5 Benefits of taking a cold shower. 

1.Taking cold showers daily for a few months made people feel less sad. More studies say cold water might make you feel happier and less worried.

2.Cold water makes your body work harder to stay warm, and this makes your blood flow faster. This helps your muscles get more oxygenated blood that helps them heal after exercise. With time, your body might get better at moving blood around, which is good for people with high blood pressure or diabetes.

3.When you're in a cold shower, your body uses energy to keep warm, which might burn a few calories and make your metabolism a bit faster. But this doesn't replace eating healthy and exercising.

4.Cold water also tightens your blood vessels and sends blood to important parts of your body. When you warm up again, the blood vessels open up, bringing oxygenated blood back to your muscles and helping to reduce soreness and inflammation after exercise.  

5.Cold therapy helps with pain by reducing swelling and by making your brain feel less pain. It's like when you get a cold spray before a shot - it makes the pain go slower to your brain.

To use cold therapy in the shower:

1. Make the water really cold, but not freezing (below 60 degrees).

2. Start with 30 seconds of cold water, then try to increase to 1-3 minutes.

3. You can also try hot and cold showers. Have a hot shower for 3 minutes, then a cold one for 1 minute. Repeat this 3 times, and finish with a cold shower. 

Taking cold showers is usually okay and not harmful for most healthy people. But if you have certain health issues, like a skin reaction to cold, heart problems, or a condition that makes your fingers and toes numb in the cold, it's better to talk to your doctor before trying cold showers.  Cold showers might not feel nice, but they can actually be good for you. They can make your body less swollen, help with pain, make your blood move better, lower stress, and help muscles feel better. On the other hand, hot showers can be good for your heart, make stiff joints feel better, and help you sleep.