Cold Plunges and Saunas - Helpful or Harmful for Fertility?

Welcome to another episode of our summer season! Host Sophia Pavia chats all about cold plunges and saunas and how it may help or hurt you during your trying to conceive journey! Cold plunges have grown in popularity over the years and are essentially submerging your body in cold water or cryotherapy. You typically submerge yourself in cold water for a few minutes in a bathtub, a cold plunge tub or even a natural body of water like a lake during winter. A sauna is typically a small building designed for heat bathing or using dry or wet heat to induce sweating. It's a space, often wood-lined, where people can relax and experience the effects of heat exposure. Sophia goes over different research on how cold plunges or relaxing in a sauna impact cortisol levels for women. Thank you to our fabulous summer season sponsor Tempdrop ! Both Caitlin and Sophia have used Tempdrop to track their ovulation with their wearable device! Tempdrop is easy to use and only takes a couple of steps to track and monitor your fertile window! Before you go to sleep, press the drop-shaped button to turn on your Tempdrop sensor. Place the band on your upper arm and leave it on throughout the night. Remove once you are up for the day and sync with the Tempdrop app whenever convenient. Track your symptoms to verify ovulation and learn about your cycle phases. View the chart and interpret your results. Upgrade to premium for automatic interpretation! Tempdrop is all about supporting individuals connecting with their bodies. One of their goals is to support and make things more accessible while trying to conceive, rather than replacing existing methods. Tempdrop has generously offered our listeners 15% with code FFF15 at checkout! Click right here for the discount! Or copy and paste https://www.tempdrop.com/ These summer episodes will be shorter than our normal episodes and are meant to give little bites of information! We hope you love getting them weekly and be sure to follow us on Instagram and watch our podcast on Youtube ! Click right here to catch up on all of our previous episodes on Youtube! You can also find us on IG at FoodFreedomFertility Articles Sophia Referenced: https://journals.lww.com/clinicalpain/abstract/2003/07000/sex_differences_in_cortisol_response_to_noxious.6.aspx https://rpt.atar.edu.pl/info/article/UAST711306a200044383a1a0d98ca9a1a564/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0011224009000091 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=+multiple+cold+water+immersions+women+hormones&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5#d=gs_qabs&t=1753136210058&u=%23p%3Dha3q5cWV1cEJ