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  1. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    I'm cured 🙂 My 4 year old daughter is having issues though. She is not on board with cold showers at all. I tried to convert her.. she just screamed. I'll definitely look into that. Thanks for the tip
  2. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    Detroit water department websight. Laid out all the chlorine, fluoride etc. Detroit has some of the best water that I've had to drink. I it's used by several bottled water cos. Aquafina, dasani, la croix, Faygo. At least regionally.
  3. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    We have a hardness average of 106 going between 91 and 115 which appears to be the hard side of soft.
  4. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    Interesting. I had heard that about flint. Inland rivers are very salty from all the salt and fertilizer in the system. They used to be on huron water which they bought from detroit and like you said, it coated the pipes. They switched to the river and it stripped all that. I have copper in...
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    Cold showers

    That's adding salt to the water right? I don't do that. The water quality is pretty good. Straight from huron. I feel like soap works pretty well.
  6. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    Its numbing. Recently torqued my knee again being a dumbass on the basketball court and the water on the tap is more effective than an ice pack. I do add enough heat during some of the shower so my brain doesn't freeze but not enough to feel "warm". The icy cold is not very effective at...
  7. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    Yes it can be dampened. There are people who have trained themselves to swim a mile in Antarctic water without a wetsuit. Water that would kill you or me
  8. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    Yep! I would say dry skin is not something that bothers me anymore. It really was that simple.
  9. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    I am now a full year in on cold showers. Thanks to this thread. It would never have never crossed my mind to lose hot showers. I like it. I have taken several hot showers over the last year, expecting them to feel like a treat, but they have not been satisfying. My body now craves the brisk...
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    Cold showers

    https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/psoriatic-arthritis/symptoms-causes/syc-20354076 I have, or what is close to being psoriasis. Scaly dry skin, especially on knees, ankles, elbows, hands, and feet. It seems to be that hot showers were the culprit, as removing that one factor has...
  11. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    I may indulge in a hot bath one of these days if my muscles get sore... but most days I have no problem with muscle soreness. dry skin is related and contributes to arthritis... something that worries me. But so far I haven’t had any cravings for a hot shower. Like I can’t really see...
  12. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    I guess what I have taken away from all this is there is no benefit to hot showers, they are bad for my skin. So why do it other than pleasure? The discomfort of ashy itchy skin has kept my hand off the hot dial. Also, to go from a warm shower to cold seems much more difficult to me. The...
  13. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    yeah, I literally jack up the bathroom to like 85 before attempting. There is a rule of thumb for cold water swimming that if ambient temperature + water temperature equals less than 100, it is prime hypothermia conditions. I can tolerate swimming in the Detroit river in June only when the...
  14. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    Nice!
  15. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    Getting the bathroom nice and toasty helps. I think switching from hot to cold would be worse, in certainly not wasting any water, but it does feel so good. I have been finding myself really looking foward to my shower.
  16. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    I have always loved swimming in cold water and it always feels so good. Its odd to me that I didn't make the connection sooner. I would always follow up a cold swim with a hot shower. My technique now involves bumping on the hot air so the bathroom is nice and toasty and my shower head has a...
  17. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    Thank for posting this Cory. I am a full week in and I doubt I will ever take a hot shower again. I didn't even watch the whole video as I found him annoying. But his comment on skin hit home. I have always had horribly dry skin. ashy as they get. Like when I take of my long johns and it...
  18. kevin bingham

    Cold showers

    What about just not showering at all. Skip it completely. They are a pretty recent phenomenon really.
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