Bursts of cold water are better for the immune system. The Victorians swore by the benefits of cold baths for everything from healing bruises to banishing hysteria. And it seems they may have been on to something — apart from the hysteria, that is. Increasingly athletes are using ice baths and showers to ease aching muscles, while last week, 6. Ruby Wax revealed she has a cold shower or bath every day to give herself a ‘youthful complexion’ and ward off wrinkles.

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Indeed, scientists are finding more and more health benefits to having a quick blast of cold water, including boosting your immune system and easing low mood. Scientists are finding more and more health benefits to having a quick blast of cold water, including boosting your immune system and easing low mood. Experts say the best results come not from a cold shower or bath but alternating between hot and cold water. This technique, known as contrast water therapy, involves showering for about 2.

Standing under, or sitting in, hot water for several minutes opens up blood vessels in the skin and muscles, improving the flow of oxygen- rich blood. Switching to cold water for one minute makes the same blood vessels instantly constrict, reducing the flow of blood. Over a 2. 0- minute period this creates a ‘pumping’ mechanism, where more oxygen- rich blood flows into the muscles and tissues near the skin, while more deoxygenated blood (blood which has deposited its oxygen cargo into those muscles and tissues) is then pulled back through the veins to the lungs, to collect more oxygen. This has been found to have numerous benefits, including, for example, helping to reduce muscle ache after exercise. During strenuous exercise oxygen- rich blood cannot reach the muscles to match the rate at which oxygen is used. In response, muscles release a substance called lactic acid which causes a painful burning sensation and can delay recovery after exercise.

Scientists believe moving from hot to cold water boosts the number of disease- fighting immune system cells. However, contrast water therapy is thought to help rid the muscles of lactic acid and speed recovery. Meanwhile, a study published last year by the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam found taking a ‘hot- to- cold’ shower every day slashed absences from work due to sickness by almost 3. The researchers studied 3,0. The results, in the journal PLOS ONE, showed that in the following few months the number taking time off work due to illness plummeted.

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Scientists believe moving from hot to cold water boosted the number of disease- fighting immune system cells such as monocytes (white blood cells). Whether or not it can keep your skin looking youthful is more contentious. The British Association of Dermatologists insists there is no research to confirm that contrast water therapy prevents skin ageing. However, Georgios Tzenichristos, a sports scientist who specialises in skin care at The Hale Clinic, London, says contrast water therapy may help increase blood flow to the tiny capillaries that lie near the surface of the skin and provide it with the nutrients needed to keep it elastic and taut.‘Hot and cold showers improve circulation and skin ageing is mostly a problem of poor circulation,’ he says.‘Better circulation improves the function of fibroblasts, the cells which produce collagen — the main structural protein in skin.’It’s not clear whether any benefits are lasting or short- lived.

Mr Tzenichristos recommends daily hot and cold showers.‘But it’s not necessary to do the whole body in order to prevent facial ageing,’ he adds. A study of 1. 4 men at the University of Loughborough found those who had an hour- long soak in a 4.

C bath burned 1. 40 calories on average — equivalent to a half- hour walk. Even if it doesn’t make your skin glow, it might cheer you up.

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University in the U. S. asked volunteers with no mental health problems to shower in hot water before reducing it to below 2. After doing this for weeks their mood scores improved. The researchers, writing in the journal Medical Hypotheses in 2. It’s known that exposure to cold conditions — such as cold water hitting the skin — increases brain levels of the chemical messenger noradrenaline; low levels are associated with depression. Also, the high level of cold receptors in the skin means a blast of cold water can trigger electrical impulses to the brain, which may have an antidepressant effect. But those who still aren’t persuaded by the prospect of cold water, take heart — there are benefits to be reaped from lying back in a warm bath, too.

A study of 1. 4 men at the University of Loughborough found those who had an hour- long soak in a 4. C bath burned 1. 40 calories on average — equivalent to a half- hour walk — and had improved control of blood sugar levels.

Researchers said hot baths raise levels of proteins that help regulate blood sugar and said ‘passive heating’ was a potential therapy for metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes.