Cold showers affecting menstrual cycle?

Hello.
I've been doing cold showers for around 50 days now. My period came normally the first month, but now... well, it still hasn't come. (Around 6 days delay)

I don't have any sign of bloating or anything like that (but I usually *don't* have them, even in my normal period days).

It's very hot here. Cold showers feel good and healthy. What should I do? I have no issues with my genitals (no PMS or hormonal issues).

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Do cold showers affect the menstrual cycle?

Are you sure it’s not something else? Stress maybe, or are you having sex?

It actually effects it messes up with your cortisol. Female body is so sensitive to cortisol. I was doing it when i hit the bottom of my ed bc it was burning calories...i lost my period. Dont foolow the health and fitness stuff for men. For a man cold shower or fasting in morning may be heathy. But our body is different.

You can have cold shower but dont have shower with ice-like cold water. And eat before cold shower it will tell your body you are ''safe''. Dont drink cofee when you re hungry. It actually mess up with your cortisol too.

Do cold showers affect the menstrual cycle?

Yes, there has been evidence of that although they skip it as a "rare phenomenon."
Stress is at a usual rate. No sex.

It actually effects it messes up with your cortisol. Female body is so sensitive to cortisol. I was doing it when i hit the bottom of my ed bc it was burning calories...i lost my period. Dont foolow the health and fitness stuff for men. For a man cold shower or fasting in morning may be heathy. But our body is different.

You can have cold shower but dont have shower with ice-like cold water. And eat before cold shower it will tell your body you are ''safe''. Dont drink cofee when you re hungry. It actually mess up with your cortisol too.

Thank you for the response.
I don't follow fitness stuff for men. I'm not having ice cold baths either - just cold showers.

I'm frustrated and disappointed at my body's reaction. Women can't do anything that make them go beyond their limits - they'll have health issues. Great.

Yes, there has been evidence of that although they skip it as a "rare phenomenon."
Stress is at a usual rate. No sex.

Thank you for the response.
I don't follow fitness stuff for men. I'm not having ice cold baths either - just cold showers.

I'm frustrated and disappointed at my body's reaction. Women can't do anything that make them go beyond their limits - they'll have health issues. Great.

If you really like cold showers, especially in the summer, I don’t think you should stop, maybe lessen it but not sure if that’s the sole reason.

And dont feel angry with your body at all. Just go easy and find ways to balance.

Read this if you haven’t: https://www.givewellnessco.com/post/the-benefits-of-cold-plunging-for-women-aligning-with-the-menstrual-cycle

How often do you take these cold showers? Once a day? And for how long?

If I were you, I would balance my body with adaptogen herbs to support it even while doing things that can cause stress. The adaptogen herbs will protect the body and bring equilibrium, as well as balancing your menstrual cycle.

Also, sithali breath is good to do when your body gets overheated.

And as for your delayed menstrual cycle, there are teas and herbs you can take to balance it again.

Yes, there has been evidence of that although they skip it as a "rare phenomenon."
Stress is at a usual rate. No sex.

Thank you for the response.
I don't follow fitness stuff for men. I'm not having ice cold baths either - just cold showers.

I'm frustrated and disappointed at my body's reaction. Women can't do anything that make them go beyond their limits - they'll have health issues. Great.

No one can really do anything that goes beyond their limits. Women don’t have the same biology as men so standards won’t be the same but that doesn’t mean the body doesnt adapt.

I'm frustrated and disappointed at my body's reaction. Women can't do anything that make them go beyond their limits - they'll have health issues. Great.

I admitt what Shannon said. Besides we have enough cortisol in our lives so it may effect much...loveyou♥️

Shannon, thank you very much for your response. 🙏
I did read the article.

Also, my period came today. 🥲
I'm happy it did.
It's been coming with mathematical accuracy for years now (except for one time when it came earlier), so I was very surprised with this long (for my body's standards) delay.

I will take a look in the adaptogen herbs.

As for the Sithali breath, I had completely rejected it because I can't roll my tongue as needed. 😅
I will take a look on a guide on how to do that.

Shannon, thank you very much for your response. 🙏
I did read the article.

Also, my period came today. 🥲
I'm happy it did.
It's been coming with mathematical accuracy for years now (except for one time when it came earlier), so I was very surprised with this long (for my body's standards) delay.

I will take a look in the adaptogen herbs.

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Good for you! Yeah, I didn’t think the cool showers were cause for concern. Might have been something else minor, and sometimes the delays do happen.

Enjoy your cool showers, especially in this summer season.

I'm frustrated and disappointed at my body's reaction. Women can't do anything that make them go beyond their limits - they'll have health issues. Great.

Don't be afraid to push your limits, you are a strong woman, backlashes are powerless and unimportant.

For the sithali, stick your tongue out, and try to curve up the front part, like when you touch the palate in the mouth with the very tip, except now it's out of your mouth. Another way to think about it is you are making a spoon with it. In anyways, simply just curve the very tip upwards. Now if you have it curve, and it's outside your mouth, form an O shape with your lips. As you are bringing your lips together to form the O shape, your tongue should curve to the sithali position.

Don't be afraid to push your limits, you are a strong woman, backlashes are powerless and unimportant.

For the sithali, stick your tongue out, and try to curve up the front part, like when you touch the palate in the mouth with the very tip, except now it's out of your mouth. Another way to think about it is you are making a spoon with it. In anyways, simply just curve the very tip upwards. Now if you have it curve, and it's outside your mouth, form an O shape with your lips. As you are bringing your lips together to form the O shape, your tongue should curve to the sithali position.

AFODO, thank you for the guide. I was trying it in front of the mirror and laughing at the fact that my tongue becomes smaller instead of being wrapped inside. 😂 I'll keep trying.

However, on the "backlash," I find it diminishing to call it like that. I know women who "pushed their limits," and got to the place where they became infertile because of the heavy lifting, or have serious womanly issues because of that. It's not as simple as "push beyond your limits," and this is frustrating for me.

AFODO, thank you for the guide. I was trying it in front of the mirror and laughing at the fact that my tongue becomes smaller instead of being wrapped inside. 😂 I'll keep trying.

However, on the "backlash," I find it diminishing to call it like that. I know women who "pushed their limits," and got to the place where they became infertile because of the heavy lifting, or have serious womanly issues because of that. It's not as simple as "push beyond your limits," and this is frustrating for me.

Keep your tongue flat do not make it into a sausage shape, you may be flexing your tongue in a way that it makes it into a sausage, just let your lips do the work. If you have the spoon formation just make an O with your lips and basically that's it, I don't know how you cannot do it😂

Maybe because these are not very feminine things, but there are a lot of feminine things to expand upon!!
Getting and being fit should also be completely fine for woman as well, just don't be a body builder as a woman really... And don't force yourself too much, and always do yoga and balancing things, I know also there are specific yoga for women for menstruation and so on... Do girly things.
Also for cold showers I personally find lukewarm to be pretty satisfying. I start with a temperature my body is most comfortable with, and I decrease it slowly to like lukewarm, very rarely a bit colder.
But yeah I see, and I think woman are just much more complicated and therefore fragile, maybe this fragility can be cured with soul advancement and other training, but yeah I just don't know femininity all that much. I honestly don't know what are the pure feminine traits, but I bet these are just the low level manifestations for woman. I know more about masculinity. Ideally menstruation shouldn't hurt as well, if I'm not wrong, it hurts because of a deficiency of something. Anyways, take care, wish you the bests.

I don't follow fitness stuff for men. I'm not having ice cold baths either - just cold showers.

I'm frustrated and disappointed at my body's reaction. Women can't do anything that make them go beyond their limits - they'll have health issues. Great.

I also believe that cold showers likely had very little effect on the regularity of your cycle. If your lifestyle hasn’t changed and you haven’t experienced any stress factors, emotional burdens, or setbacks in your personal life that could have caused psychological, emotional, or physical strain, then the irregularity and delay, at least from what I’ve understand in my experience, could also be due to a particular planetary transit. Saturn forming aspects to your natal Moon can cause “undesired” delays in your feminine cycle.

You can make use of the rune Bercna to counterbalance the effects of these planetary transits, if it can be your case; this rune is especially suited both for protection against the negative influences of such transits and for harmonizing the female cycle.

AFODO, thank you for the guide. I was trying it in front of the mirror and laughing at the fact that my tongue becomes smaller instead of being wrapped inside. 😂 I'll keep trying.

However, on the "backlash," I find it diminishing to call it like that. I know women who "pushed their limits," and got to the place where they became infertile because of the heavy lifting, or have serious womanly issues because of that. It's not as simple as "push beyond your limits," and this is frustrating for me.

Are you practicing internal chi arts regularly, that is, yoga, tai chi, qigong, or any other alternative? How about martial arts training? Women are very well capable, simply look at HPS Pythia.

Hello.
I've been doing cold showers for around 50 days now. My period came normally the first month, but now... well, it still hasn't come. (Around 6 days delay)

I don't have any sign of bloating or anything like that (but I usually *don't* have them, even in my normal period days).

It's very hot here. Cold showers feel good and healthy. What should I do? I have no issues with my genitals (no PMS or hormonal issues).

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The problem with exposure to cold, particularly prolonged and repeated exposure is that the blood vessels of the body constrict.

You feel good when you do it, because you are challenging your Kidney Yang, the very basis energy of your existence, to come to the surface and protect your body from cold invasion.

As the body relies on warmth for function, introducing cold repeatedly congeals and stops blood from moving.

Over time, this will weaken your life force and damage your uterus.

To counteract the damage, I suggest obtaining Cornus Fructus, Cinnamon, roasted ginger, and peppercorns, and boiling them together for 20 mins, take the liquid two times daily until your period arrives.

The problem with exposure to cold, particularly prolonged and repeated exposure is that the blood vessels of the body constrict.

You feel good when you do it, because you are challenging your Kidney Yang, the very basis energy of your existence, to come to the surface and protect your body from cold invasion.

As the body relies on warmth for function, introducing cold repeatedly congeals and stops blood from moving.

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Very interesting to know, I used to be something of a cold addict for quite a long time before developing my current health issues. I used to keep my apartment at 60 degrees and would run my car AC even in frigid weather. Not nearly as much of a cold fan these days although I still do tend to run hot.

I'm interested in booking a consultation if you still offer those, I've got some quite major health issues I developed a couple years ago from chronic burnout that I still haven't recovered from. If you could message me that'd be great, I don't have enough activity/age on my account to DM.

Very interesting to know, I used to be something of a cold addict for quite a long time before developing my current health issues. I used to keep my apartment at 60 degrees and would run my car AC even in frigid weather. Not nearly as much of a cold fan these days although I still do tend to run hot.

I'm interested in booking a consultation if you still offer those, I've got some quite major health issues I developed a couple years ago from chronic burnout that I still haven't recovered from. If you could message me that'd be great, I don't have enough activity/age on my account to DM.

Sure thing, will do

Very interesting to know, I used to be something of a cold addict for quite a long time before developing my current health issues. I used to keep my apartment at 60 degrees and would run my car AC even in frigid weather. Not nearly as much of a cold fan these days although I still do tend to run hot.

I'm interested in booking a consultation if you still offer those, I've got some quite major health issues I developed a couple years ago from chronic burnout that I still haven't recovered from. If you could message me that'd be great, I don't have enough activity/age on my account to DM.

Strike that, the system won't allow me to send you a message.

If you look under the health group, there's a thread named Confidential Chinese Medicine Consultations.. The instructions for booking can be found there.

Women are not mini-men; what's good for them is rarely good for us.
Take a hot shower (warm if your skin is oily or dry) at least once a day; this helps cool your body temperature and helps you get through the days better, especially at night, for a good sleep. ( Don't forget to moisturize afterwards, warm/hot showers removes natural oils from your skin.)
A woman's body is naturally colder, so you don't need to... an example of something very common is the ice bath that many people are doing.
On "normal" days it's not necessary, but during PMS and the period I suggest you "warm up" more. I know that's impossible in the summer, but I believe you can handle it more easily during your period even when it's summer.