A truly decent morning shower is something I’ve always been quite serious about ensuring happens each day.
I go through my phases, and while I’m now under another of my strict New Years Resolutions to “Keep Shower-Time To Under A Few Minutes“, it hasn’t always been that way.
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was a time where I could quite easily cheap levitra generic spend 30 glorious minutes in there under the hot water
(especially in Winter), doing nothing much in particular apart from staring vacantly like a very wet zen master, interrupted by the occasional scrub.
Those days are long gone – I just can’t justify the environmental impact of my morning and evening shower routine – but now have been looking for other ways of replacing those 30 glorious hot minutes with something a healthier for me and everyone Buy Nexium Online else on a lot of levels.
Last week the Art of Manliness blog – a must for any respectable gentleman’s daily RSS indulgence does acomplia prices female cialis work – posted a story entitled “The James Bond Shower : A Shot of Cold Water for Health and Vitality“.
Naturally, given recent resolutions, I was intrigued.
To cut a long story (which you can cheap zithromax target=”_blank”>read elsewhere) short, the James Bond shower is thus named because in the books, Mr Bond (… , James Bond…) would always take a particular kind of shower : start with a few minutes of piping hot water, then finish it off with a minute or two order drugs online switched straight to ice cold.
The article goes on the generic levitra online hows and why bothers, quickly bringing up plenty of evidence to back up the fact that not only will showering this way could allegedly make you a lot more super-spy-like, but it’s also packed full of healthy side-effects. Like improving immunity, reducing depression, is better for your hair and skin (…that one’s been backed up with by the words of a bonafide skin specialist my wife knows…), and even better than all that : apparently it increases testosterone.
It had to be tried.
The article lists the instructions as follows :
1. Start off with the hot water. buy generic viagra online pharmacy online
3. When you’re ready to rinse, just turn it down to cold. Bond would spend a few buy cialis online cheap minutes under the cold water, meditating about a lost love or on how awesome his job is.
4. As you walk out the shower, kill the hitman that’s been hiding in the closet using nothing but a towel and a Scotch tumbler.
5. Say a pithy one liner; proceed to put on tux.
Too Easy.
So how’s it all going, one week on?
The best part so far as keeping my New Years Resolution is concerned is that from the moment I get in, I’m waiting for the moment I have to swap to the cold water part. My natural impatience speeds up it’s freezy arrival, and once the cold onslaught begins there’s really only so long any sane person can tolerate a cold shower… so I get out. Short Showers Resolution? Done deal!
So far as any of the other health benefits are concerned, I’m never really depressed to begin with, and it’s hard to gauge my own personal testosterone level without… assistance… but immediately I can tell you it’s doing wonders for my skin, energy and well being. Whereas before with my “standing there in the heat” thing going, while I’d feel better after a long hot shower, I certainly didn’t feel zappy and alive the way I do after my shaken-not-stirred cold wake-up, and the whole experience has really been putting me in a good place at the start of the day.
I’m going to continue, that’s sildenafil citrate for sure. If it’s true what they say about your skin, long showers and particularly long HOT showers are terrible for the oils in your skin, and even though I haven’t cut hot out all together, surely I’m on a good path now…
Besides any of that – who would have ever thought that there’d be a way of associating James Bond with showers? Card games, fast cars, easy women, licenses to kill, yes, but not showers.
I may not end up the same suave debonair spy as my new showertime’s name sake, but you never know – perhaps it might be time to start sporting some sky blue budgie smugglers at the beach this summer?
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