Why do I voluntarily go into cold water?
I’ll explain. We are all under stress. Our modern world creates it. It’s a product of the way we live.
Over time this stress causes adaptations in our bodies…most of them aren’t what we are looking for in life:
Here’s a great article published in the Journal of Integrative Medicine. It gives some practical tips from a functional medicine perspective on how to improve your immune system against COVID-19, but it will also have cross over effects for influenza.
I recently read “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” by James Nestor.
He decided to write the book after his interest was peaked when he wrote a book on freediving. Obviously free divers take breath work to another level but he also heard of the following things: