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I developed a convenient procedure called “adapted cold shower.” This procedure is safe and easy to do, unlike the regular “sudden” cold shower. You can use the method as follows: start with a tepid shower, 34 to 36°C (93 to 97°F), for one to three minutes. Get out of the shower and set the water temperature to about 20°C (68°F). Then get back in the shower and start gradually and slowly expanding the area of contact with the cold water from the feet up. This gradual adaptation phase should take another 3 to 5 minutes. After that, take the whole-body cold shower for 2 to 5 minutes or longer if you feel like it. You can take adapted cold showers two or three times a day when you feel sick. Be sure to place a rubber mat inside your bathtub and another mat beside your bathtub so that you don't slip and fall.

Optionally, you can include a heating procedure before the cold shower once a week or once every two weeks: a hot bath or sauna. I would recommend hot baths instead of a sauna because hot baths will achieve the same heating effect (will raise your core body temperature) without the extreme temperatures of a sauna. If you choose a sauna, then it is best to lie down because heating your legs while you are standing up may lead to varicose veins. Almost a century ago, American physician William Coley successfully treated cancer by inducing a fever (core body temperature of 40°C [104°F] and higher). Hyperthermia is gradually being incorporated into clinical practice as a treatment of cancer and is thought to stimulate innate immunity against cancer cells. My advice is to use brief moderate hyperthermia (40°C core body temperature achieved in a hot bath) as hormesis and an immunostimulant, not extreme hyperthermia as an attempt to kill cancer cells (you risk killing the patient too).