Ice baths for weight loss? Not so fast... | Morozko Science
A regular practice of whole body cold water immersion in an ice bath has enormous metabolic and hormonal benefits -- but losing weight is not necessarily one of them.
Ice baths can help you improve your body composition, produce endogenous testosterone, correct thyroid disorders, burn fat, and reverse Type 2 diabetes by improving your insulin sensitivity, but an ice bath or cold shower practice alone is unlikely to help you lose much weight.
Why is that?
Because compensatory mechanisms reduce your metabolism (e.g., at night) that allow your body to maintain fat stores.
That's there are hundreds of medical studies hypothesizing that deliberate cold exposure might help treat obesity in humans, and not one scientific study demonstrating that it has.
Read more in our article Calories & Cold Exposure https://www.morozkoforge.com/post/ice...