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When your lymphatic system isn’t running smoothly, the risk of developing degenerative diseases increases. This can decrease your quality of life, increase healthcare costs, and increase your chances of premature death.

Contrast therapy is the method of alternating between hot and cold exposure. This can be a combination of a warm bath and cold plunge or it can also be a combination of sauna (a heated room versus heated water) and cold plunge.

Compression therapy promotes lymph and blood circulation throughout your body. Although this improved circulation provides the benefits we covered above, compression therapy as a whole supports your general health and immune system, which can help to keep age-related diseases at bay.

Cryotherapy is a form of deliberate cold therapy that exposes the body to air cooled to -150°F to -240°F in a chamber. This practice can promote many of the benefits that other types of cold therapy does, including reduced inflammation, increased recovery, improved mood, and dementia prevention.

Chromotherapy is the use of colored light in healing. There’s no special trick to using the light – you simply need to have the light shining on your body (or a part of your body).

With a range of benefits, including pain relief, stress reduction, and improved mental clarity, more and more people are starting to add cold therapy to their routine. Fortunately, there are a range of cold plunge options available to administer this therapy, including cold plunge tubs, barrels, and inflatable portable ice baths. But which should you choose?

Although you might live 5-10 years longer, due to discovering an internal health threat to your body, there are a number of negatives to consider when getting a preventative MRI scan.

Deliberately exposing yourself to cold therapy may be at the bottom of your wellness list. That’s because the feeling of being cold, for most people, is uncomfortable and to be avoided at almost all costs.  But if you’re looking for a science backed therapy that has many proven health benefits, cold therapy should be a top priority.

What if there was a way to extend your life that didn’t involve moving? There is. It’s called deliberate heat exposure, or in other words, thermotherapy or heat therapy.

Simply put, stress is our physiological response to pressure. It can occur because of a variety of stress factors, but all of which can impact your longevity.