Ice baths have become popular and are considered very effective. Many believe they help to recover, lose weight, strengthen physical and mental health, and improve blood flow and libido. The beginning of this fashion was laid by athletes such as runner Paula Radcliffe, and swimmer Michael Phelps, later celebrities and entrepreneurs intercepted the fashion, for example, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey. Tempering popularizers such as Hof, who set a Guinness World Record for swimming under ice, maintain interest, saying that a “cold shower a day keeps the doctor away” is the best medicine. Is it so? Science has refuted all these misconceptions and has not confirmed the expected effects of ice bathing. Moreover, it turned out that ice baths do not speed up recovery. Instead, they noticeably worsen muscle growth after training, reducing the rate of muscle growth by 25%! No positive effect of baths on anxiety reduction was found. And ice baths help only mice to lose weight, not ...
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