{"id":2898,"date":"2025-06-24T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/cold-showers-can-increase-the-risk-of-health-problems\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:15:15","slug":"cold-showers-can-increase-the-risk-of-health-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/cold-showers-can-increase-the-risk-of-health-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold showers can increase the risk of health problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-24 13:15:13<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Health experts have warned people to not take cold showers as it can cause health problems.<BR><br \/>\nThe freezing water trickling onto humans&#8217; skin can cause blood vessels near the skin to become narrower, resulting in the reduction of blood flow.<BR><br \/>\nSudden exposure to cold water could cause health problems for some people.<BR><br \/>\nShowering in water that is 15\u00b0C or under can cause the blood vessels to constrict at a fast rate, resulting in blood pressure to increase &#8211; however, this is rare.<BR><br \/>\nCold showers are not effective at removing and breaking down sebum and bacteria on the skin, in comparison to lukewarm showers.<BR><br \/>\nTherefore, people are more likely to get blackheads and whiteheads.<BR><br \/>\nMeanwhile, hot showers are not recommended on a hot day.<BR><br \/>\nWater warmer than the body &#8211; which has an optimal temperature of around  37\u00b0C &#8211; could increase its core temperature when heat is transferred to the body.<BR><br \/>\nAdam Taylor, a Professor of Anatomy at Lancaster University, recommends taking showers or a bath with a water temperature of 26-27\u00b0C.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor. Taylor told The Conversation: &#8220;Although diving into a cold bath or shower straight after being out in the heat might feel nice on your skin, it isn&#8217;t doing what is needed to reduce the core temperature of the body.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;When exposed to cold [such as a cold shower] the blood vessels near the skin constrict, reducing the blood flow into these areas.<BR><br \/>\nSo in the context of cooling the body down, jumping into a cold shower does the opposite of what needs to happen, as less blood is now flowing to the surface of the skin.<BR><br \/>\nThis will hold the heat in and around your organs instead of getting rid of it.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Basically, you&#8217;re tricking your body that it doesn&#8217;t need to cool down, but actually needs to conserve heat.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-24 13:15:13 Health experts have warned people to not take cold showers as it can cause health problems. The freezing water trickling onto humans&#8217; skin can cause blood vessels near&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}