Cryotherapy Is The Ice Cold Skincare Treatment You Need In The Heat Wave
18.07.2022 - 17:03
/ msn.com
celebrities doing weird and wonderful things on Instagram. Britney's daily outfit dances (ticking both the weird and wonderful boxes), Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's constant trolling of each other, and Lady Gaga's ice bath rituals. The latter, however, might not be so weird after all.
A form of cryotherapy, exposing your body to extreme cold can hold numerous benefits for your body and skin, if you're brave enough to give it a go. But rather than lugging a trolley full of ice back from the supermarket and filling up your tub, there are treatments and at-home tools that can give you the results without the drama (and risk of chilblains). Cryotherapy literally means ‘cold therapy’, which can mean using cold temperatures, ice, or cold tools (ice packs, sprays, probes…) to help the body.
However, in recent years it is most commonly associated with immersing the whole body in the extreme cold for a specific time duration, specifically in ‘cryo-chambers’. The chambers, not unlike a glass-doored shower usually sized to fit one person, are set at around an icy -90 degrees celsius, and you’ll be there for around 3 minutes (less for beginners, slightly more for the hardcore and experienced). The proven benefits are plentiful, but varied.
Dr Yannis Alexandrides, a plastic surgeon who founded 111Cryo and has since rolled his icy chambers out across the UK, tells us the main ones are ‘clarity of mind, an endorphin rush, muscle recovery and a visible tightening of the skin in the most immediate term’. Long term, and with multiple use, you can see even more results. ‘This can include a stimulation of the body’s metabolic rate - with between 500 – 800 calories burnt per session’ Dr Yannis explains, ‘plus the treatment also helps with
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