Cold showers, like pissing in your pants to keep you warm?

I wouldn't get too excited about the claims of one website. And a couple of studies don't make for a flawless unassailable truth. I would also be a little concerned that there was no direct link to the study. How many participants were there? How were they selected? Were there controls? Really high quality studies are difficult and expensive to do. Which is why a lot of them aren't very good. They also don't mention how much the studies claim T levels increased. If it is only a modest percentage it likely wouldn't have any noticeable effect.

C'mon, if cold showers were the equivalent spiking up some steriods, wouldn't it be obvious by now? Wouldn't we all already know?

Go ahead and do the cold showers. If they work for you, great! If they don't, try something else.

 

Hi @Legoman I thought the title was funny. Cold showers and snap bands and shock collars all seem like corporal punishment to me. I just take whatever shower i want and I'm fine. A hot shower hasn't given me more urges than a cold one. I think a painfully cold shower would put me into shock and lead to increased urges to re-balance the body's pleasure/pain levels. I guess cold showers are the least abusive of the punishments I mentioned but its certainly painful. I just put the water to like mildly cool, and if its hot outside, I'll gradually make it ice cold because that feels good in the heat. But not in the winter.