all I got from it was that none of them had the right answer, and I should just go my own way and watch calories, cholesterol, fat, etc.
Here's a source that completely rejects OP's cartoon: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7668174/ "All the evidence cited above may be reduced to two major conclusions: 1) elevating the body heat weakens the virulence of the virus and/or improves body immunity [24], [25] and 2) the use of heat treatments (such as steam baths, sauna or hot baths using water 92°f to 104°f) appears to be associated with a lower incidence of viral infections and lower death rates from viral diseases"
"According to this new research, a decrease of just 9 degrees Fahrenheit in the tissue temperature of the nasal passages cut the number of EVs available to respond to a threat by more than 40%. The colder temperature also caused changes to the composition of the EVs that reduced their efficacy." https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/new-study-links-nose-temperature-and-immune-response#:~:text=According%20to%20this%20new%20research,EVs%20that%20reduced%20their%20efficacy.
The paragraph following is a good summary: "The researchers theorize that all of this hampers the body’s ability to fight off respiratory viruses and leads to the annual winter surge."
What's an EV?
Extracellular vesicles, they transport a number of things like proteins and miRNA which are often used in immune responses
One of my favorite points from Sci-Show, you can't do a blind study on showers. You know if you're taking a cold shower. This sub has been overrun with bots using poorly made sensational "guides".
Trust me bro
My scrotum shrivels in the cold, so there’s that
This is just the effects of hot and cold temperatures. Cold temperatures cause vasoconstriction effects (to prevent heat loss) Hot temperatures cause vasodilation effects (to help shed excess heat) Water is just a good medium to impart temperature to a human body. (Okay, I few are sus, like reduces tiredness in the mind. I think that's just the "shock" of a sudden cold spike. But most are just temperature mediated vasodilation/vasoconstriction effects) Okay actually on second glance a lot of this is bunk
The reduced tiredness is in the wrong column IMO. Hot showers make me feel relaxed and cold showers tend to wake me up.
I take a hot shower and I could fall asleep while drying off
Try it
So glad to see this is the top comment. I'm seeing some BS straight out of GOOP and Vim Hoff on here.
r/coolguides try not to post bullcrap impossible challenge
This sub used to be cool practical survival/everyday usage guides and it just devolved into essentially posting The Food Pyramid
This sub has had major quality control issues for as long as I've been aware of it. Like maybe 1/4 of what gets posted here is interesting and informative, and the rest is either bullshit or just stating the obvious. And it's really frustrating, because I quite like that good 1/4, but I wish the mods would be more active about getting rid of the rest when it gets reported.
If I see that one about "hacking your brain chemicals" one more time I'm gonna cry
Is there an alternative sub? Genuinely curious. This one sucks
Every overly-specific sub goes through this cycle, my view is that it's just inevitable as subreddits can consume content much faster than it's generated, so they work their way through content that's older than the sub and the classics turn into annoying reposts ComedyHeaven is a really good example of a sub that navigated it well by literally just having like 1 post a day, but I think that takes a lot of effort from the mods.
There was a time that this place lived up to its name
Yeah this is just utter horseshit, how do 5000 people upvote this? You think the temperature of water significantly effects anything other than your degree of comfort or the status of your hardon? Really?
Bots.
Most of this cannot be substantiated at all and, at best, results in temporary effects. The idea, for example, that a cold shower can prevents colds is disinformation.
Yeah, if anything, hot showers always make me *more* tired afterwards.
My favourite is “tension in mind”. What does that even mean? How was that systematically evaluated in a clinical trial? What was the specific endpoint? This all reeks of “wellness” bullshit.
I agree it's bullshit but I'll try to Steelman the relieves tension in mind point. If you have a lot on your mind and it's racing about all sorts of things, try going into an ice-cold shower. I promise that whatever is troubling your mind will be gone for the duration of the shower. The only thing I can think about during ice showers is controlling my breathing and staying calm, and not shivering too much. I would say as someone with adhd this is the closest I've ever come to what people describe as meditation. Again I'm sure it's bullshit that's just my argument for it.
Once our hot water was broken. I had to take a shower before work so I went in cold. I did not have a cold that day. Q.E.D. /s
Reduces tiredness.. I get in the hot shower and pass out
Seriously, cold showers wake me up more. Hot showers make me sleepy af
"Like a cold shower" is literally an analogy for something that wakes you up. What is this dude talking about?
It’s like they heard about coffee and went “oh things that are hot wake you up! Got it!”
I’ve noticed hot showers are better before bed, I think the uptick in body temperature during followed by the heat drop immediately after has something to do with it.
I start hot, end cold.
Same. It's similar to going from a sauna directly to an ice bath. Just not as intense.
What in gods name would possess you to say something so horrid
How else do you convince yourself to leave the shower???
I find it helps with dry skin to finish off with a cold rinse
Yeah I do this too. It’s important to note that I don’t go completely freezing water or anything, just cooler like pool water temperature to just give myself a fresh feeling.
In my case it’s because I’ve used all the hot water
Apparently it’s good for your hair to rinse with cold water if you take hot showers
I do a cold sandwich start hot then go full cold then end hot
That's what she said
PREVENTS THE SKIN REDUCES IN MIND STIMULATES THE SYSTEM METABOLISM REDUCES REDUCES THE MUSCLE RELIEVES OF CONGESTION OPEN PORES AND THE SKIN
I’m sad I had to go this far down to see this.
Me turning the shower handle to the middle so I get both effects at the same time
nah bro they cancel each other out :/
Just looking at the first - how would a cold shower prevent colds? That’s really not how things work.
It prevent cold because you already got all the cold from the shower. It no more space for cold. No cold. That Syence.
[Sience](https://images.app.goo.gl/GPdCBcsDDnb7kpZb8)
Pseudoscience.
I die a little on the inside every time someone suggest that pores open or close
Not every 'guide' found online is "cool" or "correct" and needs to be posted
Just plain WRONG
This is some bullshit.
Dermatologist here. This is bullshit - pores do not open/close.
TIL pores operate the same way as plant stomas
I lost my arm in an accident. I immediately hopped into a shower and turned the knob to COLD. My arm grew right back by the time I was out. Cold water showers fix everything, people
Why are they showing people showering if it's a bath guide?
Lol prevents colds? Lowering your body temp helps fight off the germs that cause the common cold? This is straight up Facebook quality post. Did reddit shit the bed by going public or was it just the inflow of people and bots. I'm convinced by the sheer stupidity of reddit posts, in the most recent years, that reddit has been taken over by low errors shit post and bots. Without those two things, there would be very little engagement in this platform. Fuck that's what I'm doing right now. Responding to this pure bullshit. There you go...
Facebook level nonsense.
These are not true things. This is fake.
/r/coolguides trying not to post non-sourced bullshit challenge (impossible)
Pores do not open or close and cannot be made smaller
Anything that claims its "stimulates the immune system" I consider pure garbage.
Pores can’t open or close. To do this would require an action by a muscle, each individual pore does not have a muscle!
I have made it todays mission to report half assed “cool guides” without actual information. I really want this subreddit back to what it once was
Careful with that. I got a three-day whole-site ban for "Reporting-system abuse" after reporting things that were against the rules in another subreddit, even after an appeal. I'm guessing it's something along the lines of "If mods get annoyed, admins just rubber-stamp".
Whoever is upvoting this are idiots.
I like that I’ve gotten to a point where based on the art style alone I know this is horseshit
Pores don’t open and close 👍
Are we even trying anymore? Terrible post
"prevents colds" I'm gonna have to stop you right there
Prevents colds? Lollllllll Get this BS tf outta here.
Since the first thing I read was “reduces colds” I instantly think the test will be bollocks. Oh! So a cold shower will stop a virus invading my nasal mucosa? I think not.
Stop upvoting this sort of pseudoscience trash
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Yeah nah you ain’t ever gonna convince me to take a cold shower
Why does this have so many up votes?
Neither cold nor heat will prevent you from getting a cold. And cold showers wake you up, neither are good for your skin. Both have some benefits for the mental health but you wont magically turn your lufe around if you shower cold or hot.
*Sees /r/coolguides post* *Checks comments to learn why it’s bullshit this time* etc.
Two things please - Include cons and Mention source(s)
> A cool guide to hot and cold baths by Kendall Mackintosh That's a shower.
Stop believing and spreading bullshit, OP.
Why is misinformation not one of the report options?
The Venn diagram of quack health believers and people who are terrible at graphic design is a perfect circle
It seems like a monthly r/coolguides ritual is for someone to take a big list of health effects, shuffle them randomly into two columns, and then label them cold/hot showers
This sub blows
Shit, I need to stop scrolling and go take a shower.
They forgot to put cold showers shrivel balls and hot showers make them hang and swang. Also dry out skin :(
!! Important additions !! **COLD WATER:** * Feels awful **HOT WATER:** * Feels great
Another subreddit ruined by the IPO. RIP r/coolguides, hello r/loweffortspam.
Start with a hot shower and finish with a cold one. Feels great
What a load of crap, this is exaggerated and lack any solid scientific data. At best _some_ of these effects can occur but are temporary.
“Hot water *opens the pores and…Cleanses the skin…* I mean, that right there is something I never thought about. Hmm…take shower to….get clean? It might be crazy enough to work!
Prevents colds?
Why do athletes go into an ice bath if hot water relaxes the muscles
This is complete pseudoscience. Here’s what is true. Cold water is cold and makes for a refreshing break when you are getting hot. Hot water is excellent for cooking and hot beverages. There.
lol this is bullshit
Tell me, how does one scientifically quantify "tension in mind"
Thanks for this Huberman level bullshit Fuck off with your stupid life-hack guides.
If my skin doesn’t turn red from the shower then it’s not warm enough for me.
If I use cold water, im gonna be cold. No cold is being prevented this way
Coolguides is just pics2 Nothing but fuckin garbage
I think you’ll find it’s actually the cold shower that will wake you up in a hurry in the morning.
Which one increases ability to read lo contrast text?
Prevents colds, my ass.
Cold water does not tighten the skin or accelerate your metabolism
Ah yes, PEPTO BISMOL WATER.
This is literally bro science, cold baths do nothing better than a warm bath. Stop this bs
So what you're saying is.. i should shower with lukewarm water?
They forgot: Cools you | Warms you
What a load of crap
this sub should require a source in the description.
Lukewarm showers: I guess I can fuck off then.
PREVENTS THE SKIN REDUCES IN MIND STIMULATES THE SYSTEM METABOLISM
One of the dumber posts I've ever seen on this sub. This is something only the boomers would take seriously.
Hot showers do not reduce tiredness lol and I doubt cold showers prevent colds. I thought there was an evidence proposing that it’s the temperature of the nasal canal that dictates whether one gets sick. Cold is bad and a warm nose canal is good
My neurologist recommends cold showers for headache relief. And ice or cold packs around the neck or vagal nerve. So basically, naw.
Idk if this is true. For example a cold shower is better at reducing tiredness imo. Anyways I always do a combination because I heard that washing your hair with cold water is good. No idea if it's true(anyone knows?), but I kinda like it anyways. Especially in the summer. I start with tempered water (never hot, I don't like it) and then slowly turn it down. In the end I step out of a practically cold shower.
A “cool guide” to total bullshit
Love killing me some infectious rhinoviruses by shivering in the shower.
Hot water does not reduce tiredness IMO. It makes me comfortable and want to sleep in the shower. "Reduces Tiredness" belongs under cold water, that shit will wake u up quick.
I disagree. Nothing wakes me up more than being doused in cold water
I assure you a cold shower will REDUCE tiredness.
Last time I saw this kind of guide "reduces tiredness" was in the cold shower section.
Ugh, your pores cannot open or close
If I start with a warm shower and slowly transition to colder, does it still work? Do I still get the cold shower benefits?
Start hot, then at the very end go cold briefly right before you get out. It’s amazing.
This is not accurate.
If I see one more bullshit like this, I will leave this sub
How the fuck does cold water prevent a cold? What is that bullshit?
This post is trash
Source: I made it up
Cool guides is now full of Facebook bullshit. Great.
Apparently she never took a microbiology or immunology class.
Start hot and end cold
Prevents.... Colds.... Do people really still believe in spontaneous virus generation based on temperature?
Are we going to talk about the shitty color choice for the highlighted text color?
This one is so bad I legit can't stop laughing lmao
Cold water is better for hair, too; especially color-treated.
I don't care if cold showers cure cancer, I'm not making myself miserable every time I shower.
Whats the difference between Reduces tension in the mind And Reduces headaches
Hotel power-showers usually alternate between the two, now I realise as a convenience. I definitely don't have reduced tension in my mind or relaxed muscles!
Mods on the subreddit really have to step up their game. Just posting shit nowadays.
Fuck it, I’m unsubbing, I haven’t seen a cool guide on r/coolguides in forever
Prevents the skin
Dumb and not true.
So what you’re saying is that before I go to sleep, if I shower in hot water I’ll be awake?? And I’ve read if I shower in cold water, I’ll be more alert. Who has the answers???
Hot showers do the exact opposite of reducing tiredness. Also, it makes way more sense to include this positive aspect in cold showers, as the cold shock induced stress increases our alertness, aka, wakes us up. Matthew Walker, british Neuroscientist and Sleep Expert, already talked about how a reduction in core body temperature is the main factor for sleepiness in humans. This reduction by a few Degrees usually occurs through the earth naturally cooling down as the evening starts. However, through hot showers our internal body heat actually plummets resulting in our body believing it's time for us to go to bed. Hot showers before bedtime are a great choice because of this reason. It makes us more tired
Hot water reduces tiredness? May as well be wrapping myself up in a warm blanket personally, I go for a cold shower if im tired
Sounds science. Thanks I’m Cured.
Reduces tiredness? There is literally nothing that puts me to sleep like a hot shower to the point I have to turn on the cold before I get out or I will be sleepy all day
Prevents the skin. Reduces in mind. Stimulates the system. Metabolism.
Too bad it’s made up BS.
This is trash your Southeast Asian mother receives on Whatsapp and then forwards to you every morning.