Cold showers are counterproductive?

If taking cold showers do not make you feel good enough do more things that give dopamine like exercise, walking, cooking, learning a new skill etc.

 

Cold showers have great benefits, 0 drawbacks, and are not addictive. You don't need to remove all enjoyable things in your life to be free from PMO.

 

Does that seriously make sense to you? Cold showers elevate dopamine is the problem? Science is so incredibly flawed and ridiculous that somehow they’ve managed to brainwash everyone on this site into thinking “dopamine” is the reason for addiction and all these reward system problems. How could they be so ignorant to suggest that dopamine is responsible for the effects of epinephrine. I mean.. they know the pathway of dopamine goes like this: tyrosine-> dopamine -> norepinephrine-> epinephrine. Diagram here if you don’t believe me: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102...Ksxe_Zy3aLI-1635255239-0-gqNtZGzNAjujcnBszQd9 So why the fuck do they pretend that it stops at dopamine and epinephrine has nothing to do with anything?

Tell me what makes more sense to you “cold showers release dopamine” or “cold showers release adrenaline(epinephrine).” Like.. it’s common fucking sense. Cold showers give you an adrenaline rush, and that’s what feels good after you do them. The problem is, that has consequences if done excessively. Your adrenal glands were not meant to be constantly flooding the body in response to a shock from cold temperatures. Adrenaline is addicting, no matter what source induces it. That’s why they call people who do extreme sports and sky diving “adrenaline junkies.” Not “dopamine junkies.”

 

Stop looking to flawed, corrupt science. Use your common sense. I just told you that people mistake dopamine for the effects of adrenaline, so yes, when they say dopamine spike by 250%, waht they really mean is that adrenaline increases. Think of how you feel in a cold shower.. adrenaline rush. I don't reccomend them at all, unless used sparingly. Cold therapy can be good after exercise to help reduce inflammation, but not a freezing cold shower every day for the sake of "discipline" which is really just idiocy and sheep behaviour. Look at wim hof, does he look healthy to you? He is the result of someone addicted to cold dips.

 

chil bro, here is the article he is referring to it clearly state that dopamine is not the only agent at play here : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s004210050065

 

That's good.. but why do you think OP chose to focus on the dopamine and not the adrenaline which increased 530%? Because people on this site are brainwashed.

 

I doubt that, plus I've read that dopamine is just an anticipation chemical. Regardless, cold showers are a bit difficult and they make you feel pretty good after. That's enough. We spend too much time now having an easy (but also unhappy) life, so nothing wrong with making ourselves do something hard every day. Go for a run also. The Chinese Empire is rising again, and they don't accept weakness. Nor should they.

 

Ha ok. Nor should they in themselves. Doh!

 

Actually I mean my point. Life ebbs and flows. Whilst the West sits arguing group-on-group, why wouldn't China take over? They know how to do it, they are strong, and I doubt if we (I'm British) want to be hard anymore.

 

people now think usa is evil or whatever, they should take a good look at the shit the ccp pulled in vietnam it should tell what they will do when there is nobody to stop them.

 

No, the USA is not evil. It has been a more civilised empire than the British, and more than before that. The main problem is media evidence and people not really wanting to dominate, which is understandable. But, folk must prepare for someone else calling the shots..

 

How is taking cold showers everyday "sheep behavior"? I do it myself and its quite enjoyable.

 

It's sheep behaviour because it's become popular among improvement circles, and that's the only reason why people do it. I can almost guarantee that you've probably never considered that it could be negatively affecting your health. You just went ahead and started doing it cause everybody talks about it.

 

I highly doubt that. Holistic treatments don't make money, targeted drugs do.

And how is that measured exactly?

Why do you equate motivation with addiction? It's definitely not that simple, as you already said. You'll have to define what you even mean by motivation first.