Health & wellness
BY JACOB VAUGHN
Q&A: Cryotherapy with Cryo Nation’s Josh Brown Josh Brown, the owner of Cryo Nation, said cryotherapy uses dry cold to reduce in ammation and boost metabolic rates without freezing muscle tissue. Cryo Nation has several North Texas loca- tions, including one in Keller. Can you explain what cryotherapy is and how it works? Cryotherapy is a modernized version of an ice bath. Unlike ice, we’re not freezing your muscle tissue, we’re not restricting blood ow. All we’re doing is cooling o the skin surface, which allows us to get it much colder than an ice bath without it feeling much colder. The primary purpose is reducing in ammation. We have people coming in for pain management, lots of di erent pain issues and weight loss. Your body thinks it’s freezing. As a byproduct, your metabolic rates kick into overdrive.
body is getting cold, either from the shoulders down, or, in some cases, even your head is subjected to the cold. They also have what’s called localized cryotherapy, where we can target speci c areas of soreness. If whole body cryotherapy is the modernized version of an ice bath, we say localized cryotherapy is the modernized version of an ice pack. Are there any risks or side e ects associated with cryotherapy? If so, what are they? Overall, it’s very safe. There are very few compli- cations, pregnancy being one of them. Your heart rate can climb just a little bit while you’re in the cryotherapy session. That’s the primary reason why, just airing on the side of caution, we don’t take anyone who’s pregnant. There can also be compli- cations for people who have had strokes and heart attacks, kind of for the same reason. [Before] doing cryo, we just tell them we recommend consulting with your doctor rst. Are there any new advancements or technologies in cryotherapy that people should be aware of? I think it’s a bright future. The industry is still,
overall, in its infancy, so I think there’s a lot of room to grow. They’re still doing new studies and understanding how it helps with lots of age-re- lated diseases. As the technology continues to improve, as more and more studies are coming out and more people are understanding the full range of bene ts with cryotherapy, I think it’s just going to be more and more adopted by the mainstream and turned to as an alternative for medications and surgeries and other things that have a lot of unintended consequences.
What should people know before trying cryotherapy for the rst time?
It’s just much easier than what people anticipate. I believe everyone’s at least a little nervous, espe- cially if they haven’t done something like ice baths or cold plunges or exposure that’s similar. We try to walk them through it so they understand going into it, that again, it’s a dry cold so you come out totally dry. There’s no downtime. What should people look for when choosing a cryotherapy clinic or provider? You want to make sure wherever you’re going, you’re doing true cryotherapy by scienti c de ni- tion. At a lot of cryo places, you’re not doing true cryo, you’re just doing a cold toy. You just want to make sure that the place you’re going to is repu- table, that they’ve been open for a while, and that they know what they’re doing. Are there di erent types of cryotherapy, and, if so, how do they di er in terms of application and bene ts? There’s whole body cryotherapy, which you’re getting bene ts for the whole body. Your whole
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Josh Brown, owner of Cryo Nation, has multiple cryotherapy locations, including one in Keller.
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