Q: I keep hearing about the benefits of swimming in cold water. Is it actually good for you? A: There is intriguing preliminary evidence that swimming in cold water may have antidepressant effects.

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Adam Boggon, MBChB, was working at the Royal Free Hospital in North London during the city's second wave of COVID-19. "I was effectively living in the hospital," he recalls. "It felt like I was going ...

An aerial view of the Crystal Lagoon serving as centerpiece of the Epperson master-planned community in Wesley Chapel, Fla., a suburb of Tampa. Up until recently, cold plunge pools and Crystal Lagoons ...