Benefits of Whole Body Cryotherapy

Reduce inflammation and allow your body to heal!

Research shows that inflammation is the root cause to many ailments including diabetes, depression and even cancer. Our body has the ability to heal itself, but it’s ability to do so is hindered by the level of inflammation.

Regular cryotherapy has show to…

• increases metabolism
• improves brain function
• boost your immune system
• promote healthy & happy skin
• faster muscle recovery
• better sleep
• less pain
• more mobility

Increase Your Metabolism & Lose Weight

WBC “tricks” your body into implementing the same responses it would if you were freezing, but without the discomfort. Your body works much harder than normal in order to heat your body up! It’s been reported that anywhere between an additional 500-900 calories are burned over a 24 hour period as a result of each session.

When we’re exposed to extreme cold temperatures, our bodies experience something called thermogenesis. This is a metabolic response that warms the body by creating more mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell). Our body’s tissues convert into metabolically active tissues and the increased levels of these metabolically active tissues in our bodies help our bodies burn more fat.

Improve Brain Function

Whenever our bodies undergo extreme stress, for example when we exercise, go in a sauna, or fast, it responds on a cellular level, triggering responses that exceed what is actually needed to protect itself. One of the side-effects of cold therapy is the secretion of norepinephrine, which is responsible for improving our alertness, promotes vigilance, enhances formation and retrieval of memory, and focuses our attention.

Cryotherapy also increases the activity of cold-shock proteins. These specialized proteins are responsible for increasing the synthesis at the end of the dendrites in our brain cells. This helps our brain by protecting it against cognitive and behavioral issues associated with neuro-degenerative diseases.

Promote Skin Health

Inflammation is at the core of the aging process. Cryotherapy reduces inflammation via norepinephrine. Norepinephrine lowers the levels of tumor necrosis alpha which is a proinflammatory cytokine, responsible for promoting inflammation.

Your natural skin oils have benefits far beyond any topical moisturizer. Much like a cold shower, the cryotherapy “steam” closes your pores, preventing these important oils from being lost. At the same time, the small pores block a build up of dirt and grime. When you are in a cryotherapy chamber, the blood vessels near the surface contract from the cold. When you get out, your blood rushes back in order to heat your body back up, allowing your body to deliver nutrients to the skin. As these blood vessels strengthen, they are there to help your skin stay in a nutrient rich flow.

Faster Muscle Recovery

If you workout hard, you know that shortly after intense exercise, the body goes through a pro-inflammatory process. Some inflammation after exercise helps the body build muscle mass, but if it goes on for more than an hour, it tends to have a less beneficial effect on the body. Studies have shown that doing cryotherapy one hour after exercising helps increase muscle mass, reduced recovery time and more power when performing the same exercises next time.

Your body’s natural healing mechanisms are transported via your blood. WBC increases the circulation of hormone and enzyme-rich blood, which leads to the delivery of more oxygen, minimized toxins, and enhanced muscle recovery.

Better Sleep

It turns out that cryotherapy promotes the creation of certain hormones that affect your hippocampus, allowing for smoother sleep patterns. These hormones and hormonal changes in turn affect relaxation and sleep in a positive way. Whole Body Cryotherapy also creates easier blood flow throughout the body, as the body works to get the blood everywhere to warm it back up. When you have better blood flow, your body has a lower resting heart rate, allowing you to easily stay in delta and theta brainwave states, which makes for great dreams and great sleep, uneventful sleep cycles, thus, a rested feeling when you wake up.

WBC has been helpful in allowing people to get off of pain meds, which also can affect sleep. Regular cryotherapy may even help ease depression. This is because this cold therapy inhibits cortisol, a stress hormone which can disrupt your healthy blood sugar and sleep patterns. After all, less worry means less stress and less stress means sounder sleep!

Strengthen Bones {Reverse Osteroperosis)

The bones in our body are constantly breaking down and building back up again. When they don’t build back up as fast as they break down, we call that osteoporosis. Thyroid problems, low calcium and Vitamin D also contribute to bone loss, as well as lack of exercise, use of alcohol and smoking. Chronic inflammation can be a big culprit in bone loss as the body reabsorbs existing bone.

A Polish research study done in 1998 shows that WBC at 2-sessions a day (with 3-hours in between) for 2-6 weeks can treat osteoporosis. The research states that cryotherapy works by reducing pain and swelling, while increasing strength and relaxing skeletal muscles, and increasing the range of motion of joints. The main advantage in cryotherapy to other treatments is quicker time to complete treatment, that and the speed at which the patient notices the differences and progress, thus also psychologically helping the process.

• Cold Allergenic Phenomenon (known allergy to cold contactants)
• Heavy consumerist diseases (abnormal bleeding)
• Seizure disorders
• Bacterial and viral infections of the skin, wound healing disorders (open sores or discharging wound/skin conditions)
• Alcohol and drugs relative contraindication
• Valvular Heart Disease
• Condition after heart surgery
• lschemic Heart Disease
• Raynaud’s Disease
• Polyneuropathies
• Pregnancy
• Vasculitis
• Claustrophobia
• Congestive Heart Failure
• COPD