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Could Cold Water Swimming Help Treat Depression?

  • September 20, 2018

It only took four months for a young woman to beat her depression with a totally drug-free treatment for it — in the form of taking a weekly swim in cold water. The woman had been treated for major depression for seven years, and had taken numerous antidepressants until the cold-water swims ended all that. Today, she is medication-free and still swimming, The Guardian reports. While researchers said this “treatment” works because cold-water swimming can help activate...