RestFuel is proud to offer whole body cryotherapy sessions in the Everest Ridge which features the most evenly distributed cooling and fastest recovery time on the market.

The sessions are between 2 to 4 minutes. The idea is by dropping the skin’s surface temperature rapidly, your body jumps into a defense mode. This process helps reduce inflammation, speed up muscle recovery, and even gives you a quick energy boost.

When you step into the whole body cryo chamber, the cold receptors in your skin send a fight or flight signal to your brain. Your brain quickly releases a chemical called norepinephrine which is a cold shock protein that regulates endorphins such as dopamine and adrenaline. This is the body’s natural reaction to allow you mental clarity and strength to get through a potentially difficult situation. These chemicals instantly cause you to overcome the initial cold shock and give you confidence that you can get through the session. In nature, this is the body’s way of giving you additional time, energy, and mental clarity to get out of a snowstorm or danger.

Bonus, the endorphins last for hours after the session so you walk away feeling great and may experience elevated mood for several hours.

Your body will also produce excess melatonin in response to high endorphin release and many experience vastly improved sleep the night after doing cryotherapy.

THE BENEFITS:

• Reduced Post Workout Recovery
• Losing Fats/Burning Metabolism
• Reduced Inflammation
• Body Releases Glutathione
• Reducing Anxiety and Depression
• Treating Migraine Headaches
• Younger Looking Skin

Reduced Post Workout Recovery – Extreme cold causes your blood vessels to tighten up, which is a process called vasoconstriction. This helps to reduce blood flow to areas with inflammation or injury, putting a pause on swelling and pain. Then, when you step out and warm back up, your blood vessels open wider than before, a process called vasodilation. This rush of blood back into those areas helps speed up the removal of waste products like lactic acid that builds up after working out. Plus, this flood of oxygen-rich blood helps with muscle repair and reduces inflammation.

Losing Fats/Burning Metabolism – Repeated exposure to colder temperatures boosts metabolism because your body is trying to warm itself. Over time, as your metabolism increases, your body will burn more calories at rest and during activity.

Extreme cold exposure promotes brown fat cell production. Brown fat cells are mitochondria packed cells that burn energy and reduce white fat cells to stay warm. We are all born with high levels of brown fat cells, but they reduce as we age (hence why kids have amazing metabolism, yet it is more difficult to lose weight as we age).

Reduced inflammation – Stimulating the Vagus Nerve alerts the brain and draws out anti-inflammatory neurotransmitters that regulate the body’s immune response. A study found patients who received Whole Body Cryotherapy (WBC) sessions showed to have lower Rheumatoid Arthritis levels when compared to patients who received only physical therapy.

Body Releases Glutathione – During cryotherapy, your body will also release the antioxidant, glutathione. Glutathione is known as a “master antioxidant” and breaks down toxins in your body. Toxins enter your body through outside forces such as the sun, pollution, poor diet, and stress. Stress, such as working out, can break down cells and cause exhaustion.

Preventing Dementia – The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, is one of the leading causes of disability and mortality in aging demographics. It has been found that vascular alteration, oxidative stress, and inflammatory responses contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s Disease. These aspects of the disease have also been shown to be affected by Cryotherapy.

In studies of patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, the oxidative stress that occurs in the development of dementia has been shown to be lowered by cryotherapy.

In addition, during WBC, inflammatory cytokines are released. They cross the blood brain barrier which reduces chronic inflammation in the brain. Clinical trials involving patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis showed them to have a statistically significant increase in the total antioxidant status following 10 cryotherapy sessions (Miller 2010).

Reducing anxiety and depression – Another aspect of getting our body exposed to such cold temperatures is that it causes our body to release endorphins and natural adrenaline. This gets our blood flowing throughout, which can be helpful to people experiencing anxiety and depression. Hence, that euphoric feeling after stepping out of a session.

Studies performed in Poland, treating WBC as an adjunct treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders, showed more improvement for the group exposed to WBC when compared to a group that did not get exposed to it. The endorphins produced, combined with the sleeping benefits which help create a natural sleep, strongly suggest that repetitive cryotherapy can impact our mental health immensely and positively. Following a session, people have experienced deep feelings of euphoria and an energy high lasting for hours.

Treating Migraine Headaches – Cold therapy for headaches goes back as far as 150 years. Migraines impact millions of people across the world. In a study done by University of Hawai’i the participant’s carotid arteries at the neck were targeted with cold therapy for relief from migraines. The findings of this study demonstrated a significant reduction of pain in participants with migraine headaches that were treated with cold therapy as compared to the control group. Stimulating the back of the neck during cryotherapy can help numb the nerves and can significantly reduce migraine pain. Cooling and numbing can help in constricting the blood vessels which then helps reduce the neurotransmission to the brain.

Younger-looking skin – Cryotherapy sessions boost collagen which helps the skin to reduce visible lines and wrinkles. Increased collagen also helps improve skin volume and resiliency while also reducing pore size and promoting smooth skin. The increase in collagen also takes part in recurring the visibility of cellulite and fatty deposits under the skin. WBC works by stimulating cell growth and cell renewal which in turn rejuvenates the whole body, resulting in younger looking skin and repaired skin that might previously have been damaged.

As the blood surges back from your core to your extremities once you step out of a session, the rejuvenated blood brings back nutrients, antioxidants, and oxygen to the entire body. This boost in circulation can help improve skin tone, reducing dark circles and promoting the growth of hair as well as fingernails.