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Letter: Get cold water's benefits with nice warm water

Published 2 June 2021

From Tom Jones, St Austell, Cornwall, UK

You reported the benefits of cold-water swimming 13 March, p 46. I shower daily in water as hot as I can stand and feel most of the benefits attributed to cold water. I wonder if this has been researched. In any event, hot water is much more pleasurable.

Issue no. 3337 published 5 June 2021

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