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WebMD's cold plunge guide was medically reviewed by a dermatologist whose only evidence of cold expertise is reviewing an article about freezing warts off skin.
Her ignorance shows.
Here's what WebMD gets wrong about ice baths:
Why would anyone subject themselves to an icy plunge? Research points to quite a few physical and mental health benefits, although we need more and bigger studies to gain a clearer understanding of them. It may help ease muscle soreness, boost your mood, and build stress resilience. But cold plunges also come with risks, and the research is still evolving. Would you try an ice bath for its potential health benefits, or is the icy water a hard no for you? Tell us in the comments! wb.md/3W3y4kv
WebMD says regular cold plunges can help protect you from Type 2 diabetes.
They're right.
So why would they list diabetes as a reason not to plunge?
Because WebMD wants you sick and scrolling.
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WebMD tells athletes to ice bathe after training. That's backwards.
An ice bath right after exercise doesn't make your next session any better. It blunts the adaptation you just trained for.
Plunge before you train. Sauna after.
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The Morozko Forge ice bath stays at your temperature, with clean, filtered, and grounded mineral water all the time.
No bags of ice. No chlorine. No hassle.
Cold that's ready when you are.
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"Goes down to 37°F" is a capability. Not a recommendation.
Most cheap cold plunges run on aquarium chillers. They were never meant to run near freezing.
Here's what happens at 37°F:
1. The refrigerant in the heat exchanger has to run even colder. Maybe 30°F.
2. The filter gets dirty or the pump fails. Water flow slows.
3. Ice forms on the heat exchanger fins and breaks them open.
We know one business owner who replaced his chiller seventeen times.
Morozko doesn't use a chiller. Refrigeration and filtration are separate systems.
That's why ice can't break a Morozko.
After the Steelers victory in Paris this morning, we calculate that NFL teams with players or coaches using Morozko are 21-9.
The Commanders, at 1-4, are pulling down the win percentage.
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They're quoting @seagertp, who definitely did not consult on this screenplay.
Insulin is a fat-maxxing hormone.
You might think you're eating healthy because someone told you to eat "mostly plants" or that "oatmeal reduces cholesterol" but what you don't realize is that the insulin spikes these high carbohydrate foods create are locking you into a fat-storing metabolism.
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Seeing the ice floating on the water will activate your sympathetic nervous system before to even touch the water.
Starting my third week of cold plunging. Last night I dropped the temp from 45 to 40 on our @MorozkoForge. This morning there was ice floating on the top.
Next level mind games to get in! 🥶
Here's the thing: an ice bath after training doesn't make your next session better. Study after study shows it.
It can even blunt your muscle gains.
Cold first. Then the work.
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A combat veteran already on testosterone replacement therapy added daily ice baths on top of it. His levels climbed from the 700s to 1733 ng/dL. Cold exposure and TRT weren't competing, they stacked. morozkoforge.com/post/do-ice…
It has come to our attention that some medical doctors and Instagram influencers may have been living under a rock since 2023 when @joerogan explained to @derekmoreplatesmoredates that cold plunge should be done BEFORE exercise, and not after -- a fact that Joe picked up from @seagertp and the @hubermanlab podcast with Stanford Professor Craig Heller.
If this is new to you, then please accept our apologies for thinking that the man with the most popular podcast in the world could not possibly have escaped the attention of the Instagram experts who have suddenly discovered some new secret knowledge of ice baths.
After 3 years.
Ben Greenfield calls grounding "the easiest, longest-term biohack" available.
His explanation is simple: it's all electron flow. morozkoforge.com/post/ice-ba…
Women don't need to exercise after a cold plunge to boost testosterone. Only 25% of a woman's testosterone comes from her ovaries. The rest comes from skin, fat, and adrenal glands, and cold activates all three directly.
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