Can I build up immunity to cold temperature?
Can I build up immunity to cold temperature?
Edit: as the comments said, I used the incorrect word. What I mean is "tolerance"
An immunity? Fuck no.
A tolerance though? Yes, you totally can!
You'll never be invulnerable to cold of course, but you will adapt to it if you're exposed regularly to cold.
The real trick to dealing with extreme cold is layering up with the right gear for the conditions, but being adapted to it definitely helps!
You can build up resistance. I live in WA, when I visited Spain everyone was shocked to see me perfectly fine in just a t-shirt when it was 55 american degrees out
I've never seen someone refer to Fahrenheit as American degrees, but it makes sense
If you were only wearing a t-shirt, I'm betting people were more shocked at your lack of pants than your tolerance for the temperature.
55 american degrees
That's 13 normal degrees, for the rest of us.
Yes, you can build tolerance to cold temperatures by slow gradual exposure to them. Using cold water at the end of showering and wearing one Layer of clothes less to feel slightly cool (but not freezing) works well. Aside of cold tolerance, the benefits include boosting your imune system, turning your white fat into Brown fat, which is able to burn calories (and make heat from them, that's why you feel warmer) and lowering inflammation in your body.
You can definitely build tolerance. So long as it’s above 50°F, I’m likely to be shirtless while hiking or running. Wim Hof may be onto something in terms of what’s possible.
Trying to become an Aes Sedai?
I moved from a hot part of the world to a colder part. I'd say I've climatized and acclimated to the colder environment.
You guys have Spring?!? We just go from Winter in May to Summer in June!
From frozen hellscape to road construction
Run 5ks at dawn in the winter and you'll never feel cold again.
That never worked for me. I used to run in the early morning before dawn and if it was warm I could warm up and feel good. If it was cold (yes sometimes it gets cold even in Florida) I had to run wearing layers to be able to warm up enough to feel safe running. Sweatpants over yoga pants, tank, long sleeve running shirt, jacket.
I have seen people adapt to the heat here though, and my brothers who grew up in warm climate and moved to the northeast certainly adapted.
I’d feel I was cutting my 21k runs through the snow and ice short though.
And I’m fully covered on those; no shorts and Tshirt until March-ish.
Look into wim hof. He's probably the best in the world.