Are cold plunges good for women? Occasionally, in warm weather, when you feel like it, they are fine. As a daily health practice, I do not recommend them. The research on women shows a stress response that never fades, a thyroid shift after each exposure, and no recovery benefit in the one trial done in women. Here is what the studies say, what Ray Peat and the older thyroid writers said about cold, and why I keep cold plunges occasional.

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