Contrast showers are showers that alternate between hot and cold water. This is believed to boost both your immunity and circulatory systems, recovering and restoring the body to its balanced and optimal state, reducing muscles strain and soreness, less lactic acid in muscles and refreshing the skin, the biggest organ of the body, carrying away the toxins excreted while sweating and perspiring.

When our body undergoes this therapy, it helps to strengthen and normalize our internal body systems like our nervous, circulatory and immune systems. More importantly, it helps us to cope more with stress. As you challenge more with more cold water, sometimes you will feel a little "high" too.

How does contrast shower help your body to detox?

With contrast shower, there would be an increase in blood circulation which will help our body in the detox process by increasing the excretion of metabolic and cellular waste from the body. It can also help transporting the nutrients and oxygen to the damaged tissues. In additional to that, contrast showers may increases the number of white blood cells. It is part of a skin cleansing process. It is also believed that it can improved your digestion and help you to digest food well.

If you practice contrast shower, you may be able to get more used to the change in climate if you are living in a fluctuating temperature environment. This usually applies to people living in the temperate countries where the weather can be suddenly hot or suddenly cold.

Alternating the cycles of heat/cold is highly effective and the varying of temperature critical for its impact and results. A couple of minutes of hot water but not scalding, followed by an intense blast of around 1 minutes of cold water, then more hot water for around two minutes and again the wake-up blast of cold. This is often also referred to as water-therapy.

Who should not take a contrast shower? When you are asthmatic, have active autoimmune disease, inflammation, cardiovascular issues, pregnant, temperature insensitive, weak feeling or otherwise feel awful after doing so, do not take a contrast shower. Consult your physician if you have any questions about the safety or side effects of this procedure.

When you are experiencing these conditions below, you should beware of your own conditions and reduce the intensity or even discontinue this treatment.

- If you are ill and not feeling well.
- When you are undergoing some treatment for chronic illness.
- Women on their menstrual cycle should not take this treatment.
- When you feel cold and you are shivering.
- Suffering from heart diseases
- Pregnancy
- Malnutrition
- Diabetes

Take note: Do not mistaken contrast showers as contrast bath. The latter one would require immersing your body into tubs of hot and cold water. Contrast bath helps when there are certain body parts which are swelling.

Also when you spray cold water, you should avoid spraying water directly onto your kidney area. Using a easy to buy cheap jet to spray the water should be sufficient and effective.

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