Cold Water Plunges & Ice Baths! Why Is this America's Hottest New Trend? Does Ice Water Actually Help with Mental & Physical Health? Should Schools & Everyone Else Be Doing This? Zac Does Research.

The Best Paragraph I've Read: KLAY THOMPSON was skeptical at first. This was back in 2018, when Warriors coach Steve Kerr had arranged for the motivational speaker Tony Robbins to visit practice. Robbins spoke about many things that day, but what stuck for Thompson was Robbins’s habit of keeping his pool just above freezing and jumping in every morning. Robbins swore it was the best way to start the day. Thompson was not much of a cold guy, but he did have an outdoor pool at his Oakland home and he did have a hard time waking up. So one winter morning he headed out and leaped in. It was, Thompson says, “very hard, very cold.” Upon getting out, however, the chill had given way to mild euphoria, the result of what one researcher termed a flood of “the happy hormones”—endorphins, serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin—activated by the body’s cold response. So the next day, and the day after that, Thompson did it again. “You get out and you just feel like you can accomplish anything,” he said recently, sitting in a hallway in Chase Center after practice. “Everything throughout the day seems a lot easier.” This paragraph comes from Sports Illustrated. The article is titled: "Ice? Ice, Baby!" The article is written by Chris Ballard. You can read the full article here: https://www.si.com/basketball/2024/02/01/ice-baths-athletes-klay-thompson-lebron-james Zac and Don discuss the latest trend in America - cold water plunges & ice baths. They wonder if cold water can actually help people mentally and physically. Zac does some research and shares his results.