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Regular ice-water bathing may alter a person's physiology. I'd want to see plenty of solid research before I'd accept it as truth, though. Even if it does, I doubt a single dip in an icy sea would have the same long-term effect -- even a number of dips over a week is unlikely to have the same effect on physiology as regular ice water bathing.In Sweden there are people that all the year around take a quick bath in the sea or in lakes. They even go down in the water through a hole in the ice to get a bath. They have been studied as they get less colds, and are healthier, than others. Several theories were presented before, but it was shown that they had much higher levels of white blood cells than others. Maybe that´s why it cured some from ME.
Her story just doesn't hold water in any scientific way.