How Ice Baths Might Help You Stop Peeing Yourself
If you’re of the rare category of people who has neither given childbirth nor had to endure sexual abuse and yet you still wrestle with incontinence, you may be frustrated by the lack of answers. So here’s a theory that is seemingly far less explored, but just might make a big difference.
A Starter’s Guide to Ice Baths
It’s not just a matter of being able to “grit and bear it” through something that is obviously uncomfortable to the comfort-seeking tendency of the modern human body. It’s hardly about the cold water at all, actually. Being able to regulate body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate is also helpful when we get into an argument, rear end someone in traffic or walk into an interview or proposal for a raise. It’s about managing tension and stress.