Comments on: Swimming in Cold Water https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/swimming-in-cold-water/ Total Immersion Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Joseph R. Lemmens https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/swimming-in-cold-water/#comment-6485 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 04:54:00 +0000 http://totalimmersion.net/blog/?p=522#comment-6485 Hello from North Carolina , Since I grow up South of Montreal on the side of Richelieu River , I had my 1st “Polar Bear swim at age 18 in mid february . on a cloudy day by 10′ degrees . Went I broke through the thin ice ,surprise , for a moment the water fell warm .
Since then I did many more cold water immersion and swimming . Now living in NC ,I have the perfect weather to swim 10 minutes in water temperature of 42-50 or immerse 2-3 times a week for the last 3 Years. Just last Saturday I did it by about 35′ also 10 minutes including some walking , hey at 74 years “young” you need to love it.

{Cold Water Immersion against Cancer by Richmond University} is the site that give detailed information on the value of cold water . They were supposed to do testing on rats in 2007 , No New Since, HOWEVER they give all the medical data of how some particle in your blood increase by as much as 500 % after cold water Immersion .

Since I have CLL Stage 2 for 7 1/2 years now , I use the cold water , diet , natural supplement , bicycling , running and Medication from Canada to slow down my Leukemia.
I hope you still have the same happiness to swim in cold water.

Here a simple method to cut off the pain in the shoulder and neck is to use a Warming ointment and to cover it with petroleum , I had terrible pain there this here until I use it for my 35′ swim.

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