Therapeutic Contrast Showers for Improving Your Health

This therapy helps strengthen and normalize the nervous, circulatory, endocrine (hormonal), musculoskeletal and immune systems, and is excellent for helping the body cope with stress.  The more you challenge yourself with cold, the more you will notice these effects, sometimes even a subtle healthy “high”.   After every shower, turn the hot water up as much as possible, then turn down the hot water, as low as you can tolerate (eventually you may be able to turn it off completely, and comfortably).   Cover every inch of your body with the cooler water, including the bottoms of your feet.  Focus the cold stream on affected areas - scalp, back, joints, pelvis, etc.   If you prefer, you may even alternate hot and cold, as long as you always end with cold.  This should take only one to three minutes, in entirety.  Then dry yourself off quickly, rubbing briskly.  This may sound barbaric, but this causes...