Can Cryotherapy Help With Weight Loss?
Cryotherapy is gaining worldwide popularity among everyday people. No longer is it reserved just for Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes. Users are seeing the benefits with everything from workout recovery to beauty applications, but how does it help with weight loss?
When your body is exposed to -140℃ for short periods you can burn hundreds of calories. Recent studies have shown excellent results in regards to cryotherapy treatment and weight loss.
How Does Whole Body Cryotherapy Help You Lose Weight?
Cryotherapy uses cold temperatures to stimulate changes within the body. During treatment, the body starts to think that it’s freezing causing the activation of our fight or flight mode. Our bodies state of survival response generates a sequence of chain reactions including shivering, adrenaline rushes and increased blood circulation in an effort to raise your core temperature. This reaction burns a large amount of energy, increases metabolism and fat is burned more quickly as your body needs more energy to warm up which is precisely what contributes to weight loss during and up to eight hours after treatment.
Scientific Studies Support Cryotherapy and Weight Loss
A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation analyzed the effects that colder temperatures had on the body and noted that brown adipose tissue (BAT) burns fat to produce heat when the body is exposed to cold and plays a role in energy metabolism.
A study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation found that the sustained cold-induced the stimulation of norepinephrine. The frequent increase in norepinephrine has an increase in fat burning and brown adipose tissue that increases in calories burned to generate body heat from whole-body cryotherapy.
Cryotherapy Improves Your Workouts To Burn More Fat
Cryotherapy helps aid muscle recovery, reduce inflammation, soreness and ultimately helps you recover faster allowing you to see more significant weight loss results more quickly.
Are you ready to experience the benefits of our whole body cryotherapy treatment?
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