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Anonymous
I've been following the basic idea of tempering for 2 years now, in just hot water showers finished off by the coldest water setting possible. I wouldn't say tempering will kill all viruses and bacteria, but what I have noticed is that I've been sick less since I started, although that can be attributable to overall better quality lifestyle choices I started around the same time.
When you finish off with cold water, you'll notice when you step out of the shower and dry off that you'll start sweating buckets. Homeostasis is kicking in, trying to bring your cold body temperature up. The most rapid way to do this is to raise body temperature past 98.6 degrees to fever level. Having a prolonged fever is bad, but all a fever is is a natural defense mechanism of the body to cook off illnesses. Eventually, since exposure to the cold was short, homeostasis returns you body to normal very quickly.
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