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Paying to stand in a freezer so your body thinks it's dying, briefly.
means A treatment that exposes the body to extremely cold temperatures for a short time, used to reduce inflammation, numb pain, or (depending who's selling it) supposedly boost recovery and wellness.
from Built from Greek roots: 'kryos' meaning icy cold or frost, and 'therapeia' meaning healing or treatment — the same '-therapy' suffix found in physiotherapy and chemotherapy. The cold-as-medicine idea itself is ancient, with physicians from Hippocrates onward noting ice's numbing, swelling-reducing effects, but the whole-body cryo-chamber version is a modern invention, developed in Japan in the late 1970s to treat arthritis before spreading into sports recovery and spas.
- temp range
- negative 110 to 140 celsius, colder than antarctica
- duration
- usually under 3 minutes, frostbite math matters
- evidence base
- thin for fat loss, decent for soreness and swelling
- origin
- invented in japan in 1978 for arthritis