Why Cryotherapy?

 
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Cryotherapy or Cold Therapy has been around for years. In fact Hippocrates, AKA the ‘Father of Medicine’, showed his patients the value of ice and snow as treatments for pain, stiffness and inflammation.

If you’ve ever walked outside on a cold day without wearing a jacket you’ll know that your body reacts quickly… You’ll first start to shiver and then your body turns blue and if you stay out any longer you might even feel a bit disordered… Cold stresses the body and extreme stress (much like exercise, sauna, or fasting), triggers a natural response on a cellular level that help our body repair, recover and protect our cells.

We’ll get into the details later but to summarize, cryotherapy promotes the following things as described in scientific journals:

  1. Cold-shock Proteins - Peer reviewed studies have shown that cryotherapy may promote protein synthesis at the end of dendrites - where synapses form - and may protect our brain cells from cognitive and behavioral deficits associated with some neuro-degenerative diseases.¹

  2. Norepinephrine secretion - Norepinephrine inhibits pro-inflammatory processes. In other words, norepinephrine can fight inflammation.²

  3. Thermogenesis - when our bodies are exposed to super cold temperatures, our metabolic response warms the body through a process called thermogenesis. Our bodies respond to cold by producing more mitochondria, converging our body’s tissues into more metabolically active ones. The greater amount of metabolically active tissues our body has, the more fat it will burn.³

Asking why we should do cryotherapy is like asking why we should exercise. We do cryotherapy to strengthen our body and live a healthier and better life. We like to make cryotherapy safe and accessible so make sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel.




Learn more about the benefits of cryotherapy and go through the many cryotherapy clinical studies.


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Founded on facts: for peer-reviewed articles, scholarly journals, and articles cited above please see the below sources.

  1. Edkins AL, Price JT, Pockley AG, Blatch GL. Heat shock proteins as modulators and therapeutic targets of chronic disease: an integrated perspective. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2018;373(1738):20160521. doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0521

  2. https://www.britannica.com/science/norepinephrine

  3. Pockley AG, Henderson B. Extracellular cell stress (heat shock) proteins-immune responses and disease: an overview. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2018;373(1738):20160522. doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0522


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